AMC Entertainment CEO Adam Aron Named Chairman of the Board

AMC Entertainment CEO Adam Aron sees two things protecting the circuit in the face of surging Covid cases trigered by the Delta variant – its own Safe & Clean protocols, and vaccinations.

AMC CEO Adam Aron said the company has signed letter of intents on six of the locations being looked at, with three in Los Angeles, two in Chicago and one in Atlanta. Two of the Los Angeles locations are the former Pacific Theatres locations at the Grove in West Los Angeles and the Americana in Glendale, which will reopen later this month.

We already knew that AMC took over two older Pacific Theatres leases at Rick Caruso’s The Grove in L.A. and Americana at Brand in Glendale, however, today CEO Adam Aron announced on the recent earnings call that eight out of his upcoming ten new locations are former Arclight locations.

AMC Entertainment chairman-CEO Adam Aron said the chain will be technologically equipped to start accepting Bitcoin payments for U.S. movie tickets and concessions ordered online by the end of the year.

In what doesn’t come as shocking news, AMC Entertainment chairman-CEO Adam Aron said that the No. 1 theater chain has inked a deal with Warner Bros. ensuring a 45-day theatrical window for the studio’s releases in 2022. Warner had previously hammered out a 45-day theatrical window with No. 2 circuit Cineworld, and its U.S. counterpart Regal, earlier this year as the Burbank, CA was slammed by the industry and talent reps for its day-and-date theatrical-HBO Max streaming model.

AMC Entertainment saw revenue surge to $444 million last quarter from a pandemic-stalled $18.9 million a year ago. Net losses narrowed to $349 million from $561 million. Both beat Wall Street estimates, plumping the volatile stock by more than 7% in late trading.

AMC Networks Josh Sapan offered a tribute and get-well wish to Bob Odenkirk during the company’s second-quarter earnings call with Wall Street analysts. Odenkirk is recovering from a heart attack suffered last month on the set of AMC’s Better Call Saul.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterParamount Players’ upcoming adaptation of the New York Times bestselling novel “Razorblade Tears” has found its screenwriter in Sherman Payne.Payne, best known for the HBO Max original “Charm City Kings,” will adapt S.A. Cosby’s acclaimed novel for the studio division.

BEIRUT -- The artist meticulously cuts small pieces of yellow and red glass, then lays them in a pattern to recreate the stained-glass windows that were the trademark of Beirut’s Sursock Museum, shattered in last year’s port explosion.Conservators, hunched over with magnifying glasses, fill lines of paint loss caused by the explosion with their brushes and weave together tears thread by thread under microscope.

AMC Entertainment CEO and newly anointed chairman Adam Aron is having a moment with shareholders — that army of retail investors he said in June numbered approximately 4.1 million and own more than 80% of the stock. Some of them found it hard to access the company’s annual meeting Thursday, which was held in person at AMC’s Leawood, Kansas HQ, sparking social media discontent and claims of secrecy.

Selome Hailu editorEntertainment One announced that Jillian Share will join the company as co-president of production in the film division on Aug. 2. Share will work with current president of film production Zev Forman to oversee the division’s day to day activities and expand the studio’s development and production of films based on IP from Hasbro brands, as well as other original features.

Real Husbands of Hollywood is making a comeback. BET+ has greenlighted a six-episode limited series revival of the hit BET reality TV parody show from Kevin Hart’s Hartbeat Productions and Jesse Collins Entertainment. The show is currently in production in Los Angeles with a premiere date TBD.

interview with NME, Midwinter Entertainment CEO Josh Holmes revealed he wants to see the pet bear Jellybean make a return to Scavengers in the future.“One of the earliest prototype abilities that I worked on was the ability for a character to summon a pet bear named Jellybean,who would then follow and fight alongside you on your behalf,” said Holmes, saying Jellybean was one of his favourite bits of Scavengers that didn’t make it to the early access launch.“It proved to be very challenging to

International Media Acquisition Corp (IMAC), the SPAC being spearheaded by Shibasish Sarkar, CEO of Indian major Reliance Entertainment, has set an initial $200M public offering.

EXCLUSIVE: Adam Kaplan, Tom Lennon and Robert Wisdom have joined the cast of Fox’s dance dramedy The Big Leap in recurring roles opposite Scott Foley, Simone Recanser, Teri Polo, Piper Perabo and Anna Grace Barlow. The series hails from Liz Heldens, Jason Winer, Sue Naegle, 20th Television and Fox Entertainment.

The revival series And Just Like That… continue to bulk up its roster of talent with the newly announced casting of Cree Cicchino (Mr. Iglesias, Game Shakers), Cathy Ang (Over the Moon, Ramy), and Niall Cunningham (Life in Pieces, Curb Your Enthusiasm).

Naman Ramachandran Songwriter and producer Robert J. Sherman is continuing his family’s rich musical legacy by teaming with finance professionals Bret Goldin and Andrew Kaplan to form Sherman Theatrical Entertainment.The new company will bring the acclaimed theatrical productions of Robert J.

EXCLUSIVE: Yotam Guendelman, Mika Timor and Ari Pines, the Israeli filmmakers behind Netflix true-crime doc Shadow of Truth, have struck a first-look deal with Ample Entertainment.

AMC Entertainment Wednesday said it’s expanded the role of CEO Adam Aron to include chairman of the board, and selected  Ambassador Philip Lader to serve as lead director.