<story><title>MoviePass Worked Out Great</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-08-07/moviepass-worked-out-great</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dhruvrrp</author><text>Moviepass worked great when it handed you $2 of VC money for every dollar, but I appreciate the fact that it did end up disrupting the market as it died.&lt;p&gt;Most of the big chain now offer Moviepass-esque premium services. AMC now charges like what, $12 a month for 2-3 movies &amp;#x2F; week? That&amp;#x27;s how much individual tickets cost in the bay, so as long as a person watches even a single movie a month they&amp;#x27;re breaking even!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>slg</author><text>&amp;gt; I appreciate the fact that it did end up disrupting the market as it died.&lt;p&gt;It might be too early to say that for sure.  The AMC service was created when MoviePass was still a player and was very much a response to them.  I believe AMC also only committed to that pricing for a single year and we just recently passed that 1 year anniversary.  Now that MoviePass is functionally dead, there is little stopping AMC from raising prices to the extent that basically kills this model for the average consumer.  We might soon find ourselves back in a market similar to the early days of MoviePass when one of these unlimited subscriptions costs $30-50 and is only viable for an incredibly small group of moviegoers.</text></comment>
<story><title>MoviePass Worked Out Great</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-08-07/moviepass-worked-out-great</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dhruvrrp</author><text>Moviepass worked great when it handed you $2 of VC money for every dollar, but I appreciate the fact that it did end up disrupting the market as it died.&lt;p&gt;Most of the big chain now offer Moviepass-esque premium services. AMC now charges like what, $12 a month for 2-3 movies &amp;#x2F; week? That&amp;#x27;s how much individual tickets cost in the bay, so as long as a person watches even a single movie a month they&amp;#x27;re breaking even!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>umvi</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s a pretty good deal for them too. It doesn&amp;#x27;t cost very much for a butt to be in a seat for 2 hours, but just getting them in the door more often increases the chances of high margin concession purchases. Plus there are always the people that subscribe-and-forget</text></comment>