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AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. (doing business as AMC Theatres, originally an abbreviation for American Multi-Cinema; often referred to simply as AMC and known in some countries as AMC Cinemas or AMC Multi-Cinemas) is an American movie theater chain founded in Kansas City, Missouri, and now headquartered in Leawood, Kansas.
The company was incorporated in London, England, on 22 June 2016, [7] as part of a $1.2 billion takeover of Odeon Cinemas and United Cinemas International by AMC Theatres. The deal left Odeon Cinemas as a wholly owned subsidiary of Odeon Cinemas Group. [8] AMC claimed after the acquisition that it was the "largest movie exhibition company in ...
Entertainment Properties Trust was created by AMC Entertainment executive Peter Brown and financial analyst David Brain. They decided to establish a REIT focused on megaplex movie theaters after failing to find an existing REIT to help finance AMC's development of theaters. [3] [4] The company was incorporated on August 22, 1997. [5]
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AMC Networks Inc. is an American entertainment company headquartered in 11 Penn Plaza, New York. [4]The company owns and operates the eponymous cable channel and its siblings, IFC, We TV, and Sundance TV; the art house movie theater IFC Center in New York City; the independent film companies IFC Films and RLJE Films; the anime licensor Sentai Filmworks; the premium subscription streaming ...
One of the former Odeon cinemas in Leeds, pictured in May 1980.This is now a Sports Direct branch.. Odeon Cinemas was created in 1928 by Oscar Deutsch.Odeon publicists liked to claim that the name of the cinemas was derived from his motto, "Oscar Deutsch Entertains Our Nation", [5] but it had been used for cinemas in France and Italy in the 1920s, and the word is actually Ancient Greek ...
The National Association of Theatre Owners, which represents hundreds of theater chains in all 50 states and across more than 100 countries, announced a $2.2 billion pledge Thursday to upgrade the ...
In the 1990s, Cinemark Theatres was one of the first chains to incorporate stadium-style seating into their theatres. [25] In 1997, several disabled individuals filed a lawsuit against Cinemark, alleging that their stadium style seats forced patrons who used wheelchairs to sit in the front row of the theatre, effectively rendering them unable to see the screen without assuming a horizontal ...