MoviePass

MoviePass has a bit of a checkered history, but the theater subscription service relaunched last year and has continued to evolve, including the introduction of a virtual card earlier this month aimed at making buying movie tickets a smoother process. It has a long way to go if it wants to reach the heights of popularity it enjoyed when it was just giving away tickets. Unfortunately, this time around, the company needs to make a profit.Google’s AI Isn’t a Gimmick, It’s the Future | AI UnlockedMoviePass is hoping to…

MoviePass app screenshotsScreenshot: App StoreThe evolution of MoviePass continues, with today’s announcement that the subscription movie theater service (which has quite the tumultuous past) will now offer a virtual card—hopefully making online ticket purchases easier, including at theaters offering increasingly popular premium formats like IMAX.Spoilers of the Week | June 10thCNET broke the news, noting that customers will start seeing the virtual cards “soon” in the MoviePass app. The cards can be used to buy advance…

MoviePass announced it’s ready for the limelight, again. The resurrected company that was most-known for its epic-scale blowout and collapse just a few years ago is once again back and ready to cause trouble with a subscription service promising cheaper movies, though this time it’s promising to act far more tame than its last attempt.Twitter Is Shifting Right | Future TechThe company announced Thursday it was opening up its subscription service nationwide just in time for the Memorial Day weekend. Subscription plans…

MoviePass has been since 2022 when it started beta testing a and now it’s here. Introducing MoviePass 2.0, or 3.0 depending on who you ask. The to once again offer you access to a bunch of theatrical films for a monthly subscription cost, and just in time for Memorial Day weekend. The nationwide re-launch throughout the country, such as those operated by AMC Theaters, Regal Cinemas, Cinemark and a slew of smaller regional chains. So what’s the catch? The subscription model now costs more, likely because the that…

MoviePass – the US cinema ticket subscription service – is officially opening to the whole of America after previously only being available via a waitlist. Users can choose between four different subscription levels that give them a certain number of credits. These can then be redeemed in over 4,000 different cinemas across the country, so you can watch the likes of Across the Spider-Verse, Barbie and The Little Mermaid for less.  You can sign up now on the MoviePass website – here are the prices of the plans:…

Google is taking a bold step in the world of online travel planning. The tech giant is piloting a price guarantee for airline bookings. Now, certain flights departing U.S. airports will come with a money-back promise. If a Google-guaranteed ticket price gets cheaper before the time of the flight, Google says it will step in to compensate for the difference.Google’s Antitrust Case Is the Best Thing That Ever Happened to AIThe feature was announced in a Monday blog post along with a couple of other new changes meant to…

Welcome to the Wide Shot, a newsletter about the business of entertainment. Sign up here to get it in your inbox.DC Studios co-chairman James Gunn was characteristically blunt yesterday in his assessment of the state of the Warner Bros. superhero franchise. “The history of DC is pretty messed up,” Gunn said. “They were just giving away IP like they were party favors to any creators that smiled at them. And what we are going to do is we’re going to promise that everything from our first project forward is going to be…

MoviePass is back with a sequel and, counter to past fake-outs, this time it seems to be real. This past August, the movie ticket subscription service announced it was re-booting itself with a beta version that required advance sign-up to secure a spot on the waitlist.But by summer 2023, MoviePass version 2.0 will likely start opening up beyond the beta, to all interested would-be customers, as first reported by Insider on Tuesday. The outlet interviewed Stacy Spikes, MoviePass’ co-founder and current CEO (he reclaimed…

The former executives in charge of MoviePass have been indicted in what the Justice Department calls "a scheme to defraud investors." Ex-MoviePass CEO J. Mitchell Lowe and Theodore Farnsworth, who used to be the chairman of the service's former parent company Helios and Matheson Analytics (HMNY), have been charged with one count of securities fraud and three counts of wire fraud. Federal authorities accuse them of making materially false and misleading claims regarding MoviePass' business in press releases, interviews and…

Image via MoviePass/Drew Osumi Former MoviePass CEO Mitch Lowe and CEO Ted Farnsworth of parent company Helios & Matheson Analytics (HMNY) were once the smiling future of the subscription-based movie ticket service. These days, they find themselves in deep trouble with the SEC over securities fraud and other charges that could land them behind bars for 20 years. When they took over MoviePass in 2017, they shoved co-founder Stacy Spikes out the door as they slashed prices from $50 to $9.95 a month. It was…