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It has never made sense to me to put an ad for AMC in front of movies at AMC because you're already there when you see the ad. The ad itself isn't bad, but it is just a waste of time. Cinemark does the same thing promoting their premium format, Cinemark XD, often in the XD auditorium itself...

I agree. I do use it on the rare occasion I go to night movies because it saves me a little bit of money. But it clearly isn't designed to serve the same purpose as A-List does. It seems intended to entice occasional moviegoers to go more often if they have a small discount. A-List is...

Cinemark is my local chain that I use all the time since I boycott AMC now. Their program offers one 2D ticket per month, 20% off concessions and waived online fees. I come and go from it periodically. The price locally is slightly lower than a night price ticket but higher than a matinee...

Apparently Movie Pass is back. https://deadline.com/2023/05/moviepass-julia-louis-dreyfus-you-hurt-my-feelings-box-office-specialty-preview-1235380523/

Your post is literally the first time I've ever heard of this movie. I go to the movies often but haven't seen any marketing for it whatsoever. What studio put this out? Is it a limited release?

The former leaders of Movie Pass have been indicted for fraud. https://variety.com/2022/film/news/moviepass-ted-farnsworth-mitch-lowe-indicted-fraud-1235424051/

Here is interesting analysis (not by me, but I find it fascinating) of an SEC filing against Movie Pass for their shady business practices.

I don't really want to derail this thread too much since Hunchback really doesn't have anything to do with A-List. However, quickly: I think it is incredibly ambitious and sophisticated for animation, especially coming at the time that it did and knowing that it would be marketed to kids. I've...

Disney stopped doing theatrical re-releases a long time ago. The last truly successful one was The Lion King in 2011, which itself was ten years ago. But the instant availability of everything on Disney+ just put an extra nail in that coffin. The Lion King worked not only because it is one...

I don't (and won't) have kids, so I don't want to sound like I'm comparing myself to your situation in those terms because there is no way that our experiences are equivilant. I just recently started going back to the theater for In the Heights, which was screening at both my multiplex and my...

Oddly, I've literally never heard of this before reading your post. How wide is this movie? My local theater (a Cinemark) isn't playing it. I'm usually at least semi-aware of most movies that are out but this one slipped right past me.

Stubs is what, $15 a year? I think that's what it was back when I used to be a member of it. With the prices you've described in New York, that might actually be cheaper than one movie ticket depending on when you go. It is cheap enough that it's easy to get a return from even if you don't go...

My local arthouse has a $90/year membership program which gives you discounted admission to every film, free popcorn at every film, and some other perks. It is not a subscription plan analogous to A-List, so the comparison isn't 1-to-1. Mainly the purpose of it is to help subsidize what the...

They didn't. The new film is a spinoff of a Netflix children's series "Spirit Riding Free" which itself was spun off the original Spirit film. It seems like the new film takes its cues from the show rather than from the previous film, which is why I have no interest in it. Fortunately, the...

Hang on -- I Still Believe was released on March 13 last year right before everything shut down. Why is that playing in theaters a year later? I know theaters have been playing re-releases of older stuff recently to fill screens, but this one seems unusual.

The Call of the Wild is just like any other film. Some of us are going to like it and some of us aren't going to like it and that's fine. I don't want to speak for anyone else but I personally feel like we have gone around the carousel on this particular discussion enough times. To bring this...

As long as we're on the topic, my Facebook memories the other day brought up a post from last year about Onward being 50 days away at that point. Onward, which opened on March 6, was the last movie I saw in a theater pre-COVID. So I got out more recently than some of you did, but it's still...

I'm right there with you in the wanting to go back. Never in my life have I gone so long between theater visits, and I miss it desperately. But even if I had the vaccine tomorrow (which I won't), I just can't see a way to do that in the near term.

Serious question: Are you going to return to theaters as soon as you have had both doses of the vaccine and have had time for it to do its work? I thought that would be the case for me at one time, but now I think I might hold off longer. If we get to a point where I have the vaccine but a...

Those would still be what the studios are offering for the theater to program, so I think they'd still be the DCPs. I do not think the theater is able to get something that the studio would not agree to provide, whether or not it is being offered for public showing.

I can see why they might hope that would be the case. But I don't think The Croods is a big enough property to do that. The first one was reasonably successful seven and a half years ago when it came out, but I get the sense that a lot of people have forgotten about it. We'll see.

I agree with what you're saying. But they don't want things to change. Insisting on maintaining the the 90-day window during the pandemic has almost certainly cost them revenue. If they had said to Disney, "Give us Soul in November and then you can do what you want to with it by Christmas," I...

Cinemark is doing that now. The problem is that you have to pay the equivalent of 20 tickets to do that, whether or not you are actually going in a group of 20. So, as you noted, that is prohibitively expensive for most people.

I don't even have to sit in a movie theater chair previously occupied by someone else. I could just sit in my wheelchair which I bring in, which no one else but me has used. I really wish I could go. I'm still not doing it though. I hope those who disagree and feel safe going stay safe. But...

Yes, but if they do that they lose the opportunity to talk you out of cancelling. This is a strategic move on their part to make it harder to cancel so that you don't.

From that letter Robert posted, emphasis mine: "On December 1, 2020, all memberships that are still paused will be automatically reactivated. As always, we will communicate with you well in advance of any changes to your membership status, including our reactivating of a paused membership. Of...

I used to be a loyal member of the paid version of AMC Stubs, back when they were my regular theater. After I discovered that my local AMC's remodel moved all of the wheelchair seats to the very back in an utterly discriminatory decision, I decided to cancel my subscription. (This was prior to...

They probably want to make it as difficult as possible to cancel; therefore, making you respond again to confirm cancellation makes sense.

Now that AMC has officially confirmed a reopening date, have those of you who want to cancel your A-List membership been able to do so yet?

Regal has followed suit and will also require masks. No comment from Cinemark yet.