MoviePass suffered an outage recently, the reason for the outage was that MoviePass ran out of money. They have since borrowed a further $5 million from hedge fund Hudson Bay. Earlier this month they added surge pricing for things like opening day weekend and popular movies. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem like surge pricing is even enough, users are reporting that they are unable to use MoviePass to see ‘Mission: Impossible Fallout’. In the app these screenings are showing up as a ‘premium screening’ and are unable for redemption, there isn’t even any option to pay a surge price to see the movie.
It seems like at major chain theaters it’s impossible to purchase tickets for this movie, whereas theaters MoviePass has formal agreements with (e.g Landmark) it’s possible to purchase tickets. It isn’t clear if this is affecting annual pass holders as well or not. At this stage I can’t see MoviePass lasting much longer, I wonder how competitors Sinemia & AMC A-List are going.
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Error Messages
What Does Error ‘Moviepass There Are No more Screenings’ Mean?
This means you’re trying to view a restricted screening. Discussed in more detail here.
‘Premium Screening Not Supported’?
People are reporting seeing this even when it’s not a premium screen they are trying to view. It’s basically the same error as above and happens on new release movies.
