AMC ENTERTAINMENT SHATTERS WEEKEND REVENUE RECORDS – SETS THE HIGHEST WEEKEND REVENUE MARK IN THE COMPANY’S 106-YEAR HISTORY
More than 10.2 million moviegoers attended AMC Theatres in the United States and ODEON Cinemas internationally from Wednesday through Sunday
AMC generated its highest total revenue ever for a single weekend, Wednesday through Sunday, including new records for admissions revenue and new records for food & beverage revenue
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Ha, ha, ha. The self-absorbed all-knowing so-often-wrong conventional wisdom that streaming will defeat theatres just does not know how to process the news of the $253 MILLION domestic opening of Spider-Man, third biggest opening of all time!!! Hey prophets of doom #CHOKEonTHAT
I wrote this Op Ed this week, which was then published in Variety.
It explains why I believe it is in the best interest of AMC that Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros be approved.
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Standard & Poors Research Update:
AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. Upgraded To 'B-'
From 'CCC+' On Improved Operating Performance;
Outlook Stable
July 28, 2026
Rating Action Overview:
• AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc.
reported record revenue and EBITDA in the second quarter
of 2026, reflecting continued momentum in the box office. S&P Global Ratings now believes the company has a path to generate sustained positive reported free cash flows.
• Therefore, we raised our issuer credit rating on AMC to ‘B-’ from ‘CCC+’.
• At the same time, we raised our issue-level rating on its $2 billion first-lien term loan to ‘B+’
from ‘B’, Muvico LLC secured notes and 7.5% AMC secured notes to ‘B-’ from ‘CCC+’, Odeon
first-lien term loan to ‘B’ from ‘B-’, and $112 million exchangeable notes to ‘CCC’ from ‘CCC-’.
• The stable outlook reflects our view that AMC will sustain improved operating performance
over the next 12 months, generate positive reported free cash flow in 2027, and maintain
adequate liquidity.
I found this decades-old throwback song by scouring the internet, secured the rights and brought it back to the arena out of nowhere. Fifteen years later, it still plays at a game’s end after every win. Going to be played many times this season!
On Monday (July 20), before the market opens, AMC will announce our financial results for the 2nd quarter of 2026.
Many of you will be keenly interested to learn more as to our performance so far in 2026.
The Domestic Box Office: ticket grosses for all U.S. & Canadian theatres.
Q2 2026: $2.974 billion. That’s the biggest quarter since Q2 2019, and the 5th biggest of the 200 quarters of the past 50 years.
How many times have I heard some idiot say that movie theatres are dead?
Today is the day! Minions & Monsters opens at AMC Theatres. I have seen it. This homage to old Hollywood is nothing less than a masterpiece of animation. Congratulations to Chris Meledandri, Illumination and Universal. https://t.co/2pqZ6iYcjk
It’s official. Toy Story 5 had the biggest domestic opening weekend gross of any movie so far in 2026, with a media reported $160 million. It’s the 7th different movie in the past three months to have a domestic opening gross above $75 million, which Toy Story 5 far exceeded.
As for AMC, in the U.S., we posted the highest attendance, highest ticket revenues and highest food & beverage revenues of any weekend so far in 2026.
In all, 4.8 million guests visited our theatres globally Thursday to Sunday.
We congratulate our friends at Disney and Pixar, as well as all the film makers behind Toy Story 5, for their delivering a theatrical event that clearly connected with audiences. Toy Story 5 scored a dazzling 94% from critics and 95% from moviegoers on Rotten Tomatoes.
And given our close dealings with Taylor Swift over the past several years, we also want to highlight and salute Taylor’s #1 chart-topping smash hit song, ‘I Knew It, I Knew You,’ which she wrote and performed for TOY STORY 5.
Movie after movie is doing so very well in theatres. With so many major releases coming to theatres across the entire summer, and especially so in July (led by Minions & Monsters, Moana, The Odyssey and Spider-Man: Brand New Day), we have every confidence to expect that our momentum will continue.
This is what our AMC A-List was made for.
Look at the blockbuster movies opening soon at AMC:
June 19 Toy Story 5
June 26 Supergirl
July 1 Minions & Monsters
July 10 Moana
July 17 The Odyssey
July 31 Spider-Man: Brand New Day
The hits have been so numerous and coming so fast and furious this year. I was mistaken yesterday when I said Toy Story 5 would be the 6th different movie to have an opening weekend domestic gross above $75 million. It will be the 7th!
Lucky number 7.
What’s your guess as to how big is big.
What’s your guess as to the opening weekend industrywide domestic gross for Toy Story 5, in millions of dollars.