in Newswire Published on August 16, 2018

MoviePass Majority Owner Hit with Securities Class Action After Stock Prices Plummet

Braxton v. Helios and Matheson Analytics Inc. et al.

Filed: August 13, 2018 ◆§ 1:18-cv-07242-UA

Helios and Matheson Analytics faces a lawsuit filed in the wake of a shift in MoviePass's subscription model that's being blamed for a sharp drop in share prices.

Defendant(s)

Helios and Matheson Analytics Inc.

Law(s)

The Securities Exchange Act of 1934

State(s)

New York

Categories

Entertainment Securities

A proposed class action has been filed in New York against Helios and Matheson Analytics Inc.—a global IT firm that moonlights as the majority owner of MoviePass, Inc.—and its CEO and CFO on behalf of those who purchased common stock in the company between August 15, 2017, and July 26, 2018.

Filed in New York, the complaint explains that MoviePass, until very recently, allowed subscribers to buy a single movie ticket every day for a flat fee paid each month, quarter or year. MoviePass only recently switched up this model, allowing subscribers to attend just three movies per month, the case says.

The lawsuit concerns a series of press releases issued by the defendants between August 2017 and March 2018. According to the complaint, the press releases, the topics of which spanned the defendants’ acquisition of MoviePass, the service’s subscriber growth and ultimately the aforementioned subscription model change, were materially false and/or misleading in that they:

Misleadingly touted MoviePass’s path to profitability despite the absence of any “reasonable basis to even imply” its business model could make money for the defendants;

Failed to disclose MoviePass’s business model was simply not sustainable, as no evidence existed indicating the service could monetize to the extent that it would avoid “being too buried in debt to survive”; and

Failed to disclose that due to the inherent unsustainability in MoviePass’s business model, it was inevitable that the defendant company would “run out of cash or lose so much cash as to raise doubts as to its ability to continue.”

The kicker, according to the suit, was a late-July 2018 SEC filing in which Helios announced it had issued a demand note in the principal amount of $6.2 million because the company could not make timely payments to merchants and processing vendors, leading to a service interruption. Upon this revelation, Helios and Matheson Analytics stock sank approximately 70.72 percent, the complaint states, and fell even further in the following days.

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