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- Published
- Oct 20, 2025
- Last updated
- Oct 16, 2025
- Pain validation confidence sits at 8.5/10.
- Latest TAM estimate recorded: $8.75 billion.
- Competitive landscape highlights Odeon myLIMITLESS, Cineworld Unlimited, UGC Illimité.
Key facts
Snapshot of the most referenceable signals from this report.
Industry manuals mandate 25–40% peak-hour surcharges, regulators slap fines for hidden fees, and fans rage about $16+ tickets crushing their movie dreams—proof that cinema lovers are being bled dry and locked out.
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- Which pain point does this idea address?
- Cinema lovers are squeezed out by sky-high peak-hour prices, leaving their movie cravings unfulfilled and wallets drained.
- What solution does StartSlaps recommend?
- Shatter the cost barrier with an annual pass for unlimited off-peak cinema access, turning every late night into your personal film festival.
- How should this idea be positioned against competitors?
- Forget the bloated giants like Regal and AMC—they drown in all-hours complexity and high prices. Regional time-restricted players like UGC are shackled to local markets. We own the off-peak frontier: strike hard with a global annual pass that turns their weak, empty slots into our explosive advantage. Crush them by being the razor-sharp, wallet-friendly choice for night owls and bargain hunters. Steal MoviePass's growth fire but dodge its collapse—dominate by locking in loyal fans and making every late show a rebellion against overpriced cinema. Rise as the undisputed king of off-peak access.
Top Validation Metrics
Pain validation score8.5/10
Industry manuals mandate 25–40% peak-hour surcharges, regulators slap fines for hidden fees, and fans rage about $16+ tickets crushing their movie dreams—proof that cinema lovers are being bled dry and locked out.
TAM$8.75 billion
SAM$1.75 billion
SOM$87.5 million
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Product/Idea Description
offering membership subscription of annual cinema pass which can be used to watch all movies no times limit, only for those movie are shown during off-peak hours, after 21:00 or early morning etc.
Target Region
Global
Pain Point Analysis
Claimed Pain Point
Cinema lovers are squeezed out by sky-high peak-hour prices, leaving their movie cravings unfulfilled and wallets drained.
Adjustment Suggestion
Sharpen the pain point to expose how hidden fees and concession markups amplify peak-hour gouging, turning every cinema trip into a financial ambush that murders movie joy.
Pain Point Exists?
Validated
8.5
Confidence Score
Industry manuals mandate 25–40% peak-hour surcharges, regulators slap fines for hidden fees, and fans rage about $16+ tickets crushing their movie dreams—proof that cinema lovers are being bled dry and locked out.
Evidence Snapshot
Proves 45Disproves 0
Proves the pain
Solution Analysis
Attempted Solution
Shatter the cost barrier with an annual pass for unlimited off-peak cinema access, turning every late night into your personal film festival.
Solution – Pain Matching?
Aligned
8.5
Fit Score
This annual pass demolishes the peak-price prison, unleashing cinephiles to feast on unlimited films during off-peak hours—satisfying cravings without draining wallets.
Competitors Research
Competitor Landscape
Hover or click a dot for moreCompetitor & Our Positioning Summary
Forget the bloated giants like Regal and AMC—they drown in all-hours complexity and high prices. Regional time-restricted players like UGC are shackled to local markets. We own the off-peak frontier: strike hard with a global annual pass that turns their weak, empty slots into our explosive advantage. Crush them by being the razor-sharp, wallet-friendly choice for night owls and bargain hunters. Steal MoviePass's growth fire but dodge its collapse—dominate by locking in loyal fans and making every late show a rebellion against overpriced cinema. Rise as the undisputed king of off-peak access.
Benchmark Research
MoviePass
Entertainment / Subscription cinema pass
United States
Business Overview
Subscription cinema pass that popularized low-cost, high-frequency moviegoing via unlimited/flat-rate plans for theatrical attendance
Explanation
MoviePass is the raw blueprint and the thunderous warning every cinema-subscription founder must study — it unleashed explosive consumer demand for flat-rate movie access, forced legacy chains to react, and exposed exactly where unit economics break down; for an off-peak unlimited pass it supplies the most valuable playbook for go-to-market virality, user acquisition tactics, pricing psychology, partner negotiation and the hard lessons on margin protection and fraud control. Steal its growth levers, learn from its collapse, and you own the fastest route to scale.
Competitor Highlights
High Confidence 5Medium Confidence 9
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GeneralREF VALUE: High
CinemaCon 2026 is the world’s largest gathering of movie theatre owners and exhibitors in Las Vegas (April 13–16, 2026).
Oct 16, 2025
GeneralREF VALUE: High
American Film Market (AFM) returns to Los Angeles November 11–16, 2025 as a global marketplace where distributors, exhibitors and buyers meet.
Oct 16, 2025
Additional Info
Market Size (TAM / SAM / SOM)
TAM
$8.75 billion
TAM defined as the U.S. domestic theatrical admissions (box-office) revenue per year. Comscore’s full-year 2024 domestic estimate is reported at about $8.74–$8.75 billion (industry press reporting Comscore data). Using The Numbers' 2024 average ticket price of $11.31 gives an admissions-scale check: $8.75B / $11.31 ≈ 774 million tickets in 2024. This TAM represents gross admissions revenue (what a ticket-subscription would primarily displace or capture) and excludes concession, advertising, and ancillary revenues.
SAM
$1.75 billion
SAM = portion of TAM addressable by an "off-peak-only" unlimited annual pass (shows starting after ~21:00 and early-morning screenings). Seat-level/daypart analytics from industry trackers (EntTelligence and similar trackers) show that late-evening dayparts (evening/night) commonly account for roughly 15%–30% of admissions for wide-release titles depending on film, day of week and market. Using a conservative, rounded estimate of 20% of total admissions occurring in the targeted off-peak windows yields SAM = 20% * $8.75B ≈ $1.75B (i.e., the annual box-office revenue generated during those off-peak showtimes that the product can directly address). Off-peak share varies by title/season/chain; 20% is a deliberately conservative midpoint supported by film-level daypart breakdowns and auditor-level analytics partnerships.
SOM
$87.5 million
SOM = realistic early achievable revenue from the SAM for a focused off-peak unlimited annual-pass launch. Assumptions: (a) target price point for an off-peak-only unlimited annual pass set at $99/year (positioned below full unlimited incumbents to attract trial), and (b) an achievable near-term capture of ~5% of SAM revenue after initial marketing, partnerships and rollout (a conservative early-years target given incumbent subscription uptake at major chains). Calculation: 5% * $1.75B = $87.5M. At $99/year that implies roughly 87,500,000 / 99 ≈ 885,000 paying subscribers (≈0.9M). Framing vs. comparables: major chain subscription programs (AMC A‑List / AMC Stubs, Regal Unlimited) show consumer willingness to pay monthly/annual subscription fees and demonstrate multi-hundred-thousand to multi-million program scales, so a focused niche service capturing ~0.5–2% penetration of off-peak frequent-goers in 2–4 years maps to this SOM. Key assumptions are explicitly: 20% off-peak share of TAM, $99 annual price, and 5% initial revenue capture of SAM—adjust any assumption (price or capture %) to produce alternate SOM scenarios.
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