Back on July 17, 2016. I wrote about MoviePass as a loyal subscriber since 2013. I cancelled my subscription to MoviePass as the convenience and our love of going to the theater 2 times a week waned. We were originally paying $29.99 each (for two) for a movie a day. No reruns. Then it went up to $34.99 a month for 6 movies max. Then you had to start taking photos of your ticket stub. Fail to do this and you would get charged full price for your ticket and subscription suspended. Then they made it so it's impossible to watch new releases by blacking them out on opening and many times on following weekends. It became too difficult to use MoviePass to get into a movie.
I wasn't against paying my fair share, the $34.99 for 6 movies a month worked for me since I saw 6 movies mostly on Friday nights and Sunday afternoon. It was still working for me in terms of numbers. However, all the other problems added up and we ditched MoviePass as it got caught by Helios and Matheson Analytics, Inc. which became infamous for making the service $9.99 a month for unlimited movies. A completely unsustainable maneuver. Now MoviePass is almost gone with only $1.8 million value, the company can't even support a weekend of movies for its subscribers.
Well move on over as there's movie theater subscriptions popping up EVERYWHERE.
The best deal thus far is AMC Stubs A-List at $19.99 a month for 3 movies a week. That's 12 movies a month! Not a bad deal if you live or are near AMC theaters anywhere. With it comes extra points for concessions and goods purchased with your AMC Stubs A-List subscription.
Second is Cinemark Movie Club at $8.99 a month you get one ticket and then all tickets are $8.99, including two additional tickets at $8.99. In addition, get 20% off concession for everyone! If you skip a month, it rolls over to the next month. Not bad and only good at Cinemark theaters.
Sinemia has (which is what we now use as a couple) a multi tier subscription program where you pay for the year in advance and can view from 1 to 3 movies a month. We have a couple's plan and we can purchase 2 tickets for 2 movies a month at $15.99 a month. In our area one adult ticket is $16.99 each so this works as long as we watch 2 movies a month. Also since they essentially give you a credit card number, you can use it to purchase tickets from Movietickets.com and Atom for any movie at anytime in advance. After using Sinemia for a month, it works for us. We never received a card in the mail but we can use the Advanced Ticket feature to get a number to purchase tickets. Then at the theater you need to check in on the app to prove you went to the theater. That's it! The check-in was a little quirky at times but works.
Look for more of these movie theater subscription services come to life as theaters look for additional ways to retain customers and revenue as superhero movies and Star Wars slow down and online subscription services like Hulu, Prime Video, and Netflix keep stepping up their presence in the feature film and television series world.
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