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The wait for the Alamo Drafthouse movie-ticket subscription plan is almost over.
The popular chain will launch Alamo Season Pass by the end of the year across all its theaters, the companys founder and CEO Tim League told Business Insider.
Since July, a beta version of Season Pass has been used by patrons at Alamos Yonkers, New York location and its Raleigh, North Carolina theater. League said hes been impressed by the data hes seeing from the beta testing and is now putting the final touches on it to make Season Pass available to his entire chain.
Its working for us and we love it, League said. Its one of our biggest priorities this year, to get that rolled out.
League said Alamo Season Pass will be an unlimited plan for $20 a month in most areas of the country. He noted that in some cases the monthly price will depend on the market, so expect it to be a little more at locations like Drafthouses downtown Los Angeles space (which will open its doors by the middle of the year), or its Brooklyn, New York theater (a Drafthouse in Lower Manhattan is scheduled to open by the end of the year, as well).
Season Pass will be available using the Alamo Drafthouse app (on iOS or Android) to reserve seats days in advance, if you like from anywhere. You will also have the option to add additional tickets.
Drafthouse's Season Pass will join AMC's Stubs A-List and Cinemark's Movie Club as a chain-specific subscription service. And others are beginning to crop up with the help of Sinemia Enterprise , like those from Studio Movie Grill and National Amusements.
Movie-ticket subscription services have seen a surge in popularity since MoviePass lowered its monthly price to around $10 in the summer of 2017 and gained millions of subscribers. Though MoviePass has gone through a series of changes to try and get its cash burn under control, on Monday Business Insider reported that it will bring back an unlimited plan .
"I really admire what MoviePass did to disrupt this industry," League said. "To say, 'Hey, there might be another way that actually works.'"
League has certainly bought into the subscription model and believes it will help the company introduce unique movies to its customers.
The most exciting thing about it to me is that people are watching more movies, League said. And they are watching a wide variety of movies and thats part of what were trying to accomplish by becoming bigger as a company is to get more and more people to fall in love with a wide swath of amazing movies, and I see Season Pass as part of that.
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