![]() ^ "AMC-Loews merger could shake up online movie ticketers Fandango and ".^ "Annual Report of Regal Entertainment Group" (PDF).^ "Regal completes purchase of Consolidated Theatres"."Fandango Buys Rival, Amassing Broader Theater Reach". ![]() ^ "AMC Entertainment Form 10-K for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2011".The competition ended with Fandango's purchase of in the 4th quarter of 2017. In 2015, Regal Entertainment Group announced that they would begin to offer tickets on on a non-exclusive basis, as Regal tickets retained their availability on Fandango. In May 2012, 's former partner Moviefone announced a new partnership with Fandango, when its relationship with lapsed. AMC and settled in 2013, with an agreement that the theater chain's online ticketing would be available on both Fandango and. Furthermore, as of February 8, 2012, Fandango began providing ticketing for non-Loews AMC Theatres in the US as well, after which 's fellow shareholders sued AMC for breach of contract. In 2002, Loews had attempted to break the contract under pressure of bankruptcy and from (then) AOL Moviefone and its partner, Loews' Cineplex subsidiary Fandango successfully sued both Loews and Moviefone, and retained the Loews business. Prior to 2012, provided online ticketing for AMC Theatres except those cinemas originally part of the Loews Cineplex Entertainment chain, whose online ticketing is provided by Fandango due to contractual obligations in place prior to the 2005 merger of the two movie chains. lost the Hoyts theater chain when the latter was acquired by the Regal Entertainment Group theater chain, a founder of 's rival online ticketing agency Fandango however, when Regal acquired Consolidated Theatres, the latter retained its contractual relationship with. Competition with Fandango Īcquisitions and mergers of movie chains have complicated matters regarding which ticketing companies provide online ticketing for a particular theatre chain. This purchase united the industry's two biggest online movie-ticketing services (Fandango's ticketing network spanned more than 33,000 screens worldwide 's over 29,000, with significant overlap between the two, e.g., both companies sold tickets to both AMC and Regal Cinemas) and increased Fandango's global screen count by approximately 20%, to over 40,000 screens worldwide. ![]() In October 2017, Fandango Media purchased. In April 2016, reported it had provided advance ticketing services to 250 theater chains, representing over 50 percent of the top 100 grossing theaters in North America on any given weekend. Since then, however, had lost ground, losing sole rights to the AMC chain and Moviefone's telephone arm to rival Fandango. Then, in mid-2005, established a ticket distribution relationship with the consignment ticket reseller PrintTixUSA, adding 20 movie exhibition companies to its ranks and boosting the total number of screens serviced nationwide to more than 10,000. In 2004, became the exclusive online ticket vendor for. In 2001, and entered in a partnership in 2001 that crosslinked their ticketing offerings. In 2010, sold over 16 million tickets for over 200 exhibitors, with 14,000 screens. provides movie times for all theaters, and online ticket purchasing for all Clearview Cinemas and National Amusements theaters, among other smaller chains such as Mann Theatres in Los Angeles. is an online movie ticketing website founded by AMC Theatres and in 2000 CBS Corporation, Famous Players, and National Amusements all came on board prior to launch and it is now a subsidiary of Fandango Media.
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