AMC debt threatens its ability to ride the box office rebound

Cars drive near an AMC Theater in New York City on March 29, 2023. Leonardo Munoz | View Press | Corbis News | Getty Images The domestic box office is on the rebound, having posted its highest third-quarter ticket sales since the pandemic. The world’s largest movie theater chain, however, isn’t on such solid footing. AMC operates around 900 theaters and 10,000 screens globally, a larger footprint than its chief

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China’s J-35A stealth fighter is ‘black box’ despite splashy debut By Reuters

By Gerry Doyle SINGAPORE (Reuters) – China’s much-anticipated J-35A stealth aircraft, centrepiece of this week’s Zhuhai air show, has been more than a decade in the making, but experts say little is known about its capabilities. The first public appearance of the land-based J-35A will take place on Tuesday, a day after the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF), and will include a

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Paramount Global misses revenue estimates on weak box office, cable TV declines By Reuters

(Reuters) – Paramount Global missed quarterly revenue estimates on Friday as a lack of big hits at the box office and declines in its cable business outweighed better-than-expected subscriber growth at its streaming service after the return of NFL content. Revenue at the TV media business, which includes CBS and MTV, fell 6% in the third quarter due to lower spending from advertisers, a drop in subscribers and absence of

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