The American Cinematheque has named AMC CEO and president Adam Aron as the recipient of its 2019 Sid Grauman Award on behalf of AMC Theatres. The American Cinematheque Sid Grauman Award is presented by Hill Valley. AMC Theatres will be honored for its achievements in the motion picture industry at the top of the…

With Disney/Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame busting every imaginable presales record in AMC’s history, the world’s No. 1 exhibitor is making sure the Russo Brothers pic is available on as many screens as possible with millions of tickets still available stateside. As Deadline reported earlier, AMC — together with the No. 2…

AMC Theatres CEO Adam Aron is over the moon here at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, Nevada. Yesterday marked the biggest pre-sales day for the largest exhibitor in the world when Avengers: Endgame went on sale, further proof to what he has been exclaiming for quite some time: Theatrical is still king. No questions about…

Shares in AMC Entertainment plunged nearly 14% today as investors digested a mixed third-quarter report and fretted about the company following MoviePass down the path of subscription moviegoing. The No. 1 exhibitor’s stock has now fallen more than 25% from its 52-week high in mid-September, closing today at $15.66 on…

Top exhibitor AMC Entertainment offered a mixed third-quarter report card, with attendance records and an eye-opening $120 million in revenue from its Stubs A-List subscription program but also losses that were wider than Wall Street was expecting. Shares in AMC dropped 6% in after-hours trading. They closed at $18.13…

AMC Theatres says its Stubs A-List subscription plan, whose early traction helped destabilize MoviePass, is about to hit 500,000 members in the next few days. The half-million mark is what AMC projected for the first full year of operations for A-List, which launched less than five months ago. It is an offshoot of the…

Regarding the AMC Stubs A-List frequent moviegoer program, AMC Entertainment CEO Adam Aron today declared himself a "proud papa celebrating the arrival of the newborn and looking forward to years and years of joy." Aron delivered the comments on a conference call with Wall Street analysts following the announcement…

Whetting the appetite for today’s second-quarter earnings announcement, AMC Entertainment on Tuesday night touted strong uptake for its nascent frequent moviegoer program, AMC Stubs A-List. This morning, the world’s largest exhibitor reported a 20% Q2 increase in revenues across all categories to a record $1,442.5M…

AMC CEO Adam Aron knows that his theater chain’s new $19.95 monthly movie ticket subscription service Stubs A-List is double the price of MoviePass and that’s because he’s aiming to make the program “beneficial” for “all involved.” A good deal for consumers, and one which hopefully won’t rob distribution, studios and…

AMC Entertainment CEO Adam Aron made a quick stop in Barcelona at this week's CineEurope exhibitors conference where he updated me on the possibility of the company doing a European IPO, the exhibition giant’s potential offloading of some non-strategic assets and developments further to the southeast in burgeoning Saud…

Leading exhibitor AMC Entertainment has reduced its stake in movie theater ad firm Screenvision, selling some of it to private equity firm Abry Partners for $45 million in cash while retaining a minority interest. The move is part of the exhibitor’s stated goal of generating $400 million from non-strategic assets…

UPDATED at 3PM PT to reflect Wednesday trading. The stock of MoviePass parent Helios & Matheson has gone into free fall, with two days of steep drops leaving it at an all-time low of 79 cents a share. In an SEC filing Tuesday, the company disclosed that it had only $15.5 million in available cash at the end of April…