What appeared to be an outrageously good deal from MoviePass offering $9.95 “unlimited access” to the movies turned out to be a “money-losing gimmick” to artificially boost the company’s share price.
Theodore Farnsworth, the former CEO of Helios & Matheson, which owned notorious theater subscription provider MoviePass from 2017 to 2019, pleaded
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