Coming soon to a theater near you: Zoom.
AMC Theatres is partnering with Zoom Video Communications to turn select theaters into Zoom conference rooms. The two companies plan to launch the rooms in 17...
In a noteworthy moment for Netflix, the three largest theater chains in the U.S. have all agreed to play upcoming tentpole Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery for one week over Thanksgiving, a month bef...
Theaters want people to put away their Labor Day weekend picnic baskets and see a movie for just $3 or less on Sept. 3 in celebration of the first-ever National Cinema Day.
More than 3,000 movie thea...
The “Walking Dead” universe just got bigger.
A spinoff series centered around Andrew Lincoln’s Rick Grimes and Danai Gurira’s Michonne Hawthorne is set at AMC+, the two actors revealed in a s...
“The Walking Dead” continues to live on at AMC, with the network greenlighting a spinoff centered on Maggie and Negan.
Both Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan will return for the spinoff, which...
AMC Theaters CEO Adam Aron dropped a bombshell this week by announcing the exhibition chain will charge more for tickets to “The Batman” as part of a variable pricing experiment. Tickets to the Ro...
Disney may have a new film franchise on its hands after “Free Guy” beat box office expectations. For theater owners, however, the victory comes at a time when moviegoing remains severely hindered ...
During the course of the pandemic, the future of movie theaters looked grim. Cinema owners teetered on the edge of bankruptcy amid ongoing closures and lockdown orders, and streaming services introduc...
AMC Entertainment has reached an agreement with Warner Bros. to showcase all of the studio’s 2022 slate in theaters for 45 days.
The world’s largest theater chain had balked at Warner Bros.′ de...
Popcorn lovers, rejoice!
AMC Theatres, the nation’s largest cinema chain, is offering its customers “all you can eat” popcorn with the purchase of any size tub starting June 22. The promotion, ...
After a punishing 14 months for the movie theater business, some sense of normalcy was restored last weekend with the release of director John Krasinski’s “A Quiet Place Part II.”
The Paramount...
Leading cinema chain AMC is raising $230.5 million to purchase additional cinema leases and grow the consumer appeal of its existing properties.
AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. revealed on Tuesday t...
In the past eight “Fast and Furious” installments, Vin Diesel has defied gravity and the rules of the road as street racer Dom Toretto. But his next lap may prove to be his most arduous: Can he he...
Top movie theater circuit AMC Entertainment said it has raised $428 million in new capital from the sale of 43 million shares at an average price of $9.94.
The company announced the results of the sa...
Comcast is bringing back Xfinity Watchathon Week for the ninth time, from April 27-May 3, making content from certain streaming services and premium networks available for free to their Xfinity X1 and...
"It's time to get off the couch," says Brandon Jones, one of the event's founders.
A broad coalition of theater owners are staging Cinema Week, a six-day event in June designed to re-energize moviegoi...
Big-screen enthusiasts like myself are thankful to see movie theaters begin to reopen. It's a resurgence that will hopefully be a lifeline for AMC Entertainment Holdings (NYSE:AMC), which was burning ...
Have you heard the news? Godzilla and King Kong have utterly decimated Hong Kong, unfortunately, but also they may have just brought the movie business back to life.
Warner Bros.’ Godzilla vs. Kong...
All sides are resigned to the fact that every Hollywood major is trying different release models as long as the pandemic keeps up.
On March 23, Hollywood studio executives woke up to headlines that me...
Disney’s animated adventure “Raya and the Last Dragon” led the domestic box office in its third weekend, illustrating the appeal of family films as Hollywood attempts to mount a moviegoing reviv...
Four top studio executives discuss the past year and the near future, including the slow march to a box office recovery, the shattering of the theatrical window and the streaming tsunami.
Even the mos...
Four top studio executives discuss the past year and the near future, including the slow march to a box office recovery, the shattering of the theatrical window and the streaming tsunami.
Even the mos...
Finally, the movie capital of the world can show movies in theaters again after a year’s shutdown of all exhibition due to the pandemic.
Los Angeles County this afternoon lined up with California G...
The tactic, which helped boost box office to a $1.2 billion Lunar New Year holiday record, is “quite likely” to be used by movie theater chains going forward.
When China’s theatrical sector roar...
While the No. 1 exhibitor AMC has traditionally been flexible about theatrical windows despite their pubic uproar against Universal last year, the chain’s CEO Adam Aron speculated today what the lan...
Mark Zoradi, CEO of major exhibitor Cinemark and a former longtime Disney executive, sees some familiar elements on the summer release calendar, which he sees as a potential Covid-19 recovery turning ...
After nearly a year of closures, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has given movie theaters in New York City permission to reopen at limited capacity starting on March 5.
During his daily press briefing, th...
Need a reminder of just how imperiled moviegoing, at least in the U.S., remains due to the pandemic? Look no further than domestic box office charts. “The Croods: A New Age,” which debuted theatri...
All the talk of how the little guy is making big bucks buying former outcasts — like GameStop, AMC and BlackBerry — after researching the buzz on Reddit's WallStreetBets instead of reading the Wal...
A bunch of Reddit users decided to play the market and push GameStop's stock up to nearly three times its average over the past several months. Then they started spreading their strategy to struggling...
The entertainment landscape continues to evolve at a breakneck pace thanks to developments in technology and an increasing consumer appetite for content -– but this year change happened at warp spee...
Struggling AMC Entertainment said early Monday it has raised or signed commitments for $713 million in fresh financing, calling it “enough cash to “make it through this dark, coronavirus-impacted ...
With the coronavirus pandemic shuttering theaters for months on end and major blockbusters delayed into an unforeseeable future, 2020 was one of the worst years in domestic box office history.The ...
Struggling AMC Entertainment said it risks running out funds in January.
In its latest warning cry, it said it needs $750 million “to remain viable” through 2021. Even if it raises that, it sti...
The global cinema industry is set to lose $32 billion in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a 71.5% reduction in box office revenue compared to 2019, according to a recent report by media and tech res...
When Warner Bros. made the seismic announcement last week that its entire slate of 2021 releases — 17 films, including “The Matrix 4,” “Dune,” “In the Heights,” and “The Suicide Squad...
“I guess the movie theaters will just be Halloween stores now.”
That was the glib response from a veteran studio executive on Thursday, joining a chorus of powerbrokers, agents and other Hollyw...
AMC Entertainment Holdings has filed to raise up to $844 million by selling stock as the exhibitor struggles to stay afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s the fourth time since September that AM...
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