AMC Theatres Eyes Selling Up to 200M Shares

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor“Monster Hunter” director Paul W.S Anderson calls VFX head Dennis Berardi “an invaluable creative partner.” The two have collaborated on movies dating back to “Resident Evil.”This time, Berardi serves as a producer on the big-screen adaptation of the Capcom video game.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorGroup Nine Media, the digital-media company in which Discovery is a lead investor, is on the prowl for mergers and acquisitions in 2021.Group Nine formed a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), a type of “blank check” shell company, with plans to launch as a publicly traded entity and combine with “another target business” in the digital-media space, according to a registration statement filed Monday (Dec. 21) with the SEC.

AMC Entertainment Monday unveiled plans to change its board structure in an agreement with majority shareholder Wanda America Entertainment, a division of Dalian Wanda Group of China.

Zayn Malik is preparing for something big and he is making sure to tease it enough before dropping it! The former One Direction singer recently took to Instagram and revealed he was working on some new music. Now, the Pillow Talk crooner took to his Instagram Stories and shared a cryptic picture of a grand hall.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorWhen Ryan Murphy called Broadway choreographer Casey Nicholaw to oversee the dance numbers on his film adaptation of “The Prom,” about a group of self-absorbed theater actors who go to a conservative Indiana town to support a lesbian high school student’s dating choice, it was a sort of return engagement.

Teen Mom 2 star Javi Marroquin’s fiancée, Lauren Comeau, posted about overcoming obstacles amid rumors of the pair’s split.Comeau, 29, uploaded the cryptic quote on her Instagram Story on Monday, December 14. “There is so much strength within you,” the statement read.

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Prime Video has secured the rights to AMC’s futuristic anthology series, Soulmates, across Europe (excluding Spain, Portugal, Gibraltar, and Andorra), Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America.

AMC Entertainment shares fell almost 18% to close at $3.19, with Cinemark stock also taking a hit after a report that Cinemark has expressed interest in operating select AMC venues.

AMC Networks CEO Josh Sapan has signed a contract extension with the company, keeping him at the helm of the owner of AMC, IFC, Sundance Channel and BBC America through the end of 2022. Sapan, 70, was named CEO of Rainbow Media (AMC's predecessor when it was still owned by Cablevision) in 1995, and led the company's spinoff as its own publicly-traded company in 2011.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorAMC Networks president-CEO Josh Sapan has a set a new contract to remain at the helm of the company through the end of 2022.Sapan has headed AMC Networks since its inception in 2011, when the company was spun out from Cablevision.

Cinema giant AMC Theatres said on Friday that it has completed a debt offering to raise $100 million from investment firm Mudrick Capital Management LP. In a regulatory filing, it said the Dec.

AMC Theatres was already hurting before WarnerMedia made its announcement that it was sending WB’s entire 2021 film slate to HBO Max on the same day as theaters. And now, after that decision? Let’s just say AMC is none too pleased with the idea that one of the biggest studios in the world is threatening the future of the theatrical experience.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterAMC Theatres, the world’s largest cinema chain, has issued a sobering warning as the coronavirus pandemic stretches into winter: We’re running out of money.In an SEC filing on Friday, the struggling movie theater company warned its resources may be drained as early as next month.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterA film about the life of comedy icon Carol Burnett has found its writer-director.The adaptation of Burnett’s bestselling memoir, “Carrie and Me: A Mother-Daughter Love Story,” will be helmed by Tara Miele, whose feature “Wander Darkly” opens this Friday.

Despite being one of the faces of a movie that gives a voice to a minority in Marvel’s Black Panther conservative actress Letitia Wright has belittled another minority, the transgender community, by sharing a video created and uploaded to YouTube by self-proclaimed prophet Tomi Arayomi. In 2018 Wright was severely affected by depression where she found Christian religion to be her healer, as she mentioned after receiving her BAFTA reward saying that she had thought about quitting acting.

Naya Rivera‘s ex-husband, Ryan Dorsey, shared a sweet yet heartbreaking holiday photo with their son, Josey, as the pair head into their first Christmas without the late Glee star.“#HappyHolidays to all. You, you, and even you, all of ya.

A metaphorical bomb was dropped yesterday in the world of the film industry. Though the bomb was not a real explosive, there has already been significant real-world damage to theater chains such as AMC Theatres, Regal Cinemas, and more, as WarnerMedia announced plans to release its entire 2021 Warner Bros.

AMC, the world's largest theater chain, is criticizing Warner Bros.' newly unveiled plan to send its2021 feature films — which include the Suicide Squad sequel, Dune and the fourth Matrix movie — to the studio's streaming service, HBO Max, on the same day the titles release in theaters.

AMC CEO Adam Aron responded to Warner Bros.’ announcement that it will put all of its 2021 films on HBO Max at the same time as theaters, saying that it will “aggressively pursue economic terms that preserve our business.”“These coronavirus-impacted times are uncharted waters for all of us, which is why AMC signed on to an HBO Max exception to customary practices for one film only, Wonder Woman 1984, being released by Warner Brothers at Christmas when the pandemic appears that it will be at its

filing with the SEC on Thursday.The nation’s largest theater chain could raise as much as $844 million at an estimated offering price of $4.22 per share, based on a stock price from Monday, but the stock opened at just under $4.00 on Thursday and has proven to be volatile as the pandemic has battered the exhibition industry.The company says it will be limited by “our ability to obtain additional liquidity, which if not realized or insufficient to generate the material amounts of additional