INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A day after MoviePass announced upcoming surge pricing, Sinemia is introducing a new deal group deal for families
The plans start at $9 a month for one movie for two people and goes up considerably from there, topping out at ten times that amount for
three movie days a month for six people
Families can get expensive.
The new plans will be available in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and Turkey
Earlier this month, the company, which touts itself as a MoviePass competitor in its own press material, launched single user plans starting
at as low as $5 a month for a single film
The company also dropped the need for a physical card in a bid to differentiate itself from its chief competitor.
Of course, things have
been heating up a fair bit in the category, with MoviePass recent explosion in popularity
Earlier this week, the AMC theater chain announced that it was launching its own take on movie membership, which also included a number of
MoviePass, which recently passed three million paid subscribers, has been diversifying (for better and worse), investing in films like the
recent John Travolta feature, Gotti, which scored a rare zero-percent on Rotten Tomatoes
The service is also mulling its own family plan for later this month, but Sinemia beat it to the punch on that one.
