Many movie listings in the Bay Area have been dark for some time

This may not be the last phone call for MoviePass on Monday, but signups for many Bay Area theaters in its pay-movie app have fallen into the dark on Monday afternoon. before to be restored.

Subscribers went on social media Monday afternoon complaining that MoviePass was not showing any movie listings in its local theaters in the Bay Area.

The Mobile MoviePass app presented no ads Monday afternoon for AMC Mercado 20, CineArts at Santana Row in San Jose and AMC Eastridge 15 in East San Jose – despite all three theaters of operation and several movies on Monday, according to their websites.

At around 6 pm, the lists were returned to the MoviePass app for those and other Bay Area theaters.

MoviePass showed listings Monday afternoon, however, for four Landmark movie theaters in South Bay. Landmark Theaters and MoviePass signed an agreement in March, according to which MoviePass would be integrated into Landmark Theaters' ticketing system, according to Variety.

The employees of the Landmark Aquarius Theater in Palo Alto and the Guild Theater in Menlo Park the MoviePass app to get tickets for movies on Monday.

Other Landmark theaters across the country also showed movie lists on the MoviePass app Monday, according to Deadline.

MoviePass did not immediately respond to a request for comment from this organization.

Provisional MoviePass lists for other theatrical channels extend beyond the Bay Area and into New York, Pennsylvania and North Carolina, according to several media.

The three million MoviePass subscribers paid a fixed amount per month – currently the price is $ 9.95 – in exchange for tickets to watch a movie a day in theaters. The business model has disrupted the film industry, with Bay Area subscribers and independent movie theaters renting the service to turn the filming experience into a more accessible experience and increasing attendance.

Despite the support, the financial prospects of MoviePass disastrous in recent days. Last Thursday, MoviePass' parent company, Helios and Matheson, borrowed $ 6.2 million from Hudson Bay Capital Management to restore its services and continue to "pay the merchants and processors" of the company. , in a note to subscribers Friday, said that "temporary break" was a back-end problem, which has been taken care of.

"MoviePass" mission is to make the film accessible to all and to increase the power of discovery – "Lowe, at a meeting on Monday, said the films recently released as" Mission Impossible : Fallout "and upcoming blockbusters like" Christopher Robin "And" The Meg "will not be available on MoviePass, according to Business Insider.

The price of Helios and Matheson shares continued to fall. Its stock closed Monday at 80 cents, a decrease of 60% compared to the closing price of Friday

. Helios and Matheson proceeded Wednesday to a grouping of shares in exchange for 250 shares for a single action. rather than 8 and a half cents – where the course of action was sitting before the reverse division came into effect. But the plan has not calmed investors, and the stock has lost most of its value since.