I was fortunate to be in Los Angeles to see the extraordinary Taylor Swift perform live Tuesday at the World Premiere of Disney and Pixar’s Toy Story 5.
Playing her newest sensation: “I Knew It, I Knew You” which was written for this movie.
Mark my words, Toy Story 5 will be a giant phenomenal smash hit. A truly charming
triumph.
Opens at AMC on June 19.
Yesterday, AMC announced it's HIGHEST first day pre-sales for a studio movie in 4 years (with the Odyssey)!
But what you missed (probably) is this... AMC ONLY sold tickets to PLF screens (Premium Large Format) yesterday.
Those screens are only around 6% of total AMC / Odeon screens and only account for around 30% of attendance*. So now let's reconsider how big the Odyssey may be...
AMC did NOT sell tickets yet on the screens which drive 70%* of its attendance!! Read that again... AMC had the biggest first day pre-sale in 4 years while only selling tickets to screens that cover about 30%* of its normal ticket sales. AMC hasn't even started presales on the other 70%*!!
Wow. Just wow.
$amc
*Footnote in reply
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As it turns out, for Christopher Nolan‘s much awaited The Odyssey, AMC recorded our highest first-day ticket sales for any studio-released movie title since 2022.
My apologies if you encountered a long ticketing line on the AMC web site and app yesterday.
Fortunately, we still have MILLIONS more available seats for you to catch what is sure to be a global phenomenon.
Ironically, the only first-day AMC ticket sales results since 2022 that topped The Odyssey were for our very own music-oriented projects from our own AMC Theatres Distribution, namely first-day ticket sales for the Renaissance concert film from Beyonce in 2023 and our two Taylor Swift efforts in 2023 and again in 2025.
Other than our early sales for the Beyonce and Taylor projects, The Odyssey first-day dollars in hand outpaced those of the many hundreds of studio-released movies of the past four years.
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I am so proud to be a Swiftie. Once again, Taylor will delight audiences in our AMC Theatres. With her new original song “I Knew It, I Knew You” in Disney’s Toy Story 5. Opening at AMC on June 19.
Why wait? You can pre-order it right now, only at https://t.co/0Gdj8IrphT
One of AMC’s best associations has been ours with the one and only Taylor Swift. First, 2023’s The Eras Tour movie. Then, 2025’s The Official Release Party of a Showgirl event. And now, Taylor’s fans get her much awaited new original song in Toy Story 5. Opens at AMC on June 19.
Our U.S. AMC Theatres and overseas Odeon Cinemas welcomed 25.5 million guests in May 2026. Our highest attendance for a month of May in 7 years, better than any May since pre-pandemic 2019. Isn’t that just wonderful!
There are huge movies coming out in June and July too.
“Backrooms” just crushed it at the box office this past weekend. It was the 6th movie in the past 10 weeks to have a domestic opening gross above $75 million.
Whoopee, huzzah.
AMC and Odeon theatres attracted more than 5 million guests globally. Biggest domestic weekend of 2026 so far for AMC. The Mandalorian and Grogu was the FIFTH movie to open above $75 million domestically in the last two months.
https://t.co/yoofnYl13M
I have enormous confidence in AMC and the 2026/2027 box office. So today, using my own money, I bought 250,000 more AMC shares personally, at market price.
I now own outright 2,437,020 AMC shares, raising the total where I have an economic interest to 12,322,429 AMC shares*
It actually can be very hard for a CEO of a public company to buy shares. You have to clear having possession of any material non public information, sort out implications of any ongoing debt and equity transactions, and not be in a quiet period before when earnings will be announced. I was finally in a position to buy even more AMC shares today, and I did.
As I said, I have great confidence in AMC’s future. So, again today, I put my money where my mouth is.
This brings my holdings up to 12.3 million shares* of AMC common stock. My understanding is that I have been, and now even more so I remain, AMC’s biggest individual retail investor.
I should probably mention that I have not sold even a single share of AMC stock since January of 2022, more than four years ago.
I RIDE WITH YOU !!!
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(*For precision: this includes AMC shares I already own, and those which previously have been granted to me as part of my annual compensation and which will vest based on length of service and at target levels of performance over the next thirty three months, on a pre-tax basis.)
The trader lifestyle:
- Wake up late for nothing.
- Make $7,958 in 30 minutes.
- Go for a drive in your $350,000 car.
- Watch some Netflix.
- Take your friends out.
- Buy everyone a beer.
- Watch some more Netflix.
- Have sex.
- Go back to sleep.
The perfect life.