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    IMAX partners with AMC to solidify European presence

    IMAX partners with AMC to solidify European presence

    By Anish Chakraborty
    Apr 13, 2017
    07:50 am

    What's the story

    IMAX, the premium movie theatre company, has recently struck a deal with the biggest movie operator in Europe, AMC.

    As per the new deal, the companies will be building 25 new theatres across Europe, among which 10 will be in the UK alone.

    Germany, Italy, Spain and Scandinavia are also on the line to get their new IMAX theatres.

    Deal

    Salient takeaways of AMC-IMAX deal

    IMAX and AMC will spend $25m on expansion and share the revenues.

    IMAX's chief executive, Rich Gelfond said this partnership is "historic", as over the years IMAX couldn't establish a proper presence in UK due to its infrastructure.

    Here "the theatres are smaller, they are dated and don't really fit the IMAX specs, and the build-out [of new cinemas] has been slow," said Gelfond.

    AMC Theatres

    AMC Theatres- Chinese owned US enterprise

    AMC Theatres of the US are controlled by China's Wanda Cinema Line, owned by China's richest man Wang Jianlin.

    In November last year, AMC took over UK-based Odeon & UCI Cinemas for $1.2 billion from Terra Firma and became the largest exhibition company.

    AMC recently bought the largest cinema chain in the Nordic and Baltic regions, Nordic Cinema Group in a $964 million deal.

    China

    IMAX is making a killing in China

    This new partnership between AMC and IMAX will take the total number of IMAX theatres in the UK to 250, which is still lower that the 350 in the US and nearly 800 in China.

    Around one-third of the total revenue of IMAX comes from China. In 2015 IMAX was able to garner a whopping $373.8 million in revenue from China alone.

    Expansion

    IMAX has been on an expansion spree

    In October 2016 IMAX signed a five-theatre deal with Les Cinémas Gaumont Pathé, the biggest cinema chain operator in France.

    In January this year, IMAX signed a deal with Majid Al Futtaim Cinemas to bring three more IMAX theatres to the Middle East.

    IMAX recently signed a deal with Regal Entertainment Group to install 11 additional theatres in the US.

    Do you know?

    Small screen Marvel show will make a big screen debut

    In a bid to screen original contents that are not available elsewhere, IMAX will show the first two episodes of an upcoming Marvel TV show, "The Inhumans" in theatres in September, before it will hit the television.

    IMAX

    Betting big to bring the world's most immersive movie experience

    IMAX has built a projection system that allows images to be shown on up to 100ft wide screen, without compromising the quality and has its own sound system.

    It has over 1000 theatres across the globe in around 66 countries and also offers high-resolution cameras to film-makers.

    IMAX is also the provider of a software that converts normal camera footage into high-end quality.

    Do you know?

    Planning to catch an IMAX movie experience?

    Presently India has IMAX theatres at Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Mumbai and Delhi. Also there was an IMAX in the Mani Square Mall, near the E.M. Bypass, Kolkata but it has been acquired by CineMAX and does not screen IMAX films anymore.

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