formerly Mad Cornish Projectionist.
As expected, AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. upped its offer to acquire Carmike Cinemas, Inc. on Monday morning. We predicted as much less than 24 hours before and were nearly spot on with the revised offer AMC would make for Carmike. … Continued
On July 15th Carmike Cinemas Inc. delayed a vote on whether to accept an acquisition offer from AMC Entertainment Holdings of USD $1.1 billion. The original shareholder vote was to take place on June 30th but was rescheduled for the … Continued
This article is re-printed by kind permission from the author Richard Mitchell, VP Global Marketing & Commercial Development at Harkness Screens, from his original LinkedIn post. It is an insightful piece of analysis about why Cinime’s promise of smartphone interaction with … Continued
Yesterday, Wanda-controlled AMC Theatres was revealed as the buyer of the European Odeon & UCI cinema chain (encompassing 242 locations that house 2,236 screens) in a deal valued at GBP £921 million (USD $1.199 billion). These terms mean AMC is getting a good deal, … Continued
The first session of the 25th CineEurope was a high-level round tables of captains of the industry (no women on this panel) sharing their insights about the future of cinema. Dreamwork Animation’s outgoing CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg was inevitably the star … Continued
As you may be able to infer from the semi-sarcastic headline of this post, we were all set to have some fun commenting on a recent academic study with the protracted title, “Windows of Opportunity: The Impact of Piracy and … Continued