AMC Delays Sale of ‘Iron Man 3’ Tickets in Dispute With Disney
4 views - published on April 17th, 2013 in Disney News tagged Disney, disney news, disneyland, walt disney, walt disney worldAMC Entertainment Inc., a second-
largest U.S. cinema chain, pronounced it isn’t offered allege tickets
to a Marvel film “Iron Man 3” since it hasn’t worked out
terms with distributor Walt Disney Co. (DIS)
“We wish to strech agreement and get tickets on sale as
soon as probable so it doesn’t impact opening weekend,” Ryan
Noonan, an AMC spokesman, pronounced yesterday in an e-mail.
Disney, a world’s largest party company, is set
to recover “Iron Man 3” on May 3 in a U.S. to flog off the
summer film season. The film, that stars Robert Downey Jr. and
Gwyneth Paltrow, is projected to sum $151 million in a first
weekend, a guess of researcher Boxoffice.com.
That would be a biggest opening weekend so distant in 2013.
Disney is regulating a blockbuster supplement to find improved terms on
future films with museum owners, Deadline.com reported
yesterday.
Disney, formed in Burbank, California, didn’t respond to
requests for comment.
Domestic box bureau profits are down 11 percent this year
to $2.62 billion, according to Hollywood.com. Disney’s Marvel
had a top-grossing film final year with “The Avengers.”
Disney also owns Pixar and Lucasfilm, a builder of a “Star
Wars” movies.
Chinese Version
Disney pronounced on Mar 30 it will recover a apart version
of “Iron Man 3” in China, and won’t find central Chinese co-
production standing for a comic-book formed film. The design was
partly done in China with Beijing-based partner DMG
Entertainment. A recover date for a Chinese chronicle wasn’t
announced.
Disney rose 3.2 percent to $60.75 yesterday in New York, an
all-time shutting high. The shares have modernized 22 percent this
year, contra a 10 percent benefit for a SP 500 Stock Index.
AMC, second to Regal Entertainment Group (RGC) in a U.S., was
acquired by China’s Dalian Wanda Group in Sep 2012. The
chain is formed in Kansas City, Missouri.
To hit a contributor on this story:
Christopher Palmeri in Los Angeles at
cpalmeri1@bloomberg.net
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Anthony Palazzo at
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