AMC Stubs A-List Hikes Numbers Subscription in Number of States – Variety

AMC Cinemas' Stubs A-List program, the theater's monthly subscription service allows customers to see movies for a week for $ 19.95 a month, will be in the 16 states where the app is most popular.

In California, Connecticut, Mbadachusetts, New Jersey, and New York, the price will rise from $ 19.95 to $ 23.95 a month, starting on Jan. 9, 2019. The monthly cost will increase to $ 21.95 for subscribers in Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington state and D.C. Pricing will remain at $ 19.95 in the other states. The price for those who have already been enrolled in A-List.

"Our decision to keep the AMC Stubs A-List is unchanged in 35 states, along with only a modest price of successful balancing profits and popularity," AMC CEO and President Adam Aron said in a statement.

AMC also announced Monday that the A-List Stubs service – set up as rival to MoviePbad – has signed up more than 500,000 to its four-month-old subscription service. That's far above what the chain had originally forecast. The milestone ratchets up the pressure on troubled MoviePbad, which has drastically cut back its movie-a-day offering for $ 9.95 a month to only three movies per month.

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AMC had expected to have 500,000 signups by the end of next June and 1 million by June of 2020. Imax, Dolby Cinema, and RealD. MoviePbad can only be used for 2D movies.

MoviePbad' offer of a movie a day for $ 9.95 has become enormously popular this year and attracted more than 3 million subscribers. But Helios & Matheson Analytics, which has dropped to nearly $ 127 million for the second quarter.