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AMC CEO Thinks New Lockdowns Unlikely Despite Covid Surge: “The Big Change This Winter Is Vaccinations”
AMC Entertainment CEO Adam Aron sees two things protecting the circuit in the face of surging Covid cases trigered by the Delta variant – its own Safe & Clean protocols, and vaccinations.
“To our knowledge there has not been a single transmission of Covid by an AMC guest over the past year,” he said.
"Most scientific…
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Disney Stock Hits All-Time High On Eve Of Streaming-Happy Investor Day
With Covid-19 decimating theme parks, sports, production and other pillars of its business, the Walt Disney Co. should be limping toward the end of 2020.
Instead, investors have bought into the media giant’s resilience in a big way, sending the company’s stock up more than 25% in the past month. Shares finished today…
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By Dade Hayes
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Cinemark Leads Movie Theater Stock Upswing As Wall Street Hails Windows Deal
Shares in major exhibitor Cinemark, along with most movie theater stocks, are rising today as Wall Street salutes another milestone release window agreement.
Universal and Cinemark announced a windows deal late Monday that shares a lot of traits with AMC’s breakthrough pact with the same studio earlier this year. It…
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By Dade Hayes
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Cinemark Adopts “Dynamic” Approach To Theatrical Windows, Seeing Progress In Lobbying Effort To Reopen In NY, LA
Cinemark CEO Mark Zoradi said Thursday that the major exhibitor has started taking a “dynamic” approach to theatrical windows, negotiating release terms on a film-by-film basis in a concession to COVID-19.
Upcoming Universal releases like The Croods 2, Let Him Go and Freaky, for example, will play in Cinemark…
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By Dade Hayes
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PVOD For Top Studio Films Is “Failed Experiment”, Imax CEO Rich Gelfond Declares
Imax CEO Rich Gelfond rejects the popular notion that premium video on demand is the future for blockbuster movie releases.
“PVOD is a failed experiment,” Gelfond said during an online appearance Wednesday at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia conference. “The numbers haven’t worked in a pandemic, so how would they work…
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By Dade Hayes
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AT&T CFO John Stephens On Theatrical Windows, WarnerMedia Restructuring, Production Outlook & More
AT&T CFO John Stephens saw Tenet in a theater, as did a large swath of the U.S. and the world over the past couple of weeks.
Elaborating on the experience Wednesday at the Bank of America Securities 2020 Media, Communications & Entertainment Conference, Stephens said he “couldn’t even imagine being able to see that…
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By Dade Hayes
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Imax Stock Surges After Record China Debut Of ‘The Eight Hundred’
Imax stock surged almost 10% Monday after the stellar debut in China for The Eight Hundred, the locally produced war epic that took in $83 million over the weekend.
Multiple Wall Street analysts have also given Imax shares a boost, reaffirming their positive ratings and noting the company’s unique strategic position…
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By Dade Hayes
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Marcus Theatres CEO Wants “Appropriate” Windows; Warns Studios “Don’t Leave A Good Party In Pursuit Of A Better One”
The CEO of the nation's fourth-largest exhibitor warned studios not to "leave a good party in pursuit of a better one," but called the debate over Premium VOD overblown.
Greg Marcus, chief of Marcus, said Tuesday that consumers are likely to drift away from watching video-on-demand releases when things normalize…
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