AMC Entertainment Will Accept Bitcoin For U.S. Tickets, Concessions By Year End – CEO Adam Aron

Today at Cinemacon,  Lionsgate announced that they’re opening their Erwin Brothers-directed movie American Underdog a Christmas Day release. The pic was previously set to open on Dec. 10. Lionsgate timed the release of American Underdog to the climax of the NFL season.

AMC is behind a series adaptation of the Anne Rice novel “Interview With The Vampire” that had been previously turned into a feature film from 1994 that starred Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, a young Kirsten Dunst, Christian Slater, and Antonio Banderas. Now, Variety reports that British actor Jacob Anderson has secured the leading role of Louis in the show.

Following MPA Chairman-CEO Charles Rivkin today at CinemaCon were National Association of Theatre Owners Chief John Fithian and No. 1 global circuit boss Adam Aron, who continued the patriotic messages for theatrical exhibition about how they are an essential to a multi-billion industry.

In the world of television, certain genres are tried and true. Police and hospital procedurals, workplace dramas, and family comedies, for example, have all been iterated countless times since the medium’s inception.

Shares of AMC Entertainment led exhibition stocks higher Monday after the FDA granted a long-awaited full approval for the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine.

AMC Theatres CEO Adam Aron made it clear last week that he is wildly optimistic about the state of moviegoing and the future of the company that he leads, one that many investors were willing to leave for dead just a few months ago.

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AMC has made it abundantly clear that the deal with Anne Rice for the TV rights to a swath of her novels is all part of a master plan to populate its network and streaming platform with the latest, greatest TV franchise.

Jockey, which won the Sundance Film Festival U.S. Dramatic Special Jury award for star Clifton Collins Jr.’s acting, will hit New York and LA theaters on Dec. 29. Sony Pictures Classics acquired the film out of the Park City, Utah festival. The movie will expand across the country following its exclusive debut.

Angelina Jolie stepped out with 17-year-old child Pax for a mother-son dinner date. The 46-year-old actress, who adopted Pax from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam in 2007, grabbed some dinner with her son at Nobu in Los Angeles.

Bitcoin by the end of 2021.AMC has not yet confirmed whether the move will apply to cinemas in Europe.CEO of the US chain Adam Aron told BBC News that it’s been exploring the technology and “how else AMC can participate in this new burgeoning cryptocurrency universe”.US mobile operator AT&T, technology giant Microsoft and information website Wikipedia have all started to accept payment in Bitcoin.The cryptocurrency, as the BBC notes, has seen wild price swings in recent weeks.

As many have expected, it appears AMC Theatres has agreed with Warner Bros. to collapse the theatrical window from almost 90 days to 45 days when the studio begins doing exclusive theatrical releases again in 2022.

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.

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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.

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.