AMC Entertainment Offers 15-Cent Tickets on August 20 – Deadline


AMC Entertainment said it will charge 15 cents a ticket when it reopens theaters on August 20, and celebrates the chain’s 100th anniversary.

For a ‘Centennial Celebration’, all AMC American theater locations opening August 20 will offer all available seats for all films that day for the 1920s admission price of 15 cents each (while offered on all available seats, to achieving socially distant general seating capacity will be significantly reduced). ”

About 300 additional AMC locations around the country are expected to open in the next two weeks, leading to the release of Disney’s The New Mutants on Aug. 28 and Warner Bros. ‘ Tenet on September 3rd.

AMC said the Safe & Clean protocols developed under close collaboration with public health and safety experts should be implemented strictly at all AMC locations.

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The chain dates back to 1920 when the Dubinsky Brothers began a single-screen operation in Kansas City, Missouri, a company that has become the largest exhibitor in the US, Europe, the Middle East and the world.

“One hundred years later, when AMC reopens its doors to American filmgoers for the first time in more than five months, AMC celebrates its history with a throwback to the year it all began by offering films in 2020 at 1920 awards. . “

About two-thirds of its 600 local U.S. theaters will be open by Sept. The rest are awaiting authorization by state and local officials.

Other promotions after August 20 include the return of titles such as Inception, Black Panther, Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, Grease and Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back – for five dollars – and offering an array of $ 5 food and beverage combos.

AMC Stubs members will earn double points on every ticket and food and beverage purchase through the end of October.

‘We’re glad we’re reopening our doors to American moviegoers looking for a chance to get out of their homes and apartments and escape the magic of movies. While our guests return on August 20 on the first day of refunded surgeries, we invite them to participate in celebrating a return to the movies, and in celebrating 100 years of AMC making smiles happen with films at 1920 prices of only 15 cents, ”said CEO Adam Aron.