“AMC is willing to sit down with Universal to discuss different windows strategies and different economic models between your company and ours,” Aron said in the letter.

That’s made the cinema industry increasingly concerned that the strategy will stay in place after the crisis passes.

have been shut down since March because of the coronavirus pandemic, prompting studios to release some movies directly online. In an open letter to Universal Studios Chairman Donna Langley, the theater chain said its move was in reaction to the studio making “Trolls World Tour” available to at-home audiences the same day it was released in theaters and saying more such releases were coming.ĪMC Chief Executive Officer Adam Aron claimed the action broke a longstanding agreement to give cinemas exclusive access to new movies, before they’re made available on other distribution channels. cinema chain, will no longer show movies from Universal Pictures, escalating a dispute between the theaters and the studio over how new films are released.

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