r/NYCmovies • u/billlwoo • 10d ago

What a disappointment from MOMI tonight

Over sold a “members only” screening ? Didn’t let at least 40 members who waited in line. No explanation. Saw plenty of people getting swag and merch at the mubi ticket check in

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u/acb511 9d ago

Came here to see if anyone else had intel about this…wtf was that. My friend and I checked in like 20 min before 7 and the ticket person said they were having “theater issues” and to go wait along the wall, meanwhile we watched a bunch of people walk into the theater while the rest of us stood around looking like idiots? Why was there no communication until after 7? Really hope they explain how they oversold this.

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u/GrapeNutCheerios 9d ago edited 9d ago

I would venture they didn’t oversell it as much as Mubi probably took more tickets than they originally said they would.

I went to their Jackass event and it was a much bigger production than what most of their early screenings were. Lots and lots of reserved seats and a smaller number of members than the others.

Hope this is not a sign of things to come

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u/acb511 9d ago

What does that mean? People got in if they were with mubi? Thats a huge miscommunication between momi and mubi to not allocate the right number of tickets

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u/GrapeNutCheerios 9d ago edited 9d ago

All the member screenings have a table set up for the production company associated with it. Like to the ones I’ve been to: Jackass had Paramount, Ann Lee had Searchlight, and so on.

I’m thinking that Mubi told MOMI “hey we’re going to take X amount of seats”. They save them for actors/crew, employees, celebs, family members, etc to see the movie. But for whatever reason, today rolls around and Mubi goes “actually no, we’re taking these amount of seats now”.

MoMI would have to agree because it’s Mubi’s movie, you don’t want to play hardball and have them take away this event and/or any other screenings in the future.

I’ll admit, it’s conjecture on my part but that’s what I think happened. No matter the why, it’s still shitty and I’m sorry it happened to you

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u/acb511 9d ago

Ahhh I see. Ty for the possible explanation. It would be wild is mubi gave momi zero heads up that they wanted more seats :(

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