Entertainment Unfiltered
It’s out of beta and I can’t escape it. Last year, MoviePass announced a return. This year, it has seemingly completed said return. They opened their new service up nationwide just ahead of Memorial Day weekend. And, uh, it’s a complicated thing. As they said a year ago, it functions on a point system; your […]
I’m never going to be allowed to stop writing about this, am I? You… might remember MoviePass. The service allowed you to see, at least initially, as many movies in theaters per month (1 per day, though) as you wanted. While the logic of that model was sound on paper (most people, even with the […]
Anybody want a glass of Tang? MoviePass shut down September last year. So It kinda bothers me a bit that I still have to write about them. But they’ve finally pulled the trigger on the company’s future. MoviePass parent company, Helios and Matheson, have decided that selling or restructuring the company simply isn’t realistic, and […]
Won’t have to worry about canceling your subscription, right? We have finally reached the end of the little movie ticket service that could… until it couldn’t after progressively eroding its value to end users. MoviePass is set to shut down today, September 14th. Helios and Matheson, MoviePass’ parent company, has confirmed that the service would […]
Came tumbling, tumbling. MoviePass has been, possibly, my favorite slow-motion trainwreck to spectate in my time writing here. And this time, they’re back in the news. Why? Shitty data security, of course! Per TechCrunch, they apparently left the records of 58,000 subscribers on a completely unprotected public server. Just like that now famous cake in […]
Not done yet. Almost every news source last year predicted nothing but doom for MoviePass. But the ticket service hasn’t died yet. As a matter of fact, according to Variety, the service plans to relaunch their unlimited plan. Granted, they’ve yet to announce the pricing for this plan. But MoviePass executive VP Khalid Itum has […]
Do it before they run out of money! Again! MoviePass has slowly been circling the drain for a while now. Well, if you were one of the original annual pass adopters, you were immune to the chaos of the Titanic sinking, so to speak. That, however, is no longer the case. According to The Verge, […]
Lawsuits ahoy! I’m getting tired of typing out MoviePass’ name, so I’ll be keeping this short. The ailing company’s owners, Helios and Matheson Analytics, have posted a massive $126 million ($84 million net) loss for the quarter ending on June 30th. A loss several orders of magnitude over their losses from the same period last […]
Wise from your glave! MoviePass keeps digging that grave deeper and deeper. Newest to the party: checking the app after cancelling your account reactivates it. According to Vox, the issue occurs when customers who already canceled their subscription go into the app to check either on a movie they plan to see, or on the […]
Please let it be Hudson Hawk 2: 2Hudson 2Hawk. Dammit, it isn’t. MoviePass has announced its first original production: a thriller starring Bruce Willis. According to Deadline, the film is titled 10 Minutes Gone. The story follows a man who loses ten minutes of his memory due to being hit by a stray bullet during […]
Not to be fatalistic, but… Hey, you ever get that sensation of deja vu? The feeling that you’ve already done something before? Well, that’s how MoviePass is making me feel. Because according to variety, they’re going to keep the subscription price at $9.95 a month. But you’ll only be able to see 3 movies a […]
Not looking good, guys. The MoviePass app experienced an outage on Thursday night. And, for many users, it has continued to be unusable through Friday. Why, you ask? They, uh, ran out of money. in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Friday, they reported borrowing $5 million to pay its “merchant and fulfillment processors” […]
