AMC Chief Adam Aron’s Compensation Tops $20 Million Despite Coronavirus Slowdown

EXCLUSIVE: The Wonders Year pilot is adding to its cast.

The world has officially gone digital now that we are in the era of NFTs or Non Fungible Tokens, which basically means ownership of digital items. The craze surrounding NFTs has been on an increase and after "Shark Tank" star Mark Cuban sold an NFT of a motivational quote, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey too has entered the market.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaHollywood producers and filmmakers think they know what audiences want after a roughly a year of being stuck in their homes, cut off from friends and family while a global pandemic raged.“People want to escape,” predicts Milan Popelka, chief operating officer of FilmNation, the company behind “Arrival” and “Late Night.” “Stories that are more uplifting and optimistic will be at a premium.

Lady Gaga and Adam Driver are turning up the heat and how! The duo have been in Italy for the last few weeks for their upcoming film House of Gucci. The Ridley Scott directorial is underway in full swing and several paparazzi photos have now come our way.

Jared Leto looks unrecognizable as he is spotted on the set of Ridley Scott’s upcoming movie “House of Gucci”.

Lady Gaga is continuing work on her upcoming movie House of Gucci and we have some brand new photos from set!

Lady Gaga and Adam Driver are giving us a blast from the past!

WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar earned $52.1 million in 2020 after being appointed during the year, beginning with the firm on May 1.Kilar earned a base salary of $1.66 million, and added $49.2 million in stock awards to his overall pay. AT&T CEO John Stankey made $21 million in 2020, down slightly from $22.5 million in 2019, the telecom giant has disclosed in a regulatory filing.

While the No. 1 exhibitor AMC has traditionally been flexible about theatrical windows despite their pubic uproar against Universal last year, the chain’s CEO Adam Aron speculated today what the landscape would look like when we come out of this pandemic.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaAMC Entertainment reported a net loss of $4.6 billion in 2020, a shocking illustration of the toll that the coronavirus pandemic took on the world’s largest theater chain and the exhibition sector.

Lady Gaga and Adam Driver are hard at work!

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaWalt Disney Co. CEO Bob Chapek was grilled by shareholders about Gina Carano’s firing from “The Mandalorian,” when cruise ships would set sail again and the future of Lucasfilm chief Kathleen Kennedy at the entertainment giant’s annual shareholders meeting on Tuesday.It’s been a tumultuous first year atop Disney for Chapek, who took the reins from Bob Iger in February 2020, shortly before COVID-19 upended the entertainment landscape.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaNew York City movie theaters welcomed back customers for the first time in nearly a year this weekend. And yet some high profile new releases still struggled to sell ticket sales, a sign that a box office revival may not be in the cards for a few months.Disney’s “Raya and the Last Dragon,” a computer-animated fantasy adventure, opened to $8.6 million from 2,045 screens.

Adam Aron, CEO of AMC Entertainment, saw his pay jump to $20.9 million in 2020 despite movie theaters being closed in major markets and other parts of the country throughout much of the pandemic, according to AMC’s SEC filing Friday.Last year Aron made $9.7 million and $9.5 million the year before that.

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direct to your inboxA much-loved gran died in Cuba after an ambulance taking her to a clinic overturned and hit a tree.The family of Julia McLean are now desperately searching for answers.Tragically her death followed that of her husband, Robert, who passed away in September last year aged 73, just weeks after a cancer diagnosis.Mrs McLean, who was 67 and suffered from osteoarthritis, flew to Cuba before Christmas for a holiday, but fractured her spine in a serious fall on her birthday, December