Sinemia

Sinemia was a movie-ticket subscription service that offered members discounted access to cinema tickets in multiple countries.

Sinemia was a movie-ticket subscription service that offered members discounted access to cinema tickets in multiple countries. It launched in the United States in 2018, marketed itself as a flexible alternative to MoviePass, and ended its U.S. operations in April 2019.

Overview

Sinemia was a subscription platform for movie tickets that charged members for a limited number of screenings per month. It was marketed as a flexible, multi-theatre service rather than a chain-specific membership program.

History

Sinemia was founded in 2014 and later expanded into the United States, where it launched monthly ticket plans in 2018. In April 2019, the company announced that it was ending operations in the U.S.

Plans and features

Sinemia offered tiered plans with different monthly ticket limits and, on some tiers, support for premium formats such as IMAX and 3D. Some reporting also noted annual billing and extra fees for ticket processing or initiation.

Reception and decline

The service received attention as a MoviePass competitor, but reporting described customer-service issues, hidden fees, and other operational problems. Its U.S. shutdown ended its role in the subscription-movie-ticket market there.