MovieTickets.com is an online movie ticketing website originally founded by AMC Theaters and Hollywood.com and formed in the year 2000. It is currently a joint venture between AMC Entertainment, Hollywood Media Corp, National Amusements, Cineplex Entertainment, Marcus Theatres, Viacom and Time Warner. MovieTickets.com provides movietimes for all theaters, and online ticket purchasing for many AMC Theaters, all National Amusements

National Amusements

National Amusements, Inc. is a privately owned theatre company based in Dedham, Massachusetts, USA. The company was founded in 1936 as the Northeast Theatre Corporation by Michael Redstone....

 theaters and all Clearview Cinemas, among other smaller chains (such as the famous Mann Theatres

Mann Theatres

Mann Theatres is a movie theatre chain that, as of November 17, 2011, operates in only one location with 8 screens in the city of Westlake. Its motto is "Where Hollywood goes to the movies"....

 in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...

). In 2010, MovieTickets.com sold over 16 million tickets for over 200 exhibitors with 14,000 screens.

Providing advance ticketing services to 150 theaters chains, MovieTickets.com represents over 50 percent of the top 100 grossing theaters in North America on any given weekend.

In 2004, MovieTickets.com became the exclusive online ticket vendor for Moviefone

Moviefone

Moviefone is an American-based movie listing and information service. Moviegoers can obtain local showtimes, theatre information, film reviews, or advance tickets...

.com, after having entered in a partnership in 2001 that crosslinked their ticketing offerings. Then, in mid-2005, MovieTickets.com established a ticket distribution relationship with consignment ticket reseller PrintTixUSA, adding 20 movie exhibition companies to its ranks and boosting the total number of screens serviced nationwide to more than 10,000.

Competition with Fandango

MovieTickets.com does not provide online ticketing for those AMC Theaters originally part of the Loews Cineplex Entertainment

Loews Cineplex Entertainment

Loews Theatres, aka Loews Incorporated , founded in 1904 by Marcus Loew and Brantford Schwartz, was the oldest theater chain operating in North America until it merged with AMC Theatres on January 26, 2006. From 1924 until 1959, it was also the parent company of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios. The...

 chain, whose online ticketing is provided by Fandango

Fandango (ticket service)

Fandango is a corporation in the United States that sells movie tickets over the telephone and Internet, enabling customers to ensure ticket availability and avoid lines at the movie theater.-Services:...

 due to contractual obligations in place prior to the 2005 merger of the two movie chains. In 2002, Loews attempted to break the contract under pressure of bankruptcy and from (then) AOL

AOL

AOL Inc. is an American global Internet services and media company. AOL is headquartered at 770 Broadway in New York. Founded in 1983 as Control Video Corporation, it has franchised its services to companies in several nations around the world or set up international versions of its services...

 Moviefone. Fandango successfully sued both Loews and Moviefone and retained the Loews business.

Furthermore, MovieTickets.com lost the Hoyts

Hoyts

The Hoyts Group is an Australian company consisting of Hoyts Exhibition, Hoyts Distribution and Val Morgan.Hoyts Exhibition manages 450 screens across 40 Australian and 10 New Zealand cinema complexes; making it Australia's second largest cinema chain. Val Morgan, the cinema advertising arm of the...

 theater chain when it was acquired by the Regal Entertainment Group

Regal Entertainment Group

Regal Entertainment Group also known as REG is a movie theater chain headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee. Regal operates the largest and most geographically diverse theater circuit in the United States, consisting of 6,775 screens in 548 locations in 39 states and the District of Columbia as of...

 theater chain, a founder of Fandango. However, when Regal acquired Consolidated Theatres

Consolidated Theatres

Consolidated Theatres was a movie theater chain based in Charlotte, North Carolina. The company operated over 400 movie screens and 28 theaters in 6 states along the East Coast.It was part of "The Stone Group" and was founded by Herman Stone....

, the latter retained its contractual relationship with MovieTickets.