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Jennifer Douglass of AMC Theatres

CJ Interview: Dining-In with Jennifer Douglass of AMC Theatres

Jennifer Douglass is living proof that the movie business can get into your blood and make it difficult to pursue other professions. She has been working in motion picture exhibition since a day before her 15th birthday when she was hired by AMC Theatres as a popcorn scooper. More than 29 years late…

CNN's The Screening Room

CJ Cinema News Digest – Friday 2 June 2017

Screening Room hype, IMAX & AMC shares down, Indian cinema up, PVR 1,000 screen in 2020, RealD’s Lewis defends 3D, Cineplex thinks outside the box (office), Lebanon boycotts WW, CNN faults 4DX, UK arthouse problems, Barco Escape’s ‘The Recall’ reviewed, ‘Rogue One…

AMC Town Square 18 Las Vegas sign. (photo: Patrick von Sychowski - Celluloid Junkie)

AMC Q1 Lifts Lid on Carmike, Odeon & NCG Integration

AMC has published its Q1 2017 figures and profits are down but revenue is up at the world’s biggest cinema chain. The 67.5% growth in turnover had a lot to do with including Carmike, Odeon and (four days of) NCG revenue, but it is the earning call transcript that provides the most fascinating…

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk poster

CJ Cinema Digest – Friday 21 October 2016

Great & Unwatchable Billy Lynn, AMC $1.4bn new debt, Helios expansion, THX sold (again), Indian cinema growth, UFO's theatres, Indian cinema violence threat and paraplegic attack, Unique's Rosetta Live, Cinépolis

Adam Aron Discusses AMC's Ammended Offer to Acquire Carmike Cinemas

AMC Increases Carmike Acquisition Offer to $1.2 Billion Ahead of Shareholder Vote

As expected, AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. upped its offer to acquire Carmike Cinemas, Inc. on Monday morning. We predicted as much less than 24 hours before and were nearly spot on with the revised offer AMC would make for Carmike. If we weren’t so humble we’d have taken a page from the playbook…

Taking Stock in AMC-Carmike Merger

CJ Analysis: Taking Stock of AMC’s Acquisition of Carmike

On July 15th Carmike Cinemas Inc. delayed a vote on whether to accept an acquisition offer from AMC Entertainment Holdings of USD $1.1 billion. The original shareholder vote was to take place on June 30th but was rescheduled for the mid-July date. The vote is now set to go forward on July 25th. If a…

AMC Carmike Merger In Jeopardy

CJ Analysis: AMC Acquisition of Carmike In Jeopardy

The acquisition of Carmike Cinemas Inc. by AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. was never going to be entirely easy or uncomplicated. It is safe to say, after the events of the past two weeks, culminating in a delayed shareholder vote earlier today, the mega-deal just became a whole lot harder to close.…

Stellar Cineplex China

CJ Cinema Digest – Friday 3 June 2016

Stellar buys ticketing biz, AMC buys Carmike 'cheap', Malaysian islamists block cinema, PVR cuts DT price, German cinemas make peace with Disney, Odeon Q1, Secret Cinema's 28 Days numbers, Euro football in cinemas, live events in 48% of UK cinemas, MediCinema and 'Eating Healthy' in Cinema City Jeru…

Paris Cinema les Fauvette

Weekly Cinema Digest – Friday 6 November 2015

France – Gaumont-Pathé is today opening a new cinema in Paris that is exclusively programming old and restored films. The former Gaumont Gobelins is now a beautifully refurbished five-screen cinema located opposite the Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé – Monsieur Seydoux was himself the dri…

PVR Dolby Atmos India

Weekly Cinema Digest – Friday 31 July 2015

India – After its deal with Austria’s Cineplexx, Dolby has tied up with PVR to launch Atmos in 50 of the chain’s auditoriums over the next two years at a cost of INR 40 crore (USD $6.26 million). This will make it the largest Atmos install in India. LINK PVR has also announced inte…

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