Fandango Settlement: Claim Window Closed, Awaiting Court Approval

At a glance

Status

Pending final approval

Defendant

Fandango Media, LLC

Settlement fund

$9,400,000

Claim deadline

August 17, 2026

No-proof cash option

Yes — $3.25 cash payment if a claim form is filed (Convenience Fee class); automatic $3.25 voucher if no claim filed; automatic $7.50 voucher (FanClub class)

Estimated payout

$3.25 cash payment if a claim form is filed (Convenience Fee class); automatic $3.25 voucher if no claim filed; automatic $7.50 voucher (FanClub class)

Administrator

Epiq

Official site

www.fandangomediasettlement.com

Court

Superior Court of the State of California, County of San Diego

Case number

Beer et al. v. Fandango Media, LLC, No. 25CU046749N

Last verified September 9, 2026

Key dates

Milestone	Date	What it means
Claim deadline	August 17, 2026(passed)	Last day to file for a payment
Opt-out (exclusion) deadline	June 18, 2026(passed)	Last day to leave the settlement and keep the right to sue
Objection deadline	June 18, 2026(passed)	Last day to object to the terms
Final approval hearing	August 7, 2026(passed)	When the judge decides whether to approve the settlement
Expected payout	Not yet scheduled	Payments are not sent until after final approval and any appeals

Where to file

Fandango Media Convenience Fee & FanClub Settlement is administered by Epiq. The only place to file is the official settlement website:

Verify on the official site

www.fandangomediasettlement.com

Filing is free. No legitimate settlement charges a fee to file a claim.

You cannot file on RecordingLaw.com. We are an independent publisher, not the settlement administrator, and we are not affiliated with any court, agency, or defendant.

What the Fandango settlement is about

Fandango Media, LLC is settling a lawsuit, Beer et al. v. Fandango Media, LLC (Superior Court of the State of California, County of San Diego, Case No. 25CU046749N), covering two separate groups of customers. The first group is anyone, regardless of where they live, who paid a "convenience fee" when buying movie tickets through Fandango's website or mobile app to a California theater between June 11, 2020 and June 17, 2024. The second group is California and Washington consumers who bought a Fandango FanClub membership between October 7, 2024 and April 16, 2025. The two classes are defined two different ways: the first by where the theater is, the second by where the buyer lives.

These are two different claims tied to two different products, bundled into one settlement and one claims process. The case has not gone to trial. Fandango has not admitted wrongdoing, which is standard in a settlement like this one.

Where it stands right now

The claim window closed on August 17, 2026, and the administrator is no longer accepting claim forms. Two earlier deadlines fell on the same date, June 18, 2026: that was the deadline to exclude yourself from the settlement (opt out) and, separately, the deadline to object to its terms. Anyone who did not opt out by then is automatically part of the class and can no longer opt out, and no further objections can be filed with the court.

The final approval hearing was held on August 7, 2026, ten days before the claim deadline itself. The judge still has to sign off on the settlement's terms. As of September 9, 2026, the administrator's site had posted no order approving the settlement, so cash payments and vouchers are still waiting on the court.

The choice that actually matters: cash or a voucher

This is the part of the Fandango settlement worth reading carefully, because doing nothing does not mean getting nothing. It means getting something different than cash.

If you are in the Convenience Fee class and you filed a claim form by the deadline, the settlement pays $3.25 in cash, a figure fixed by the settlement agreement. If you are in that same class and you never filed anything, you are not left out. You are automatically issued a $3.25 voucher instead, usable toward a future Fandango purchase rather than paid to you directly.

If you are in the FanClub class, the settlement issues an automatic $7.50 voucher. The record for this settlement does not describe a cash option for the FanClub class, only the automatic voucher.

In plain terms: for the Convenience Fee class, filing a claim converted a voucher into cash, and skipping the claim form left store credit instead. That choice closed with the August 17, 2026 claim deadline, and neither path ever required proof of purchase.

Who is actually in each class

Ask yourself two separate questions, because the two classes are defined by different things and do not overlap in membership or in benefit.

Convenience Fee class: Did you pay Fandango's online or mobile-app convenience fee on a ticket to a California theater sometime between June 11, 2020 and June 17, 2024? This class is defined by where the theater is, not by where you live. It does not matter whether you live in California, Nevada, or anywhere else; what matters is that the ticket itself was for a California theater. If that describes a purchase you made, you are likely part of this class, whether or not you remember the specific transaction.

FanClub class: Did you live in California or Washington and pay for a Fandango FanClub membership between October 7, 2024 and April 16, 2025? This class works the opposite way: it is defined by your home state, not by which theater's tickets you bought. If that describes you, you are likely part of this class instead, or in addition, if you also paid convenience fees in the earlier window.

A person could be in both classes if they paid a convenience fee in the earlier period and later bought a FanClub membership. Nothing in the settlement record suggests you have to choose one or the other.

How much people realistically get

Be honest with yourself about the size of these payments. This is a $3.25-to-$7.50 settlement, not a life-changing one. Unlike many class-action settlements, these amounts are not a shared pool that shrinks as more people file: the settlement agreement fixes the Convenience Fee cash payment and voucher at $3.25 and the FanClub voucher at $7.50, and it states that attorneys' fees, costs, and the incentive awards paid to the class representatives will not reduce the value of the benefits class members receive. The parties estimate that the combined value of all cash payments and vouchers distributed under the settlement will total approximately $9,400,000, but that is a rough estimate of the total paid out across the whole class, not a capped fund that individual payments are drawn down from. What genuinely depends on your own action is only whether the Convenience Fee class pays you in cash or in a voucher, which comes down to whether you file a claim, and whether the court grants final approval at all.

What proof you need

Neither class needs to submit a receipt, a screenshot, or any other proof of the underlying purchase to file a claim. But filing does require the Unique ID and Confirmation Code printed on the notice Fandango emailed you. If you did not receive that email, deleted it, or cannot find it, the official settlement website has a lookup tool that can retrieve your Unique ID and Confirmation Code.

How to file

Claims were submitted through the official settlement website, run by the settlement administrator, Epiq. The claim form covered both classes, so anyone who belonged to one or both filed once and indicated which category applied. The deadline to file was August 17, 2026, and it has passed. That same official site is where the administrator posts approval and payment updates, and no one associated with the actual settlement will ask you to pay anything to receive your payment.

If you think you missed the window, or you are not sure you are in the class

The June 18, 2026 exclusion and objection deadline only affected people who wanted to leave the class or formally object. The claim deadline of August 17, 2026 is the one that mattered for a cash payment, and it has now passed. Missing it does not push you out of the settlement: Convenience Fee class members who never filed are automatically issued the $3.25 voucher, and the FanClub voucher was never tied to a claim form at all.

If you are unsure whether you fall inside either class's date range, the safest step is to check your own Fandango order history or account emails from those periods rather than guess. And regardless of what you decide about this settlement, it costs nothing to place a free credit freeze with the three major credit bureaus and to review IdentityTheft.gov if you ever have reason to think your account information was misused beyond a disputed fee.