The MoviePass Heyday Will Be Memorialized with a DocuseriesFor a short window of time—two years, to be exact—MoviePass was a theatergoers dream. But, as it turns out, allowing subscribers to see unlimitedThe story dates back further than 2017, when it exploded on the market and altered the theatergoing experience. That was the year an analytics firm called Helios and Matheson became majority stakeholders, but MoviePass was founded in 2011.
What happened? Well, the answer to that question will be explored in the forthcoming MoviePass docuseries executive produced by Mark Wahlberg. According to, the docuseries will start with the inception of the app by founders Stacy Spikes and Hamet Watt, and weave through the problems that eventually left them bankrupt and investigated by the FBI.
It wasn't just the cheap subscription price that caused problems for MoviePass. Those who had memberships know that sometimes the app didn't work properly, seats would be listed as sold out when they really weren't, and sometimes the account would change a user's password without their knowledge in order to keep them from reserving tickets.
It was a mess—a beautiful mess. MoviePass was a sometimes-chaotic app that allowed, at one point, 3 million subscribers to be have the experience of seeing most of the 2018 —a feat that is not always easy when you don't have access to advance screeners, or the funds to spend $15 per ticket.Certainly the pandemic has caused most of us to really miss the experience of going to the movies, it is the short-lived MoviePass heyday that some of us really yearn for while we stream from the comfort of our own homes instead.
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