MoviePass Relaunches With Three Membership Tiers

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.

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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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  • The pricing in the original post is out of date/incorrect.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.

    • 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.

      • @guest_1542483 this is why I don't have any passes or subscriptions yet. I can see the value of Movie Pass now. Still like A-List for the any format ticket for no extra charge, early seat selection and waived online convenience fee. I watch more low budget stuff that doesn't have wide release schedules that's sometimes at Alamo or AMC or a smaller independent theater. I'll watch a few of the interesting blockbusters but going on discount Tuesday, seeing early screenings for free or waiting until it hits vod to get it through other means is what I do. I pretty much only pay full price for stuff that can be ruined by spoilers which in my opinion is very few movies.

    • 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

  • 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?

  • 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.