Re:People Loved MoviePass Nearly to Death
by mjmahone17 on Monday May 21, 2018 @12:55AM
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Do theaters pay studios per showing or per ticket sold? If it’s per ticket sold, then monthly passes could be cost prohibitive for theaters: they would end up eating the cost of people going to 5 movies in a week, while owing the studios more. If they pay per showing, then monthly subscriptions with caveats like “only 30 seats for monthly passes available, until an hour before the show, when all seats become available” could make sense.
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Re:People Loved MoviePass Nearly to Death
by JumpCrisscross on Monday May 21, 2018 @03:15AM
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> Do theaters pay studios per showing or per ticket sold?
Percentage of revenue, i.e. per ticket sold [1]. That said, the studios' take rates vary "as you move into the second and third weeks of release," when "the percentage starts to swing to" a greater take rate for the cinema. A movie pass which blacks out the first N weeks after release could thus be economical (if something the studios would fight tooth and nail).
Re:People Loved MoviePass Nearly to Death
by erik_seaberg on Monday May 21, 2018 @03:29AM
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There are some super shady deals here. If you want to be able to show $BLOCKBUSTER, you might have to agree to pay for a minimum of N seats/day of showings of $UTTER_CRAP. If nobody shows up, the studio still gets paid, and of course the stars of $BLOCKBUSTER don't see a cent of that money.