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AMC Theatres is the second largest movie theatre chain in North America and the only chain out of the 12 largest on the continent that did not go bankrupt during the 2001-2002 recession,^[1] due in part to the fact that its theatres often dominate lists of the top 50 most profitable theatres in North America.^[2] Its mascot is the animated filmstrip Clip who stars in the pre-show policy trailers. A private company is a company that is independently owned. ... 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... Nickname: Location in Jackson, Clay, Platte, and Cass Counties in the state of Missouri. ... Nickname: Location in Jackson, Clay, Platte, and Cass Counties in the state of Missouri. ... â€œChief executiveâ€ redirects here. ... A stilt-walker entertaining shoppers at a shopping centre in Swindon, England Entertainment is an event, performance, or activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation to an audience (although, for example, in the case of a computer game the audience may be only one person). ... Look up revenue in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A fiscal year (or financial year or accounting reference date) is a 12-month period used for calculating annual (yearly) financial reports in businesses and other organizations. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... This article is about work. ... Look up slogan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1000x863, 261 KB) Summary AMC Theatres Promenade 16, a 16-auditorium movie theater or multiplex. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1000x863, 261 KB) Summary AMC Theatres Promenade 16, a 16-auditorium movie theater or multiplex. ... Multiplex may mean: Multiplex (comics), a DC Comics character. ... Woodland Hills, California in the foreground, including Warner Center. ... Los Angeles and L.A. redirect here. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 686 Ã— 599 pixelsFull resolution (2736 Ã— 2390 pixels, file size: 2. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 686 Ã— 599 pixelsFull resolution (2736 Ã— 2390 pixels, file size: 2. ... For other uses, see Times Square (disambiguation). ... A typical megaplex (AMC Rolling Hills 20 in Rolling Hills Estates, California). ... North America North America is a continent[1] in the Earths northern hemisphere and (chiefly) western hemisphere. ... The Early 2000s recession was felt in mostly Western countries, affecting the European Union mostly during 2000 and 2001 and the United States mostly in 2002 and 2003. ...

History

The company was founded in 1920 by former traveling showman Edward Durwood with one single-screen movie theatre in Kansas City, Missouri. At a time when vaudeville was on its last legs, Durwood correctly grasped that motion pictures were the future of the entertainment industry. His small chain of single-screen theatres was moderately successful. Durwood's son, Stanley, subsequently attended Harvard University and served as a navigator in the U.S. Air Force during World War II. 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... Nickname: Location in Jackson, Clay, Platte, and Cass Counties in the state of Missouri. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For other uses see film (disambiguation) Film refers to the celluliod media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as... Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ... Seal of the Air Force. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki TÅjÅ Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...

In the 1960s, Stan Durwood took control of Durwood Theatres, renamed it American Multi-Cinema, Inc., and began to apply military management and the insights of management science to revolutionize the movie theatre industry.^[3] As he later explained to Variety, "We needed to define what our company was doing in the (exhibition) business. My dad wasn't that organized."^[4] Year 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Management science, or MS, is the discipline of using mathematics, and other analytical methods, to help make better business decisions. ... Variety is a daily newspaper for the entertainment industry. ...

In 1963, AMC opened the two-screen Parkway Twin, the first American multiplex, in a shopping center on Kansas City's Ward Parkway. Durwood later claimed that "in 1962 he was standing in the lobby of his 600-seat Roxy in Kansas City mulling over its poor grosses when he realized he could double his box office by adding a second screen and still operate with the same size staff."^[5] This insight arises from the fact that the real-time labor demands of a movie theatre are not constant. Rather, they come in bursts at the start and end of the movie. At the start, a large number of employees have to sell tickets, process tickets at an access point, sell food at the concession stand (a theatre's primary profit center), make sure the theatre is not overcrowded, and run the film projector. While the movie plays, a small number of employees are needed for security and access control, while the others are relatively idle, allowing them to restock concession items, clean restrooms, and clean the lobby. At the end of the movie, a number of employees are needed to clean the theatre for the next showing. When the start times for movie showings in several physically connected auditoriums are staggered correctly, one team can continually keep all of them operational with minimal downtime. An additional advantage is that a different movie can be shown in each auditorium, which increases the choices available at a theatre's box office at any given time, and minimizes the possibility that disappointed moviegoers will take their business to a different theatre altogether.^[6] A typical AMC Theatres multiplex. ... Ward Parkway, located in Kansas City, Missouri near the Kansas-Missouri state line, is one of the most famous parkways in the United States. ...

In retrospect, Durwood's idea seems simple, but it took a lot of trial and error to get the bugs out. For example, when the Parkway Twin opened, both screens were showing the same movie, The Great Escape.^[7] Next, Durwood followed up on the Parkway Twin with a four-screen theatre in 1966 and a six-screen theatre in 1969. The Great Escape, written by James Clavell, W.R. Burnett, and Walter Newman (uncredited), and directed by John Sturges is a popular 1963 World War II film, based on a true story about Allied prisoners of war with a record for escaping from German prisoner-of-war camps. ...

AMC pioneered the first North American megaplex when it opened the AMC Grand 24 in Dallas, Texas in 1995, though the first megaplex in the world had been built by European chain Kinepolis in 1988. AMC has continued to open megaplex theatres and now operates the busiest theatre in the country at the AMC Empire 25 theatre in New York City, New York, located in Times Square. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Multiplex (movie theater). ... Dallas redirects here. ... New York, New York redirects here. ...

In 1997 AMC formed a joint partnership with Planet Hollywood to develop Planet Movies by AMC. Planet Hollywood at night, Downtown Disney, Florida, USA. Planet Hollywood Niagara Falls, Ontario Planet Hollywood, a theme restaurant chain inspired by the popular portrayal of Hollywood, was launched in New York on October 22, 1991, with the backing of Hollywood stars Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Demi Moore. ... Planet Movies by AMC was a joint partnership between Planet Hollywood and AMC Theaters Planet Movies by AMC was a joint-venture formed in 1997 between Planet Hollywood and AMC Theaters to develop entertainment properties surrounding AMC-operated megaplex theatres and Planet Hollywood-operated theme restaurants. ...

AMC was planned to have an IPO worth approximately $789 million, however, adverse market conditions convinced the company's management to withdraw from such an offering on May 3, 2007. Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...

AMC in the UK

AMC also broke new ground in British cinema history when it opened the first American multiplex in any foreign country, building the AMC cinema complex in Milton Keynes, England. The theatre operates under the AMC Cinemas brand name. Image File history File links AMC_cinemas_logo. ... , Milton Keynes (often abbreviated MK) is a large town in northern Buckinghamshire, in South East England, about 45 miles (75 km) north-west of London, and roughly halfway between London and Birmingham. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ...

In the 1980s AMC built and operated a number of multiplex ten-screen cinemas in the UK, including sites at locations such as Dudley and Tamworth. These were subsequently bought and taken over by UCI as AMC temporarily pulled out of the UK market. Multiplex may mean: Multiplex (comics), a DC Comics character. ... Map sources for Dudley at grid reference SO9390 Dudley is a town in the West Midlands, England. ... For other places named Tamworth, see Tamworth (disambiguation). ... United Cinemas International or UCI is owned by Terra Firma Capital Partners. ...

December 2001, the 16-screen AMC Great Northern was opened in Manchester, thereby marking the brand's limited return to the UK. This was later supplemented by the opening of a 12-screen cinema on the new Broadway Plaza site in Birmingham. This article is about the City of Manchester in England. ... This article is about the British city. ...

At the present time, there are no plans for AMC to open any more sites in the UK.

AMC in Hong Kong

AMC also opened two cineplexes in Hong Kong, at Festival Walk in Kowloon Tong and Pacific Place in Admiralty. The cineplex in Admiralty was opened in 2006. Festival Walk is a shopping centre developed by Swire Pacific in Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, China. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Commerical buildings in Admiralty, Hong Kong, with the Conrad Hotel on the left and JW Marriott on the right Admiralty (Chinese: é‡‘é˜, Pinyin: JÄ«nzhÅng, lit. ...

Innovating the cinema

AMC has been a major innovator in terms of raising industry standards for customer comfort; it invented the cupholder armrest and reintroduced the construction of theatres with stadium-style seating, where the seats are placed on risers so that each person has an unobstructed view of the screen. Both these items have become standard for nearly all new theatres. The early versions of stadium-style seating, which were part sloped floor and part stadium-style seating, made AMC a popular target for ADA lawsuits, as the stairs to the risers made it impossible for wheelchair-bound patron to sit in the stadium section, except in larger auditoriums. AMC solved the problem with full-stadium theatres, has appealed the litigation to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and continues to evaluate ways to provide superior seating to all of its guests. Remodeling of its older part slope floor, part stadium-style auditoriums will depend on the ruling by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is the short title of United States Public Law 101-336, signed into law on July 26, 1990 by George H. W. Bush. ... It has been suggested that civil trial be merged into this article or section. ...

AMC has also had some endeavors that didn't prove as viable, such as experimenting with 16 mm film for projection and selling microwave popcorn at concession stands through a small test in the South several years ago^[5]. They also stumbled by agreeing to install the Sony Dynamic Digital Sound system in all their new locations, rather than the more popular Dolby Digital or DTS systems. While the majority of major releases have all three digital tracks, including SDDS, most independent and smaller-budgets films only have Dolby Digital tracks, leaving many films in AMC's otherwise ultra-modern megaplexes showing films in analog sound. Recently, AMC has begun installing Dolby Digital in all new auditoriums. As of approx. 2003, AMC has also installed updated Dolby Digital systems into some of its existing locations. SDDS stands for Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, which is a cinema sound system developed by Sony. ... Dolby Digital is the marketing name for a series of lossy audio compression technologies by Dolby Laboratories. ... DTS (also known as Digital Theater Systems), owned by DTS, Inc. ... Look up analog, analogue in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Acquisitions

AMC has been successful in integrating competitive theater circuits into its family. In March 2002, AMC bought General Cinemas Companies Inc., which added 621 screens to the company assets as well as Gulf States Theaters which had 68 screens in the greater New Orleans area. In late 2003, AMC acquired MegaStar Theatres, adding top-quality assets to its Atlanta and Minneapolis-St. Paul markets. Then on January 26, 2006, AMC merged with Loews Cineplex Entertainment; AMC was the winner in the merger and the newly merged company continued with the name AMC Entertainment Inc. 2002 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December A timeline of events in the news for March, 2002. ... is the 26th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Loews Theatre, Jersey City, New Jersey Loews Theatres, founded in 1904 by Mark Loewsburgenstein, was the oldest theatre chain operating in North America until it merged with AMC Theatres on January 26, 2006. ...

The company has interests in 360 theaters with 5,140 screens in six countries. Some of the U.S. theatres are named for basketball legend and businessman Earvin "Magic" Johnson, who became a partner of Loews in the mid-1990s. This article is about the sport. ... Earvin Johnson redirects here. ...

Entertainment Centrums

Several of the Canadian AMC Theatres are anchor tenants for Entertainment Centrum's, entertainment plazas in Ontario containing restaurants, fitness centres, Mini Putt, and other forms of entertainment. Entertainment Centrum refers to entertainment complexes in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). ... Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Latin: Loyal she began, loyal she remains) Capital Toronto Largest city Toronto Official languages English (de facto) Government - Lieutenant-Governor David C. Onley - Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament - House seats 106 - Senate seats 24 Confederation July 1, 1867 (1st) Area... ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ...

References

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