Bitcoin at the Box Office: New Film "Dope" Accepting Bitcoin for Tickets
A new movie coming out on Friday will allow Bitcoiners to pay for tickets with bitcoins. You can already pre-order tickets for Bitcoin. This was made possible through a partnership between third-rail payment processor GoCoin and the studio who created the film, Open Road Films, plus MovieTickets.com, the actual place where Bitcoin enthusiasts can buy the tickets. The film is called "Dope," and it is technically an independent film despite opening to more than 900 US theaters on Friday. It centers around a high school geek named Malcolm who is in love with technology, and at various points....
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Rick Famuyiwa-directed indie comedy movie "Dope" has become the first movie to accept Bitcoin for ticket purchases, The Wrap announced today. The American movie studio, Open Road Films has partnered with Bitcoin payments processor GoCoin to accept Bitcoin in ticket payments. Earlier in May, Lionsgate Films had partnered with GoCoin to accept Bitcoin in payments. The movie, whose producers and executive producers include Forest Whitaker and Pharrell Williams, will be released on June 19 in more than 900 theaters in the United States. Moviegoers can purchase the film's tickets using Bitcoin....
It opens with a textbook definition: Illegal drugs, an idiot, and slang for cool: Dope. Definitions are at the core of this film, Dope (2015), which takes place in “the Bottoms” of Inglewood, California: the textbook definition of ‘a bad place,’ characterized by its gang wars and its drugs, by its failing high school and its youth who are trapped in its system. We follow three of those youth, Malcolm, Diggy, and Jib — geeky kids who are starstruck by the 90s, a classic feel-good time of post-Cold War America unsettled by the boiling racial tensions that uneasily beckon to this day.....
The American crime comedy-drama Dope, written and directed by Rick Famuyiwa, stars Shameik Moore, Tony Revolori, Kiersey Clemon, Kimberly Elise and A$AP Rocky. Produced by Forest Whitaker, Dope's executive producer is Pharrell Williams and the co-executive producer is Sean Combs. The film's first sentence is: "I just read money as we know it is dead, soon the world is only gonna sell and buy products using Bitcoins..." Main character Malcolm Adekanbi and his friends love the 90s, even though they didn't live through them. Malcolm thinks records came out in the nineties, like The Blueprint,....
MovieTickets is one of the largest online movie ticketing websites in the US, representing an estimated 240 theater chains. According to its CEO Joel Cohen, accepting bitcoin payments for ticket purchases has increased sales and visibility for the company. The company earns revenue by sharing service fee proceeds with theater chains in exchange for managing an e-commerce process for their ticket sales. Payment options includes accepting major credit cards as its individual theater partners allow, but the demand for bitcoin payments has increased in the past year. Bitcoin Payments for....
Regal Cinemas has now followed the path laid out by rival AMC Theaters and has begun accepting crypto such as Bitcoin and Dogecoin for tickets and concessions. AMC had made headlines when it became the first major cinema chain to accept crypto payments for tickets and concessions, in addition to accepting crypto for things such […]