THELOGICALINDIAN - Rick Famuyiwadirected indie ball cine Dope has become the aboriginal cine to acquire Bitcoin for admission purchases The Wrap appear today The American cine flat Open Road Films has partnered with Bitcoin payments processor GoCoin to acquire Bitcoin in admission payments
Earlier in May, Lionsgate Films had partnered with GoCoin to acquire Bitcoin in payments.
The movie, whose producers and controlling producers accommodate Forest Whitaker and Pharrell Williams, will be appear on June 19 in added than 900 theaters in the United States.
Moviegoers can acquirement the film’s tickets application Bitcoin at accepted online cine ticketing portal, MovieTickets.com.
And there is an absorbing adventure abaft the blur accepting Bitcoin: the blur revolves about a self-proclaimed beatnik called Malcolm (played by Shameik Moore) who makes absolutely a few references to the cryptocurrency.
In the aboriginal allotment of the film, Malcolm says,
“I aloof apprehend that money as we apperceive it is dead. Soon the apple is alone activity to buy and advertise articles application Bitcoins. It’s like a complicated algebraic equation.”
Open Road Films Chief Marketing Officer Jason Cassidy says that allotment Bitcoin as an avant-garde acquittal adjustment for cine tickets seemed like a accustomed abstraction accustomed that Bitcoin plays an basic role in the movie. “Bitcoin is an basic allotment of ‘Dope’ and we could not be added aflame to accompany this different new befalling to moviegoers.”
CEO of the cine ticketing website Joel Cohen said that opportunities such as this are great, for a business to tap into.
“MovieTickets.com thrives on these types of opportunities,” he said. “It’s cool, it’s aboriginal and we’re activity aloft and above the accepted boundaries to drive admission sales.”
Dope has been adequate amazing amusing media success back its accomplished admission at Sundance Film Festival this year. So, accept you appointed your tickets yet?
