Welcome to Marvelous Disney, the podcast that discusses the most recent doings at one of the more

dynamic divisions of the Walt Disney Company, which is of course Marvel Entertainment.

This is Entertainment writer Jim Pill in my co-host, the amazing Aaron Adams and I,

are recording this week's episode on Wednesday, January 26, 2022. Got lots of

Spider-Man-related news this week, especially as Hollywood starts ahead into award season.

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Before we get started here, Aaron, you wanted to talk about it's been an interesting week

when you look at Wall Street and you wanted to talk about the impact this is potentially

happening on the exhibitors around the country in particular one theater chain.

Yeah, well, I mean, we always champion like when Spider-Man comes

charging through the box office, making huge money and we're like, oh, the theaters are saved,

but maybe not because AMC has been going through this really tumultuous time over the last year.

And it's rather number heavy, but I'm going to try and keep it as simple as humanly possible.

October 14th of 2020, AMC stock was $2.79 per share. That is just cheap, cheap stock. June

second, it hit $72.62. That's 26 times the amount. So if you would have purchased 100 shares

at $279 that cost you $279. But it would make you $7,262. That's a massive return.

So the movie, The Big Short, was really great at explaining the shorting process of the housing

market and how that whole financial disaster unfolded. And fortunately, I guess a lot of people

saw that movie. So when they found out that large companies were trying to short AMC stocks,

the general public armed only with the knowledge that they've seen from a feature film, Jim,

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