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Adam Aron
AMC Entertainment (CEO)
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'The fight' = the post-Covid existential question of whether people keep going to theaters: 'people love to go to movie theaters and Hollywood is responding' (@19:55). Backed by Odyssey's $124M domestic open (4.3M AMC guests) and AMC's record Q2 (EBITDA ~$321M, +70% y/y). Trailing segment garbles ('for the best of guys').
“I think we've won that fight. And if you look at the size of the box office this year, it clearly is going to be the biggest post-pandemic year”
Concedes 'Some AI created footage that will wind up hitting movie screens' over years and decades (@23:27) but: 'I think there's a strong preference for real film, real creations by humans, by human writers, by human actors' (@25:09) and 'that's what the audience will continue to receive' (@25:28). Also the 'Tom Cruise will always do the stunt' exchange (@24:40).
“we're going to be a very fast adopter of using AI back of house to make our company a stronger company, but very slow as an adopter to use AI on our screens”
Answering Kernen's question about past dilution and debt: quarter ended with '$778 million of cash on hand, and we have no significant debt majorities [maturities] prior to 2029' (@27:47); record revenue/EBITDA quarter in AMC's 106-year history; H1 EBITDA more than 2.5x last year. Note: a cold-open teaser of this line exists at 24:34/14:33 in the pod intro block.
“maybe it's not just time to talk about survival, it's time to talk about thriving, and that's the mission that we're now focused on going forward”
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