AMC Cinemas

AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc.

Type	Public
Traded as	: AMC
Industry	Entertainment
Predecessors	Loews Cineplex Entertainment Carmike Cinemas
Founded	January 1, 1920; 98 years ago (January 1, 1920) Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
Founder	Edward Durwood
Headquarters	Leawood, Kansas, United States
Key people	Lin Zhang (Chairman) Adam Aron (President and CEO)
Revenue	US$3,235.846 million (FY 2016)
Operating income	US$212.858 million (FY 2016)
Net income	US$111.667 million (FY 2016)
Total assets	US$3.638 billion (FY 2012)
Total equity	US$154.3 million (FY 2012)
Owner	Wanda Group (75%)
Number of employees	34,000 (January 2017)
Subsidiaries	Subsidiaries AMC Entertainment, Inc. AMC Loews Loews Cineplex Entertainment Fork & Screen Dine-In Theatres The Café at AMC AMC Cinema Suites AMC Red Kitchen Carmike Cinemas (Defunct) Screenvision (20%) National CineMedia (22.5%) Odeon Cinemas UCI Cinemas (except in Brazil) Starplex Cinemas Eastwynn Theatres, Inc. George G. Kerasotes Corporation GKC Indiana Theatres, Inc. GKC Michigan Theatres, Inc. GKC Theatres, Inc. Military Services, Inc. Sundance Cinemas
Website	www.amctheatres.com

AMC Theatres (originally an abbreviation for American Multi-Cinema, often referred to simply as AMC and known in some countries as AMC Cinemas) is an American movie theater chain owned and operated by Dalian Wanda Group. Founded in 1920, AMC has the largest share of the American theater market ahead of Regal Entertainment Group and Cinemark Theatres. The chain has 86 locations in mainland China, home of the Dalian Wanda Group. The company's headquarters are located in Leawood, Kansas.

After acquiring Odeon Cinemas, UCI Cinemas, and Carmike Cinemas in 2016, it became the largest movie theater chain in the world, and also the largest in the United States, with 2,200 screens in 244 theatres in Europe and over 8,200 screens in 661 theatres in the United States.

AMC Theatres was founded in 1920 by Maurice, Edward, and Barney Dubinsky, who had been traveling the Midwest performing melodramas and tent shows with actress Jeanne Eagels. They purchased the Regent Theatre on 12th Street between Walnut and Grand in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. The Dubinskys eventually changed their name to Durwood, and the company they formed eventually became known as Durwood Theatres.

In 1961, Edward's son Stanley H. Durwood took control of Durwood Theatres, then a small 10-theatre chain, when his father died. Stanley had attended Harvard University and served as a navigator in the U.S. Air Force during World War II. He renamed Durwood Theatres as American Royal Cinema on October 1, 1968. During the incorporation process, the name was changed quickly thereafter to American Multi-Cinema, Inc., and Stanley began to apply military management and the insights of management science to revolutionize the movie theatre industry. As he later explained to Variety magazine, "We needed to define what our company was doing in the (exhibition) business. My dad wasn't that organized." It was structured under the belief that every customer was a "guest".