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| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2000 |
| Headquarters | Boca Raton, Florida, USA |
| Products | Online movie tickets |
| Parent | Fandango Media |
| Website | www |
MovieTickets.com is an online movie ticketing website founded by AMC Theatres and Hollywood.com in 2000; CBS Corporation, Famous Players, and National Amusements all came on board prior to launch;[1] and it is now a subsidiary of Fandango Media. MovieTickets.com provides movie times for all theaters, and online ticket purchasing for all Clearview Cinemas and National Amusements theaters, among other smaller chains; such as Mann Theatres in Los Angeles. In 2010, MovieTickets.com sold over 16 million tickets for over 200 exhibitors, with 14,000 screens.[2]
In 2001, Moviefone.com and Movietickets.com entered in a partnership in 2001 that crosslinked their ticketing offerings. In 2004, MovieTickets.com became the exclusive online ticket vendor for Moviefone.com.[3] Then, in mid-2005, MovieTickets.com established a ticket distribution relationship with the 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.[4] Since then, however, MovieTickets.com had lost ground, losing sole rights to the AMC chain and Moviefone's telephone arm to rival Fandango.[citation needed]
In April 2016, Movietickets.com reported it had provided advance ticketing services to 250 theater chains, representing over 50 percent of the top 100 grossing theaters in North America on any given weekend.[5]
In October 2017, Fandango Media purchased MovieTickets.com. This purchase united the industry's two biggest online movie-ticketing services (Fandango's ticketing network spanned more than 33,000 screens worldwide; MovieTickets.com's over 29,000, with significant overlap between the two, e.g., both companies sold tickets to both AMC and Regal Cinemas) and increased Fandango's global screen count by approximately 20%, to over 40,000 screens worldwide.[6][7]
- ^ "Press Releases". MovieTickets.com. 2000.
- ^ "AMC Entertainment Form 10-K for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2011". SEC.gov.
- ^ "Press Release". MovieTickets.com. 2004. Archived from the original on 2017-02-16. Retrieved 2007-07-25.
- ^ "Press Release". MovieTickets.com. 2005.
- ^ "About Us". MovieTickets.com. Retrieved 2016-04-22.
- ^ Spangler, Todd (October 13, 2017). "Fandango Buys Rival MovieTickets.com, Amassing Broader Theater Reach". Variety. Retrieved October 12, 2019.
- ^ Bouma, Luke (October 14, 2017). "Fandango Buys Its Online Rival MovieTickets.com". Cordcutters News.