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John Campea Show
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🗓️ 13 October 2020
⏱️ 120 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We've known for a while that the movie theater industry because of the COVID crisis has been in a lot of trouble. |
| 0:08.0 | Like this has been obvious and evident and we've known this for a while. |
| 0:14.0 | No theater was in more trouble than AMC theaters. |
| 0:18.0 | And really, through no fault of their owns in many ways, |
| 0:22.0 | AMC theaters had gone through a period just prior to COVID |
| 0:26.0 | to get everybody caught up here. |
| 0:28.0 | Prior to COVID, AMC Theaters had gone through a lot of money spending but it was all good money spending it was |
| 0:35.3 | smart money spending they were buying up some new theaters they spent a hell of a lot of |
| 0:41.1 | money on upgrading a lot of their theaters. |
| 0:44.3 | That's why you go into a lot of AMC theaters now. |
| 0:46.4 | They're like palaces for movies. |
| 0:48.2 | You go in, you get your motorized electric leather recliners |
| 0:52.0 | and incredible sound, and they spent a hell of a lot of money |
| 0:56.1 | on getting AMC A-list the best thing I said to ever happen to film fans. |
| 1:01.3 | The AMC A-list program up and running. And just before COVID hit, they had spent |
| 1:06.7 | pretty much everything they were going to spend. They had pretty much done most of their |
| 1:10.2 | upgrades. AMC-A-List was now turning a profit. Everything was great and they were in a lot of debt because of all its spending, but it positioned them to make a lot of money moving forward. So we've known for a while that AMC more than any of the other theaters |
| 1:25.4 | was in big, big trouble. |
| 1:27.6 | Well, it's looking even more bleak right now. |
| 1:30.3 | Variety is running a story right now |
| 1:32.1 | that the industry is predicting that |
| 1:34.4 | AMC theaters as of right now could run out of money by the end of 2020 or at |
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