Update 1/26/23: MoviePass is now available nationwide.
Beta now live for some people in KC, Dallas, and Chicago. Options are:
- 1-3 movies for $10
- 2-4 movies for $20
- 3-5 movies for $30
Original post: Cinema subscription service MoviePass is set to relaunch with a waitlist becoming available Thursday, August 25, 2022 9am ET. MoviePass will launch with three tiers costing $10, $20 & $30 per month with each tier providing a certain amount of credits.
For those not familiar MoviePass was a subscription service that allow you to go to unlimited monthly screenings for a low monthly price before ultimately shutting down. I would be very cautious about signing up for anything more than a one month plan and wouldn’t pay any joining fee either, but it could still be a good deal in the short term.
I signed up during the beta back in November and they never sent me my card, so I just have credits sitting in my account that I can’t use. Two emails + a chat message to customer service all went unanswered, so just filed a dispute with my credit card to get my money back. OG Moviepass was great, but I lost confidence in them after this.
reminds me of the few months where i suddenly became a film aficionado
I would never join any Moviepass anything. When it worked, the pass was fantastic. However, “when” was the keyword in the sentence. I had so many issues with my pass, which never worked. They burnt so many people. It’s incredulous that they think they can reinvent themselves, with no compensation for the people when the pass didn’t work.
Love the old moviepasss. But i will stick with regal unlimited.
Isn’t Regal in Chapter 11 and closing dozens of locations?
Sounds like MoviePass is a Pass
There were actually movies worth seeing when MoviePass 1.0 was released. Today there is rarely a movie that makes me go “oh wow I need to see this in theaters.” Yeah, I enjoy the movie theater experience like the next guy, but the movie better be over 8.0 on IMDb to garner my ticket. Very few movies make that cut.
The pricing in the original post is out of date/incorrect. It’s:
1-3 movies/month for $10
3-7/month for $20
5-11/month for $30
30/month for $40
In NYC and LA it’s $10 more for each tier, except pro is $60.
AMC A-List, Regal Unlimited and Alamo Drafthouse Season Pass are a better deal. This is probably only better than Cinemark Movie Club which is only 1 movie a month for $10 where I’m located.
Cinemark let’s you stock up credits for months and you can use it to purchase tickets for others. You can get 6 month membership for like $40 on groupon too
I don’t want to imply that I’m arguing MoviePass is *better* per se — it’s a failed venture resurrected with a new business model, after all — but keep in mind that these theatres don’t show all the same films. Yes, all of them show your Marvel movies, A-budget horror flicks, and many commercially appealing Oscar films, but it really varies with some of the more niche stuff. It’s not a rare occurrence either: I was able to see a critically-acclaimed Korean film only screening at my local AMC where I live, and a critically acclaimed anime film at my local Regal. In those instances, only MoviePass would’ve saved me from paying for both films.
In other words, MoviePass *in theory* is better for serious filmgoers given non-identical film lineup across local theatre. We’ll see about if it survives or goes down in flames like last time.
MyVegas has Cinemark for a free month and two months at 50% off, which I’d use first.
do the credits carry over at all? and looks like the tiers are $20, $30, $40, $60 in NY/NJ…does this mean the same movie costs a lot more credits to watch in these areas compared to other states?
MP said the credits transfer for up to two months per their FAQ
It’s not 1-3 “movies” etc.; you buy various amounts of credits per month. Each movie costs 10, 15, or 20 credits (18, 20, or 40 in some areas). Matinees cost fewer credits than night showings which cost fewer credits than weekends. There is also a membership level where you can watch 30 movies (one per day) a month for $40.