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“It was a contributor to the specialty box office, and I hope it will be again,” says Laemmle CEO Greg Laemmle of MoviePass, the subscription service that unsurprisingly went bankrupt in early 2020 after offering a movie a day for ten bucks a month.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor It’s back! MoviePass, after emerging from bankruptcy under new ownership, is launching its movie-theater subscription service nationwide ahead of the Memorial Day weekend. The service lets MoviePass members choose from more than 4,000 theater locations across the U.S., including those operated by AMC Theatres, Regal Cinemas and Cinemark. However, the reincarnated MoviePass is a far cry from the too-good-to-be-true $9.95-per-month subscription for one movie per day that the company had offered in its previous life. Plans start at $10/month for 1-3 movies per month, ranging up to $40/month for up to 30. The new MoviePass uses a credit-based system to offer different options for the total amount of films a subscriber can see each month (see plan details below).

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has sued former top execs at MoviePass and its parent company, Helios + Matheson, for fraud.

MoviePass shut down in September 2019, and the service, along with Helios and Matheson filed for bankruptcy protection in January 2020. Last year, founder Stacy Spikes bought the company out of bankruptcy, and the service relaunched on Labor Day.The suit, filed in the U.S.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterMoviePass, the beleaguered moviegoing subscription service that collapsed in spectacular fashion, is returning at the end of the summer.The subsidized ticketing service will relaunch in beta form on Labor Day, though users will have to first join a waitlist. MoviePass is opening a waitlist on its website — starting on Thursday at 9 a.m. ET and lasting for five days — for its beta version.

services’ website, with the waistlist opening up on Aug. 25 at 9 a.m. ET.

EXCLUSIVE: Sharese Bullock-Bailey has been appointed as Festival Director and the first-ever Chief Innovation Officer at Urbanworld, which showcases narrative features, documentaries, short films, web originals, spotlight screenings, conversations and music performances that feature storytellers of color, including Black, Indigenous and Latinx artists.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaWith an image of a phoenix emblazoned on a screen behind him, Stacy Spikes, the founder of MoviePass, announced on Thursday that the controversial and defunct service will relaunch this summer. Spikes, a former film marketing executive and producer, who founded the ticketing service in 2011 before getting pushed out of the company after it was acquired by analytics firm Helios and Matheson in 2018, said that MoviePass is being reimagined as a cooperative. It will also use virtual currency and tiered pricing plans.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorMoviePass, which burned through hundreds of millions of dollars before shutting down amid lawsuits and an FTC complaint, may be getting a second act.Stacy Spikes, one of the co-founders of the theater-subscription company that shut down in 2019, has acquired the assets of MoviePass in a bankruptcy proceeding.

Christine L. Mendoza is the new Executive Director of Urbanworld Foundation Inc.

Moviepass co-founder Stacy Spikes revealed on Thursday his latest project: PreShow Interactive, a mobile app that offers gamers the ability to exchange their time spent engaging with branded content to unlock in-game currency without interrupting their playing experience. The currency that players unlock may be applied to many popular games across multiple consoles.