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.
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
Toy Story 5 opens this Friday June 19 (with Thursday June 18 advance screenings) across AMC.
Will it be the biggest grossing movie of 2026 so far?
If it crosses $75 million it will be the 6th film to do so in 2026.
Many think it will top $131.7 million, thus posting the highest opening weekend domestic gross of any film released so far in 2026.
Nothing better than a summer Spielberg movie night in a packed theater with friends!
Steven thank you for all of the hours of joy that you have given us in the cinema!! It has been a great honor and pleasure to have worked with you and to call you my friend.
Congratulations to my dear friend Emily and the entire group of artists that created this movie. You were superb.
We all loved Disclosure Day!!
I simply cannot wait to go to a movie theatre and see the newest creation by master storyteller Steven Spielberg. Everyone knows he is one of the greatest film makers of all time. “Disclosure Day” opens tomorrow at AMC.
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.
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.)
Today, AMC Entertainment announced our best first quarter results since 2019. In just 3 months, our Adjusted EBITDA was up a breathtaking $96 million year over year.
And we reaffirmed how optimistic we are about a growing industry-wide box office for the remainder of 2026.
Still more really good news.
What happened this weekend:
Devil Wears Prada 2 is a blockbuster success.
Actors union SAG-AFTRA reached a new multi-year deal with film producers. This follows a multi-year deal with the Writers Guild.
Labor peace for several years ahead.
🚨 BREAKING AMC & NETFLIX 🚨
Netflix just locked in a GLOBAL theatrical release
with a 49-day exclusive window 👀
The same company that was supposed to kill theaters…
now NEEDS them.💰
Streaming didn’t replace theaters
it’s feeding them.💯
$AMC 🍿🚀