re: Netflix Co-Founder’s Crazy Plan: Pay $10 a Month, Go to the Movies All You Want

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If MoviePass is putting money on a debit card and you go on Tuesday and get $5 off the ticket using the Stubs card, can you use the remainder at the concession? Or would that be monitored?

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They monitor. And if you get a discount ticket, they remove the extra money from the card. They've cancelled memberships for people who try to get around the rules by using the card elsewhere, or ordering a ticket for one movie and actually buying a ticket for a movie they've already seen using the service. They're not Nazis about it, but they do watch.

And if your app acts up, you can call them and they'll put money on the card for your movie.

Hell my local bouldering gym does that and it seems to have spurred their sales.

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Its a big gamble IMO, but the movie industry can't stop him.

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He still has to make agreements with the theater chains. He's in 90% of the theaters in the U.S. right now.

That's something else, if a theater changes ownership the app will sometimes not see the new theater. Movie Tavern in Baton Rouge wasn't an approved theater for a year, even thought the one at Jubans was listed. They still listed the old Citiplace theater with no showings. Same thing with the Celebrity Theater on Coursey. Took a while for them to get that theater lined up. As of now they're all active in Baton Rouge.

yeah I didn't realize how it worked until kilometers broke it down earlier

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Sadly though, the theater owners will balk at the idea and won't realize what they could've had until it is too late.

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they're literally partnered with 91% if theaters nation wide

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He still has to make agreements with the theater chains

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Do they?

What's the agreement? Pretty much all variable info is available online, and you are swiping a standard debit card that will pay a standard charge.

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Looks like AMC is not liking this

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Their reasoning is that its unsustainable and will ultimately fail? I dont get that at all. They have someone basically lining up customers at their box office and paying their way in. Who says no to that?

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The top four cinema operators, led by AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc., lost $1.3 billion in market value early this month after a disappointing summer.

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Good. F them. They deserve it.


Rip you off on the ticket.


Then ... try to royally rip people off on concessions.


Perhaps if they drastically lowered the price of a fricking coke and large popcorn ... more people would go and more often.

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Sadly though, the theater owners will balk at the idea and won't realize what they could've had until it is too late.

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Folks, the theaters are not losing any money. They would actually make more money with this model due to concession sales.

Movie Pass is paying the theaters for the price of the ticket. The gamble is, so many people sign up for the service because of its cheap price that the revenue from the people who aren't going to the movies covers and exceeds the cost of the people going to the movies regularly.

Its a huge gamble that likely wouldn't pay off for many years if at all.