INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
During an all-hands meeting earlier today, MoviePass CEO Mitch Lowe reportedly informed staff that the service will bar additional big
titles from its subscription service
According to a report from Business Insider, upcoming titles Christopher Robin and The Meg will be getting similar treatment as Mission:
Impossible — Fallout.
The service caused an uproar among users when it barred users from seeing the latest Tom Cruise blockbuster using
It another in a string of unfortunate incidents for the service, which has fallen on rough financial times, of late
Earlier today, users were met with a blank screen when attempting to view screenings on the app
And just a few days ago, the startup borrowed $5 million to end another service outage.
On today call, Lowe apparently suggested that these
blocks wouldn''t be the last for the company &imply[ing] the practice of not offering tickets to major movies would continue for the
foreseeable future,& according to the report
While the service would admittedly still be a bargain at $10 a month, MoviePass would lose a lot of luster if users were no longer able to
That would join a number of new fine-print asterisks for the service, including the addition of surge pricing and other changes to the
We&ve reached out to MoviePass to clarify the report
Whatever the case, it starting to look like the service that was once considered too good to be true is precisely that
