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MoviePass Will Increase Price, Limit Availability of New Movies (theverge.com)
After running out of money and shutting down for a night last week, the movie ticket subscription service MoviePass will increase its price to $14.95 a month within the next 30 days. Furthermore, "first-run movies will only be viewable on a limited basis during the first two weeks of release, unless the company has a promotional deal with a given film," reports The Verge. From the report: MoviePass' statement claims these changes are being made "to enhance discovery, and to drive attendance to smaller films and bolster the independent film community." In a widely reported all-hands meeting at the company, MoviePass CEO Mitch Lowe cited the upcoming Christopher Robin and The Meg specifically as films that would not be available to subscribers. More broadly, MoviePass hopes to make smarter decisions about potential partnerships with studios and brands in the hopes of turning a profit, though no specific details were shared at this time. This new price increase is in addition to the already-announced plan to implement surge pricing for popular movies.
Its pretty clear MoviePass is jsut a marketing firm looking to get picked up by a big company. They have no plan, no warchest, nothing. All everyone has to do is wait them out and they can pick it up for pennies on the dollar if they want it. MoviePass is done.
Good-bye
We do not go to the movies because it is a ripoff
Isn't that the prime argument FOR Moviepass?
the theaters, they are just cultural dinosaurs.
Maybe you're just getting old? IMHO Theatres are for kids with too much time on their hands. Once you start working and value your limited free more it's just not worth the time investment to go to a movie. That's always been the case, though.
If they did that I'd go a lot more often. But why should I pay the ad-watching tax when I paid for a ticket?
That's Hollywood's job.
...but it's fading. Not because MoviePass doesn't work or is even difficult to use -- it isn't -- but because once I started going to the movies more often, I realized that movies themselves are uniformly poor. In the past when I'd see a bad movie, I'd just chalk it up to bad chance. But now I see that pretty much the whole lot of them are just not that great, almost immediately forgettable. And rare indeed is a Hollywood-produced movie that is any good, in my experience. Independent film has a far better hit to loss ratio.
The mission of MoviePass is to get people to new movies, and that was achieved very well in my case. I did watch a whole lot of new movies. Even with the upgraded price would still be a good deal, if the product was worth my time.
"We receive as friendly that which agrees with, we resist with dislike that which opposes us" - Faraday
"Enhancing discovery" is a great weasel way of saying their subscribers just got fucked over and can't watch mainstream movies during the release window any more.
The headline should have read:
Moviepass will increase price
Limit availability of new movies
Go out of business.
Uh, beg to differ podre
This isn't about free time or entertainment, I get both of those whether I go to a theatre or sit on my butt at home.
One just costs a stupid amount of money for what you get, and the other is free.
So which is it, am I old, or am I just about to start working? either way, it doesn't matter, my point stands, I'm not paying 1 penny to those assholes to advertise to me and rip me off, I, like 78% of the rest of the people, just don't give a damn about theatres anymore
I noticed I got a -1 for my initial comment, I guess there are still some theatre lovers left out there, hah, well good on ya's I guess, but it hasn't been for me for a very long time, cost is too high, reward is too small.
the theaters, they are just cultural dinosaurs.
Maybe you're just getting old? IMHO Theatres are for kids with too much time on their hands. Once you start working and value your limited free more it's just not worth the time investment to go to a movie. That's always been the case, though.
Did you just arrive here in a time machine from 1973? I can't remember the last time I saw anyone under the age of 20 who doesn't have their face glued to a phone.
I would be *VERY* surprised if kids go to movie theaters all all today.
I honestly wouldn't stomach watching a new Hollywood movie every month. I barely see maybe five-six new films per year. At this rate, even the old 10 bucks a month deal would still be terrible.
Just because a new company's business looks good or interesting, it doesn't mean that they will succeed. In fact, most of them will fail.
Evolution at work (or rather, at business).
specially when they're trying to spin something bad as good. They're actually pretty inventive with their lies. It's funny
Maybe you should set foot in a theater and look around before making sweeping generalizations that show you to be an idiot.
This is what is killing the movie industry. They want you to pay and pay and pay to see the latest reboot of a 1980's movie made by soyboys.
...but we'll make it up in volume!
I browse on +1 so AC's need not respond, I won't see it.
Why does Slashdot have an article on this app every couple of days?. It's an app for buying movie tickets, who the heck cares? 1 article talking about their horrible security and privacy is enough, I don't need to know every time they add a new feature, every time a competitor makes yet another app like it, and every time the price changes.
Pray I don't alter it further.
This weekend MoviePass didn't work at all. Tried every movie at the theater I always go to and it said something along the lines of this movie is not available for every single movie. Just cancel. If it's not available even the one time in the past month that I went to the movies then what's the point of having it. Why would I ever plan my schedule around availability that they choose for me and isn't listed anywhere.
That's the thing, we haven't been stepping foot in theatres, and when I did, I saw low numbers of anyone there, child or adult.
Your pretty passionate about a nothing burger like movie theatre ticket purchase to be calling people names. I admire your passion and wish I cared enough to give a damn. However I don't, isn't there anything new going on with ai? Maybe a new bot from boston dynamics or something? This is such a slow lazy day
Its not free, just ridiculously cheap, but also vastly more limited in terms of hte viewing experience unless you are insanely rich.
When you cant win, ad hominem.
Maybe they should start producing their own movies ...
I'm probably the reason they're in trouble, because, "I see everything." Not really, I don't go to the ones that are "Too stupid for words." That would be stuff like "Dumb and Dumber" or this current thing with the Abba songs, "Mamma Mia." The trend toward female-centric movies where the men are either idiots or irrelevant are a turn-off and that's one of 'em. The biggest notable disappointment in the last year was the Star Wars flick with all the important positions being female, and the males were mostly idiots or irrelevant. Having battle commanders being female, pretty much all of 'em, isn't even believable - the gals just don't aspire to such positions in sufficient numbers to turn out to be the best at it and be placed in command over guys who have studied / play-acted it / and aspired to it ever since the could go forth sans diapers.
But anyway, I'm going to have to pay for the major movies? What else is new, I see those mostly as IMAX and/or 3D anyway which isn't covered and never has been by MP. I see all the new movies as they open, and probably achieve a state of having seen everything that's playing in town by Monday. So, they are not going to be as lucrative as they were? 'Sall right, I made my $105.35 yearly subscription back in about 6 weeks of admission prices I didn't pay. If the yearly had been $400, I'd still be making $$$, and I'd probably still have bought it. Maybe MP should have several tiers of usage, with people like me paying more, and those not paying more being limited to, say, 2 non-IMAX, non-3D movies a week and for a higher $ than $105.35 / yr. I actually saw all this nonsense coming, and got the yearly since lots of stuff they're doing to the monthly people would be a violation of the contract for yearly people. I've been much less affected as a result.
So, this last January, when all the oscar-hopefuls that officially opened in December hit the local theaters, I spent $85 in admission to movies. Yeah, I track that stuff. $65 the next month. MP is going to be a savings for me pretty much no matter what they do, and if they are paying for movies like "Bad Samaritan" that came thru last month, was there for maybe a week, and almost nobody saw, but was absolutely excellent and scary as hell throughout, and I saw twice, I'll still be "winning." Just hope they can hang on.
not limited at all, I have tens of thousands movies available including just released movies on my Piratebay, maybe you just don't know how to download torrents?
also my home screen and sound and chair and food is better than a theater (and i only paid for it around $8'000 at local TV shop) my biggest cost is gigabit optic net for watching movie and food/drinks i order online for delivery.
This is, of course, a complete fucking lie.
Why should MoviePass give a damn if you see smaller films or independent films? It's not their job to tell you what you want to see.
This is marketing speak for "our entire business model is bullshit, we can't afford to let you see the movies you want, but to make it sound better we're going to make our product suck more and try to come up with a lame excuse".
No thanks, if I wanted to watch smaller movies or independent films, I wouldn't do so in the theatre ... I'd watch stuff on Netflix I wouldn't normally watch. There's an endless supply of that.
This is a company which is failing, who is trying to make it look like they're improving their service or adding benefit to you, when in reality it's all a smoke-screen for their own failing business model. Instead they're just making the service have less value.
Yawn, whatever, don't give a fuck. MoviePass will never see a dime of my money. Other than the amusement value of yet another shitty company imploding, I really don't much care. I've known they were full of shit from the first I heard of them.
Foolish VCs and an overly ambitious tech startup are soon parted with their money.
But this bullshit of not being able see some movies for a couple weeks isn't going to fly. If I go to the theater, I better be able to see the movie.
We do not go to the movies because it is a ripoff, we watch stuff on the 'net.
I'm amazed anyone even cares what movie pass does, or the theaters, they are just cultural dinosaurs.
The above is the ONE accurate post on this subject.
It speaks volumes about the idiots who run and use Slashdot that this post was modded down. I hope most of you idiots die young of some horrible disease, because your lives are WORTHLESS.
You have to buy a full price ticket..every time..
Always the last ditch effort before bankruptcy.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, does this sounds like a man who had "all he could eat"?
RIP Phil Hartman, we still miss ya, man
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
How's life in the hypocrite lane?