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In 2021, Spikes bought the company out of bankruptcy and relaunched it in the fall of 2022. Approximately 30,000 people registered on the pre-launch waitlist within five minutes of the announcement, causing the MoviePass website to crash. The new iteration of MoviePass has three subscriber tiers:
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Stacy Spikes, now helming a company called PreTechnology Inc., intends to test a revised business strategy during the busy holiday season between
Thanksgiving and New Year's Day in hopes of relaunching MoviePass by the third or fourth fiscal quarters of 2022, court records
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and had been promoted a number of times, becoming the vice president of marketing. By 1996–97, Spikes was senior vice president of marketing at
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