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
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
Now this really is a high class problem. Consumer demand was so keen for our Devil Wears Prada 2 popcorn bucket purses that we completely sold out of them in many parts of the country as early as on opening day!
We don’t like disappointing our loyal guests. So, we have ordered more, and this week we will announce how you can buy one if you want one.
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.