MovieTickets.com

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MovieTickets.com is an online movie ticketing website originally founded by AMC Theaters and Hollywood.com. It provides movietimes for all theaters, and online ticket purchasing for some AMC Theaters, all National Amusements theaters and all Clearview Cinemas, among other smaller chains (such as the famous Mann Theatres in Los Angeles).

In 2004, MovieTickets.com acquired outright the online arm of Moviefone.com, after having entered in a partnership in 2001 that crosslinked their ticketing offerings.[1] Then, in mid-2005, MovieTickets.com established a ticket distribution relationship with consignment ticket reseller PrintTixUSA, adding 20 movie exhibition companies to its ranks and boosting the total number of screens serviced nationwide to more than 10,000.[2]

[edit] Loss of Theater Chains

It does not provide online ticketing for those AMC Theaters originally part of the Loews Cineplex Entertainment chain, whose online ticketing is provided by Fandango due to contractual obligations in place prior to the 2005 merger of the two movie chains.[3] Loews had previously attempted to break the contract in 2002 under pressure of bankruptcy and from (then) AOL Moviefone; Fandango successfully sued both Loews and Moviefone and retains Loews business.[4]

Furthermore, MovieTickets.com lost the Hoyts theater chain when it was acquired by the Regal Entertainment Group theater chain, a founder of Fandango.

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ MovieTickets.com press release
  2. ^ MovieTickets.com press release
  3. ^ "AMC-Loews merger could shake up online movie ticketers Fandango and MovieTickets.com" from Media Stocks at SeekingAlpha.com
  4. ^ "Fandango Heads Off an End Run" from Silicon Valley at Internet.com
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