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...Another consequence of the share rally was to allow companies including cinema operator AMC Entertainment and GameStop to raise new capital, highlighting how markets that are supposed to reflect corporate...
...Spectacle was a prime requirement of this very French genre of regal entertainment and Lully delivered that in high style in Thésée, the third of his operas....
...The company — whose brands include Regal, Cinema City, Picturehouse and Planet — entered Chapter 11 in September, weighed down by $8.8bn in debt and lease liabilities....
...Downton Abbey actor Hugh Bonneville was the compère, cracking unfunny jokes scripted by the national-occasion wing of the BBC’s light entertainment department....
...Both carried high levels of debt thanks to expensive acquisitions, of Odeon and Nordic Cinema in AMC’s case and Regal in Cineworld’s....
...The bankruptcy filing follows a years-long struggle with a debt pile incurred through expansion including the 2017 acquisition of Regal....
...But while there has been a drought of entertainment on the big screen, an action-packed thriller played out in Cineworld’s boardroom, as its longtime boss ran out of options....
.... ★★★☆☆ ‘Renaissance’ is released by Parkwood Entertainment/Columbia Records and available now to stream...
...We hear them with an intimacy that we don’t experience with the other amplified voices of mass entertainment....
...New Zealand doesn’t have the rich historical architecture of France’s regal châteaux or Italy’s rustic villas....
...“Basically because it’s entertainment. It’s like a movie. And there are some people who don’t write their own raps....
...Email us at citybulletin@ft.com Briefly Cineworld said it has begun talks with shareholders of Regal Entertainment over rescheduling its payment obligations related to its $3.6bn reverse takeover of the...
...Mert’s friend, DJ Ufuk, whose name is pronounced very nearly the way you think it is, is doing tonight’s entertainment at The Starlight Bar....
...Cineworld said on Thursday that it was considering either a full US listing of the group or a partial IPO of Regal, its US-based cinema circuit, with an eye to tapping the “wide domestic investor following...
...It points to “pent-up demand for affordable out-of-home entertainment”....
...“Theatres and entertainment are critical to the turnround of old malls.”...
...Cineworld also announced that its Regal chain in the US will reopen next month, with UK cinemas scheduled to reopen in May....
...About 45,000 jobs are under threat because of the closures, including 5,500 employees in the UK and 20,000 in the US, where Cineworld expanded with its $3.6bn acquisition of Regal Entertainment in 2017....
...It agreed last December to buy Canada’s Cineplex, a follow up to its 2018 acquisition of Regal Entertainment in the US. On Friday, Cineworld pulled out citing breaches of the deal agreement....
...The deal, which followed a similar logic to its 2018 takeover of US chain Regal Entertainment, would make London-listed Cineworld North America’s biggest cinema operator....
...The deal is a sequel to Cineworld’s acquisition of US chain Regal Entertainment in 2017....
...Our main competition is not the streaming, it is the other forms of entertainment.”...
...Cineworld last month agreed to buy Canada’s Cineplex after acquiring US chain Regal Cinemas in 2018....
...There is little respite from the US, where Cineworld paid $3.6bn for Regal Entertainment last year. Short sellers think Cineworld’s grand strategy of expansion will prove to be merely grandiloquent....
...Cineworld, the FTSE 250 movie theatre chain, is following up its $3.6bn acquisition of Regal Entertainment of the US with another North American deal....
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