AMC Spirit

As soon as The Chinese bought the Kansas City movie giant we noted that they would bail out of their money losing P&L District venture. We reminded folks about the upcoming sell-off last night . . . And now it has come to pass. The argument that this move is independent of the recent purchase is silly.What's more important . . .THIS IS ANOTHER INVESTMENT IN DOWNTOWN KANSAS CITY GONE BUST!!!Even worse, Cordish and AMC had the red carpet rolled...  

AMC Entertainment Inc. AMC Entertainment Inc. Latest from The Business Journals AMC, Cordish call off plans for Kansas City theater venture AMC, Cordish draw curtain on Downtown theater venture AMC Entertainment CEO: Wanda deal will help future ...  

Multicultural marketing shop Muse Communications is participating in this Sunday's episode of AMC's "The Pitch." While some in adland have argued over the merits of the show and few outside of it have tuned in, what will be most interesting about Sunday ...  

A marquee match-up of AMC Entertainment Inc. and The Cordish Co. will come to an end, The Kansas City Star reports. Gerry Lopez, CEO of AMC Entertainment, said a joint venture with Cordish to redevelop the Mainstreet and Midland theaters in downtown Kansas City will end. He said the move has been in the works for a while and could be completed in the next month. Neither Lopez nor a representative of Cordish’s Kansas City Power & Light...  

AMC Theaters Chief Executive Officer Gerry Lopez said customers could expect to see changes at the chain's flagship multiplex in downtown Kansas City. Lopez said the changes to the AMC Mainstreet 6 could happen in the immediate future, possibly in the next ...  

When AMC announced earlier this week that Breaking Bad will premiere its fifth season on July 15th was met with so much rejoicing that many missed the second half of the press release: AMC will also be premiering the first of eight episodes in a new reality series called Small Town Security, about “a family-owned [...]  

AMC Entertainment -- which owns the AMC Loews Waterfront 22 in West Homestead -- will be acquired by the largest cinema owner in China. The $2.6 billion deal between AMC Entertainment and Dalian Wanda Group Ltd. was announced late Sunday. The Kansas City-based company will remain headquartered there and get as much as a $500 million investment from Dalian Wanda Group, according to the Kansas City Business Journal. AMC Entertainment is owned...  

On Monday (May 7), production for Season 3 of "The Walking Dead" officially kicked off in Georgia and, to mark the event, AMC posted some juicy details from comic book creator turned executive producer Robert Kirkman, who is on set in Senoia, Ga.Here are a few highlights from the interview, which you can read in full at amctv.com.Q: The room in the prison with all the guns and the SWAT gear in the comic is really cool. Is that going to come up...  

AMC and the Huffington Post have posted the first behind the scenes video spot for The Walking Dead. The series will kick off its third season this fall on AMC. New characters, a prison, and of course a lady samurai will appear this season.    

Dalian Wanda Group's agreement to pay $2.6 billion for cinema chain AMC could draw more Chinese investors to U.S. entertainment properties.Chinese conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group's landmark deal to buy AMC Entertainment Inc. for $2.6 billion could be a catalyst for similar acquisitions of American theater chains and other U.S. entertainment properties, industry analysts said.  

China's Dalian Wanda Group and AMC Entertainment announced a deal on Monday for Wanda to take over the U.S.-based AMC theater group. The companies say it would be the world's largest cinema chain. It's the latest in a string of deals between Hollywood and Chinese companies.  

First AMC announced that it was leaving downtown Kansas City, where it had been headquartered since 1920, and now its ownership has left the country. The Kansas City Business Journal reports that Dalian Wanda Group Co. Ltd., a privately held Chinese company, announced that it had snapped up AMC and its 346 multiplex theaters and 5,034 screens on Sunday night.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]  

It's never too early to get excited for more "Walking Dead," is it? Enthusiasm for the show is—wait for it—infectious! (Ah, I don't feel good about that one, either.) Even though new episodes are still several months away from hitting the airwaves, AMC is getting a head start on the excitement by offering fans an [...]  

AMC has released the first behind-the-scenes promo video from "The Walking Dead" season 3, as cast members Andrew Lincoln, Norman Reedus, Lauren Cohan, Steven Yeun, Laurie Holden and IronE Singleton tease the events to come while executive producers Gale ...  

BEIJING (KABC) -- A Chinese conglomerate is buying the AMC Entertainment Holdings for $2.6 billion. The acquisition will make the Dalian Wanda Group the world's biggest movie theatre operator. It is also China's biggest takeover of an American company yet.