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Author Topic: AMC continues to eat up theatres Pravin Ratnam Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 844 From: Atlanta, GA,USA Registered: Sep 2002 posted 01-03-2004 03:58 PM                     JC, did they fire you because of your past posts on this forum?  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-03-2004 09:11 PM                     Yea, they're eatin up alot of theatres but I heard they are going to install all Digital in all of them...Sony no less .  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 01-03-2004 10:19 PM                        How many locations/screens do the big players like AMC have?  |  IP: Logged JC Cowles Film Handler Posts: 77 From: St. Paul, MN Registered: Jun 2001 posted 01-03-2004 11:13 PM                     quote: JC, did they fire you because of your past posts on this forum? No, but they certainly bitched up a storm about it. To be prefectly honest, I'm not quite sure what I really did wrong. They just didn't like me I guess. Not that I'm complaining. Getting fired from Megastar was completely for the best, in my opinion. quote: How many locations/screens do the big players like AMC have? AMC now has 235 theaters (3,565 screens) in eight countries as of the Megastar buyout, according to a news article I read.  |  IP: Logged Scott Madsen Film Handler Posts: 58 Registered: Oct 1999 posted 01-14-2004 11:14 PM                     JC, I am glad to see you back. You were kind to answer a few emails before the whole Megastar uproar. AMC has already changed the Megastar's into all AMC. The only thing left are the outside signs. Even the employees are now sporting AMC wear.  |  IP: Logged JC Cowles Film Handler Posts: 77 From: St. Paul, MN Registered: Jun 2001 posted 01-15-2004 02:42 AM                     Hey Scott, good to see you're still around on Film-Tech . Last time we emailed eachother you were heading to Rosemount, MN to run the Marcus 8-plex. Are you still there? Hope things are going well for you. I kinda wonder how the transition is going to be handled for Megastar. Being part of the General Cinema to AMC trasnsition, I know things were very rough. But GCC and AMC has a LOT more similarities than AMC and Megastar operationally speaking. I have a feeling a lot of Megastar employees are not going to be happy with the changes. I think the biggest changes for that company is going to be significantly more than just uniform changes.  |  IP: Logged William T. Parr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 823 From: Cedar Park, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 01-15-2004 10:59 AM                     Hey J.C. Maybe some aditude changes for upper managment that think they can forbid what one of thier employee's does in his off time.. Like I don't know.... Maybe, Dare I say, Dare I say participate in these Forums?  |  IP: Logged John Scott Master Film Handler Posts: 252 From: Oakdale, MN, USA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 01-16-2004 11:02 PM                     JC, I think you are thinking about me. I'm no longer at Rosemount. I was promoted and am now at the Marcus Cinema in Oakdale.  |  IP: Logged JC Cowles Film Handler Posts: 77 From: St. Paul, MN Registered: Jun 2001 posted 01-17-2004 07:50 PM                     Ah, sorry, name similarity threw me off. And congrats to John for the promotion at Oakdale!!! Very nice theatre, although I never liked that winding hallway. Glad to see you're doing well.  |  IP: Logged John Scott Master Film Handler Posts: 252 From: Oakdale, MN, USA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 01-18-2004 12:45 AM                     winding hallway? We don't have a winding hallway.  |  IP: Logged Martin Brooks Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 900 From: Forest Hills, NY, USA Registered: May 2002 posted 01-19-2004 05:19 PM                        quote: How many locations/screens do the big players like AMC have? According to Boxoffice, the North American top 10 are: (locations/screens): Regal 551/6038 AMC 232/3515 Cinemark 285/3097 Loews Cineplex 281/2835 Carmike 300/2239 National Amusements 116/1400 Century 78/930 Famous Players 89/822 Kerasotes 76/544 Marcus 47/500 Note that AMC and Loews are talking about a merger, which would give them more screens, but slightly fewer locations than Regal.  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 01-21-2004 07:40 AM                        Here's the Boxoffice list, including executive contact information for each circuit: http://www.boxoffice.com/scripts/content.asp?terms=2074 quote: GIANTS OF EXHIBITION: NORTH AMERICA 2004 Top 50 Movie Theatre Circuits of the North American Region By Francesca Dinglasan  |  IP: Logged Thomas Procyk Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1842 From: Royal Palm Beach, FL, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 01-21-2004 01:21 PM                     Sure, Regal has the most screens and the most locations, but who has the best "Screen-to-Location" ratio? Or rather, on average, who has the biggest theaters? Glad you asked: AMC: 15.15 National Amusements: 12.06 Century: 11.92 Regal: 10.95 Cinemark: 10.86 Marcus: 10.63 Loews Cineplex: 10.08 Famous Players: 9.23 Carmike: 7.46 Kerasotes: 7.15 The AMC/Loews merger would drop the average to 12.37 for the company, but still keeping them at the top. I'm sure there's smaller companies with better averages, though. And yes, I was bored. =TMP=  |  IP: Logged

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