Cineville (subscription service)

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Cineville
Company type Private
Industry Entertainment
Founded2009;16 years ago (2009) [1]
Founders
  • Thomas Hosman
  • Niels Büller
  • Eelke Hermens
  • Janna Reinsma
[2]
Headquarters
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Area served
 Netherlands
Belgium
ServicesSubscription-based movie ticketing
Website www.cineville.nl OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Cineville is a Dutch subscription-based movie ticketing service. Users pay a monthly fee which allows them an unlimited amount of visits to select movie theaters using their "Cineville pass." Originally founded in Amsterdam, the service expanded into the rest of the Netherlands by 2011. [3] The service expanded into Belgium by 2022 as a separate entity: Dutch users cannot utilize their pass in Belgium and vice versa. [4] As of June 2024, Cineville is valid in 68 cinemas across 40 Dutch cities, [5] while Cineville Belgium is valid in 23 theaters across 11 cities. [6]

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History

Cineville was founded by a group of four students working at Kriterion cinema; they were motivated by a desire to change the "old-fashioned" image of arthouse movie theaters in The Netherlands. [7] The company was originally a "collective" of 13 arthouse cinemas in Amsterdam, uniting in part due to the perceived hegemony of commercial multiplex film theaters. [8]

By 2019, the service launched an app. [9] During the COVID-19 lockdowns in The Netherlands, Cineville founded a temporary platform for streaming arthouse film called "Vitamine Cineville." They credit this platform with retaining over 75% of their membership during the lockdowns. [10]

Cineville Belgium was started in 2022 as a subsidiary. It was an initiative of five Brussels arthouse movie theaters that had suffered significant losses of income during the COVID-19 pandemic in Belgium. [11] The Belgian Cineville pass expanded into Wallonia in May 2023, [12] and into Flanders in September 2024.

In March 2023, a subsidiary in Austria was founded, which uses the technical backend of Cineville, but does not use the name and branding, but uses the name 'Nonstop - Dein Kinoabo'. [13] The Nonstop group consists of 24 cinemas, 14 of them in Vienna.

In August 2024, a subsidiary in Germany was founded, using both the technical backend and branding of Cineville. It started with cinemas in Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne, Nuremberg and Freiburg and is set to expand to more regions soon. [14]

Membership

Membership in The Netherlands
Time periodMembership
May 20127.000 [15]
February 201310.000 [16]
April 201516.000
201730.000 [17]
December 201840.000 [18]
April 201944.000
January 202050.000 [19]
December 202155.000 [20]
March 202370.000 [21]
January 202597.700 [22]
Membership in Belgium
Time periodMembership
September 2022800 [23]
September 20235.000 [24]
December 20236.800 [25]
June 20248.500

By 2019, over half of Dutch Cineville users were between the ages of 20 and 39. On average, they visited the cinema 30 times per year. [26] In Belgium, the average age of visitors is also between 20 and 30. [27]

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References

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  2. ↑ "Thomas Hosman gaat dit jaar weg als directeur van Cineville".
  3. ↑ Sier, Christian (9 April 2019). "'Ook welkom bij Cineville als je niet de hele filmhistorie paraat hebt'". NRC.
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  5. ↑ "Theaters".
  6. ↑ "Cinemas".
  7. ↑ "10 jaar Cineville: 'verwachtingen waren niet zo groot'".
  8. ↑ Avsaroglu, Arman (25 September 2012). "Filmpas Cineville breidt uit naar meerdere steden". NRC.
  9. ↑ "Cineville zet zich al tien jaar in voor het imago van de arthousefilm, mét succes".
  10. ↑ "Cineville bestaat 12,5 jaar: 'Juist nu beseffen leden hoe belangrijk een filmzaal is'".
  11. ↑ "Arthousefilmhuizen lanceren samen bioscoopabonnement".
  12. ↑ "Cineveville s'étend à Liège et Namur dès le 17 mai - Actu Cinema".
  13. ↑ https://nonstopkino.at/kinos/
  14. ↑ https://cineville.de/de-DE
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