AMC Stubs A-List

[cinemaphile]

AMC Stubs A-List costs $19.95/month and gives all the Stubs Premiere benefits plus 3 novies per week. These CAN include premium (IMAX, 3D, etc), repeat viewings, and can be used on different days or multiples in a single day. Also, you can purchase advance tickets, unlike MoviePass.

https://www.amctheatres.com/amcstubs/alist

https://deadline.com/2018/06/moviepa...ce-1202414051/

AMC Theatres has upped the ante in the monthly movie ticket subscription war with MoviePass, and is adding a new tier to its current rewards program called AMC Stubs A-List.

For $19.95 a month, members will get three movies a week (defined as Friday through Thursday; approximately 12 titles a month), along with all the benefits of the theater chain’s rewards program AMC Stubs Premiere. The program kicks off on Tuesday, June 26 and members can reap the benefits immediately..

While many will be fast to point out that AMC’s program isn’t the $9.95/a month one ticket-a-day program that MoviePass provides its members, there are several other perks: A-List members don’t have to buy their tickets at the last minute which is the case with MoviePass, rather can purchase well in advance. A-Listers can snap up tickets for any format (IMAX at AMC, Dolby Cinema at AMC, RealD 3D, Prime at AMC and BigD), something MoviePass doesn’t allow. Reservations for A-List members can be made on AMCTheatres.com web site, or on the AMC Theatres smartphone app. For quite some time, MoviePass’ 3 million subscribers have weathered a slew of technical snafus, from the app glitching to being informed they’ve violated their Byzantine terms of service. No problems here with AMC’s A-List since it connects directly with the chain’s internal point-of-sales system.

With A-List, it’s use it or lose it every week: The three movies a week doesn’t rollover into next week. That said, all three movies can be enjoyed on the same day with a two-hour buffer in between each showtime. And an individual is allowed to re-watch the same movie. The A-List subscription program works for both new releases as well as holdovers, studio or indie titles.

[MifuneFan]

I do like the advance ticket option, and the premium shows. Might definitely consider this.

[Rodney-2187]

Purchase in advance and premium? That sounds pretty good!

[jacobsever]

They are building a new AMC 2 blocks away from my apartment. Very tempting.

[cinemaphile]

Being the cheapskate I am, Movie Pass is still currently my preferred option, especially since I'm paid up for several more months. But if and when MP collapses, I'm definitely in for this.

I rarely if ever see more than three in a week, and definitely like the idea of advance tickets and premium formats.

[Flyers99]

They say the $19.95+ price is locked in for your first year. Expect outrage when it becomes $25-$30 per month after your first year.

One premium showing a month pretty much pays for this service (Dolby is $18/Imax is $17 at their highest) in my area.

It states here that their 'week' will be timed for new releases: Friday-Thursday rather than the traditional Sunday-Saturday.

The draw back here seems that you won't be able to earn stubs points on tickets purchased with your A-List membership. Though you earn 100 per every $1 spent on a membership. So ~2,000 monthly.

MoviePass has to counter with something (other than bitter tweets) if they want to survive I think.

[ITDEFX101]

If only I had a good AMC theater near me I *might* consider it but for now I am surrounded by Regal.

[russdornisch]

If OP wants to add it, the website page for it is live with a Faqs page as well!

https://www.amctheatres.com/amcstubs/alist

[CelluloidPal]

l'm already an AMC Stubs Premiere member and this sound very tempting indeed.
I'll still keep my MoviePass card since not all of my closest theaters are AMC while others are Landmark theaters and one is AFI.

I can see both working for me.

[russdornisch]

Originally Posted by CelluloidPal

l'm already an AMC Stubs Premiere member and this sound very tempting indeed.
I'll still keep my MoviePass card since not all of my closest theaters are AMC while others are Landmark theaters and one is AFI.

I can see both working for me.

Yup I am thinking this as well... but honestly for me I see maybe 2 movies a week and the AMC is literally 5 minutes away from my house... so it may be time to drop moviepass...

[cinemaphile]

Originally Posted by ITDEFX101

If only I had a good AMC theater near me I *might* consider it but for now I am surrounded by Regal.

Haha. I've always been the opposite. Nothing but AMC's anywhere near me, and I've always been jealous of some ofthe perks, promotions, and movies at other chains.

[dyne]

Much better than that garbage pass Cinemark is trying to sell to people. Too bad I have 1 theater in my 50 mile area and it's a beat up Tinseltown (Cinemark).

[sandman slim]

Y'all are lucky. All we have here is Malco. No AMC, no Regal, no Alamo, nothing. No idea why the major chains all avoid this area like the plague...

[cinemaphile]

They mention you can make "reservations" for advance tickets, and can have up to 3 active reservations at any time. So I guess that means it will apply your ticket on the day of show towards your 3/week, not at the time you reserve them?

[carter155523]

The website says $19.95 plus TAX. It would only be about $2 or so, but $2 is $2!

[russdornisch]

Originally Posted by cinemaphile

They mention you can make "reservations" for advance tickets, and can have up to 3 active reservations at any time. So I guess that means it will apply your ticket on the day of show towards your 3/week, not at the time you reserve them?

It seems like that makes the most sense and would be easy to implement and have people understand, more so then it counting for the current week not the week the movie comes out...

[DanTheMan]

Originally Posted by cinemaphile

They mention you can make "reservations" for advance tickets, and can have up to 3 active reservations at any time. So I guess that means it will apply your ticket on the day of show towards your 3/week, not at the time you reserve them?

That's what I'm wondering. So if you're reserving for Ant-Man and the Wasp in IMAX on 7/6, is that first reservation deducted upon the online order or the weekend of release?

[unsung122212]

Not a bad deal, at least for me since I have been averaging about 4-5 movies a month with moviepass. Unfortunately I don’t have any amc theaters near me, so moviepass is my only option for deals on movie tickets since no theaters around me accepts hmm/movie cash or use fandango or atom ticket services.

[Abdrewes]

Good deal (if MP crashes that is). This would be awesome if I were still living with Dallas as their AMCs carry most of the big indie/foreign films. Too bad I have no AMCs in my immediate area (unless I want to drive 20 to 25 minutes each way just to save some $)

For all you MP neighsayers, at least their existence is making others like Sinemia, AMC, and Cinemark (to a much lesser degree) step up their game and trot out some lower cost subscription options.

[Zillamon51]

Online / advance ordering, and premium options, are great, but I will wait for a 'couples' option, as my GF and I always go together. We do opening night for many big blockbusters, and we would want to sit together.

Also, does not cover Fathom Events, and things like that.