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...AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc is selling its stake in a Saudi-joint venture almost five years after helping reintroduce cinema to the once ultra-conservative Muslim country....
...Out of desperation, they turned to young talent inspired by European cinema and weird B-movies — including Robert Evans, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and the rest of the American New Wave....
...And so all of a sudden, his raison d’être is changed,” says one former Time Warner official. “He couldn’t have bought the company at a worse time.”...
...investor crowd: AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc....
...entertainment....
...(He also has two adult children, a daughter and a son, by a previous marriage.) “If you cut a French person open, they bleed cinema. If you cut a person from the UK open, they bleed music....
...Meanwhile, the cinema chain AMC has arguably been hammered at least as much by stay-at-home orders as Hertz....
...These cult flicks were among the gourmet choices in the B-movie buffet that Joko feasted upon as a cinema-loving child in his home town of Medan, North Sumatra....
...That’s what I’d really like to do.’ So he’s a book nerd, like us. That’s why we like him.” This bookishness is not an act. But it is easily misread as softness, especially by Americans....
...At Interactive Investor, we have seen GameStop and cinema chain AMC Entertainment Holdings — two companies unknown to most investors a few months ago — enter the most popular holdings list for the 18-34...
...AMC Entertainment tapped the junk bond market for $500m in April, giving the US cinema chain enough money to ride out a total shutdown of its theatres until Thanksgiving....
...Cineworld shares have dropped more than 25 per cent in the past six months, Cinemark has lost more than 15 per cent and AMC Entertainment more than 20 per cent....
...South-east Asian logistics start-up Ninja Van, which has enjoyed huge growth during the coronavirus crisis, has raised $279m in a Series D round....
...“I’d been watching it with my teenage son, and I suddenly thought: Really? Is this the sort of thing I want him to experience as entertainment?”...
...“[But] you have different ways to be Asian American and there’s no correct way.” A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on July 31 2019. ©2019 Nikkei Inc....
...has replaced its existing c.£3bn revolving credit facility with a new multi currency €3.5bn facility....
...On a call with investors this month, Mr Iger declared his continuing commitment to the cinema, which has earned Disney $6bn in revenues a year....
...Dalian Wanda, a property and entertainment conglomerate controlled by Wang Jianlin, was once adamant that it did not plan to sell down its stake in US cinema chain AMC Entertainment....
...Wanda had spent $2.6bn on the AMC cinema chain and $3.5bn on Legendary Entertainment, the company behind movies such as Godzilla and Pacific Rim....
...Westfield is also building a virtual reality entertainment centre, backed by Steven Spielberg and AMC Entertainment....
...by AMC of cinema chains Carmike Cinemas in the US ($1.2bn), Odeon Cinemas in the UK ($1.2bn) and Nordic Cinemas ($650m); and Legendary Entertainment....
...In 2012 he launched a global entertainment business with the purchase of AMC Entertainment and followed up with a series of other cinema chains....
...Having made an international cinema chain out of AMC in the US and Odeon and Nordic Cinema in Europe, he says openly that he would be “a happy buyer” of a studio such as Paramount....
...The latest deal, described as “a strategic alliance that will include equity co-financing in some cases” follows Wanda’s purchase of AMC, the American cinema chain, and Legendary Pictures, the producer of...
...Wanda began its global expansion in film distribution with the 2012 purchase of US cinema chain AMC, while a drive towards production followed with a controlling stake in Legendary Pictures, producer of...
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