CINEMA

Movies You Are Looking Forward To In Cinema 2025

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UPDATED: Wednesday, July 2, 2025 09:27
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Saturday, March 15, 2025 9:21 PM

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Adding The Penguin Lessons (3-28-2025) to my list. Saw an ad on the internet.






Thanks Second.

I hope there are more funny scenes in the movie. Sometimes the trailers are the best scenes in the movie.

I love it when the trailer has a funny/cool scene but it actually is an outtake or something put together that makes you want to see the movie and doesn’t ruin the movie.



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Tuesday, March 18, 2025 6:14 AM

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Mickey 17 (4-18-2025)



I was just coming here to mention this one. I'd never heard of it until 2 minutes ago while looking at The-Numbers.

A sci-fi black comedy directed by Bong Joon-ho that's in English?

Yeah... I'm sure I'll be watching this one eventually.

At This Point, Maybe Just Read the Book Behind Mickey 17 Instead

As rumors swirl that Bong Joon Ho's Robert Pattinson-starring sci-fi film is hitting streaming soon, the superior source material is still your best choice.

By Cheryl Eddy | March 17, 2025

https://gizmodo.com/mickey-17-streaming-release-date-rumors-2000576978

. . . the film’s oversized budget ($118 million, plus $80 million on marketing) means it “needs to earn around $275 million to $300 million globally to get into the black during its big screen run.”

Mickey 17 could certainly prove to be more of an at-home hit than it was on the big screen, and that could end up tipping the budget scales in its favor. But perhaps at this point your choice is even more crystal clear: pick up Edward Ashton’s fantastic source-material novel, Mickey7, which was released in 2022. It even has a sequel, Antimatter Blues. Though the book has fewer replications of the title character, hence the lower number in the title, it doesn’t have any “is this character supposed to be Trump?” intrusions, and is instead a gripping, wryly funny sci-fi mystery. As an added bonus you can also imagine the main character’s voice to… not be what Pattinson went with in Mickey17.

Mickey 17 (2025) [March 18, 2025 numbers]
Theatrical Performance
Domestic Box Office $33,212,062
International Box Office $57,200,000
Worldwide Box Office $90,412,062
https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Mickey-17-(2025)#tab=summary

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Monday, March 24, 2025 3:55 PM

JAYNEZTOWN


LA film is dead

the Hollywood movie run is beat by China, Spanish movie knock Hollywood back Io Sono La Fine Del Mondo, South Korea box office Hitman 2 knocks down Hollywood and blocks its profits, its world wide movie releases are beat by Russian remakes, Japan cartoons getting cinema releases defeat Hollywood with 'Attack on Titan the Movie', Hollyweird is soon to be beaten by a Hindu Malayalam-language action thriller film L2 Empuraan

L2: Empuraan - Official Trailer
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/entertainment/regional/mala
yalam/l2-empuraan-official-trailer/videoshow/119294988.cms

Empuraan is scheduled to be released in theatres worldwide on 27 March 2025 in standard and IMAX formats, making it the first Malayalam film to be released in IMAX.

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Thursday, March 27, 2025 1:29 PM

JAYNEZTOWN


almost the month of April now

Cinema is dead, LA is still a wasteland, it is burnt

so maybe China or the Chinese Communists guys have animators who do art, who do film and maybe this country has some normal people compared to Hollyweird, film makers who can entertain us



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Friday, March 28, 2025 1:49 AM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Working Man supposed to come out tonight.
I might not get to see it until Sat or Sun.

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Friday, March 28, 2025 2:47 AM

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When I say literalism, I don’t mean realistic or plainly literal. I mean literalist, as when we say something is on the nose or heavy-handed, that it hammers away at us or beats a dead horse. As these phrases imply, to re-state the screamingly obvious does a kind of violence to art. “A point is still a point!”

Yes. That's all your DEI hires are capable of. Pure heavy-handed, on-the-nose literalism.

... and chronic self-inserts.
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It’s hard to say which came first: our so-called media illiteracy or the dumbing down of the media.

Don't know.

The one thing I DO know is that the Department of Education predates both of those things.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

I watched Mickey 17 last night. The book is Mickey7, that is a seven, while the movie is seventeen.



Have you already forgotten that out of the two of us I'm the only one who understands how Math works?

Yes. Those are called numbers. It's what we use to count things.

Here's an easy one for you... It's even got your number 7 in it which you typed out two times and we're just so proud of you!!!


If you have one bucket that contains 2 gallons of water and another bucket that contains 7 gallons of water, how many buckets do you have?

(HINT: It's not seven like the book, nor is it seventeen like the movie. )

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

I had planned to post that I'd wager he was incapable of answering this question.
But I did not get here in time to make that post.

In the days since, he has managed to prove me right, he is just too old, feeble-minded, libtarded to be able to answer a simple question.
And he wasn't able tofind another libtard to plagiarize who could answer for him.

This is true. I posted this question for Second 4 days after Kevin Drum died of Cancer.

March 7th was a terrible day for Second. I feel sorry for the boy having to find out that Kevin Drum was a no good Trumptard like that. Yanno... since Democrats never die and only Trump voters get cancer.

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Still too libtard-addled and feeble to answer, I see.

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Monday, March 31, 2025 7:37 AM

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An excellent copy of Mickey 17 is now available for free from Pirates.

Bittorrent Link: 5C2E92442AB3D51470C3D59341B8472DA83CAE8

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Monday, March 31, 2025 3:16 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Too bad Kevin Drum won't be able to see it.

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Saturday, April 5, 2025 1:31 AM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Ballerina (John Wick) comes out 6 June.

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Saturday, April 5, 2025 6:40 AM

JAYNEZTOWN


SKorea, Japan, Spain movies knocking Hollywood back might have been the start, then they start to lose turf to Japanese video game movie franchises and anime

India Hindi movies then started to want a piece of the global pie

Today?
Seems like it will be impossible for Hollyweird to catch the China animation now


the Chinese thing, maybe its time to give up on Hollywood and watch it, if you can't beat them join them?


"Ne Zha 2" nears 2.2-bln-USD global haul as box office run stays strong
http://www.china.org.cn/arts/2025-04/03/content_117804834.htm

From DeepSeek to Ne Zha 2 to Feihe Infant Formula: The World Needs to Re-evaluate China's Strength
https://www.reuters.com/press-releases/from-deepseek-to-ne-zha-2-to-fe
ihe-infant-formula-the-world-needs-to-re-evaluate-china-s-strength-2025-04-05
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"Ne Zha 2" with Japanese subtitles debuts in theaters across Japan
https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/278144563/ne-zha-2-with-japanese-s
ubtitles-debuts-in-theaters-across-japan


Review
https://geekculture.co/ne-zha-2-review/
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For an audience fatigued by meta franchise fatigue, Ne Zha 2’s earnestness feels like something rarer: myth made vivid


maybe the New Captain America made money, we are not sure beacuse the budgets are so outrageous these days

they are even getting their ass kicked by Russian remakes of movies

and so Hollyweird is dead?

1 Ne Zha 2 $1,979,091,486
2 Tang Tan 1900 $440,060,150
3 Captain America: Brave New World $409,518,073
4 Creation of the Gods II: Demonic Confrontation $154,576,449
5 Disney’s Snow White $147,200,161
6 Dog Man $131,784,930
7 Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy $122,878,268
8 Mickey 17 $121,798,985
9 Boonie Bears: Future Reborn $100,158,099
10 Legends of the Condor Heroes: The Gallants $86,494,187
11 The Monkey $63,405,125
12 Den of Thieves 2: Pantera $56,109,204
13 One of Them Days $51,229,264
14 Operation Hadal $48,476,947
15 Flight Risk $42,592,620
16 Volshebnik Izumrudnogo goroda $37,938,360
17 A Working Man $37,111,403
18 Companion $36,652,480
19 Wolf Man $34,861,127
20 Heart Eyes $32,815,532

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Saturday, April 5, 2025 10:52 AM

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A.Minecraft.Movie.2025.1080p.WORKPRINT.x264.COLLECTiVE is available for Free!

Bittorrent Link: 1F3EC4691A7037CD093FC3ADAB082D8F497986A2

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If you had sampled A Minecraft Movie, a piece of childish dreck, you would not believe this story:

A Minecraft Movie will post the best weekend of 2025, easily topping Captain America: Brave New World’s $88.8 million, and looking very likely to exceed $100 million.

https://www.the-numbers.com/news/259040830-Weekend-predictions-Minecra
ft-heading-to-monster-opening


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Saturday, April 5, 2025 10:57 AM

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17 A Working Man $37,111,403

A.Working.Man.2025.1080p.HDRip.Cam.Audio.V2.x264.COLLECTiVE is available for Free!

Bittorrent Link: 84D910B1FD4BBBAECC1589DD4C3AD6B6BFEC3EC4

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Saturday, April 19, 2025 4:05 AM

ANONYMOUS1



Adding Accountant 2 (4-25-2025) to my list. I find it funny/cool that sometimes you see the 2 in ads as a superscript as to the 2nd power…a little math or accountant joke.

Mickey 17 (3-7-2025)

The Penguin Lessons (3-28-2025)

Accountant 2 (4-25-2025)

Mission: Impossible Final Reckoning (may 23 2025)

How to Train Your Dragon (June 13, 2025) live actors and I guess computer generated dragons.

Jurassic (7-2-2025) World: Rebirth

Superman (July 11, 2025) Nathan Fillion is in it as Guy Gardner a Green Lantern. And yeah!, according to photos on IMDb page, Krypto is in it.

The Fantastic Four: First Steps (7/25/2025)


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Sunday, April 20, 2025 7:21 PM

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David Cronenberg: ‘I Don’t Find the Cinema Experience All That Great’

In a conversation with Jim Jarmusch, the king of body horror explained why he's not particularly nostalgic about theatrical exhibition or celluloid film.

By Christian Zilko | April 20, 2025 12:00 pm

https://www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/david-cronenberg-doesnt-ca
re-about-movie-theaters-1235116842
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Don’t count David Cronenberg among the auteurs carrying the torch for theatrical exhibition. Speaking to Jim Jarmusch for Interview Magazine, the body horror legend explained that he doesn’t see communal movie-going as an inherently superior way to watch his films. https://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/david-cronenberg-by-jim-jarmusc
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“I only see movies in real theaters every once in a while, mostly at film festivals, and I’ve found that the projection isn’t always so great,” Cronenberg said. “I remember being in Venice onstage with Spike Lee and some others. He was talking about the Cathedral of Cinema, the whole religious aspect of it. And I said, ‘Spike, I’m watching “Lawrence of Arabia” on my watch, and there are a thousand camels there. I can see every one of them.’ I was joking, but what I meant was, I don’t find the cinema experience all that great. Maybe it’s because I’m older. I don’t feel that communal thing.”

Cronenberg’s thoughts on technological evolutions in filmmaking and viewing are consistent with much of his filmography, which often deals with the need to embrace change or risk being left behind by nature. He expressed similar thoughts about celluloid film, saying that the convenience of working with digital cameras outweighs any visual benefits that might come from shooting on film

“I do find that people talking about streaming can be very passionate in the way that we were passionate in the movie theater after we saw a film. So it’s different, but I don’t think it’s worse,” he said. “I also don’t miss working with film. The cutting and editing was a nightmare for me. It was very restrictive. You have so much more control now. And of course, we are control freaks to a certain extent, if you’re making a film.”

Cronenberg’s latest film, “The Shrouds,” is now playing in theaters. The film, which follows a widower who processes his grief by placing his wife’s body in a live-streaming coffin, was labeled a Critic’s Pick by IndieWire’s David Ehrlich following its premiere at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.

“Inspired by the loss of the director’s wife, ‘The Shrouds’ is a grief story as only David Cronenberg would ever think to shoot one,” IndieWire’s review read. “Sardonic, unsentimental, and often so cadaverously stiff that the film itself appears to be suffering from rigor mortis, as if its images died at some point along their brief journey from the projector to the screen. And really, what else would you expect?”

The Shrouds
https://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-shrouds/
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt20212786/
https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Shrouds-The-(2024-Canada)#tab=summar
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Monday, April 21, 2025 10:05 AM

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Nobody else in the country besides James Cameron and the billionaire's club get to sit in their own movie theater when they watch a movie. Nobody cares what Cronenberg thinks on this issue anymore than they cared what Ellen Degeneres thought when she told everybody lock downs were cool while shooting a video from her glass-walled exercise room twice the size of most people's apartments.






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Monday, April 21, 2025 10:12 AM

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May 2nd:



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A man returns to the idyllic beach of his childhood to surf with his son. But his desire to hit the waves is thwarted by a group of locals whose mantra is “don’t live here, don’t surf here.” Humiliated and angry, the man is drawn into a conflict that keeps rising in concert with the punishing heat of the summer and pushes him to his breaking point.


This sounds like Taken, but instead of killing everybody to get his daughter back, he's Nic Cage is killing everyone to get his old surfer hangout back.

One snob on rotten tomatoes even managed to give it a positive rating while using the words "toxic masculinity" unironically.

I'm all in.

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Monday, April 21, 2025 12:15 PM

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Nobody else in the country besides James Cameron and the billionaire's club get to sit in their own movie theater when they watch a movie. Nobody cares what Cronenberg thinks on this issue anymore than they cared what Ellen Degeneres thought when she told everybody lock downs were cool while shooting a video from her glass-walled exercise room twice the size of most people's apartments.

Have you not heard of this technology that is destroying the business model of Cinemas?
It is called Television.

You should buy a TV, but NOT an obsolete TV. Suggestion:

The 6 Best TVs for Next-Level Home Entertainment

We thoroughly scrutinized and reviewed the most impressive TVs available today—and several of our picks are surprisingly affordable.

By Stefan Vazharov Updated: Mar 13, 2025 9:36 AM EDT

https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/g61111352/best-tv/

The Top Pick can be purchased at Walmart, but it is hundreds of dollars cheaper at Amazon.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Monday, April 21, 2025 2:36 PM

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Nobody else in the country besides James Cameron and the billionaire's club get to sit in their own movie theater when they watch a movie. Nobody cares what Cronenberg thinks on this issue anymore than they cared what Ellen Degeneres thought when she told everybody lock downs were cool while shooting a video from her glass-walled exercise room twice the size of most people's apartments.

Have you not heard of this technology that is destroying the business model of Cinemas?
It is called Television.

You should buy a TV, but NOT an obsolete TV. Suggestion:

The 6 Best TVs for Next-Level Home Entertainment

We thoroughly scrutinized and reviewed the most impressive TVs available today—and several of our picks are surprisingly affordable.

By Stefan Vazharov Updated: Mar 13, 2025 9:36 AM EDT

https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/g61111352/best-tv/

The Top Pick can be purchased at Walmart, but it is hundreds of dollars cheaper at Amazon.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two





Nobody gives a shit about your TV or your soundbar.

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Monday, April 21, 2025 3:12 PM

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Nobody gives a shit about your TV or your soundbar.

People Generally Prefer Watching Movies At Home Than in the Theater

Indeed, 77% of respondents to the survey either strongly (38%) or somewhat (39%) agreed with the statement “In general, I prefer watching movies at home over watching in the theater.” Just 6% strongly disagreed.

Despite Trumptards convincing themselves that ticket sales are dropping because Hollywood is too woke for Trumptards, it is TV manufacturers who are at fault for making home viewing better and cheaper than viewing the same flicks at the cinema.

https://www.marketingcharts.com/industries/media-and-entertainment-228
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Monday, April 21, 2025 5:07 PM

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Nobody gives a shit about your TV or your soundbar.

People Generally Prefer Watching Movies At Home Than in the Theater

Indeed, 77% of respondents to the survey either strongly (38%) or somewhat (39%) agreed with the statement “In general, I prefer watching movies at home over watching in the theater.” Just 6% strongly disagreed.

Despite Trumptards convincing themselves that ticket sales are dropping because Hollywood is too woke for Trumptards, it is TV manufacturers who are at fault for making home viewing better and cheaper than viewing the same flicks at the cinema.

https://www.marketingcharts.com/industries/media-and-entertainment-228
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About the Data: The results are based on a survey of 1,050 US adults (18+).


Brought to you by Marketing Charts. Whoever they are.

Uh huh.

Maybe you could ask FiveThirtyEight if they'd make the cut for their cherry picked polls over there.

Oh... wait.

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Friday, April 25, 2025 5:52 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


I thought I posted The Amateur, and Accountant 2.

oops.
Amateur was good, saw it 2 weeks ago.

Accountant is tonight. I really don't care for Baffleck, but the ads for this don't look like him at his most annoying.

Also, Jon Berenthal is in both of these. I've enjoyed his work since Wind River.

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Saturday, April 26, 2025 8:12 PM

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I thought I posted The Amateur, and Accountant 2.

Accountant is tonight. I really don't care for Baffleck, but the ads for this don't look like him at his most annoying.

The Accountant 2 can be downloaded for free.

Bittorrent Link: 67E69CC949426B926096FC2C73F8DAA284495D98

Complete name : The.Accountant.2.1080p.WebRip.Repack.Read.Note.X264.COLLECTiVE.mkv
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Format version : Version 4
File size : 4.00 GiB
Duration : 2 h 12 min
Overall bit rate : 4,306 kb/s

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Wednesday, July 2, 2025 9:27 AM

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AMC works really hard to make going to the movies terrible

By Colette Bennett | July 1, 2025

https://www.thestreet.com/entertainment/amc-works-really-hard-to-make-
going-to-the-movies-terrible


As streaming media has exploded in popularity over the past few decades, fewer and fewer people have seen the point of getting into the car and going to the movie theater.

Despite being a beloved activity that people have adored for well over a hundred years, going to the movies really isn't what it used to be.

Add up the price of a ticket or two, overpriced concessions, the cost of driving to and from the theater — not to mention the high possibility of loud groups of kids who don't mind talking over the entire movie — and it's just not appealing.

The pandemic hit movie theaters hard, and although America has recovered, the movie theater industry hasn't.

Typically it made between 10 and 11 billion a year before 2020, but since then, it hasn't exceeded more than 8 billion, per data from Box Office Mojo.

One way theaters coped with getting people back in theater seats was to entice them with limited-edition merchandise like themed popcorn buckets, which actually did wonders for their bottom line. AMC alone raked in $65 million from sales of this merchandise.

Now AMC has a new idea to change the theater experience. But unlike its innovative collectible popcorn buckets, this will actually add yet another reason to justify staying home on the couch with Netflix.

Your movie date just got longer

We all go to the movies expecting to see trailers before the show starts, and some people even like it that way, knowing if they're running a bit late, they won't miss the main event.

AMC has decided this is a good thing, and as of July 1, will now show more pre-movie ads than ever, including "as much as" a whopping five minutes of commercials, as well as a new ad called a "Platinum Spot" that will play before the last few movie trailers you see.

Trailers and other promotions can mean the movie doesn't start for 25-30 minutes, according to the AMC website.

The advertising decision comes as the result of an agreement AMC made with the National CineMedia ad network, which is the largest of its kind in the U.S.

Back in 2019, AMC declined using these ads, despite the fact other chains such as Regal adopted them, saying it believed that moviegoers would react "quite negatively" to them.

But it has since pivoted, saying in a June Bloomberg interview, “While AMC was initially reluctant to bring this to our theaters, our competitors have fully participated for more than five years without any direct impact to their attendance."

Why AMC is making this move

AMC has had its share of struggles over the past few years. While it's been slowly recovering since the pandemic, 2024 didn't pan out so well, with AMC reporting a decline in revenue in 2024's Q3 and an attendance decline.

AMC also announced on July 1 that it had entered into a new agreement with its creditors, which will provide $223 million of new money financing that will be used to refinance its debt.

The agreement will also allow AMC to equitize at least $143 million of its current debt, and has the potential to allow the company to equitize as much at $337 million.

Commenters on social media did not take well to the news of the new ads.

"I would like to warn AMC to expect 25-30 years of me never coming back to their theaters," said X user TexasPharmD.

"Just another reason to avoid the movies," X user Laz252 said.

"Stop. I like how they want more people to watch movies, but they're also still making the experience worse," X user 360 No One said.

By Colette Bennett

Colette Bennett is a multi-faceted writer that covers retail, tech, entertainment, and more. Before joining TheStreet, Colette was a Senior Producer for Yahoo! Finance, and prior to that, a reporter for CNN. Also a novelist, her debut "Enter the Meta" is now available via Simon & Schuster.

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