AMC, largest cinema chain in US, announces boycott of Universal

The Guardian ^ | Wed 29 Apr 2020 | Andrew_Pulver

[Robert DeLong]

AMC is a Chinese owned operation now. F them.

[richardtavor]

Do you have any documentation for that or is it just gossip? I would like to pass it on, but I need documentation to do so. Not that it isn’t true, it probably is. But can you give me a source?

[Fresh Wind]

AMC, the US’s largest cinema chain

AMC, China's largest cinema chain...

[richardtavor]

Great point!

[Fresh Wind]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanda_Group

[libertylover]

people have some pretty sweet TVs in the living room now with just as nice audio set ups.

I have a pretty nice setup but it's still not the same as going to a real movie theater. It's like going to a real football game instead of just watching it on TV. It's just not the same experience. The thing that keeps me from going to a movie very often is not the theater but that so many movies are of the "celebrate perversity" kind.

[madison10]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3839714/posts

[Dacula]

My last movie theatre experience was in 1997 - Wife and I took our son to see The Phantom Menace.

[rrrod]

AMC is china owned.

[DakotaGator]

AMC, the US’s largest cinema chain, has said it will refuse to show movies released by Hollywood studio Universal.

Let's see now; Universal Studios has a product (movies) that the consumer wants, the middleman (AMC Theaters) won't deliver it (boycott), Universal Studios cuts out the middleman and delivers the product directly to the consumer. Hmmm...good luck your bankruptcy AMC Theaters.

[Hebrews 11:6]

seeing a great film on the big screen while sitting in the front row.

[1Old Pro]

Exactly, the number of theaters will decline as people find viewing at home more convenient and a more pleasant environment.

[mowowie]

Yea one thing you will NEVER see me doing is sitting in a AMC theater and/or eating a Smithfield hotdog.

[gcparent]

Yep. Boycott AMC.

[gcparent]

Yes it’s true. Do your own research. Might take 5 minutes.

[gcparent]

Good one.

[CJ Wolf]

They will make it up in digital piracy of the movies they show.

[CodeToad]

I’m lost on that. What do you mean?

[PLMerite]

“And people have some pretty sweet TVs in the living room now with just as nice audio set ups.”

Plus you can get past second base at home much easier.

[mowowie]

AMC Theaters was acquired by Wanda Group, a Chinese conglomerate headquartered in Dalian, in May 2012. Wanda Group paid $2.6 billion to acquire AMC Theatres’ 5,048 screens in 347 theaters in the U.S. and Canada.[24] The deal was finalized on September 4, 2012.[25] The acquisition made Wanda the world’s largest cinema chain

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMC_Theatres