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2024 American film From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
MoviePass, MovieCrash is a 2024 American documentary film directed by Muta’Ali. It explores the rise, fall and resurrection of movie subscription service MoviePass.
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Directed by | Muta’Ali |
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Cinematography | Axel Baumann |
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Music by | Max Aruj |
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Distributed by | HBO |
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Running time | 96 minutes[1] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
It had its world premiere at South by Southwest on March 9, 2024, and was released on May 29, 2024 on HBO.
Explores the rise, fall and resurrection of movie subscription service MoviePass[2] under the leadership of Ted Farnsworth and CEO Mitch Lowe alongside the expensive parties, the co-founders Stacy Spikes and Hamet Watt, both African American, being pushed out of the company by Farnsworth and the production of the infamous 2018 film Gotti under MoviePass Ventures.[3][4][5]
In February 2021, it was announced a documentary series revolving around MoviePass was in development, by Mark Wahlberg and set to produce under his Unrealistic Ideas banner.[6]
It had its world premiere at South by Southwest on March 9, 2024.[7] It was released on HBO and Max on May 29, 2024.[8]
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 88% of 24 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.2/10.[9]
Rendy Jones of Rendy Reviews gave the film four out of five stars, writing: "Strengthened by its commentary about racial inequality in Black entrepreneurship and white privilege, MoviePass, MovieCrash is an eye-opening history lesson behind the subscription service designed to be great but co-opted to fail."[10]
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