Grigori Rasputin

Fighting to create fair and equitable financial markets for all. APES NOT LEAVING. End PFOF, Dark Pool Abuse, DTCC self-regulation, SEC corruption.

[Bloomberg @business]

Paramount has agreed to sign contracts with major theater chains guaranteeing that it will release 30 movies a year in cinemas if it acquires Warner Bros., sources say https://t.co/N06jFQ4wnV

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

‘SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY’ had the biggest Tuesday of all time at the domestic box office with $42M.

It is already the highest grossing film of 2026 at $1.1 billion.

[Valuetainment @valuetainment]

JUST IN: AMC broke every revenue record in its 106-year history this weekend, driven by Spider-Man: Brand New Day and The Odyssey.

[Grigori Rasputin @RasputinTheOG]

@justinbrewer33

[Adam Aron @CEOAdam]

THE DAY AFTER. It was such a distinct pleasure, so immensely satisfying, to be able to report to you yesterday that our second quarter of 2026 with $321.4 million of Adjusted EBITDA was the single best quarterly result in AMC’s entire 106-year history.

With 71 million guests in our theatres, we also had the highest revenues in AMC history, and managed our costs well.

We have generated $228 million more EBITDA in the first half of 2026 than we did in the first half last year.

We finished the quarter with $778 million of cash on hand.

The best way to silence the critics and make the naysayers irrelevant is to produce undeniably good results, in this case for Q2 record results, and that is precisely what AMC has been doing throughout 2026.

To those Apes who stood by us along the way, and especially to those who are with us still, I am not exaggerating in saluting the role you all played in saving moviegoing and saving movie theatres and saving AMC.

Because of your support, your children and grandchildren should be able to continue to enjoy… in theatres… seeing dazzling images on our huge silver screens, just as people have done to their great delight for more than a century.

[Adam Aron @CEOAdam]

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.

[Grigori Rasputin @RasputinTheOG]

@CEOAdam

[Adam Aron @CEOAdam]

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?

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

🚨FROM YESTERDAY🚨

This is huge.

Citadel states Robinhood will close $AMC, $GME, $NOK, $BB, prior to the restrictions, suggesting they knew of the restrictions prior to announcement.

Previously, they denied it.

In recent Twitter posts, they've done the same.

#CitadelScandal

[Adam Aron @CEOAdam]

Outrageous but true. Many $AMC shareholders live outside the U.S. Especially in the UK and Europe, brokerage firms refuse to facilitate shareholder voting. Costs the firms time and money to do so. Any workarounds to the problem violate U.S. law. Switch brokers, so you can vote!

[Sneed @sneedweb]

🚨 BREAKING: With Ryan Cohen’s pay package withheld, renowned investor Michael Burry could buy back into GameStop. $GME

[Adam Aron @CEOAdam]

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.

[GameStop @gamestop]

A Statement from GameStop

[Grigori Rasputin @RasputinTheOG]

@KatStryker111 @kaeltestekueche

[Kat Stryker @KatStryker111]

Interesting metric from Barchart.

“AMC is down 99.6% from ATH…”

Cool. Now explain how a company Wall Street predicted would be bankrupt years ago is still standing, millions of investors still hold, theaters are packed, and the so called “smart money” has spent 5+ years obsessing over one stock.

You chart price. We’re watching market structure.

Maybe next post cover dark pools, FTDs, synthetic shares, and why retail conviction hasn’t moved an inch.

Funny how the “dead company” narrative never seems to die. 🍿🐒

$AMC #AMC #RetailInvestors

[Adam Aron @CEOAdam]

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.

[Pop Base @PopBase]

‘TOY STORY 5’ opened to $160 million domestically and $152 million overseas for a global debut of $312 million.

Biggest opening for the franchise and the best domestic opening of 2026 so far.

(https://t.co/G1qdig7NuA)

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

A boom year for movies was accelerated by a franchise-best opening weekend for Disney’s “Toy Story 5” https://t.co/cy1yHocEpL

[Grigori Rasputin @RasputinTheOG]

@KatStryker111 @Rick3r67 @APEishmonkyPOS If apes could figure out dark pools, pretty sure we can figure out dollar cost averaging….

[Grigori Rasputin @RasputinTheOG]

@PeterRHann1 @PeterRHann1 we know this is just reshuffling of FTDs…..as apes we’ve watched the same pattern for years. Algos work great, until they don’t. We are the black swan event, not covid.