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EXCLUSIVE: Odeon Cinemas, the AMC-owned chain which is the UK's largest cinema operator by number of sites, has decided to slow down its reopening plans amid ongoing coronavirus disruption and a film slate that is seeing major titles continue to shift back. The chain reopened an initial 10 sites on July 4, which was…

Odeon, one of the UK's major multiplex chains, has outlined its plan to re-open venues in England next month following news yesterday that the government has given exhibitors the green light. Cinemas are allowed to resume operations from July 4, and Odeon will open doors at 10 sites on that date, including in…

Some good news here, especially on the AMC Theatres front. The Leawood, Kansas-based chain–the No. 1 circuit in U.S and Europe–is reopening three Odeon Cinemas in Norway effective today.  Odeon Cinemas Oslo Storo 14, Sandvika 8 and Lillestrøm 7 are the first three locations within the AMC and Odeon cinemas circuit to…

Shares of AMC Entertainment were up a hefty 40% in early trading Monday on a report in U.K. outlet The Daily Mail that Amazon may be interested in acquiring the theater chain, which has been hard hit by COVID-19. The report is not confirmed. AMC Entertainment had no comment. Amazon said the company does not comment on…

Cineworld, the second-largest exhibitor in the world, clocked its lowest ever share price today as global markets continue to drop in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. European markets are down as much as 10% this morning. Entertainment shares are being hit hard, and UK-based Cineworld, which owns U.S. outfit…

European cinema chain Odeon found itself the subject of consumer ire this week after its flagship UK venue Odeon Leicester Square revealed a top-end ticket price of £40.75 ($52). The newly refurbished cinema will re-open later this month, showing Mary Poppins Returns. According to Odeon, the cinema’s 22 ‘Royal Box…

The launch late last week of a potential UK equivalent to U.S. ticketing upstart MoviePass created a stir among Blighty’s exhibition community. No-one knew who was behind the audacious offer called cPass, whose site included the logos of all major UK theater chains. So, over the weekend I tracked down the U.S. and…

A company supposedly positioning itself as a UK equivalent to U.S. ticketing upstart MoviePass, has been met with wonder by the UK Cinema Association (UKCA), whose members include theater chains Odeon, Cineworld, Vue and Curzon — we’ve been told none of its members are signed up to the service. A professional-looking w…

IMAX has teamed with cinema chain Odeon to launch Europe's first virtual reality entertainment center. The two companies are launching the IMAX VR Experience Centre in Manchester, England at Odeon's Trafford Centre movie theater. The center, which consists of ten "pods" that will allow customers to enjoy interactive…

IMAX and AMC’s Odeon Cinemas Group, and its Nordic Cinema Group subsidiary, have entered a deal for 25 new theaters, marking the biggest European agreement in the large format company’s history. Under the pact, 25 IMAX theater systems will be deployed throughout the region with 10 already identified for the…

AMC Entertainment, the world's largest exhibition chain, is moving in on the Nordic region. The U.S.-exhibitor has reached an agreement to acquire the Stockholm-based Nordic Cinema Group, the largest cinema chain in the Nordic and Baltic regions for a cool $929M (SEK8.15M). AMC is purchasing Nordic from European…

AMC Theatres just became the world’s largest exhibition company with the closing of its $1.2 billion deal to buy UK-based Odeon & UCI Cinemas from Guy Hands’ private investment firm Terra Firma. The transaction leaves Wanda Group-controlled AMC with 7,623 screens at 636 theatres in eight countries. It will become even…