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MoviePass and Catching a Tiger by the Toe
The service played a dangerous game: grow fast enough that your market dominance outstrips your losses. It isn't the first, but it may soon be the latest to lose.
Matthew Ball, curator
September 7, 2018
rant n' rave
rant:// Fred Wilson nails the MoviePass business plan, albeit three years ago and in abstraction. When you lose money to gain market share, it seems like you have a clear path to profitability. But clear and easy are very, very different

Negative Gross Margins

There's been a lot of talk coming out of silicon valley lately about fast growing companies with high valuations that are going to face problems in the coming year(s).

MoviePass Is Luring Millennials Back to the Multiplex. Why Is Hollywood So ‘Meh’?

Given the rage freely flowing from America's largest theater operator, AMC, toward MoviePass -- the controversial, defiantly inexpensive subscription ticketing service that allows filmgoers to attend one movie per day, every day, for a $9.95 monthly fee -- it's easy enough to forget that until just last month, the two companies were partners in the putting-asses-in-seats business.

MoviePass, AMC, and the Era of Cinema Subscriptions

AMC Entertainment announced a $19.95/month subscription last month called the AMC Stubs A-List for movie-goers to see up to 3 movies per week at its theaters (Stubs is their rewards program). This is a big experiment for AMC - the largest exhibitor chain (aka cinema chain) in the world - not least because its CEO Adam Aron has been very critical of MoviePass, which set off a rush of interest in subscription cinema packages after dropping its price from $50/mo to $10/mo last August and...

AMC Boss Adam Aron On Economics Of $20/Month Movie Ticket Service: “Our Program Will Be Profitable While Others Struggle To Be Profitable”

AMC CEO Adam Aron knows that his theater chain's new $19.95 monthly movie ticket subscription service Stubs A-List is double the price of MoviePass and that's because he's aiming to make the program "beneficial" for "all involved." A good deal for consumers, but one which won't rob distribution, studios and exhibition partners like RealD and Imax with a flat-across-the-board price structure.
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