A long story, but in the summer of 2007, I guest conducted the world renowned NY Philharmonic at a public performance before an audience of more than 1500 people. I conducted Dvorak’s Slavonic Dance #8 in G Minor.
This AI variation is more fitting for the summer of 2026.
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
And the US stock market agrees or blindly agreed this price is what Ken Griffin decide it should be, the smartest market maker ever right? Everyone turned a blind eye and go on about their day. #AMCNEVERLEAVING
It took @grok an hour to represent this side by side correctly - share this everywhere - oh by the way - both net debt holdings are standard “performing debt” neither company holds distressed debt
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Betray or be Betrayed 🤣🤣🤣
Ending the second quarter on a bang not a wimper, the Domestic Box Office will be up by around 20% versus the same weekend last year.
The quarter should end at $3 billion industrywide, perhaps a hare under or over, clearly the highest q2 industry numbers since 2019.
Cumulatively, January 1 to June 30, the Domestic Box Office will be up about $600 million year over year.
With a strong July ahead of us, that number will grow even more soon.
Hello Minions, Moana, Odyssey and Spider-man.
Halllelujah.
AMC said today that we fully completed our $150 million equity raise, announced four months ago. It is particularly encouraging that the AMC share price has risen by more than 50% during this time, showing presumably that investors confidence in a resurgent Box Office outweighs fears about dilution.
This is such good news for AMC Entertainment on all counts.
This greatly bolsters our cash reserves.
I’ve said it many times:
Cash is King.
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.
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.)
I issued the following statement this morning about potential industry consolidation:
The U.S. Department of Justice, state regulators, and other competition authorities throughout the world are currently looking at announced consolidation efforts in the movie industry. AMC Entertainment does not seek to influence their deliberations or decisions.
And as a preface to my comments today, I want to emphasize my profound admiration and respect for the entirety of the executive teams at Warner Bros., who have proven over and over again how immensely talented they are. The leadership of Warner Brothers’ Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy is especially noteworthy. They already have brought so many superb movies to our screens at AMC, films that were commercially successful and which met with critical acclaim. What’s more, they have brilliantly positioned Warner Bros. to have a compelling and promising slate of movies coming to delight moviegoers in 2026, 2027, 2028, and beyond.
Having said that, it is time for AMC to make known our favorable view about Paramount’s desire to acquire Warner.
I greatly appreciate David Ellison’s track record of success and his passion to make movies that will dazzle audiences the world over. In just the short time he has owned Paramount Pictures, he already has begun to assemble a superb team around him and already has been increasing the number of movies being greenlit at Paramount.
Of particular importance are his public commitments to expand film distribution by Paramount and Warner to at least 30 movies per year, and his vocal embrace of a 45-day exclusive theatrical window. Each of these developments is a significant improvement to what has been the case in recent years, where fewer movies were made and that they left theatres more quickly. Our knowledge of the film industry also convinces us that each of these promises is essential for the long-term health both of AMC and the broader movie theatre industry.
I am confident that David Ellison is sincere as to his intentions, and truly believe that he in fact will wind up delivering on these commitments.