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They’re reel cheap! AMC Theaters will sell movie tickets for a dirt-cheap 15 cents a pop next week — to lure folks back to the big screen amid the coronavirus crisis. The cinema chain said it will hawk the film passes for pennies — roughly the price of a ticket in the 1920s — on …
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AMC Entertainment, the nation’s largest movie theater chain, said it lost half a billion dollars in the second quarter, making it the company’s worst quarter since it was founded in 1920. The chain, which was forced to close cinemas across the nation as the coronavirus swept the nation in March, said it swung to a …
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AMC Theatres and Comcast’s Universal Pictures agreed to a major shift in their operations that will allow the studio’s movies to be made available to US audiences at home after just three weekends in cinemas, the companies announced on Tuesday. AMC, the world’s largest movie theater chain, will receive a portion of the revenue that …
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EXCLUSIVE: We’ve just heard that Cineworld, in response to the recent changes on the theatrical release schedule with “Tenet,” is reopening their US circuit Regal, starting Aug. 21. “Welcoming theatergoers back to our cinemas will be a celebration for not only our team and our industry, but most importantly for the fans who have been …
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Warner Bros. is keeping movie theaters’ hopes of a summer blockbuster movie alive. The Hollywood studio said Monday that it is releasing “Tenet,” the Christopher Nolan spy thriller in the US over Labor Day Weekend in “select cities.” Warner Bros. did not specify, which US cities will get the film, but it is safe to …
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There’s a battle brewing behind the scenes at beleaguered movie theater chain AMC Entertainment. A group of lenders led by Apollo Global Management is trying to dissuade AMC from taking a debt-restructuring offer from Silver Lake Group, proposing a competing deal that would carry the cinema chain through the pandemic, The Wall Street Journal said. …
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AMC, the world’s largest movie theater chain, is delaying its reopening yet again as Hollywood studios push back the release of their planned summer blockbusters. The company said Thursday that it won’t resume ticket sales at its US theaters until “mid-to-late August” due to the fact that there are no new movies to show. AMC …
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“The Broken and the Bad” explores the real-life drug worlds dramatized in “Breaking Bad” and “Better Call Saul.” The new web series is hosted by Giancarlo Esposito — aka Gus Fring, the evil, meticulous drug lord on “Breaking Bad” and its prequel series, “Better Call Saul,” both created by Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould (the …
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Australian actress Ashleigh Cummings stars in AMC’s spooky drama “NOS4A2,” which is essentially a topsy-turvy spin on the age-old vampire story. Season 1 of the series — which was adapted from a novel by Joe Hill (Stephen King’s son) — followed Vic McQueen (Cummings), a blue-collar artist who discovers the ability to track the nefarious …
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In the wake of making some controversial statements to Variety yesterday about AMC not mandating face masks in those parts of the country that aren’t requiring them during the COVID-19 pandemic, CEO Adam Aron has changed the chain’s policy after hearing the social media backlash and is now requiring patrons to wear masks whether local …