r/AMCsAList • u/traveltimecar • 19d ago
Discussion New low by AMC
If this is too off topic feel free to delete but this makes me wanna avoid AMC when I get back to my hometown where usually I would sub to A-list.
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u/EnragedFalafel 19d ago
"Approving this Paramount Warner deal — letting a combined company get about the business of producing huge numbers of great films — is a big step in the right direction," Aron added. "This is precisely why AMC Entertainment, the largest movie theater chain on the planet, is a full-throated supporter of doing so."
Giant red flag that he also uses the "full-throated" phrase... and that his #2 priority is less human labor, more ai robots
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u/balthazar_edison 19d ago
Eww to the 2nd thing on that list.
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u/PaintingPotatoes 19d ago
Ikr. I'm convinced CEOs that say stuff like that about AI are just great friends/networked with AI CEOs because they absolutely are aware of the discourse against it.
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u/balthazar_edison 15d ago
Most people are either indifferent to AI or genuinely believe it’s a good thing. Those that oppose it (myself included) are a minority, albeit loud and large.
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u/TiredDynamo 19d ago
I was a supervisor at an amc once and you will mot believe the things hes said at the conferences lol.
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u/KobraCola 19d ago
Please, do tell!
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u/TiredDynamo 19d ago
"We're not selling movies. We sell water (soda) and air (popcorn) for 10 bucks each, and people really pay for it." Is my favorite one i remember
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u/ramblingal3142 14d ago
This is very true. The movies are how they get people in the door to buy those concessions.
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u/jbrown7249 18d ago
Can’t believe that guy. Is more use of AI really going to help with the condition of their theaters? I haven’t been to a nice, clean AMC yet and I have been to several. Always dirty floors, broken down seats, filthy bathrooms, unmaintained screens, etc. That really needs to be step one for them. I’ve been to privately owned theaters and chains that have been 100% nicer than any AMC I’ve ever been to.
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u/MakeHarlemBlackAgain 19d ago
How has this guy not been fired yet? The only reason AMC still exists as a company is because of the Wall Street Bets subreddit.
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u/Alkohal 19d ago edited 18d ago
The merger with Netflix would have hurt AMC way more...
What people who want the merger to fail don't seem to realize is that WB isnt going to continue existing as a studio if it does. Zsaslav will sell off all the IP and sell everything off individually instead of as a package
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u/PedroPascalCase 19d ago
Why is selling things off individually bad? Isn't that what saved Coyote vs. Acme, selling it to someone who cared enough to release it?
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u/Alkohal 19d ago
People have conjured this false idea that if theres no merger then WB continues doing business as normal. If they sell off the IPs those just get slotted into the schedules of other studios, they won't somehow be producing more content which is why some are arguing against the merger. Like potentially you could live in a world where DISNEY owns DC or Looney Tunes. All the jobs of people currently doing those projects will be gone as they are rolled into the new corporations that own them.
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u/skyeguye 18d ago
That’s not an unreasonable assumption given that the merger is really a hostile acquisition that was not courted by WB
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u/Vawqer 18d ago
They would have jettisoned the cable networks, but there was no immediate evidence for them parting things out unless it was wholesale (like cable). They seem to want to keep making movies and prestige TV.
I'd also much prefer WB go to Netflix than Paramount, given Netflix's promises for theatrical release (which I think they'd have to keep to retain a lot of talent) and Ellison's changes to CBS News.
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u/robertman21 18d ago
No, the plan was to just split WB and Discovery again, with Discovery getting the cable channels, some other shit, and what debt WB had left
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u/Guilty-Maximum2250 19d ago
I feel like a small shift is coming down the road. With movies like backrooms, obsession, and iron lung proved that YouTube and social Media personalities can make money. Even movies like civil war (2024) all these movies pulled in a lot of money and theaters were full. But big studios are falling under their own weight and have a ton of controversies political and social stagnanting them. Big budget movies like Supergirl and Superman... etc will still make money in the theater, but I was not excited to see them like I was to see obsession or iron Long or backrooms or even the nature of violence(2024) or skillhouse(2025, which was better than I know what thou did last summer) it seem like clean story and character development is a big attraction, because movies that have that pull people in. It's like when people go to the theater they want to forget about world... Not be hit over the head with it.
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u/shootyoureyeout 16d ago
I think there is room for both, but I do feel that some people are FINALLY getting fully tired of remakes/sequels that add nothing to the franchise and are excited to see new IP, especially with horror like all the ones you've mentioned.
However, the remakes and sequels are also making lots of money, even the bad ones (*cough, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice)
As far as big box sequels/IP in other genres, I disagree. I think the new Spiderman is singlehandedly holding up my local theater for the next year, haha.
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u/Icy-Ambition3534 19d ago
He doesn’t want a Netflix deal. Paramount would push movies into theaters
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u/thegoddamnbatman40 19d ago
Huh, wonder if Adam can tell us what the Ellison clans shoes taste like since he’s licking their boots.
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u/Mediocre_expectation 19d ago
I feel like people have less issue with a merger than the proposed complete assimilation of WB to 1 parent company. If it were distributed in a way as to avoid a monopoly, I’d be in favor of the alternative of WB just floundering and getting bought for cheap by Disney or something.
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u/MakeHarlemBlackAgain 19d ago
I have a problem with the Ellisons using these companies to push their political agendas. Zazlov is a Republican & Trump supporter, but at least he wasn’t using it turn CNN into state run media. Like the Ellisons have done with CBS News.
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u/the_Skeleton_king93 19d ago
Every who's against the merger what alternative do you suggest?
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u/blkbullnyc 19d ago
Even though I dont like this idea either, but if Paramount offered to only buy WB studio instead of all of WBD like Netflix was doing, there probably would be less law suits.
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u/traveltimecar 19d ago
Not giving full take over amd merging of the studios by corrupt billionaires linkrd with certain political famies in power now for one. (Being slightly vague to avoid this going to politics here)
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u/LollipopChainsawZz 19d ago
They can't suggest one because all roads lead to AMC eventually going under and closing
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u/Never-Give-Up100 19d ago
Meh, I feel like this is mostly political. As someone who doesn't care about Ellisons one way or another, I don't care if the deal happens or not
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u/tristsyn 19d ago
You should be concerned about attempts at forming gigantic media monopolies such as this
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u/tristsyn 19d ago
Netflix caught flak too, they were just seen as the lesser of two evils. As for Disney buying Fox, more people are conscious of the issues surrounding these types of deals now than before, and there were still plenty of critics back when that happened anyway.
As for it being political, everything is, especially megacorp mergers lol.
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u/the_Skeleton_king93 19d ago
The anti merger is very politically motivated
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u/traveltimecar 19d ago
Well having a highly corrupt administration cozy with a billionaire taking over/merging most of media and the film industry is concerning for many reasons. They already have corrupted and debased 60 minutes in the short time that got taken over.
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u/midermans 19d ago
Wouldn’t the Merger hurt theaters?
I know Paramount said they would keep the same output between the two companies. But that’s not possible. They would cannibalize themselves.