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Weekly Cinema Digest – Friday 30 October 2015

UK – The Financial times has a special ‘The Business of Film’ supplement that looks at cinema and finds – surprise, surprise – that it is still surviving and thriving in the age of streaming and lauded TV shows. Rentrak’s Paul Dergarabedian is quoted as saying tha…
Regional Split of PLF Screens By Type Chart

PLF: Investment In The Next Generation of Cinema Exhibition

The following post is a synopsis taken from the recent report on PLF Cinema from IHS Technology, published in June 2015. Premium large format (PLF) is one of the fastest growing and most active areas of cinema exhibition with significant potential to grow in size over the next ten years. The busines…
Paramount's Dynamic Release Windows Trial

Crunching The Numbers On Paramount’s Dynamic Release Windows

When we first set out to craft our analysis of the July announcement that Paramount Pictures would release certain movies on home video just 17-days after most theatres stopped playing them, we must admit to initially focusing on the wrong aspect, or participants, of the distribution experiment. Whi…
Wanda Acquires Hoyts

A Closer Look At Wanda’s Acquisition of Hoyts

Wanda Cinema Line had already planted its flag in the United States by acquiring the country’s second largest exhibition chain, AMC Entertainment, and now the Chinese company is entering the Australian market with an identical business move, snapping up Hoyts. Like AMC, Hoyts is the number two…
AMC Theatres - Wanda Logo

Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 17 February 2015

AMC has published its 2014 Q4 and year-end figures and though admissions and ticket sales were down, F&B revenue was up as the exhibitor continues to focus on the “guest experience.” Highlights for the fourth quarter 2014 include the following: Total revenues were $712.2 million comp…
Regal Cinemas Multiplex

Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 29 October 2014

“Psst, wanna buy a cinema?” That seems to be the not-so-subtle message from Regal, the largest cinema chain in the United States, which unexpectedly put a ‘For Sale’ sign on the front door. Speculations immediately focused on Alibab’s Jack Ma, though my gut instinct is…
AMC Theatres - Wanda Logo

AMC Q2’14 Results: Revenue Down But Focus On Re-Seat, Imax, AMC Prime, F&B and Internet Ticketing Steady

AMC has released its quarterly figures and it was a dark cloud but with a silver lining. Revenue was down nearly five per cent (4.7%), dragged down by a 7.1% drop in admissions and despite average ticket price being up to an average of USD $9.55, with Imax and F&B (food & beverage, i.e. conc…
Gerry Lopez, CEO of AMC Entertainment

Daily Cinema Digest – Tuesday 8 July 2014

Today’s big news is AMC spending USD $600 million on upgrading its cinemas, primarily introducing bigger and more comfortable seats. The strategy has been flagged before but now everyone is following. It is effectively an admission of defeat in terms of ever hoping that attendance figures will impro…
AMC Fork&Screen

Daily Cinema Digest – Thursday 5 June 2014

Don’t go short on AMC! If you only read one cinema-related article this week (other than one of ours) make it this one. Heck, forward or print it out and give it to your colleagues. This is one of the best pieces of analysis that I have read about any exhibitor in a very longRead More
AMC logo

Is It Time To Go Short on AMC’s Shares?

It has been close to six months since the initial public offering (IPO) of AMC Entertainment, meaning that senior management will soon be allowed to start selling shares that they hold in the company. Seeking Alpha therefor asks if the time is right to go short on AMC. The question of whether AMC ma…
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