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With millions of subscribers, that could be the difference between a movie's success or failure, and might even help to make one a blockbuster.Regardless of the outcome of the probe, investors would do well to spend their money going to the theater to take in a flick rather than putting it into a separately traded MoviePass company.What the new MoviePass spinoff would have is a collection of negligibly valuable assets and a broken business model that still wouldn't be able to make money. Even if that company is completely dead, the Moviefone brand has been around for 30+ years and has some value. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York City, the service allowed subscribers to purchase up to three movie tickets per month for a monthly fee. By Helen Holmes • 12/15/18 9:30am. Daniel Boczarski/Getty Images for MoviePass. By retaining control of the enterprise, Helios and Matheson probably hopes to continue aggregating data on moviegoers' habits, but keep a distance from all the bad press it might still create.The reality is that Helios and Matheson wasn't so much interested in creating a movie subscription service that would give theatergoers a smorgasboard as it was in gathering the data such a subscription model generated so it could target movie marketing and advertising at subscribers. The comment came in a Oct. 23 press release titled "Helios and Matheson Analytics Inc. The only problem is for a company to do something like Uber, Tesla or Amazon, where the company is able to raise all kinds of money in excess of anything that its financials would normally justify to keep growing in spite of the dismal results, they needed to raise the stockpile of money before it was apparent what a disaster MoviePass really was and is.One other popular reference is the NO REVENUE scene from the TV series ‘Silicon Valley’. It is truly a shame MoviePass couldn’t do anything about having to spend $14 for popcorn, but I digress. Helios and Matheson Analytics Inc. (OTC:HMNY) (“Helios”) is a provider of information technology services and solutions, offering a range of technology platforms focusing on big data, artificial intelligence, business intelligence, social listening, and consumer-centric technology. "Spinoffs can be exciting, but if a publicly traded MoviePass company becomes a reality, investors would do well to stay away from this box-office bomb.MoviePass Entertainment would be a mix of cobbled-together entities spanning the movie business, from distribution to exhibition and content and right on through to marketing, advertising, and selling merchandise. MoviePass Is Dead. In that scene, one of the company managers is explaining to everyone at a meeting how the company is going to grow over the next few years. Essentially, it wants to shed this albatross regardless of how it happens.Founded in 1993 by brothers Tom and David Gardner, The Motley Fool helps millions of people attain financial freedom through our website, podcasts, books, newspaper column, radio show, and premium investing services.Helios and Matheson, which would retain control of the new company, would then focus on its Zone Technologies, which produces a GPS navigation app called RedZone Map that incorporates crime data into maps to route you to your destination the safest way.Stock Advisor launched in February of 2002. Jul 28, 2019. Stared in 2011 by entrepreneurs Stacy Spikes and Hamet Watt, MoviePass picked up a multitude of subscribers with its promise of unlimited theater movie showings for only $9.95 a month. Ted Farnsworth, chairman and CEO of the company that's been focused for many years on data analytics, says that because Helios and Matheson has become synonymous with MoviePass, "the market perception of HMNY might benefit from separating our movie-related assets from the rest of our company." MoviePass House Park City in Park City, Utah. The presenter mentions something like, “and we will charge X for our services…” at which point the VC guy quickly ends his phone call and jumps into the meeting to say, “NO REVENUE! Helios and Matheson Analytics has announced plans to spin off its long-troubled ticketing, film financing and production unit MoviePass into its own … Announces Preliminary Plan to Spin Off MoviePass Entertainment Entity as Separate Public Company. The Dream of MoviePass Is Dead, but Try Telling Its Executives That. MoviePass looks like it was a variation on ‘build it and they will come’ and valuation was supposed to be based on something like ‘eyeballs’ or ‘page views’ or some other non GAAP measurement of success that management resorts to when they can’t show anyone the money because there is none.