Subscription ticketing service MoviePass has responded to theater chain AMC's move to launch their own competing plan. After experiencing explosive growth in 2017, spurred by a drop in subscription costs, MoviePass has now become a major player in Hollywood. The company has gotten so huge that they've even begun financing their own films, purchasing a stake in the recent Indie movie American Animals, as well as the currently playing John Travolta gangster biopic Gotti.

But the road to success did not come without some major speed bumps for MoviePass. From the beginning, theater chains were opposed to the service's model, which allows subscribers to pay a low flat monthly fee for admission to one movie per day. Conflict with chains spiked last year when MoviePass dropped their prices and began adding subscribers at a furious rate, with AMC Theaters openly criticizing the company's model, leading to MoviePass suspending their service in certain high-traffic AMC theaters.

Now the war between MoviePass and AMC is set to escalate. With more and more moviegoers looking at subscription-based ticketing as an option, AMC Theaters has now tried to get ahead of MoviePass by offering their own monthly service. For $19.99 per month, AMC theater-goers can sign up for Stubs A-List, giving them access to three movies per week including specialty formats like IMAX and 3D. Now MoviePass has responded to AMC's plans and of course they are trashing Stubs A-List. In a tweet, MoviePass pointed out certain flaws in the new plan:

It's true that MoviePass costs only $9.95 per month, compared to Stubs A-List's cost of $19.99. It's also true that MoviePass works in multiple chains while AMC's plan obviously only works in AMC theaters. AMC also gives its Stubs A-List users access to just three movies per week, while MoviePass allows users to see one movie per day. However, AMC's plan will allow users to see their three movies all in the same day, while MoviePass limits its users to just the one. MoviePass does also plan to sweeten their service by launching a Bring a Friend option, allowing subscribers to purchase a ticket for one other person.

Though MoviePass arguably looks like it has the better deal as of now, there's good reason for them to be very worried about AMC launching its own service. With 2,200 screens, AMC is currently the biggest theater chain in America. Should AMC lure enough moviegoers over to their new subscription service, what's to stop them from completely blocking MoviePass, shutting out the service's subscribers in a huge chunk of the nation's theaters? For the record, AMC says they will continue allowing MoviePass for the time being. In addition to ticketing, AMC can also offer other perks MoviePass can't, including line skipping and concessions upgrades. Ultimately, the market will have to decide which deal is more attractive. In the meantime, look for more social media trash-talking as the subscription ticketing service war kicks into high gear.

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Source: MoviePass