Movie-ticket deals worry theaters
LOS ANGELES - A movie theater in San Francisco, about 100 people recently showed for a free screening of "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" and a presentation of a kind of Netflix for movie theaters.The service, called MoviePass, would allow consumers to watch all the movies they want for $ 50 a month, using their smart phones to download the codes that could be redeemed against tickets in theaters. With the support of AOL Ventures, New York had planned to start a national rollout of the service this fall with a ticket office MovieTickets.com online.
But before a single pass has been sold, AMC Entertainment Inc. and other theater chains blasted MoviePass, saying they were blindsided and would not honor the pass.
"Plans for the program were developed without AMC's knowledge or input," Stephen Colanero, AMC's chief marketing officer, said in a statement.
The proliferation of steep discounts on movie tickets is causing much anguish in the exhibition industry.
In theory, theaters stand to benefit from promotions if they bring in more customers who buy lots of popcorn, soda and other high-profit concessions. And with most promotions, theaters still get the full ticket price because third parties cover the cost of the discounts.
Even so, some exhibitors fear the heavy marketing of low-priced tickets through discount services such as Groupon, LivingSocial and DailyCandy will erode their business by encouraging moviegoers to wait for a bargain before trekking to the megaplex.
Some draw parallels to the effects that low-cost online video-rental companies Netflix and Redbox have had on the slumping DVD business.
"There is always a worry about devaluing your product," said Patrick Corcoran, spokesman for the National Association of Theatre Owners.
Exhibitors can ill afford that, given that attendance -- the number of tickets sold -- is down about 5 percent this year compared with the same time in 2010 and has been flat for much of the past five years.
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(Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times/MCT) LOS ANGELES -- At a cinema in San Francisco, about 100 people recently showed up for a free screening of "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" and a presentation of a kind of Netflix for movie theaters.
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