MoviePass Killing Off Annual Plan – Receive A Refund Until 8/31 [Update: Costco Memberships Not Impacted]

Small update: If you purchased your annual pass through Costco your membership plan is not being limited to three movies per month. Seems odd to punish people who purchased directly through MoviePass rather than via Costco but I guess Costco is providing full refunds for anybody that cancels and is holding MoviePass funds in escrow/threatening legal action for changed/cancelled plans. If you want to request a refund the URL is: https://moviepass.com/refund/thankyou/

MoviePass has announced that even if you’ve paid for an annual plan, that plan would no longer be grandfathered into being able to see unlimited movies monthly. Existing annual pass holders have two options:

• You can request to receive a refund by August 31st. This will be prorated based on how long you’ve had the pass for
• You can continue to use your pass, you’ll be limited to three movies per month. You also receive a discount of $5 on additional ticket purchases

If you don’t request a refund by August 31st, it’s assumed you want to continue your membership and option #2 is automatically selected for you. If you do opt to take the refund, MoviePass is also preventing you from signing up for a new account for 9 months. MoviePass provided the following statements:

As of today, aligned with Section 2.4 of our Terms of Use, your annual subscription plan will now allow you to see 3 movies a month instead of the previous unlimited offering, and you’ll receive up to a $5.00 discount on any additional movie tickets purchased. This is the current standard plan now in effect for all current and new subscribers. Unless you choose to cancel your subscription prematurely, your plan will continue within these guidelines through the end of your annnual contract.

And

This new offering is part of the transition to our new subscription model.  We’re excited to offer subscribers the option of going to three movies a month for $9.95 and providing up to a $5.00 discount for additional movie tickets. We are grateful to our MoviePass community and have offered a number of our annual subscribers the option for a refund if the new plan doesn’t align with their viewing preferences. With this transition, we intend to offer more film options so subscribers can continue exploring a wide variety of movies.  We believe that our new plan is a positive change in the right direction and that it captures the needs and desires of most of our MoviePass community in our journey for an accessible and quality movie experience.  

Our Verdict

If you purchased your annual pass from Costco, it might be worth contacting them directly as they were offering full refunds (at least until recently). Personally I think Sinemia is a better option at this stage, another option is AMC Stubs A-List. The whole if you cancel we won’t let you have another account for nine months just seems petty to be and particularly pathetic given that MoviePass are the ones forcing the change.