HBO has launched the trailer for MoviePass, MovieCrash, an upcoming documentary in regards to the rise and fall of the film ticketing subscription service. Watch it under.
MoviePass, MovieCrash primarily focuses on what went unsuitable in 2017, when the corporate launched a bonkers $10 monthly subscription for limitless film tickets. On the time, management of MoviePass had been wrested from co-founders Stacy Spikes and Hamet Watt, with former CEOs Mitch Lowe and Ted Farnsworth main the cost.
Within the trailer, one former worker offers a peek into the behind-the-scenes drama, saying, “After they discuss MoviePass, you normally get an image of Mitch [Lowe] and Ted [Farnsworth]. However that’s undoubtedly not the case.”
Directed by award-winning filmmaker Muta’Ali, MoviePass, MovieCrash options interviews with the corporate’s co-founders, former CEO Lowe, and former staff, in addition to subscribers, traders, journalists, and monetary analysts.
“In a span of eight years, MoviePass went from being the quickest rising subscription service since Spotify to whole chapter, shedding over $150 million in 2017 alone,” reads the official logline. “MoviePass, MovieCrash chronicles the corporate’s beginnings as an revolutionary film ticketing mannequin beloved by cinema goers, exploring the visionary mission of its entrepreneur co-founders, its spectacular early successes, and its precipitous downfall attributable to mismanagement and company greed.”
MoviePass, MovieCrash premieres Might twenty ninth at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on HBO and also will stream on Max.
After going out of enterprise in 2019, MoviePass was resurrected by a returning Stacy Spikes in 2022 below a tiered pricing mannequin.