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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 3, 2013

Registration No. 333-190904

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549



AMENDMENT NO. 6
TO

FORM S-1

REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933



AMC ENTERTAINMENT HOLDINGS, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
  7832
(Primary Standard Industrial
Classification Code Number)
  26-0303916
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification Number)



One AMC Way
11500 Ash Street
Leawood, Kansas 66211
(913) 213-2000

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant's principal executive offices)



Kevin M. Connor, Esq.
Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary
AMC Entertainment Inc.
One AMC Way
11500 Ash Street
Leawood, Kansas 66211
(913) 213-2000
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)



Copies of Communications to:

Matthew D. Bloch, Esq.
Alexander D. Lynch, Esq.
Douglas Ryder, Esq.
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
767 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York 10153
(212) 310-8000

 

Monica K. Thurmond, Esq.
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
1285 Avenue of the Americas
New York, New York 10019-6064
(212) 373-3000

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The information in this preliminary prospectus is not complete and may be changed. We may not sell these securities until the registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is effective. This preliminary prospectus is not an offer to sell these securities and it is not soliciting an offer to buy these securities in any jurisdiction where the offer or sale is not permitted.

SUBJECT TO COMPLETION, DATED DECEMBER 3, 2013

P R E L I M I N A R Y  P R O S P E C T U S

LOGO

18,421,053 Shares

AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc.

Class A Common Stock
$              per share


        This is the initial public offering of our Class A common stock. We are selling 18,421,053 shares of our Class A common stock. We currently expect the initial public offering price to be between $18.00 and $20.00 per share of Class A common stock.

        We have granted the underwriters an option to purchase up to 2,631,579 additional shares of Class A common stock.

        We will apply to have the Class A common stock listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "AMC."

        Upon consummation of this offering, we will have two classes of common stock: Class A common stock and Class B common stock. The rights of the holders of Class A common stock and Class B common stock will be identical, except with respect to voting and conversion applicable to the Class B common stock. Each share of Class A common stock will be entitled to one vote. Each share of Class B common stock will be entitled to three votes and will be convertible at any time into one share of Class A common stock.


        Investing in our common stock involves risks. See "Risk Factors" beginning on page 21.

        Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of these securities or determined if this prospectus is truthful or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.


 

 
  Per Share
  Total

 

Public Offering Price

  $           $        

 

Underwriting Discount(1)

  $           $        

 

Proceeds to AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. (before expenses)

  $           $        

 

(1)

We have agreed to reimburse the underwriters for certain expenses in connection with this offering. See "Underwriting."

        The underwriters expect to deliver the shares to purchasers on or about                        , 2013 through the book-entry facilities of The Depository Trust Company.


Citigroup   BofA Merrill Lynch
Barclays   Credit Suisse

B. Riley & Co.   Barrington Research   FBR   HSBC

LOYAL3 Securities   Piper Jaffray   Stifel   Wedbush Securities

                        , 2013

 


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        We are responsible for the information contained in this prospectus. We have not authorized anyone to provide you with different information, and we take no responsibility for any other information others may give you. We are not, and the underwriters are not, making an offer to sell these securities in any jurisdiction where the offer or sale is not permitted. You should not assume that the information contained in this prospectus is accurate as of any date other than its date.

 
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PROSPECTUS SUMMARY

    1  

RISK FACTORS

    21  

SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

    35  

USE OF PROCEEDS

    36  

DIVIDEND POLICY

    37  

CAPITALIZATION

    38  

DILUTION

    40  

UNAUDITED PRO FORMA CONDENSED FINANCIAL INFORMATION

    42  

SELECTED HISTORICAL FINANCIAL AND OPERATING DATA

    56  

MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

    58  

BUSINESS

    98  

MANAGEMENT

    115  

COMPENSATION DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS

    122  

PRINCIPAL STOCKHOLDERS

    151  

DESCRIPTION OF CERTAIN INDEBTEDNESS

    152  

CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

    156  

DESCRIPTION OF CAPITAL STOCK

    159  

SHARES ELIGIBLE FOR FUTURE SALE

    165  

MATERIAL U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX CONSIDERATIONS TO NON U.S. HOLDERS

    167  

UNDERWRITING

    171  

LEGAL MATTERS

    179  

EXPERTS

    179  

WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION

    179  

INDEX TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

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MARKET AND INDUSTRY INFORMATION

        Information regarding market share, market position and industry data pertaining to our business contained in this prospectus consists of our estimates based on data and reports compiled by industry professional organizations, including the Motion Picture Association of America ("MPAA"), the National Association of Theatre Owners ("NATO"), Box Office Mojo, Rentrak Corporation ("Rentrak"), industry analysts and our management's knowledge of our business and markets. Unless otherwise noted in this prospectus, all information provided by the MPAA is for the 2012 calendar year, all information provided by NATO is for the 2012 calendar year and all information provided by Rentrak is for the 2012 calendar year.

        Although we believe that the sources are reliable, we have not independently verified market industry data provided by third parties or by industry or general publications. Similarly, while we believe our internal estimates with respect to our industry are reliable, our estimates have not been verified by any independent sources. While we are not aware of any misstatements regarding any industry data presented in this prospectus, our estimates involve risks and uncertainties and are subject to changes based on various factors, including those discussed under "Risk Factors" in this prospectus.

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PROSPECTUS SUMMARY

        The following summary highlights information contained elsewhere in this prospectus. You should read the entire prospectus carefully, especially the risks of investing in our Class A common stock discussed under "Risk Factors" and our Consolidated Financial Statements and accompanying notes.

        AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. ("Parent"), an entity created on June 6, 2007, is the sole stockholder of AMC Entertainment Inc. ("AMCE"). As used in this prospectus, unless the context otherwise requires, references to "we," "us," "our," the "Company," "AMC" or "AMC Entertainment" refer to Parent and its consolidated subsidiaries.

        On November 15, 2012, we announced that we changed our fiscal year to a calendar year so that the calendar year shall begin on January 1st and end on December 31st of each year. Prior to the change, fiscal years refer to the fifty-two weeks, and in some cases fifty-three weeks, ending on the Thursday closest to the last day of March.

        As used in this prospectus, the term "pro forma" refers to, in the case of pro forma financial information, such information after giving pro forma effect to (i) the Merger (as defined below) and (ii) this offering and the use of proceeds therefrom and related transactions (collectively, the "Transactions"). Except as stated otherwise herein, the share data set forth in this prospectus reflects the reclassification of Parent's capital stock as described below under "—The Reclassification."

        Certain financial measures presented in this prospectus, such as Adjusted EBITDA and Theatre Level Adjusted EBITDA are not recognized terms under accounting principles generally accepted in the United States ("GAAP"). These measures exclude a number of significant items, including our interest expense and depreciation and amortization expense. For a discussion of the use of these measures and a reconciliation to the most directly comparable GAAP measures, see "—Summary Historical and Unaudited Financial and Operating Data." We also use "cash on cash return" as a measure of the performance of our theatres after implementation of one or more of the strategic initiatives described below under "—Our Strategy: The Customer Experience Leader." Management uses this metric to measure the increase in operating performance of our theatres relative to the capital invested in them and to guide the allocation of future capital deployment. We believe that securities analysts and investors also view this measure as an important tool for measuring our performance. We define "cash-on-cash" return on the capital investment for a strategic initiative as the increase in Theatre-level Adjusted EBITDA (as defined on page 19) attributable to such capital investment for the twelve month period following completion of the capital investment over the preceding 12 month period divided by the amount of such capital expenditures, net of landlord contribution (as defined on page 19).


Our Company

        We are one of the world's largest theatrical exhibition companies and an industry leader in innovation and operational excellence. We introduced Multiplex theatres in the 1960s and the North American stadium-seated Megaplex theatre format in the 1990s. Our field operations teams win recognition from national organizations like the Motion Picture Association of America and local groups in "Best of" competitions, while maintaining greater than 50% top-box customer satisfaction and industry leading theatre productivity metrics.

        As of September 30, 2013, we owned, operated or held interests in 343 theatres with a total of 4,950 screens primarily in North America. Our theatres are predominantly located in major metropolitan markets, which we believe give our circuit a unique profile and offer strategic and operational advantages. Our top five markets, in each of which we hold the #1 or #2 share position, are New York (42% share), Los Angeles (27%), Chicago (44%), Philadelphia (29%) and Dallas (28%). For the twelve months ended September 30, 2013, these five metro markets comprised 40% of our revenues and 38% of our attendance. Strategically, these markets and our theatres in them are diverse,

 

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operationally complex, and, in many cases, for established locations, the scarcity of new theatre opportunities creates a significant competitive advantage against newcomers or alternative entertainment options.

        Across our entire circuit, approximately 200 million customers visited our theatres during calendar year 2012 and during the twelve months ended September 30, 2013. For the nine months ended September 30, 2013, we had total revenues of $2.0 billion; Adjusted EBITDA of $335.2 million and earnings from continuing operations of $80.5 million and for the twelve months ended September 30, 2013, we generated total revenues of $2.7 billion, Adjusted EBITDA of $450 million and earnings from continuing operations of $81.6 million. According to publicly available information for our peers, during the calendar year ended December 31, 2012, our circuit led in revenues per head ($13.56), average ticket price ($9.04) and food and beverage per head ($3.92). For the same period, our attendance per screen (41,900) and admissions gross profit per screen ($179,000) were among the highest of our peers. In the last two years ended September 30, 2013, we have deployed a total of $182.2 million in growth-oriented capital, including $21.2 million contributed by landlords, into our circuit and infrastructure to help generate those results. We believe that it is the quality of our theatre locations and our customer-focused innovation that continue to drive improved productivity per location, return on investment and shareholder value.

        We believe that our size, reputation, financial performance, history of innovation, strong major market presence and highly productive theatre circuit position us well for the future. A future where, after more than nine decades of business models driven by quantity of theatres, screens and seats, we believe quality of the movie going experience will determine long term, sustainable success. We are improving the quality of the movie-going experience in ways that extend stay and capture a greater proportion of total movie-going spending in order to maximize the economic potential of each customer visit, create sustainable growth and deliver shareholder value.

        Our intention is to capitalize on this pivot towards quality by leveraging our extensive experience in theatre operations, combined with the next wave of innovations in movie-going. We plan to continue investing in our theatres and upgrading the consumer experience to take greater advantage of incremental revenue-generating opportunities, primarily through an array of improved and differentiated customer experiences in (1) more comfort & convenience; (2) food & beverage; (3) engagement & loyalty; (4) sight & sound and (5) targeted programming.

 

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        The following table summarizes our current deployment progress in screens through September 30, 2013 as well as our expected plans for the deployment of our strategy over the next five years. These investments must meet specific cash-on-cash return criteria and are designed to increase attendance, customer spend and profitability.

 
   
  More Comfort &
Convenience
  Enhanced Food & Beverage   Premium Sight & Sound  
 
   
 

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  GRAPHIC   Coke
Freestyle
Machines
 
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  GRAPHIC   IMAX  
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  RealD 3D  
Regions
  Total
Screens
  Motorized,
plush
recliners
with leg
rest; Relax
at the push
of a button
  Guarantee
of pre-selected
seat; Arrive
just-in-time
and anxiety-
free
  Shopping
experience
featuring
broadened
menu
offerings,
including made-
to-order options
  Innovative
technology
featuring 120+
drink flavor
options; Customer
customized
  Full service bar
serving premium
beers, wines and
mixed drinks;
Enjoy before or
after movie
  Casual, in theatre
dining provided
via seat side
service;
Conveniently
satisfies
consumer need
for "dinner and a
movie"
  High
technology
film format
delivers
unmatched
viewing
experience
  Proprietary,
immersive
sight and
sound
format for
ultimate customer
escape
  Crisp,
bright,
depth
delivering
technology;
Ultra realistic
images take
the customer
inside the
movie(6)
 

New York/New Jersey/Philadelphia(1)

    688     64     94     14     63     28     28     17     2     374  

California

    656     19     41     20     94     12     6     24     5     341  

Illinois(2)

    532     18     20     30     48     51         13     1     238  

Texas

    394     23     39     74     145     198     30     9     1     172  

Florida

    380         24     24     44     130     24     12     2     180  

Missouri/Kansas/Oklahoma(3)

    292     44     68     28     72     82     44     8     1     134  

Arizona/Colorado

    314     28     42     48     76     76     14     8     1     149  

Michigan/Ohio

    334     33     64     30     63     164     30     8         136  

Washington DC(4)

    157     17     18         17             6     1     77  

Massachusetts

    119     22     23         22             3         62  

Balance

    1,084     59     84     29     119     101     6     28     1     507  
                                           

Totals

    4,950     327     517     297     763     842     182     136     15     2,370  

Incremental Revenue/Patron

         
$1.17
   
See (5

).
 
$0.12
   
$0.08
   
$0.30
   
$5.83
   
$5.81
   
$5.23
   
$3.32
 

5-Year Deployment Plan

   
157
   
1,393
   
1,977
   
141
   
4,344
   
700
   
413
   
14
   
19
   
96
 

(1)
Includes Connecticut.

(2)
Chicago metropolitan market, including theatres in Indiana. Also includes Wisconsin and Iowa.

(3)
Includes St. Louis metropolitan market.

(4)
Washington, D.C. metropolitan market, including Maryland and Virginia.

(5)
Not charged separately, included in ticket price.

(6)
Includes IMAX and ETX screens.

 

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Our Strategy: The Customer Experience Leader

        Through most of its history, movie-going has been defined by product—the movies themselves. Yet, long term significant, sustainable changes in the economics of the business and attendance patterns have been driven by improvements to the movie-going experience, not the temporary ebb and flow of product. The introduction of Multi- and then Megaplexes, with their then-modern amenities and stadium seats, for example, changed the landscape of the industry.

        We believe the industry is in the early stages of once again significantly upgrading the movie-going experience, and this shift towards quality presents opportunities to those who are positioned to capitalize on it. As is our custom, we intend to be a leader in this change, with consumer-focused innovations that improve productivity, maximize revenue-generation per customer visit and, in turn, drive shareholder value.

        Our strategic objective is then very straightforward: we intend to be the customer experience leader. We aim to maintain and increase our leadership position and competitive advantage through the following five tightly defined strategies:

        1) More Comfort & Convenience—We believe that in an era of jam-packed, busy schedules and stressful lives, movie-going more than ever represents an easy, familiar escape. Against that reality, we believe that maximizing comfort and convenience for our customers will be increasingly necessary to maintain and improve customer relevance.

        Three specific initiatives help us deliver more comfort and convenience to our customers. The most impactful so far, as measured by improved customer satisfaction, economic and financial metrics, is recliner re-seats. Along with these physical plant transformations, open-source internet ticketing and reserved seating help us shape and adapt our circuit to meet and exceed our customers' expectations.

        Recliner re-seats are the key feature of full theatre renovations. These exhaustive theatre renovations involve stripping theatres to their basic structure in order to replace finishes throughout, upgrade the sight and sound experience, install modernized points of sale and, most importantly, replace traditional theatre seats with plush, electric recliners that allow customers to deploy a leg rest and fully recline at the push of a button. The renovation process typically involves losing 66% seating capacity. For an industry historically focused on quantity, this reduction in seating capacity could be viewed as counter-intuitive and harmful to revenues. However, the quality improvement in the customer experience is driving, on average, a 91% increase in attendance at these locations. Our customers have responded favorably to the significant personal space gains from ample row depths, ability to recline or stretch their legs, extra-wide pillowed chaise and oversized armrests. Starting with one 12-screen theatre a little over two years ago, as of September 30, 2013 we now feature recliner re-seats in 28 theatres, or 327 screens, with another 7 theatres, or 65 screens, under construction. Cash-on-cash returns for the five locations opened prior to October 1, 2012 have averaged over 100%. We believe that approximately 1/4 of our circuit's re-seat potential has been addressed, leaving us with over 1,600 addressable screens to go. Thus far, we have implemented only modest ticket pricing increases at these re-seated theatres, and we believe there is unrealized revenue potential at these theatres as we rebalance the supply-demand relationship created by added comfort from re-seats and our customers' willingness to pay for this improved experience. Over the next five years we intend to invest approximately $600 million in recliner re-seat conversions.

        Rebalancing of the new supply-demand relationship created by recliner re-seats presents us two further opportunities to improve customer convenience and maximize operating results: open-source internet ticketing and reserved seating.

        Open-source internet ticketing makes all our seats (almost 950,000) in all our theatres and auditoriums for all our showtimes (approximately 22,000 per day), as available as possible, on as many websites as possible. This is a significant departure from the prior ten-year practice, when tickets to any

 

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one of our buildings were only available on one website. In the two years since we exercised our right to end exclusive contracts, internet tickets sold as a percentage of total tickets sold has increased significantly from approximately 5.5% to 8.5%. We believe increased online access is important because it captures customers' purchase intent more immediately and directly than if we had to wait until they showed up at the theatre box office to make a purchase. Once our customers buy a ticket, they are less likely to change their mind. Carefully monitoring internet pre-sales also lets us adjust capacity in real time, moving movies that are poised to overperform to larger capacity or more auditoriums, thereby maximizing yield.

        Reserved seating, now fully implemented in 50 of our busiest theatres, allows our customers to choose a specific seat in advance of the movie. We believe that knowing there is a specifically chosen seat waiting for a show that promises to be a sellout is comforting to our customers, and removes anxiety around the experience. We believe reserved seating will become increasingly prevalent to the point of being a pre-requisite in the medium-term future.

        We believe the comfort and personal space gains from recliner re-seats, coupled with the immediacy of demand captured from open-source internet ticketing and the anxiety removal of reserved seating make a powerful economic combination for us that none of our peer set is exploiting as aggressively as we are.

        2) Enhanced Food & Beverage—Popcorn and soft drinks are as integral a part of the movie-going experience as the movies themselves. Yet, approximately one third of our 200 million annual customers do not purchase food or a beverage. In order to increase the percentage of customers purchasing food or a beverage as well as increase sales per patron, we have developed food and beverage concepts that expand selection and service offerings. These concepts range from the simple and traditional (Food and Beverage Kiosks) to the vastly innovative and complex (Dine-In Theatres). This array of concepts, progressively more innovative and capital intensive, creates further service and selection across a range of theatre types and attendance levels and allows us to satisfy more customers and different customer needs and generate additional revenues.

 

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        In this most important area of profitability for any exhibition circuit, we believe that our ability to innovate concepts, adapt those concepts to specific buildings and generate incremental revenue differentiates us from our peers and provides us with a competitive advantage. This is in part due to our core geographic markets' larger, more diverse and more affluent customer base; in part due to our management team's demonstrated and extensive experience in food, beverage and hospitality; and in part due to our three-plus year head start in this difficult to execute space.

        We believe significant financial opportunities exist as we have a substantial pipeline of investments to take advantage of incremental attendance-generating and revenue-generating prospects by deploying building-by-building solutions from a proprietary menu of proven, customer-approved food and beverage concepts.

        3) Greater Engagement & Loyalty—We believe that in the theatrical exhibition business, as in all consumer-oriented businesses, engagement and loyalty are the hallmarks of winning organizations.

        Our brand is the most recognizable in the business, with over 80% awareness in the United States according to an Ipsos Omnibus survey completed July 2013—far above any competitor. We build on that strength by seeking engagement and loyalty from our customers in four measurable, specific and inter-related ways. At the top of the pyramid is AMC Stubs®, the industry's most sophisticated loyalty program. At the base of the pyramid are our mobile apps, website (www.amctheatres.com) and social media outreach, which combined seek to drive engagement to levels unprecedented in the movie exhibition industry. We believe there is incremental attendance potential to be gained from avid movie-goers who generate a disproportionate share of industry revenues and who state that the quality of the movie-going experience directly influences their movie-going habits.

 

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        The competitive advantage in greater customer engagement and loyalty includes the ability to use market intelligence to better anticipate customers' needs and desires and to capture incremental share of entertainment dollars and time.

        4) Premium Sight & Sound—At its core, our business is a visual and aural medium. The quality of projection and sound is therefore mission critical, and has improved significantly with the advent of digital systems. Today, our conversion to these digital systems is substantially complete, and 4,835 or 98% of our screens employ state-of-the-art Sony 4K or similar digital projectors. Importantly, the digital conversions enabled 3D exhibition, and today 2,370 screens (48% of total) are so enabled. We have at least one 3D enabled screen in 98% of our locations.

        In sight and sound, we believe that size is critical in our customers' decision-making. Consistent with this belief, we are the world's largest IMAX exhibitor, with 136 screens, all 3D-enabled, with nearly twice the screen count of our closest competitor and representing a 44% market share in the United States (as of September 30, 2013). In addition, we currently have our own private label large format, marketed as ETX, in 15 locations (also all 3D enabled). Combined, these 151 screens represent only 3% of our total screens, yet on the weekends when big movies open, as much as 19% of our box office flows from them.

        The premium sight and sound experiences—3D, ETX and IMAX—give our customers more options and earn incremental pricing from our customers. On average, pricing premiums currently amount to $4.09 per patron, driving better economics for us and the Hollywood studios, while also delivering our audience a superior experience. For context, box office gross profit per patron for premium formats averages 12% more than gross profit per patron for conventional 2D formats. We anticipate increasing our premium large-format screen count by 34 screens.

 

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        Further, we do not expect technology advances to cease. Sound quality, for example, continues to improve, as our recent tests of Dolby ATMOS demonstrate (AMC theatres were among the very few selected for pilot tests). And, laser projection technology, the next level in clarity, brightness and sharpness, is evolving as well. While all of these will require some level of capital investment, the promise of strong customer relevance is significant.

        5) Targeted Programming—The core of our business, historically and now, is Hollywood movies. We play all varieties, from adrenaline-filled action movies to heart-warming family films, laugh out loud comedies and terrifying horror flicks. We play them in 2D, 3D, IMAX, ETX and even closed captioned and sometimes with subtitles. If a movie is commercially available, it is likely to be playing at an AMC theatre today or tonight, because we schedule shows in the morning, afternoon and even at midnight or later, just to make sure it is convenient for our customers.

        Increasingly, we are playing movies and other content originating from more sources. We believe that as diversity grows in the United States, the ability to adapt and target programming for a fragmented audience will grow increasingly critical. We believe this is something we already do very well. As measured by an Insight Strategy Group survey conducted November 2011, approximately 51% of our audience was Latino or African American. Latino families are Hollywood's, and our, best customers. They go to the movies 6.4x per year (56% more than average), and 65% of Latinos live within 20 miles of an AMC theatre. For movies targeted at these diverse audiences, we frequently experience attendance levels greater than our average, national market share. For example, AMC recently captured 28% market share of the 2013 Spanish-titled movie Instructions Not Included. Tyler Perry's latest three films, which are targeted towards African American audiences, have produced industry box office of over $125 million and an average market share for AMC of over 23% during the twelve months ended September 30, 2013. Additionally, during the twelve months ended September 30, 2013, we exhibited 80 Bollywood movies capturing an above average 30% market share and generating nearly $11 million in box office revenues. Given the population growth patterns from the last US census, we believe that our ability to effectively serve these communities will help strengthen our competitive position.

        Through AMC Independent, we have also reached into the independent (or "indie") production and distribution community. Growing quickly from its inception three years ago, we played 263 films during the twelve months ended September 30, 2013 from this very creative community.

        Open Road, our joint venture with another major exhibitor, is similarly an effort to grow our sources of content and provide access to our screens for content that may not otherwise find its way there.

        We believe AMC is a vital exhibitor for Hollywood studios and for independent distributors because we generate more box office revenue per theatre and provide stronger in-theatre and online promotional exposure for movies. Theatres are a content owner's highest quality revenue stream because every customer pays every time they watch the content. Among all theatres, AMC's venues are the most valuable to content owners. Due to the studios' fixed distribution cost per licensed film, their product is never more productive than at an AMC theatre. When our scale and Wanda's growth are taken into account, AMC is the most efficient and effective partner a content owner has.


Our Competitive Strengths

        We believe we have the following competitive strengths:

        Across the country's three biggest metropolitan markets—New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, representing 20% of the country's total box office—we hold a 36% combined market share. On any

 

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given weekend, half of the top ten theatres for the #1 opening movie title in the United States are AMC theatres. We believe our strong presence in these top markets makes our theatres highly visible and therefore strategically more important to content providers, who rely on the large audiences and marketing momentum provided by major markets to drive opinion-making and deliver a movie's overall box office results.

        Our customers are concentrated in major metropolitan markets and are generally more affluent and culturally diverse than those in smaller markets. There are inherent complexities in effectively and efficiently serving them. In some of our more densely populated major metropolitan markets, there is also a scarcity of attractive retail real estate opportunities. Taken together, these factors solidify our market share position. Further, our history and strong presence in these markets have created a greater opportunity to introduce our enhanced customer experience concepts and exhibit a broad array of programming and premium formats, all of which we believe drive higher levels of attendance and higher revenues at our theatres.

        Our theatres are generally located in the top retail centers across the United States. We believe this provides for long-term visibility and higher productivity, and is a key element in the success of our Enhanced Food & Beverage and More Comfort & Convenience initiatives. Our location strategy, combined with our strong major market presence and our focus on a superior customer experience, enable us to deliver industry-leading theatre-level productivity. During the twelve months ended September 30, 2013, seven of the ten highest grossing theatres in the United States were AMC theatres. During the same period, our average total revenues per theatre were $8.1 million. This per unit productivity is important not only to content providers, but also to developers and landlords, for whom per location and per square foot sales numbers are critical measures. The net effect is a close relationship with the commercial real estate community, which gives us first-look and preferred tenant status on emerging opportunities.

        Throughout the last two decades, AMC has been an active participant in our industry's consolidation. In that span, we have acquired and successfully integrated Loews, General Cinema, Kerasotes and more recently, select operations of Rave Digital Media and Rave Review Cinemas. We intend to remain an active participant in consolidation, and selectively pursue acquisitions where the characteristics of the location, overall market and facilities further enhance the quality of our theatre portfolio.

        Additionally, our focus on improving the customer experience and our strong relationships with landlords and developers have provided opportunities to expand our footprint in existing markets by acquiring competitors' existing theatres at the end of their lease term at little or no cost. We believe that our More Comfort & Convenience and Enhanced Food & Beverage concepts have high appeal to landlords wanting to increase traffic and sales in their retail centers. These "spot acquisitions" have given us the ability to bolster our presence in existing markets at relatively low cost and more quickly (weeks, months) as compared to new builds (months, years).

        For the twelve months ended September 30, 2013, nine months ended September 30, 2013, the period from August 31, 2012 to December 31, 2012, the period from March 30, 2012 through August 30, 2012 and the fiscal year ended March 29, 2012, our net cash provided by operating activities totaled $310.7 million, $204.7 million, $73.9 million, $76.4 million and $137.0 million, respectively. We believe that our strategic initiatives, highly productive theatre circuit and continued focus on cost

 

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control will enable us to generate sufficient cash flow provided by operating activities to fund the deployment of capital to execute our strategy to grow our revenues, maintain our facilities, service our indebtedness and pay dividends to our stockholders. We expect that our capital expenditures will be approximately $245 million in each of the next three calendar years.

        Our senior management team, led by Gerardo (Gerry) Lopez, President and Chief Executive Officer, has the expertise that will be required to transform movie-going from a commodity to a differentiated entertainment experience. A dynamic and balanced team of executives combines long-tenured leaders in operations, real estate and finance who contributed to building AMC's hard earned reputation for operations excellence with creative entertainment and restaurant industry executives in marketing, programming and food & beverage who bring to AMC business acumen and experience that support innovation in theatrical exhibition.

        We anticipate that, in connection with this offering, we will implement a significant equity based compensation plan that will align management's interests with those of our shareholders.

        In July 2013, AMC relocated its Theatre Support Center to a new, state-of-the-art facility in Leawood, Kansas. With a technology platform that provides for real-time monitoring of AMC screens across the country and a workplace conducive to collaboration and teamwork, AMC's management team has the organization well aligned with its strategy.

        Furthermore, we believe that our people, the nearly 19,000 AMC associates, constitute an essential strength of our Company. They strive to make movie-going experiences at AMC always a treat. Our auditoriums offer clear and bright projection, our food is hot and our drinks are cold. Our doors, lobbies, hallways and bathrooms are clean and we select and train our people to make smiles happen. We create events and want our customers to always feel special at an AMC theatre. This is an experience delivered almost 200 million times a year.

        Over the past three years together, this group has enhanced quality and increased variety at our food and beverage stands, introduced in-theatre dining options in many markets, revitalized over 40 theatres, launched our industry-leading loyalty program, AMC Stubs, and achieved our Company's highest ever ratings for top-box overall customer satisfaction. We feel like this is only the beginning.

        In August 2012, AMC was acquired by the Wanda Group ("Wanda"), one of the largest, privately-held conglomerates in China. In addition to its core business as a prominent developer and owner of commercial real estate, Wanda also owns related businesses in entertainment, hospitality and retail. Wanda is the largest theatre exhibition operator in China through its controlling ownership interest in Wanda Cinema Line. The combined ownership and scale of AMC and Wanda Cinema Line, has enabled us to enhance relationships and obtain better terms from important food and beverage, lighting and theatre supply vendors, and to expand our strategic partnership with IMAX. Wanda and AMC are also working together to offer Hollywood studios and other production companies valuable access to our industry-leading promotion and distribution platforms, with the goal of gaining greater access to content and playing a more important role in the industry going forward. Wanda is controlled by its chairman, Mr. Jianlin Wang.


The Industry

        Movie going is embedded in the American social fabric. For over 100 years people young and old, of all races and socio-economic levels have enjoyed the entertainment that motion pictures offer.

 

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        In the United States, the movie exhibition business is large, stable and mature. While in any given calendar quarter the quantity and quality of movies can drive volatile results, box office revenues have increased from 2011 to 2012. Calendar year 2012 was, in fact, the industry's best ever, with box office revenues of $10.8 billion, (6.5% growth over 2011) and over 1.3 billion admissions in the U.S. and Canada.

        The movie exhibition business has survived the booms and busts of economic cycles and has adapted to myriad changes in technology and customer behavior. There is great value for the entertainment dollar in movie going, and no replacement has been invented for the escape and fun that a night at the movies represents.

        We believe the exhibition business is in the early stages of a transition. After decades of economic models driven by quantity (number of theatres, screens and seats), it is the quality of the movie going experience that will define future success. Whether in enhanced food and beverage options (Food and Beverage Kiosks, Marketplaces, Coke Freestyle, MacGuffins or Dine-in Theatres); more comfort and convenience (recliner re-seats, open-source internet ticketing, reserved seating); engagement and loyalty (AMC Stubs, website, mobile apps, social media) or sight and sound (digital projectors, 3D, our own ETX format or IMAX); it is the ease of use and the amenities that these innovations bring to customers that will drive sustained profitability in the years ahead. As this transition accelerates, we believe movie exhibition's attraction as an investment will grow.


The Wanda Transaction

        On August 30, 2012, Wanda acquired Parent through a merger between Parent and Wanda Film Exhibition Co. Ltd., ("Merger Subsidiary"), a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of Wanda, whereby Merger Subsidiary merged with and into Parent with Parent continuing as the surviving corporation and as a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of Wanda (the "Merger"). Prior to the Merger, Parent was owned by J.P. Morgan Partners, LLC and certain related investment funds ("JPMP"), Apollo Management, L.P. and certain related investment funds ("Apollo"), affiliates of Bain Capital Partners ("Bain"), The Carlyle Group ("Carlyle") and Spectrum Equity Investors ("Spectrum") (collectively, the "Former Sponsors").

        Wanda invested approximately $700.0 million in connection with the Merger. In comparison, assuming a per share price of $19.00 (the midpoint of the range set forth on the front cover of this prospectus) and 18,421,053 shares sold in the offering (which would represent approximately 19.38% of the shares of our common stock that will be outstanding upon completion of this offering), the total value of the equity of the Company would have been approximately $1,806.0 million.


The Reclassification

        Prior to consummating this offering, we intend to reclassify each share of Parent's existing Class A common stock and Class N common stock by filing an amendment to our certificate of incorporation. Pursuant to the reclassification, each holder of shares of existing Class A common stock will receive 49.514 shares of Class B common stock for one share of existing Class A common stock, and each holder of shares of Class N common stock will receive 49.514 shares of new Class A common stock for one share of Class N common stock. The transactions described in this paragraph are referred to in this prospectus as the "Reclassification."

        Currently, Parent is owned by an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of Wanda and by certain members of management as follows: Wanda (99.77%) and members of management (0.23%). After giving effect to the Reclassification and this offering, Wanda will hold 75,826,927 shares of our Class B common stock, representing approximately 79.77% of our outstanding common stock and 92.21% of the combined voting power of our outstanding common stock, and will have the power to control our affairs and policies including with respect to the election of directors (and, through the election of directors, the appointment of management), the entering into of mergers, sales of substantially all of our assets and other extraordinary transactions.

 

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Risk Factors

        Our business is subject to numerous risks, as discussed more fully in the section entitled "Risk Factors" beginning on page 21 of this prospectus, which you should read in its entirety. In particular:


Corporate Information

        We are a Delaware corporation. Our principal executive offices are located at One AMC Way, 11500 Ash Street, Leawood, Kansas 66211. The telephone number of our principal executive offices is (913) 213-2000. We maintain a website at www.amctheatres.com, on which we will post our key corporate governance documents, including our board committee charters and our code of ethics. We do not incorporate the information on our website into this prospectus and you should not consider any information on, or that can be accessed through, our website as part of this prospectus.

 

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The Offering

Class A common stock offered by us

  18,421,053 Shares

Class A common stock to be outstanding immediately after this offering

 

19,225,779 Shares

Class B common stock to be outstanding immediately after this offering

 

75,826,927 Shares

Option to purchase additional shares

 

We have granted to the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to 2,631,579 additional shares of our Class A common stock from us at the initial public offering price less underwriting discounts and commissions.

Common stock voting rights

 

Upon consummation of this offering, the holders of our Class A common stock will be entitled to one vote per share, and the holders of our Class B common stock will be entitled to three votes per share.

 

Each share of Class B common stock may be converted into one share of Class A common stock at the option of the holder.

 

If, on the record date for any meeting of the stockholders, the number of shares of Class B common stock then outstanding is less than 30% of the aggregate number of shares of Class A common stock and Class B common stock outstanding, then each share of Class B common stock will automatically convert into one share of Class A common stock.

 

In addition, each share of Class B common stock will convert automatically into one share of Class A common stock upon any transfer, except for certain transfers to other holders of Class B common stock or their affiliates or to certain unrelated third parties as described under "Description of Capital Stock—Conversion and Restrictions on Transfer."

 

Holders of Class A common stock and Class B common stock will vote together as a single class on all matters unless otherwise required by law.

 

Upon consummation of this offering, assuming no exercise of the underwriters' option to purchase additional shares, (1) holders of Class A common stock will hold approximately 7.79% of the combined voting power of our outstanding common stock and approximately 20.23% of our total equity ownership and (2) holders of Class B common stock will hold approximately 92.21% of the combined voting power of our outstanding common stock and approximately 79.77% of our total equity ownership.

 

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If the underwriters exercise their option to purchase additional shares of Class A common stock in full, (1) holders of Class A common stock will hold approximately 8.77% of the combined voting power of our outstanding common stock and approximately 22.38% of our total equity ownership and (2) holders of Class B common stock will hold approximately 91.23% of the combined voting power of our outstanding common stock and approximately 77.62% of our total equity ownership. See "Description of Capital Stock—Voting Rights."

 

The rights of the holders of Class A common stock and Class B common stock are identical, except with respect to voting and conversion applicable to the Class B common stock. See "Description of Capital Stock—Common Stock" for a description of the material terms of our common stock.

Dividend policy

 

We intend to pay cash dividends commencing from the closing date of this offering. We expect that our first dividend will be with respect to the first quarter of 2014. The declaration and payment of future dividends to holders of our common stock will be at the sole discretion of our board of directors and will depend upon many factors, including our financial condition, earnings, legal requirements, restrictions in our senior secured credit facility and the indentures governing our debt securities and other factors our board of directors deem relevant. See "Risk Factors—We may not generate sufficient cash flows or have sufficient restricted payment capacity under our senior secured credit facility or the indentures governing our debt securities to pay our intended dividends on the common stock," and "Dividend Policy."

 

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Use of proceeds

 

We estimate that our net proceeds from this offering without exercise of the underwriters' option to purchase additional shares will be approximately $322.6 million after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and expenses, assuming the shares are offered at $19.00 per Class A share, which represents the midpoint of the range set forth on the front cover of this prospectus. We intend to use the net proceeds to us primarily to retire outstanding indebtedness, including possibly our 8.75% Senior Fixed Rate Notes which mature on June 1, 2019. Any net proceeds that we do not apply to reduce outstanding indebtedness will be used for general corporate purposes, including capital expenditures. However, we have not made a definitive determination as to how to allocate these proceeds among these and other possible general corporate purposes and we do not anticipate doing so prior to the completion of the offering. See "Risk Factors—We may apply the proceeds of this offering to uses that do not improve our operating results or increase the value of your investment."

Proposed national securities exchange trading symbol

 

"AMC"

LOYAL3 platform

 

At our request, the underwriters have reserved up to 110,527 shares, or 0.6%, of our Class A common stock offered by this prospectus for sale, and up to 230,264 shares, or 1.25%, for sale through a directed share program, at the public offering price, through the LOYAL3 platform. See "Underwriting—The LOYAL3 Platform."

        Unless otherwise stated herein, the information in this prospectus (other than our historical financial statements and historical financial data) assumes that:

        In the Reclassification, each holder of shares of existing Class A common stock will receive          shares of Class B common stock for one share of existing Class A common stock, and each holder of shares of Class N common stock will receive 49.514 shares of new Class A common stock for one share of Class N common stock. In addition, we anticipate shares of Class A Common Stock having an aggregate value of $12.0 million (representing 631,579 shares based upon the midpoint of the price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus) (the "Offering Bonus Shares") will be issued to members of management upon the consummation of this offering. See "Compensation Discussion & Analysis—Post-offering Compensation—Anticipated Awards under the 2013 Plan." The number of shares of common stock to be outstanding after completion of this offering is based on 18,421,053 shares of our common stock to be sold in this offering and, except where we state otherwise, the common stock information we present in this prospectus excludes shares of common stock we will reserve for future issuance under our equity incentive plan.

 

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Summary Historical and Unaudited Financial and Operating Data

        The following summary historical financial and operating data sets forth our historical financial and operating data for the twelve months ended September 30, 2013, the Successor nine months ended September 30, 2013, the Predecessor period December 30, 2011 through August 30, 2012, the Successor period from inception August 31, 2012 through September 27, 2012, the Predecessor period from March 30, 2012 to August 30, 2012, the Successor period from inception August 31, 2012 to December 31, 2012 and the fiscal years ended March 29, 2012 and March 31, 2011 and have been derived from our Consolidated Financial Statements and related notes for such periods included elsewhere in this prospectus. The historical financial data set forth below is qualified in its entirety by reference to our Consolidated Financial Statements and the notes thereto included elsewhere in this prospectus.

        In connection with the change of control due to the Merger, our assets and liabilities were adjusted to fair value on the closing date of the Merger by application of "push down" accounting. As a result of the application of "push down" accounting in connection with the Merger, our financial statement presentations herein distinguish between a predecessor period for periods prior to the Merger ("Predecessor"), and a successor period for periods subsequent to the Merger ("Successor"). The Successor applied "push down" accounting and its financial statements reflect a new basis of accounting that is based on the fair value of assets acquired and liabilities assumed as of the Merger date. The Consolidated Financial Statements presented herein are those of Successor from its inception on August 31, 2012 through September 30, 2013, and those of Predecessor for all periods prior to the Merger date. As a result of the application of "push down" accounting at the time of the Merger, the financial statements for the Predecessor period and for the Successor period are presented on different bases and are, therefore, not comparable. For additional information about the Merger, see the notes to our audited Consolidated Financial Statements for the period ended December 31, 2012 and our unaudited Consolidated Financial Statements for the nine months ended September 30, 2013 included elsewhere in this prospectus.

        The summary historical financial and operating data presented below should be read in conjunction with "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" and our historical consolidated financial statements, including the notes thereto, included in this prospectus.

 
  Twelve
Months
Ended
September 30,
2013(1)
  Nine Months
Ended
September 30,
2013
  From
Inception
August 31,
2012
through
September 27,
2012
   
  December 30,
2011
through
August 30,
2012
   
  From
Inception
August 31,
2012
through
December 31,
2012(8)
(restated)
   
  March 30,
2012
through
August 30,
2012(2)
  52 Weeks
Ended
March 29,
2012
  52 Weeks
Ended
March 31,
2011
 
 
   
  (Successor)
  (Successor)
   
  (Predecessor)
   
  (Successor)
   
  (Predecessor)
  (Predecessor)
  (Predecessor)
 

 


 

(Unaudited)


 

(Unaudited)


 

 


 

 


 

(Unaudited)


 

 


 

 


 

 


 

 


 

 


 

 


 

 


 

(in thousands, except per share and operating data)


 

Statement of Operations Data:

                                                                    

Total revenues

  $ 2,733,437   $ 2,036,451   $ 114,506       $ 1,842,515       $ 811,492       $ 1,206,072   $ 2,521,977   $ 2,362,538  
                                               

Operating Costs and Expenses:

                                                                        

Cost of operations

    1,799,860     1,332,816     85,496         1,196,356         552,540         781,193     1,706,418     1,631,497  

Rent

    449,094     339,213     33,493         299,805         143,374         189,086     445,326     451,874  

General and administrative:

                                                                        

Merger, acquisition and transactions costs

    4,814     1,952     504         6,670         3,366         4,417     3,958     16,838  

Management fee

                    3,750                 2,500     5,000     5,000  

Other

    81,638     59,797     7,269         42,644         29,110         27,023     51,495     58,157  

Depreciation and amortization

    202,466     147,435     16,602         137,818         71,633         80,971     212,817     211,444  

Impairment of long-lived assets

                    285                     285     12,779  
                                               

Operating costs and expenses

    2,537,872     1,881,213     143,364         1,687,328         800,023         1,085,190     2,425,299     2,387,589  
                                               

Operating income (loss)

  $ 195,565   $ 155,238   $ (28,858 )     $ 155,187       $ 11,469       $ 120,882   $ 96,678   $ (25,051 )

Other (income) expense

    (184 )   (184 )   49         2,496         49         960     1,965     42,687  

Interest expense

    142,067     105,618     10,683         113,838         47,132         70,004     178,127     183,657  

Equity in (earnings) loss of non-consolidated entities

    (39,041 )   (38,143 )   3,378         (18,240 )       2,480         (7,545 )   (12,559 )   (17,178 )

 

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  Twelve
Months
Ended
September 30,
2013(1)
  Nine Months
Ended
September 30,
2013
  From
Inception
August 31,
2012
through
September 27,
2012
   
  December 30,
2011
through
August 30,
2012
   
  From
Inception
August 31,
2012
through
December 31,
2012(8)
(restated)
   
  March 30,
2012
through
August 30,
2012(2)
  52 Weeks
Ended
March 29,
2012
  52 Weeks
Ended
March 31,
2011
 
 
   
  (Successor)
  (Successor)
   
  (Predecessor)
   
  (Successor)
   
  (Predecessor)
  (Predecessor)
  (Predecessor)
 
 
  (Unaudited)
  (Unaudited)
   
   
  (Unaudited)
   
   
   
   
   
   
 
 
  (in thousands, except per share and operating data)
 

Gain on NCM transactions

                                            (64,441 )

Investment (income) expense

    (3,115 )   (3,406 )   (1 )       (66 )       290         (41 )   17,619     (484 )
                                               

Earnings (loss) from continuing operations before income taxes

    95,838     91,353     (42,967 )       57,159         (38,482 )       57,504     (88,474 )   (169,292 )

Income tax provision (benefit)

    14,260     10,860     100         3,005         3,500         2,500     2,015     1,950  
                                               

Earnings (loss) from continuing operations

  $ 81,578   $ 80,493   $ (43,067 )     $ 54,154       $ (41,982 )     $ 55,004   $ (90,489 ) $ (171,242 )
                                               

Basic earnings (loss) from continuing operations per share

  $ 53.15   $ 52.44   $ (29.87 )     $ 42.34       $ (27.72 )     $ 43.00   $ (70.74 ) $ (133.90 )

Diluted earnings (loss) from continuing operations per share

  $ 53.15   $ 52.44   $ (29.87 )     $ 42.03       $ (27.72 )     $ 42.74   $ (70.74 ) $ (133.90 )

Average shares outstanding:

                                                                        

Basic

    1,534.92     1,534.92     1,441.69         1,279.14         1,514.48         1,279.14     1,279.14     1,278.92  

Diluted

    1,534.92     1,534.92     1,441.69         1,288.39         1,514.48         1,286.81     1,279.14     1,278.92  

Other Data:

                                                                        

Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities

  $ 310,682   $ 204,665   $ (32,125 )     $ 76,546       $ 73,892       $ 76,372   $ 137,029   $ (16,168 )

Adjusted EBITDA(3)

    450,013     335,198     (10,446 )       333,957         104,369         222,846     370,099     315,837  

Theatre Level Adjusted EBITDA(4)

    507,855     377,870     (1,879 )       366,991         128,106         248,547     403,213     347,941  

NCM cash distributions received

    30,749     20,573             19,152         10,176         6,667     31,523     35,502  

Capital expenditures

    (236,142 )   (174,006 )   (10,638 )       (94,392 )       (72,774 )       (40,116 )   (139,359 )   (129,347 )

Growth capital expenditures(5)

    (139,681 )   (110,915 )   (6,970 )       (29,765 )       (34,782 )       (15,794 )   (27,547 )   (35,774 )

Landlord contributions(6)

    16,956     13,931     572         3,700         4,169         2,000     3,200     4,000  

Net rewards accumulated under AMC Stubs:

                                                                        

Admissions

    (10,803 )   (9,970 )   451         (8,125 )       (382 )       (4,146 )   (16,752 )    

Food and beverage

    (36,911 )   (28,517 )   (1,128 )       (26,342 )       (9,522 )       (16,385 )   (32,209 )    

Operating Data (at period end):

                                                                        

Screen additions

                            22         13     26     55  

Screen acquisitions

    191     25                     166                 960  

Screen dispositions

    33     29     15         45         19         62     120     400  

Construction openings (closures, net)

    (16 )   (34 )           (18 )                                

Average screens—continuing operations(7)

    4,818     4,856     4,714         4,761         4,732         4,742     4,811     4,920  

Number of screens operated

    4,950     4,950     4,804         4,819         4,988         4,819     4,868     4,962  

Number of theatres operated

    343     343     332         333         344         333     338     352  

Screens per theatre

    14.4     14.4     14.5         14.5         14.5         14.5     14.4     14.1  

Attendance (in thousands)—continuing operations(7)

    200,955     148,870     8,249         138,699         60,336         90,616     194,205     188,810  

 

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  As of September 30, 2013  
 
  Actual   As Adjusted
for the
Reclassification
 
 
  (Unaudited)
 
 
  (in thousands)
 

Consolidated balance sheet data:

             

Cash and cash equivalents

  $ 130,628   $ 130,628  

Corporate borrowings, including current portion

    2,075,655     2,075,655  

Other long-term liabilities

    455,258     455,258  

Capital and financing lease obligations, including current portion

    117,994     117,994  

Stockholders' equity

    848,897     848,897  

Class A Common Stock voting to be outstanding after the Reclassification ($.01 par value 524,173,073 shares authorized; 0 shares issued and outstanding as of September 30, 2013 as adjusted to give effect to the Reclassification)

         

Class B Common Stock voting to be outstanding after the Reclassification ($.01 par value 75,826,927 shares authorized; 75,826,927 shares issued and outstanding as of September 30, 2013 as adjusted to give effect to the Reclassification)

        758  

Existing Class A Common Stock voting ($.01 par value, 2,000,000 shares authorized; 1,531,424 shares issued and outstanding as of September 30, 2013)

    15      

Total assets

    4,326,866     4,326,866  

(1)
The statement of operations data for the twelve months ended September 30, 2013, which are unaudited, have been calculated by adding the period from September 28, 2012 to December 31, 2012 to the nine months ended September 30, 2013 included elsewhere in this prospectus. This presentation is not in accordance with GAAP. We believe that this presentation provides useful information to investors regarding our recent financial performance and we view this presentation of the four most recently completed successor quarters as a key measurement period for investors to assess our historical results. In addition, our management uses trailing four quarter financial information to evaluate the financial performance of the Company for ongoing planning purposes, including a continuous assessment of our financial performance in comparison to budgets and internal projections. We also use trailing four quarter financial data to test compliance with covenants under our debt agreements. This presentation has limitations as an analytical tool, and you should not consider it in isolation or as a substitute for analysis of our results as reported under GAAP.

(2)
On November 15, 2012, we announced that we changed our fiscal year to a calendar year so that the calendar year shall begin on January 1st and end on December 31st of each year. Prior to the change, fiscal years refer to the fifty-two weeks, and in some cases fifty-three weeks, ending on the Thursday closest to the last day of March.

(3)
We present Adjusted EBITDA as a supplemental measure of our performance. We define Adjusted EBITDA as earnings (loss) from continuing operations plus (i) income tax provisions (benefit), (ii) interest expense and (iii) depreciation and amortization, as further adjusted to eliminate the impact of certain items that we do not consider indicative of our ongoing operating performance and to include any cash distributions of earnings from our equity method investees. These further adjustments are itemized below. You are encouraged to evaluate these adjustments and the reasons we consider them appropriate for supplemental analysis. In evaluating Adjusted EBITDA, you should be aware that in the future we may incur expenses that are the same as or similar to some of the adjustments in this presentation. Our presentation of Adjusted EBITDA should not be construed as an inference that our future results will be unaffected by unusual or

 

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    non-recurring items. Set forth below is a reconciliation of Adjusted EBITDA to earnings (loss) from continuing operations, our most comparable GAAP measure:

 
  Twelve
Months
Ended
September 30,
2013
  Nine Months
Ended
September 30,
2013
  From
Inception
August 31,
2012
through
September 27,
2012
   
  December 30,
2011
through
August 30,
2012
   
  From
Inception
August 31,
2012
through
December 31,
2012(8)
(restated)
   
  March 30,
2012
through
August 30,
2012
  52 Weeks
Ended
March 29,
2012
  52 Weeks
Ended
March 31,
2011
 
 
   
  (Successor)
  (Successor)
   
  (Predecessor)
   
  (Successor)
   
  (Predecessor)
  (Predecessor)
  (Predecessor)
 
 
  (in thousands)
 

Earnings (loss) from continuing operations

  $ 81,578   $ 80,493   $ (43,067 )     $ 54,154       $ (41,982 )     $ 55,004   $ (90,489 ) $ (171,242 )

Plus:

                                                             

Income tax provision (benefit)

    14,260     10,860     100         3,005         3,500         2,500     2,015     1,950  

Interest expense

    142,067     105,618     10,683         113,838         47,132         70,004     178,127     183,657  

Depreciation and amortization

    202,466     147,435     16,602         137,818         71,633         80,971     212,817     211,444  

Impairment of long-lived assets

                    285                     285     12,779  

Certain operating expenses(a)

    16,130     9,719     1,264         9,021         7,675         5,858     16,275     57,267  

Equity in (earnings) losses of non-consolidated entities

    (39,041 )   (38,143 )   3,378         (18,240 )       2,480         (7,545 )   (12,559 )   (17,178 )

Cash distributions from non-consolidated entities(b)

    30,984     20,800     42         19,568         10,226         7,051     33,112     35,893  

Gain on NCM transactions

                                              (64,441 )

Investment (income) expense

    (3,115 )   (3,406 )   (1 )       (66 )       290         (41 )   17,619     (484 )

Other (income) expense(c)

    (130 )   (130 )   49         2,833         49         1,297     1,977     42,828  

General and administrative expense—unallocated:

                                                             

Merger, acquisition and transaction costs

    4,814     1,952     504         6,670         3,366         4,417     3,958     16,838  

Management fee

                    3,750                 2,500     5,000     5,000  

Stock-based compensation expense

                    1,321                 830     1,962     1,526  
                                               

Adjusted EBITDA(d)

  $ 450,013   $ 335,198   $ (10,446 )     $ 333,957       $ 104,369       $ 222,846   $ 370,099   $ 315,837  
                                               

(a)
Amounts represent preopening expense, theatre and other closure expense (income), deferred digital equipment rent expense and disposition of assets and other gains included in operating expenses.

(b)
Effective July 1, 2011, cash distributions from non-consolidated entities were included in our Adjusted EBITDA presentation with conforming reclassification made for the current and prior year presentation. The presentation reclassification reflects how our management evaluates our Adjusted EBITDA performance and is generally consistent with treatment in our various debt covenant calculations.

(c)
Other expense for the 52 weeks ended March 31, 2011 is comprised of the loss on extinguishment of indebtedness related to the redemption of our 12% Senior Discount Notes due 2014 ("Discount Notes due 2014") of $14.8 million, our 11% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2016 ("Notes due 2016") of $24.3 million and expense related to the modification of the former senior secured credit facility of $3.7 million.

(d)
The additional four days included in the Transition Period contributed approximately $25.0 million in Adjusted EBITDA. The acquisition of Kerasotes contributed approximately $34.6 million during the fifty-two weeks ended March 29, 2012 in Adjusted EBITDA compared to $31.6 million during the forty-four week period of May 24, 2010 to March 31, 2011.


Adjusted EBITDA is a non-GAAP financial measure commonly used in our industry and should not be construed as an alternative to net earnings (loss) as an indicator of operating performance or as an alternative to cash flow provided by operating activities as a measure of liquidity (as determined in accordance with GAAP). Adjusted EBITDA may not be comparable to similarly titled measures reported by other companies. We have included Adjusted EBITDA because we believe it provides management and investors with additional information to measure our performance and liquidity, estimate our value and evaluate our ability to service debt.


Adjusted EBITDA has important limitations as an analytical tool, and you should not consider it in isolation, or as a substitute for analysis of our results as reported under U.S. GAAP. For example, Adjusted EBITDA:

does not reflect our capital expenditures, future requirements for capital expenditures or contractual commitments;

does not reflect changes in, or cash requirements for, our working capital needs;

does not reflect the significant interest expenses, or the cash requirements necessary to service interest or principal payments, on our debt;

excludes tax payments that represent a reduction in cash available to us;

does not reflect any cash requirements for the assets being depreciated and amortized that may have to be replaced in the future; and

does not reflect management fees that were paid to the Former Sponsors.

 

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(4)
We present Theatre Level Adjusted EBITDA as a supplemental measure of our performance which we believe provides management and investors with additional information to measure the performance of our theatres, individually and as an entirety, including the impact of our growth capital expenditures and landlord contributions on their operating results. We define Theatre Level Adjusted EBITDA as Adjusted EBITDA minus (i) cash distributions from non-consolidated entities, (ii) stock based compensation expense included in general and administrative—other, (iii) deferred rent and (iv) capital lease expense, and plus (i) general and administrative expense—other and (ii) theatre service expense, as shown in the table below. You are encouraged to evaluate these adjustments and the reasons we consider them appropriate for supplemental analysis. In evaluating Theatre Level Adjusted EBITDA, you should be aware that in the future we may incur income and expenses that are the same as or similar to some of the adjustments in this presentation. Our presentation of Theatre Level Adjusted EBITDA should not be construed as an inference that our future results will be unaffected by unusual or non-recurring items. Set forth below is a reconciliation of Theatre Level Adjusted EBITDA to Adjusted EBITDA:

 
  Twelve
Months
Ended
September 30,
2013
  Nine Months
Ended
September 30,
2013
  From
Inception
August 31,
2012
through
September 27,
2012
   
  December 30,
2011
through
August 30,
2012
   
  From
Inception
August 31,
2012
through
December 31,
2012(8)
(restated)
   
  March 30,
2012
through
August 30,
2012
  52 Weeks
Ended
March 29,
2012
  52 Weeks
Ended
March 31,
2011
 
 
   
  (Successor)
  (Successor)
   
  (Predecessor)
   
  (Successor)
   
  (Predecessor)
  (Predecessor)
  (Predecessor)
 
 
  (in thousands)
 

Adjusted EBITDA

  $ 450,013   $ 335,198   $ (10,446 )     $ 333,957       $ 104,369       $ 222,846   $ 370,099   $ 315,837  

Add/(Subtract):

                                                             

Cash distributions from non-consolidated entities

    (30,984 )   (20,800 )   (42 )       (19,568 )       (10,226 )       (7,051 )   (33,112 )   (35,893 )

Stock-based compensation expense

                    (1,321 )               (830 )   (1,962 )   (1,526 )

General and administrative expense—other

    81,638     59,797     7,269         42,644         29,110         27,023     51,495     58,157  

Theatre service expense

    35,555     26,284     3,054         23,018         12,325         13,684     33,505     26,520  

Deferred rent

    (13,717 )   (10,043 )   (1,050 )       (5,786 )       (4,724 )       (3,437 )   (7,422 )   (4,761 )

Capital lease expense

    (14,650 )   (12,566 )   (664 )       (5,953 )       (2,748 )       (3,688 )   (9,390 )   (10,393 )
                                               

Theatre Level Adjusted EBITDA

  $ 507,855   $ 377,870   $ (1,879 )     $ 366,991       $ 128,106       $ 248,547   $ 403,213   $ 347,941  
                                               
(5)
Growth capital expenditures are our gross cash investments before landlord contributions to enhance Sight & Sound, Food & Beverage and More Comfort & Convenience for our customers. Growth capital expenditures are part of our total capital expenditures and exclude expenditures for maintenance and other recurring items.

(6)
Landlord contributions are amounts received from our landlords for theatres undergoing transformation to enhance Sight & Sound, Food & Beverage or More Comfort & Convenience for our customers. Amounts received from landlords are recorded as deferred rent and are amortized as a reduction to rent expense over the base term of the lease agreement.

(7)
Includes consolidated theatres only.

(8)
During the successor period from August 31, 2012 through December 31, 2012 adjustments were made to correct the valuation allowance recorded for deferred tax assets and the income tax provision. These revisions to previously recorded amounts were needed to correct the carrying amount of other long-term liabilities with an offsetting adjustment to increase the income tax provision by $5.52 million during the fourth quarter of 2012. Additional information about this matter is disclosed in Note 1—Prior period adjustments in the Company's audited financial statements for the period from August 31, 2012 to December 31, 2012 contained elsewhere in this prospectus.

 

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RISK FACTORS

        Before you decide to purchase shares of our Class A common stock, you should understand the high degree of risk involved. You should consider carefully the following risks and other information in this prospectus, including our pro forma and historical financial statements and related notes. If any of the following risks actually occur, our business, financial condition and operating results could be adversely affected. As a result, the trading price of our Class A common stock could decline, perhaps significantly.


Risks Related to Our Industry and Our Business

We have no control over distributors of the films and our business may be adversely affected if our access to motion pictures is limited or delayed.

        We rely on distributors of motion pictures, over whom we have no control, for the films that we exhibit. Major motion picture distributors are required by law to offer and license film to exhibitors, including us, on a film-by-film and theatre-by-theatre basis. Consequently, we cannot assure ourselves of a supply of motion pictures by entering into long-term arrangements with major distributors, but must compete for our licenses on a film-by-film and theatre-by-theatre basis. Our business depends on maintaining good relations with these distributors, as this affects our ability to negotiate commercially favorable licensing terms for first-run films or to obtain licenses at all. With only 7 distributors representing approximately 90% of the U.S. box office in 2012, there is a high level of concentration in the industry. Our business may be adversely affected if our access to motion pictures is limited or delayed because of deterioration in our relationships with one or more distributors or for some other reason. To the extent that we are unable to license a popular film for exhibition in our theatres, our operating results may be adversely affected.

We depend on motion picture production and performance.

        Our ability to operate successfully depends upon the availability, diversity and appeal of motion pictures, our ability to license motion pictures and the performance of such motion pictures in our markets. The most attended films are usually released during the summer and the calendar year-end holidays, making our business highly seasonal. We license first-run motion pictures, the success of which has increasingly depended on the marketing efforts of the major motion picture studios. Poor performance of, or any disruption in the production of these motion pictures (including by reason of a strike or lack of adequate financing), or a reduction in the marketing efforts of the major motion picture studios, could hurt our business and results of operations. Conversely, the successful performance of these motion pictures, particularly the sustained success of any one motion picture, or an increase in effective marketing efforts of the major motion picture studios, may generate positive results for our business and operations in a specific fiscal quarter or year that may not necessarily be indicative of, or comparable to, future results of operations. As movie studios rely on a smaller number of higher grossing "tent pole" films there may be increased pressure for higher film licensing fees. In addition, a change in the type and breadth of movies offered by motion picture studios may adversely affect the demographic base of moviegoers.

Our substantial debt could adversely affect our operations and prevent us from satisfying those debt obligations.

        We have a significant amount of debt. As of September 30, 2013, we had outstanding $2,193.6 million of indebtedness ($2,089.1 million face amount), which consisted of $769.4 million under our senior secured credit facility ($771.1 million face amount), $649.5 million of our senior notes ($600 million face amount), $656.8 million of our existing subordinated notes ($600.0 million face amount) and $118.0 million of existing capital and financing lease obligations, and up to $150.0 million was available for borrowing as additional senior debt under our senior secured credit facility. As of

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September 30, 2013, we also had approximately $3.6 billion of undiscounted rental payments under operating leases (with initial base terms generally between 15 to 20 years).

        The amount of our indebtedness and lease and other financial obligations could have important consequences to you. For example, it could:

        If we fail to make any required payment under our senior secured credit facility or to comply with any of the financial and operating covenants contained therein, we would be in default. Lenders under our senior secured credit facility could then vote to accelerate the maturity of the indebtedness under the senior secured credit facility and foreclose upon the stock and personal property of our subsidiaries that is pledged to secure the senior secured credit facility. Other creditors might then accelerate other indebtedness. If the lenders under the senior secured credit facility accelerate the maturity of the indebtedness thereunder, we might not have sufficient assets to satisfy our obligations under the senior secured credit facility or our other indebtedness. See "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Liquidity and Capital Resources."

        Our indebtedness under our senior secured credit facility bears interest at rates that fluctuate with changes in certain prevailing interest rates (although, subject to certain conditions, such rates may be fixed for certain periods). If interest rates increase, we may be unable to meet our debt service obligations under our senior secured credit facility and other indebtedness.

Limitations on the availability of capital may prevent deployment of strategic initiatives.

        Our key strategic initiatives, including recliner re-seats, enhanced food & beverage and premium sight & sound, require significant capital expenditures to implement. Our net capital expenditures aggregated approximately $160.1 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2013 and $136.2 million for fiscal 2012. We estimate that our gross cash outflows for capital expenditures will be approximately $260.0 million to $290.0 million for calendar 2013 and will continue at approximately $245.0 million annually over the next three years. Actual capital expenditures for calendar 2013 may differ materially from our estimates. The lack of available capital resources due to business performance or other financial commitments could prevent or delay the deployment of innovations in our theatres. We may have to seek additional financing or issue additional securities to fully implement our growth strategy. We cannot be certain that we will be able to obtain new financing on favorable terms, or at all. In addition, covenants under our existing indebtedness limit our ability to incur additional indebtedness, and the performance of any additional or improved theatres may not be sufficient to service the related indebtedness that we are permitted to incur.

We have had significant financial losses in previous years.

        Prior to fiscal 2007, we had reported net losses in each of the prior nine fiscal years totaling approximately $551.1 million. For fiscal 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, the period March 30, 2012

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through August 30, 2012, and the period August 31, 2012 through December 31, 2012, we reported net earnings (losses) of $116.9 million, $(6.2) million, $(149.0) million, $79.9 million, $(174.3) million, $(94.1) million, $90.2 million, and $(42.7) million, respectively. If we experience losses in the future, we may be unable to meet our payment obligations while attempting to expand our theatre circuit and withstand competitive pressures or adverse economic conditions.

We may be limited in our ability to utilize, or may not be able to utilize, net operating loss carryforwards to reduce our future tax liability.

        As of December 31, 2012 we had federal income tax loss carryforward of $745.1 million and estimated state income tax loss carryforward of $625.0 million which will be limited annually due to certain change in ownership provisions of the Internal Revenue Code ("IRC") Section 382. Our federal tax loss carryforwards will begin to expire in 2017 and will completely expire in 2031. Our state tax loss carryforwards may be used over various periods ranging from 1 to 20 years.

        We have experienced numerous "ownership changes" within the meaning of Section 382(g) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, including the Merger. These ownership changes have and will continue to subject our tax loss carryforwards to annual limitations which will restrict our ability to use them to offset our taxable income in periods following the ownership changes. In general, the annual use limitation equals the aggregate value of our equity at the time of the ownership change multiplied by a specified tax-exempt interest rate.

        We have had significant financial losses in previous years and as a result we currently maintain a full valuation allowance for our deferred tax assets including our federal and state tax loss carryforwards.

We are subject, at times, to intense competition.

        Our theatres are subject to varying degrees of competition in the geographic areas in which we operate. Competitors may be national circuits, regional circuits or smaller independent exhibitors. Competition among theatre exhibition companies is often intense with respect to the following factors:

        The theatrical exhibition industry also faces competition from other forms of out-of-home entertainment, such as concerts, amusement parks and sporting events and from other distribution channels for filmed entertainment, such as cable television, pay-per-view and home video systems and from other forms of in-home entertainment.

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An increase in the use of alternative film delivery methods or other forms of entertainment may drive down our attendance and limit our ticket prices.

        We compete with other film delivery methods, including network, syndicated cable and satellite television, and DVDs, as well as video-on-demand, pay-per-view services and downloads via the Internet. We also compete for the public's leisure time and disposable income with other forms of entertainment, including sporting events, amusement parks, live music concerts, live theatre and restaurants. An increase in the popularity of these alternative film delivery methods and other forms of entertainment could reduce attendance at our theatres, limit the prices we can charge for admission and materially adversely affect our business and results of operations.

Our results of operations may be impacted by shrinking video release windows.

        Over the last decade, the average video release window, which represents the time that elapses from the date of a film's theatrical release to the date a film is available on DVD or similar on demand release, an important downstream market, has decreased from approximately six months to approximately three to four months. If patrons choose to wait for a DVD release rather than attend a theatre for viewing the film, it may adversely impact our business and results of operations, financial condition and cash flows. Within the last two years, several major film studios have tested premium video-on-demand products released in homes approximately 60 days after a movie's theatrical debut, which threatened the length of the release window. We cannot assure you that this release window, which is determined by the film studios, will not shrink further or be eliminated altogether, which could have an adverse impact on our business and results of operations.

The agreements governing our indebtedness contain covenants that may limit our ability to take advantage of certain business opportunities advantageous to us.

        The agreements governing our indebtedness contain various covenants that limit our ability to, among other things:

        These restrictions could limit our ability to obtain future financing, make acquisitions or needed capital expenditures, withstand economic downturns in our business or the economy in general, conduct operations or otherwise take advantage of business opportunities that may arise.

        Although the indentures for our notes contain a fixed charge coverage test that limits our ability to incur indebtedness, this limitation is subject to a number of significant exceptions and qualifications. Moreover, the indentures do not impose any limitation on our incurrence of capital or finance lease obligations or liabilities that are not considered "Indebtedness" under the indentures (such as operating leases), nor do they impose any limitation on the amount of liabilities incurred by subsidiaries, if any, that might be designated as "unrestricted subsidiaries," which are subsidiaries that we designate, that are not subject to the restrictive covenants contained in the indentures governing our notes. Furthermore, there are no restrictions in the indentures on our ability to invest in other entities (including unaffiliated entities) and no restrictions on the ability of our subsidiaries to enter into agreements restricting their ability to pay dividends or otherwise transfer funds to us. Also, although

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the indentures limit our ability to make restricted payments, these restrictions are subject to significant exceptions and qualifications.

General political, social and economic conditions can reduce our attendance.

        Our success depends on general political, social and economic conditions and the willingness of consumers to spend money at movie theatres. If going to motion pictures becomes less popular or consumers spend less on food and beverage, which accounted for 28% of our revenues in calendar 2012, our operations could be adversely affected. In addition, our operations could be adversely affected if consumers' discretionary income falls as a result of an economic downturn. Geopolitical events, including the threat of domestic terrorism or cyber attacks, could cause people to avoid our theatres or other public places where large crowds are in attendance. In addition, due to our concentration in certain markets, natural disasters such as hurricanes or earthquakes in those markets could adversely affect our overall results of operations.

We may be reviewed by antitrust authorities in connection with acquisition opportunities that would increase our number of theatres in markets where we have a leading market share.

        Given our size and market share, pursuit of acquisition opportunities that would increase the number of our theatres in markets where we have a leading market share would likely result in significant review by the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice and state agencies, and we may be required to dispose of theatres in order to complete such acquisition opportunities. For example, in connection with the acquisition of Kerasotes, we were required to dispose of 11 theatres located in various markets across the United States, including Chicago, Denver and Indianapolis. As a result, we may not be able to succeed in acquiring other exhibition companies or we may have to dispose of a significant number of theatres in key markets in order to complete such acquisitions.

We depend on key personnel for our current and future performance.

        Our current and future performance depends to a significant degree upon the retention of our senior management team and other key personnel. The loss or unavailability to us of any member of our senior management team or a key employee could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. We cannot assure you that we would be able to locate or employ qualified replacements for senior management or key employees on acceptable terms.

Optimizing our theatre circuit through new construction and the transformation of our existing theatres is subject to delay and unanticipated costs.

        The availability of attractive site locations for new theatre construction is subject to various factors that are beyond our control.

        These factors include:

        We typically require 18 to 24 months in the United States from the time we reach an agreement with a landlord to when a theatre opens.

        In addition, the improvement of our existing theatres through our enhanced food and beverage and recliner re-seat initiatives is subject to substantial risks such as difficulty obtaining permits, landlord approvals, and new types of operating licenses (e.g. liquor licenses). We may also experience cost overruns from delays or other unanticipated costs in both new construction and facility improvements. Furthermore, our new sites and transformed locations may not perform to our expectations.

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We may not achieve the expected benefits and performance from strategic theatre acquisitions.

        In any acquisition, we expect to benefit from cost savings through, for example, the reduction of overhead and theatre level costs, and from revenue enhancements resulting from the acquisition. However, there can be no assurance that we will be able to generate sufficient cash flow from these acquisitions to service any indebtedness incurred to finance such acquisitions or realize any other anticipated benefits. Nor can there be any assurance that our profitability will be improved by any one or more acquisitions. Although we have a long history of successfully integrating acquisitions, any acquisition may involve operating risks, such as:

If our cash flows prove inadequate to service our debt and provide for our other obligations, we may be required to refinance all or a portion of our existing debt or future debt at terms unfavorable to us.

        Our ability to make payments on and refinance our debt and other financial obligations and to fund our capital expenditures and acquisitions will depend on our ability to generate substantial operating cash flow. This will depend on our future performance, which will be subject to prevailing economic conditions and to financial, business and other factors beyond our control.

        In addition, our notes require us to repay or refinance those notes when they come due. If our cash flows were to prove inadequate to meet our debt service, rental and other obligations in the future, we may be required to refinance all or a portion of our existing or future debt, on or before maturity, to sell assets or to obtain additional financing. We cannot assure you that we will be able to refinance any of our indebtedness, including our senior secured credit facility, sell any such assets or obtain additional financing on commercially reasonable terms or at all.

        The terms of the agreements governing our indebtedness restrict, but do not prohibit us from incurring additional indebtedness. If we are in compliance with the financial covenants set forth in the senior secured credit facility and our other outstanding debt instruments, we may be able to incur substantial additional indebtedness. If we incur additional indebtedness, the related risks that we face may intensify.

We rely on our information systems to conduct our business, and failure to protect these systems against security breaches could adversely affect our business and results of operations. Additionally, if these systems fail or become unavailable for any significant period of time, our business could be harmed.

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proprietary information maintained on our information systems. However, these measures and technology may not adequately prevent security breaches. In addition, the unavailability of the information systems or the failure of these systems to perform as anticipated for any reason could disrupt our business and could result in decreased performance and increased operating costs, causing our business and results of operations to suffer. Any significant interruption or failure of our information systems or any significant breach of security could adversely affect our business and results of operations.

Our investment in and revenues from National Cinemedia, LLC ("NCM") may be negatively impacted by the competitive environment in which NCM operates.

        We have maintained an investment in NCM. NCM's in-theatre advertising operations compete with other cinema advertising companies and other advertising mediums including, most notably, television, newspaper, radio and the Internet. There can be no guarantee that in-theatre advertising will continue to attract major advertisers or that NCM's in-theatre advertising format will be favorably received by the theatre-going public. If NCM is unable to generate expected sales of advertising, it may not maintain the level of profitability we hope to achieve, its results of operations and cash flows may be adversely affected and our investment in and revenues and dividends from NCM may be adversely impacted.

We may suffer future impairment losses and theatre and other closure charges.

        The opening of new theatres by us and certain of our competitors has drawn audiences away from some of our older theatres. In addition, demographic changes and competitive pressures have caused some of our theatres to become unprofitable. Since not all theatres are appropriate for our new initiatives, we may have to close certain theatres or recognize impairment losses related to the decrease in value of particular theatres. We review long-lived assets, including intangibles, marketable securities and non-consolidated entities for impairment as part of our annual budgeting process and whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of the assets may not be fully recoverable. We recognized non-cash impairment losses in 1996 and in each fiscal year thereafter except for 2005 and the Transition Period. Our impairment losses of long-lived assets from continuing operations over this period aggregated to $298.1 million. Beginning fiscal 1999 through September 30, 2013, we also incurred theatre and other closure expenses, including theatre lease termination charges aggregating approximately $143.1 million. Deterioration in the performance of our theatres could require us to recognize additional impairment losses and close additional theatres, which could have an adverse effect on the results of our operations. We continually monitor the performance of our theatres, and factors such as changing consumer preferences for filmed entertainment in international markets and our inability to sublease vacant retail space could negatively impact operating results and result in future closures, sales, dispositions and significant theatre and other closure charges prior to expiration of underlying lease agreements.

Our business could be adversely affected if we incur legal liability.

        We are subject to, and in the future may become a party to, a variety of litigation or other claims and suits that arise from time to time in the ordinary course of our business. Regardless of the merits of the claims, the cost to defend current and future litigation may be significant, and such matters can be time-consuming and divert management's attention and resources. The results of litigation and other legal proceedings are inherently uncertain, and adverse judgments or settlements in some or all of these legal disputes may result in materially adverse monetary damages, penalties or injunctive relief against us. Any claims or litigation, even if fully indemnified or insured, could damage our reputation and make it more difficult to compete effectively or to obtain adequate insurance in the future.

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        While we maintain insurance for certain potential liabilities, such insurance does not cover all types and amounts of potential liabilities and is subject to various exclusions as well as caps on amounts recoverable. Even if we believe a claim is covered by insurance, insurers may dispute our entitlement to recovery for a variety of potential reasons, which may affect the timing and, if they prevail, the amount of our recovery.

We are subject to substantial government regulation, which could entail significant cost.

        We are subject to various federal, state and local laws, regulations and administrative practices affecting our business, and we must comply with provisions regulating health and sanitation standards, equal employment, environmental, and licensing for the sale of food and, in some theatres, alcoholic beverages. Our new theatre openings could be delayed or prevented or our existing theatres could be impacted by difficulties or failures in our ability to obtain or maintain required approvals or licenses. Changes in existing laws or implementation of new laws, regulations and practices could have a significant impact on our business. A significant portion of our theatre level employees are part time workers who are paid at or near the applicable minimum wage in the theatre's jurisdiction. Increases in the minimum wage and implementation of reforms requiring the provision of additional benefits will increase our labor costs.

        Our theatres must comply with Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, or ADA. Compliance with the ADA requires that public accommodations "reasonably accommodate" individuals with disabilities and that new construction or alterations made to "commercial facilities" conform to accessibility guidelines unless "structurally impracticable" for new construction or technically infeasible for alterations. Non-compliance with the ADA could result in the imposition of injunctive relief, fines, and an award of damages to private litigants or additional capital expenditures to remedy such noncompliance.

Although AMCE already files certain periodic reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), becoming a public company will increase our expenses and administrative burden, in particular to bring our company into compliance with certain provisions of the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 and NYSE rules to which we are not currently subject.

        As a public company, we will incur significant legal, accounting and other expenses that we did not incur as a private company. In addition, our administrative staff will be required to perform additional tasks. For example, in anticipation of becoming a public company, we will need to create or revise the roles and duties of our board committees, retain a transfer agent and adopt an insider trading policy in compliance with our obligations under the securities laws.

        In addition, changing laws, regulations and standards relating to corporate governance and public disclosure, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and related regulations implemented by the SEC and the NYSE, are increasing legal and financial compliance costs and making some activities more time consuming. We are currently evaluating and monitoring developments with respect to these rules and cannot predict or estimate the amount of the additional costs we may incur or the timing of such costs. We intend to invest resources to comply with evolving laws, regulations and standards, and this investment may result in increased general and administrative expenses and a diversion of management's time and attention from revenue-generating activities to compliance activities. If our efforts to comply with new laws, regulations and standards differ from the activities intended by regulatory or governing bodies due to ambiguities related to practice, regulatory authorities may initiate legal proceedings against us and our business may be harmed. We also expect that being a public company and these new rules and regulations will make it more expensive for us to obtain director and officer liability insurance, and we may be required to accept reduced coverage or incur substantially higher costs to obtain coverage. These factors could also make it more difficult for us to attract and

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retain qualified members of our board of directors, particularly to serve on our audit committee, and qualified executive officers.


Risks Related to This Offering

Future sales of our Class A common stock could cause the market price for our Class A common stock to decline.

        Upon consummation of this offering, there will be 19,225,779 shares of our Class A common stock outstanding and 75,826,927 shares of our Class B common stock outstanding. All shares of Class A common stock sold in this offering will be freely transferable without restriction or further registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"). Of the remaining shares of Class A common stock outstanding, 173,147 will be restricted securities within the meaning of Rule 144 under the Securities Act, but will be eligible for resale subject to applicable volume, manner of sale, holding period and other limitations of Rule 144. We cannot predict the effect, if any, that market sales of shares of our Class A common stock or the availability of shares of our Class A common stock for sale will have on the market price of our Class A common stock prevailing from time to time. Sales of substantial amounts of shares of our Class A common stock in the public market, or the perception that those sales will occur, could cause the market price of our Class A common stock to decline. After giving effect to the Reclassification, Wanda will hold shares of our Class B common stock, all of which constitute "restricted securities" under the Securities Act. Provided the holders comply with the applicable volume limits and other conditions prescribed in Rule 144 under the Securities Act, all of these restricted securities are currently freely tradeable. The SEC adopted revisions to Rule 144 that, among other things, shorten the holding period applicable to restricted securities under certain circumstances from one year to six months.

        We and our officers and directors have agreed that, for a period of 180 days from the date of the final prospectus for this offering, and Wanda has agreed that for a period of 365 days from the date of the final prospectus for this offering, we and they will not, without the prior written consent of Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated dispose of or hedge any shares or any securities convertible into or exchangeable for our common stock subject to certain exceptions. Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated in their sole discretion may release any of the securities subject to these lock-up agreements at any time, which, in the case of officers and directors, shall be with notice. Following the expiration of the applicable lock-up period, all these shares of our common stock will be eligible for future sale, subject to the applicable volume, manner of sale, holding period and other limitations of Rule 144. See "Shares Eligible for Future Sale" for a discussion of the shares of common stock that may be sold into the public market in the future, including common stock held by Wanda.

Our stock price may be volatile and may decline substantially from the initial offering price.

        Immediately prior to this offering, there has been no public market for our Class A common stock, and an active trading market for our Class A common stock may not develop or continue upon completion of the offering. The initial public offering price will be determined by negotiations between us and the representatives of the underwriters and may not be indicative of the price at which our Class A common stock will trade after the offering.

        The stock market in general has experienced extreme price and volume fluctuations in recent years. These broad market fluctuations may adversely affect the market price of our Class A common stock, regardless of our actual operating performance. You may be unable to resell your shares at or above the public offering price because of a number of factors, including:

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We may not generate sufficient cash flows or have sufficient restricted payment capacity under our senior secured credit facility or the indentures governing our debt securities to pay our intended dividends on our Class A common stock.

        Following this offering, and subject to legally available funds, we intend to pay quarterly cash dividends, commencing from the closing date of this offering. We expect that our first dividend will be with respect to the first quarter of 2014. We are a holding company and will have no direct operations. We will only be able to pay dividends from our available cash on hand and funds received from our subsidiaries. Our subsidiaries' ability to make distributions to us will depend on their ability to generate substantial operating cash flow. Our ability to pay dividends to our stockholders will be subject to the terms of our senior secured credit facility and the indentures governing the outstanding notes. Our operating cash flow and ability to comply with restricted payments covenants in our debt instruments will depend on our future performance, which will be subject to prevailing economic conditions and to financial, business and other factors beyond our control. In addition, dividend payments are not mandatory or guaranteed, and our board of directors may never declare a dividend, decrease the level of dividends or entirely discontinue the payment of dividends. Your decision whether to purchase shares of our Class A common stock should allow for the possibility that no dividends will be paid. You may not receive any dividends as a result of the following additional factors, among others:

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        The maximum amount we would be permitted to distribute in compliance with our senior secured credit facility and the indentures governing our debt securities on a pro forma basis was approximately $240.0 million as of September 30, 2013 (assuming the number of shares offered by us are sold at the midpoint of the range set forth on the front cover of this prospectus). As a result of the foregoing limitations on our ability to make distributions, we cannot assure you that we will be able to make all of our intended quarterly dividend payments.

We have elected to take advantage of the "controlled company" exemption to the corporate governance rules for publicly-listed companies, which could make our Class A common stock less attractive to some investors or otherwise harm our stock price.

        Because we qualify as a "controlled company" under the corporate governance rules for publicly-listed companies, we are not required to have a majority of our board of directors be independent, nor are we required to have a compensation committee or an independent nominating function. In light of our status as a controlled company, our board of directors has determined not to have a majority of our board of directors be independent, have a compensation committee composed solely of independent directors or have an independent nominating function and has chosen to have the full board of directors be directly responsible for nominating members of our board. Accordingly, should the interests of Wanda, as our controlling stockholder, differ from those of other stockholders, the other stockholders may not have the same protections afforded to stockholders of companies that are subject to all of the corporate governance rules for publicly-listed companies. Our status as a controlled company could make our Class A common stock less attractive to some investors or otherwise harm our stock price.

Our controlling shareholder's interests may not be aligned with our public stockholders'.

        Our Class B common stock has three votes per share, and our Class A common stock, which is the stock we are offering in our initial public offering, has one vote per share. Upon completion of this offering, Wanda will own approximately 75,826,927 shares of Class B common stock, or 79.77% of our outstanding common stock, representing approximately 92.21% of the voting power of our outstanding common stock (representing approximately 77.62% of our outstanding common stock and approximately 91.23% of the voting power of our outstanding common stock, if the underwriters exercise their option to purchase additional shares in full). As such, Wanda will have significant influence over our reporting and corporate management and affairs, and, because of the three-to-one voting ratio between our Class B and Class A common stock, Wanda will continue to control a majority of the combined voting power of our common stock and therefore be able to control all matters submitted to our stockholders for approval (including election of directors and approval of significant corporate transactions, such as mergers) so long as the shares of Class B common stock owned by Wanda and its permitted transferees represent at least 30% of all outstanding shares of our Class A and Class B common stock. The shares of our Class B common stock automatically convert to shares of Class A common stock upon Wanda and its permitted transferees holding less than 30% of all outstanding shares of our Class A and Class B common stock.

The supervoting rights of our Class B common stock and other anti-takeover protections in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and our amended and restated bylaws may discourage or prevent a takeover of our company, even if an acquisition would be beneficial to our stockholders.

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more difficult to remove incumbent directors or for a third party to acquire us, even if a takeover would benefit our stockholders. These provisions include:

        Our issuance of shares of preferred stock could delay or prevent a change of control of our company. Our board of directors has the authority to cause us to issue, without any further vote or action by the stockholders, up to 50,000,000 shares of preferred stock, par value $0.01 per share, in one or more series, to designate the number of shares constituting any series, and to fix the rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions thereof, including dividend rights, voting rights, rights and terms of redemption, redemption price or prices and liquidation preferences of such series. The issuance of shares of preferred stock may have the effect of delaying, deferring or preventing a change in control of our company without further action by the stockholders, even where stockholders are offered a premium for their shares.

        Our incorporation under Delaware law, the ability of our board of directors to create and issue a new series of preferred stock or a stockholder rights plan and certain other provisions of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws could impede a merger, takeover or other business combination involving Parent or the replacement of our management or discourage a potential investor from making a tender offer for our Class A common stock, which, under certain circumstances, could reduce the market value of our Class A common stock. See "Description of Capital Stock."

The distributions we pay on our Class A common stock may not qualify as dividends for U.S. federal income tax purposes, which could adversely affect the U.S. federal income tax consequences to you of owning our Class A common stock.

        For U.S. federal income tax purposes, a distribution that we pay on a share of our Class A common stock will be treated as a dividend only to the extent the distribution is paid out of our current or accumulated earnings and profits, as determined for U.S. federal income tax purposes (which we refer to as "Tax E&P").

        We had no accumulated Tax E&P as of September 30, 2013. Furthermore, we do not anticipate any Tax E&P for the current year, and our ability to generate Tax E&P in any future year is subject to a number of variables that are uncertain and difficult to predict.

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distribution that you receive on a share of our Class A common stock is not treated as a dividend for U.S. federal income tax purposes, you (whether or not a domestic corporation) will be required (i) to reduce your tax basis in that share, but not below zero, to the extent that the distribution is not treated as a dividend for U.S. federal income tax purposes, and, on a subsequent taxable disposition of your share, you will recognize a greater amount of gain (or a lower amount of loss) than you otherwise would have recognized if the distribution had been treated entirely as a dividend for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (ii) once your tax basis is reduced to zero, recognize gain immediately, which gain, in either case, may be subject to tax at a higher rate than applies to dividends. In the case of a domestic corporation, any such gain will effectively be taxed at the full ordinary tax rate (instead of the lower effective rate applicable to dividend income by reason of the dividends-received deduction).

        Prospective foreign investors should see "Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Considerations to Non-U.S. Holders" for a more detailed description of the material U.S. federal income tax consequences of the ownership and disposition of shares of our Class A common stock to such investors.

We may apply the proceeds of this offering to uses that do not improve our operating results or increase the value of your investment.

        We intend to use the net proceeds from this offering for general corporate purposes, which may include, among other things, capital expenditures and debt service. However, we do not have more specific plans for the net proceeds from this offering and will have broad discretion in how we use the net proceeds of this offering. These proceeds could be applied in ways that do not improve our operating results or increase the value of your investment.

Our issuance of preferred stock could dilute the voting power of the common stockholders.

        The issuance of shares of preferred stock with voting rights may adversely affect the voting power of the holders of our other classes of voting stock either by diluting the voting power of our other classes of voting stock if they vote together as a single class, or by giving the holders of any such preferred stock the right to block an action on which they have a separate class vote even if the action were approved by the holders of our other classes of voting stock.

Our issuance of preferred stock could adversely affect the market value of our Class A common stock.

        The issuance of shares of preferred stock with dividend or conversion rights, liquidation preferences or other economic terms favorable to the holders of preferred stock could adversely affect the market price for our Class A common stock by making an investment in the common stock less attractive. For example, investors in the common stock may not wish to purchase Class A common stock at a price above the conversion price of a series of convertible preferred stock because the holders of the preferred stock would effectively be entitled to purchase Class A common stock at the lower conversion price causing economic dilution to the holders of Class A common stock.

If we raise additional capital through the issuance of new equity securities at a price lower than the initial public offering price, you will incur dilution.

        If we raise additional capital through the issuance of new equity securities at a lower price than the initial public offering price, you will be subject to dilution which could cause you to lose all or a portion of your investment. If we are unable to access the public markets in the future, or if our performance prospects decrease, we may need to consummate a private placement or public offering of our common stock at a lower price than the initial public offering price.

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As a result of this offering, Parent and certain of its domestic affiliates may not be able to file a consolidated tax return which could result in increased tax liability.

        Currently, Parent and certain of its domestic affiliates (the "AMC affiliated tax group") are members of a consolidated group for federal income tax purposes, of which a Wanda domestic subsidiary is the common parent. Upon consummation of this offering the AMC affiliated tax group will cease to be members of the Wanda federal consolidated group. The AMC affiliated tax group will not be permitted to file a consolidated return for federal income tax purposes for five years, however, unless we obtain a waiver from the Internal Revenue Service. It is uncertain whether we will obtain a waiver if we seek one. If we do not obtain a waiver, each member of the AMC affiliated tax group will be required to file a separate federal income tax return, and, as a result, the income (and tax liability) of a member will only be offset by its own tax loss carryforwards (and other tax attributes) and not by tax loss carryforwards, current year losses or other tax attributes of other members of the group. We believe that we should not incur substantial additional federal tax liability if we are not permitted to file a federal consolidated return, because (i) most of our revenues are generated by a single member of the AMC affiliated tax group and most of our tax loss carryforwards are attributable to such member and (ii) there are certain other beneficial aspects of the structure of the AMC affiliated tax group. We cannot assure you, however, that we will not incur substantial additional tax liability if the AMC affiliated tax group is not permitted to file a federal consolidated return for five years.

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SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

        In addition to historical information, this prospectus contains forward-looking statements. The words "forecast," "estimate," "project," "intend," "expect," "should," "believe" and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors, including those discussed in "Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations," which may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the following:

        This list of factors that may affect future performance and the accuracy of forward-looking statements is illustrative but not exhaustive. In addition, new risks and uncertainties may arise from time to time. Accordingly, all forward-looking statements should be evaluated with an understanding of their inherent uncertainty.

        Except as required by law, we assume no obligation to publicly update or revise these forward-looking statements for any reason, or to update the reasons actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements, even if new information becomes available in the future.

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USE OF PROCEEDS

        We estimate that our net proceeds from this offering without exercise of the underwriters' option to purchase additional shares will be approximately $322.6 million after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and expenses, assuming the shares are offered at $19.00 per share, which represents the midpoint of the range set forth on the front cover of this prospectus. If the underwriters exercise their option to purchase additional shares in full, the net proceeds to us will be approximately $370.0 million.

        Our principal reason for the offering is to raise equity capital that we intend to use primarily to retire outstanding indebtedness, including possibly our 8.75% Senior Fixed Rate Notes, which mature on June 1, 2019. Any net proceeds that we do not apply to reduce outstanding indebtedness will be used for general corporate purposes, including capital expenditures. However, we have not made a definitive determination as to how to allocate these proceeds among these and other possible general corporate purposes and we do not anticipate doing so prior to the completion of the offering. See "Risk Factors—We may apply the proceeds of this offering to uses that do not improve our operating results or increase the value of your investment."

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DIVIDEND POLICY

        Following this offering and subject to legally available funds, we intend to pay a quarterly cash dividend at an annual rate initially equal to approximately $0.79 per share (or a quarterly rate initially equal to approximately $0.20 per share) of Class A and Class B common stock, commencing from the closing date of this offering. We expect that our first dividend will be with respect to the first quarter of 2014. Based on the approximately 19.2 million shares and 75.8 million shares of Class A common stock and Class B common stock, respectively, to be outstanding after the offering, this dividend policy implies a quarterly cash requirement of approximately $18.8 million. We cannot assure you that any dividends will be paid in the anticipated amounts and frequency set forth in this prospectus, if at all.

        We are a holding company and have no direct operations. We will only be able to pay dividends from our available cash on hand and funds received from our subsidiaries. Their ability to make any payments to us will depend upon many factors, including our operating results, cash flows and the terms of our senior secured credit facility and the indentures governing our subsidiaries' debt securities. In addition, our ability to pay dividends to our stockholders will be subject to the terms of our indebtedness. Although we have sustained net losses in prior periods and cannot assure you that we will be able to pay dividends on a quarterly basis or at all, we believe that a number of recent positive developments in our business have improved our ability to pay dividends in compliance with applicable state corporate law once this offering has been completed. These include: the completion of the Kerasotes Acquisition and the Rave theatres acquisition, which increased the scale and cash flow of our company, and we expect will continue to generate, synergies and cost savings; the continued positive impact of our implementation of improved and differentiated customer experiences in more comfort and convenience; food and beverage; engagement and loyalty; sight and sound and targeted programming. Further, we expect to continue to benefit from substantial net operating loss carry-forwards from prior periods that will be available to offset taxes that we may owe. Also, because the DGCL permits corporations to pay dividends either out of surplus (generally, the excess of a corporation's net assets (total assets minus total liabilities) over its stated capital, in each case as defined and calculated in the manner prescribed by the DGCL) or net profits, we may be able to pay dividends even if we report net losses in future periods. We do not intend to borrow funds to pay the projected quarterly dividend described above.

        The maximum amount we would be permitted to distribute in compliance with our senior secured credit facility and the indentures governing our debt securities, on a pro forma basis, was approximately $240.0 million as of September 30, 2013 (assuming the number of shares offered by us are sold at the midpoint of the range set forth on the front cover of this prospectus).

        The declaration and payment of any future dividends will be at the sole discretion of our board of directors after taking into account various factors, including legal requirements, our subsidiaries' ability to make payments to us, our financial condition, operating results, cash flow from operating activities, available cash and current and anticipated cash needs.

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CAPITALIZATION

        The following table sets forth our cash and cash equivalents and capitalization as of September 30, 2013 (i) on an actual basis, (ii) as adjusted to give effect to the Reclassification prior to the effects of this offering and (iii) as adjusted to give effect to this offering, the use of proceeds therefrom and the Reclassificiation. The information in this table should be read in conjunction with "Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Financial Information," "Business," the unaudited consolidated financial statements and the historical financial statements of the Company and the respective accompanying notes thereto appearing elsewhere in this prospectus.

 
  As of September 30, 2013  
 
  Actual   As Adjusted
for the
Reclassification
  As Adjusted
for the
Offering
and the
Reclassification
 
 
  (in thousands)
 

Cash and cash equivalents(1)

  $ 130,628   $ 130,628   $ 453,253  
               

Short term debt(2)

  $ 14,537   $ 14,537   $ 14,537  

Long-term debt:

                   

9.75% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2020 (par value $600,000)

    656,808     656,808     656,808  

8.75% Senior Fixed rate Notes due 2019 (par value $600,000)

    649,475     649,475     649,475  

Senior secured credit facility:

                   

Revolving loan facility(3)

             

Term loan due 2020 (par value $763,375)

    761,622     761,622     761,622  

Capital and financing lease obligations

    111,207     111,207     111,207  
               

Total debt

  $ 2,193,649   $ 2,193,649   $ 2,193,649  
               

Class N Common Stock nonvoting ($.01 par value, 25,000 shares authorized; 3,497 shares issued and outstanding as of September 30, 2013)

    1,811          

Class A Common Stock voting to be outstanding after the offering ($.01 par value 524,173,073 shares authorized; 173,147 shares issued and outstanding as of September 30, 2013 as adjusted to give effect to the Reclassification; 173,147 shares issued and outstanding as of September 30, 2013 as adjusted to give effect to the offering and the Reclassification)

          1,811     1,811  
               

Stockholders' equity

                   

Class A Common Stock voting to be outstanding after the offering ($.01 par value 524,173,073 shares authorized; 0 shares issued and outstanding as of September 30, 2013 as adjusted to give effect to the Reclassification; 19,052,632 shares issued and outstanding as of September 30, 2013 as adjusted to give effect to the offering and the Reclassification)

   
   
   
190
 

Class B Common Stock voting to be outstanding after the offering ($.01 par value 75,826,927 shares authorized; 75,826,927 shares issued and outstanding as of September 30, 2013 as adjusted to give effect to the Reclassification; 75,826,927 shares issued and outstanding as of September 30, 2013 as adjusted to give effect to the offering and the Reclassification)

        758     758  

Existing Class A Common Stock voting ($.01 par value, 2,000,000 shares authorized; 1,531,424 shares issued and outstanding as of September 30, 2013)

    15          

Additional paid-in capital

    799,985     799,242     1,133,677  

Accumulated other comprehensive income

   
6,784
   
6,784
   
6,784
 

Accumulated earnings

    42,113     42,113     30,113  
               

Total stockholders' equity

    848,897     848,897     1,171,522  
               

Total Capitalization

  $ 3,044,357   $ 3,044,357   $ 3,366,982  
               

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(1)
A $1.00 increase (decrease) in the assumed initial public offering price of $19.00 per share (the midpoint of the range set forth on the front cover of this prospectus) would increase (decrease) our cash and cash equivalents by $17.5 million, assuming the number of shares offered by us, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, remains the same and after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated expenses payable by us.

(2)
Includes $7.75 million par value of the Term Loan due 2020 and $6.79 million of capital and financing lease obligations.

(3)
The aggregate revolving loan commitment under our senior secured credit facility is $150.0 million.

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DILUTION

        Dilution is the amount by which the offering price paid by the purchasers of our Class A common stock to be sold in the offering exceeds the net tangible book value per share of Class A common stock after the offering. Net tangible book value per share is determined at any date by subtracting our total liabilities from the total book value of our tangible assets and dividing the difference by the number of shares of common stock deemed to be outstanding at that date.

        Our net tangible book value as of September 30, 2013 was $(1,680.1) million, or $(22.11) per share. After giving effect to the receipt and our intended use of approximately $322.6 million of estimated net proceeds from our sale of 18,421,053 shares of Class A common stock in the offering at an assumed offering price of $19.00 per share (the midpoint of the range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus), our as adjusted net tangible book value as of September 30, 2013 would have been approximately $(1,357.5) million, or $(14.28) per share. This represents an immediate increase in pro forma net tangible book value of $7.83 per share to existing stockholders and an immediate dilution of $33.28 per share to new investors purchasing shares of Class A common stock in the offering. The following table illustrates this substantial and immediate per share dilution to new investors:

 
  Per Share  

Assumed initial public offering price per share

        $ 19.00  

Net tangible book value (deficit) before the offering

    (22.11 )      

Increase per share attributable to investors in the offering

    7.83        
             

Pro forma net tangible book value (deficit) after the offering

          (14.28 )
             

Dilution per share to new investors

        $ 33.28  
             

        A $1.00 increase (decrease) in the assumed initial public offering price of $19.00 per share would increase (decrease) our pro forma net tangible book value by $17.5 million, the as adjusted net tangible book value per share after this offering by $0.18 per share and the dilution per share to new investors in this offering by $0.82, assuming the number of shares offered by us, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, remains the same and after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated expenses payable by us.

        The following table summarizes on an as adjusted basis as of September 30, 2013, giving effect to:

 
  Shares Purchased   Total Consideration    
 
 
  Average
Price
Per Share
 
 
  Number   Percent   Amount   Percent  

Existing stockholders

    76,000,074     79.96 % $ 701,811     66.72 % $ 9.23  

Management awards

    631,579     0.66 %       %    

Investors in the offering

    18,421,053     19.38 %   350,000     33.28 %   19.00  
                       

Total

    95,052,706     100 % $ 1,051,811     100 % $ 11.07  
                       

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        A $1.00 increase (decrease) in the assumed initial public offering price of $19.00 per share (the midpoint of the range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus) would increase (decrease) total consideration paid by existing stockholders, total consideration paid by new investors and the average price per share by $0, $18.4 million and $0.19, respectively, assuming the number of shares offered by us, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, remains the same, and without deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated expenses payable by us.

        The tables and calculations above assume no exercise of 2,631,579 shares of Class A common stock issuable in this offering to the underwriters pursuant to an option to purchase additional shares.

        To the extent any of these options are exercised, there will be further dilution to new investors.

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UNAUDITED PRO FORMA CONDENSED FINANCIAL INFORMATION

        We derived the following unaudited pro forma condensed financial information by applying pro forma adjustments attributable to (i) the acquisition of Parent by Wanda on August 30, 2012 through a merger between Parent and Wanda Film Exhibition Co. Ltd., a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of Wanda (the "Merger Transactions") and (ii) this offering and the use of proceeds therefrom (the "Offering Transaction") to our historical Consolidated Financial Statements included in this prospectus. The unaudited pro forma balance sheet gives pro forma effect to the Transactions as if they had occurred on September 30, 2013. The unaudited pro forma condensed statement of operations data for the nine months ended September 30, 2013 and the Transition Period gives pro forma effect to the Transactions as if they had occurred on March 30, 2012. We describe the assumptions underlying the pro forma adjustments in the accompanying notes, which should be read in conjunction with the unaudited pro forma condensed financial information.

        We estimate that our net proceeds from this offering without exercise of the option to purchase additional shares will be approximately $322.6 million after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and expenses, assuming the shares are offered at $19.00 per share, which represents the midpoint of the range set forth on the front cover of this prospectus. If the underwriters exercise their option to purchase additional shares in full, the net proceeds to us will be approximately $370.0 million. We intend to use these net proceeds primarily to retire outstanding indebtedness, including possibly our 8.75% Senior Fixed Rate Notes, which mature on June 1, 2019. Any net proceeds that we do not apply to reduce outstanding indebtedness will be used for general corporate purposes, including capital expenditures. However, we have not made a definitive determination as to how to allocate these proceeds among these and other possible general corporate purposes and we do not anticipate doing so prior to the completion of this offering. See "Risk Factors—We may apply the proceeds of this offering to uses that do not improve our operating results or increase the value of your investment."

        The unaudited pro forma condensed financial information is for illustrative and informational purposes only and should not be considered indicative of the results that would have been achieved had the transactions been consummated on the dates or for the periods indicated and do not purport to represent consolidated balance sheet data or statement of operations data or other financial data as of any future date or any future period.

        The unaudited pro forma condensed financial information should be read in conjunction with the information contained in "Selected Historical Financial and Operating Data," "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations," our Consolidated Financial Statements and accompanying notes appearing elsewhere in this prospectus.

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AMC ENTERTAINMENT HOLDINGS, INC.

UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED PRO FORMA BALANCE SHEET
AS OF SEPTEMBER 30, 2013
(dollars in thousands)

 
  As of September 30, 2013  
 
  Parent
Historical
  Offering
Transaction
Pro Forma
Adjustments
  Parent
Pro Forma
 
 
  (Successor)
   
   
 

Assets

                   

Cash and equivalents

  $ 130,628   $ 322,625 (1) $ 453,253  

Current assets

   
120,919
   
   
120,919
 

Property, net

    1,155,574         1,155,574  

Intangible assets, net

    236,553         236,553  

Goodwill

    2,294,231         2,294,231  

Other long-term assets

    388,961         388,961  
               

Total assets

  $ 4,326,866   $ 322,625   $ 4,649,491  
               

Liabilities and Stockholders' Equity

                   

Current liabilities

  $ 493,629   $   $ 493,629  

Current Maturities:

                   

Senior Secured Term Loan and Capital and Financing Lease Obligations

    14,537         14,537  

Corporate borrowings:

                   

9.75% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2020

    656,808         656,808  

8.75% Senior Notes due 2019

    649,475         649,475  

Senior Secured Term Loan Facility due 2020

    761,622         761,622  

Capital and financing lease obligations

    111,207         111,207  

Other long-term liabilities

    788,880         788,880  
               

Total liabilities

  $ 3,476,158   $   $ 3,476,158  

Class N Common Stock nonvoting

    1,811     (1,811) (1a)    

Class A Common Stock to be outstanding after the Reclassification

        1,811 (1a)   1,811  
               

Stockholders' equity:

                   

Existing Class A Common Stock

    15     (15) (1a)    

Class A Common Stock to be outstanding after the offering

        184 (1)   190  

          6 (12)      

Class B Common Stock to be outstanding after the offering

        758 (1a)   758  

Additional paid-in capital

    799,985     (743) (1a)   1,133,677  

          322,441 (1)      

          11,994 (12)      

Accumulated other comprehensive loss

    6,784         6,784  

Accumulated earnings

    42,113     (12,000) (12)   30,113  
               

Total stockholders' equity

    848,897     322,625     1,171,522  
               

Total liabilities and stockholders' equity

  $ 4,326,866   $ 322,625   $ 4,649,491  
               

   

See Notes to Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Consolidated Financial Information.

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AMC ENTERTAINMENT HOLDINGS, INC.

UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED PRO FORMA STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS
NINE MONTHS ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2013
(dollars in thousands, except per share data)

 
  Nine Months Ended September 30, 2013  
 
  Parent
Historical
  Offering
Transaction
Pro Forma
Adjustments
  Parent
Pro Forma
 
 
  (Successor)
   
   
 

Revenues

  $ 2,036,451   $   $ 2,036,451  

Cost of operations

    1,332,816         1,332,816  

Rent

    339,213         339,213  

General and administrative:

                   

M&A Costs

    1,952         1,952  

Management fee

             

Other

    59,797     (12)   59,797  

Depreciation and amortization

    147,435         147,435  
                   

Operating costs and expenses

    1,881,213         1,881,213  
                   

Operating income

    155,238         155,238  

Other expense

    (184 )       (184 )

Interest expense

    105,618         105,618  

Equity in earnings of non-consolidated entities

    (38,143 )       (38,143 )

Investment income

    (3,406 )       (3,406 )
               

Total other expense

    63,885         63,885  
               

Earnings from continuing operations before income taxes

    91,353         91,353  

Income tax provision

    10,860         10,860  
               

Earnings from continuing operations

  $ 80,493   $   $ 80,493  
               

Basic earnings per share from continuing operations

  $ 52.44         $ 0.85  
                 

Average shares outstanding-Basic

    1,534.92           95,052.71  

Diluted earnings per share from continuing operations

  $ 52.44         $ 0.85  
                 

Average shares outstanding-Diluted

    1,534.92           95,052.71  

   

See Notes to Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

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AMC ENTERTAINMENT HOLDINGS, INC.

UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED PRO FORMA STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS
TRANSITION PERIOD (MARCH 30, 2012 to DECEMBER 31, 2012)
(dollars in thousands, except per share data)

 
  Parent
Historical
March 30,
2012
through
August 30,
2012
  Parent
Historical
August 31,
2012
through
December 31,
2012(1)
(restated)
  Merger
Transactions
Pro Forma
Adjustments
  Parent
Transition Period
Ended
December 31,
2012
Pro Forma
for Merger
  Offering
Transaction
Pro Forma
Adjustment
  Parent
Pro Forma
 
 
  (Predecessor)
  (Successor)
   
   
   
   
 

Revenues

  $ 1,206,072   $ 811,492   $ (8,458 )(2) $ 2,009,106   $   $ 2,009,106  

Cost of operations

    781,193     552,540     1,473 (3)   1,335,206         1,335,206  

Rent

    189,086     143,374     (1,063 )(4)   331,397         331,397  

General and administrative:

                                     

M&A Costs

    4,417     3,366         7,783         7,783  

Management fee

    2,500         (2,500 )(5)            

Other

    27,023     29,110     (539 )(6)   55,594     (12)   55,594  

Depreciation and amortization

    80,971     71,633     (2,370 )(7)   150,234         150,234  
                               

Operating costs and expenses

    1,085,190     800,023     (4,999 )   1,880,214         1,880,214  
                               

Operating income (expense)

    120,882     11,469     (3,459 )   128,892         128,892  

Other expense

    960     49         1,009         1,009  

Interest expense

    70,004     47,132     (9,444 )(8)   107,692         107,692  

Equity in earnings of non-consolidated entities

    (7,545 )   2,480     (2,434 )(9)   (7,499 )       (7,499 )

Investment (income) expense

    (41 )   290     627 (10)   876         876  
                           

Total other expense (income)

    63,378     49,951     (11,251 )   102,078         102,078  
                           

Earnings from continuing operations before income taxes

    57,504     (38,482 )   7,792     26,814         26,814  

Income tax provision (benefit)

    2,500     3,500     2,900 (11)   8,900         8,900  
                           

Earnings from continuing operations

  $ 55,004   $ (41,982 ) $ 4,892   $ 17,914   $   $ 17,914  
                           

Basic earnings (loss) per share from continuing operations

  $ 43.00   $ (27.72 )                   $ 0.19  
                                 

Average shares outstanding-Basic

    1,279.14     1,514.48                       91,947.83  

Diluted earnings (loss) per share from continuing operations

  $ 42.74   $ (27.72 )                   $ 0.19  
                                 

Average shares outstanding-Diluted

    1,286.81     1,514.48                       91,947.83  

(1)
During the successor period from August 31, 2012 through December 31, 2012 adjustments were made to correct the valuation allowance recorded for deferred tax assets and the income tax provision. These revisions to previously recorded amounts were needed to correct the carrying amount of other long-term liabilities with an offsetting adjustment to increase the income tax provision by $5.52 million during the fourth quarter of 2012. Additional information about this matter is disclosed in Note 1—Prior period adjustments in the Company's audited financial statements for the period from August 31, 2012 to December 31, 2012 contained elsewhere in this prospectus.

   

See Notes to Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

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AMC ENTERTAINMENT HOLDINGS, INC.
NOTES TO UNAUDITED PRO FORMA CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Earnings per Share from Continuing Operations

        Earnings per share from continuing operations is computed by dividing net earnings from continuing operations by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding. Diluted earnings per share from continuing operations includes the effects of outstanding stock options, if dilutive. The following table sets forth the computation of basic and diluted earnings from continuing operations per common share:

(in thousands, except per share data)
  Nine Months
Ended
September 30, 2013
  From Inception
August 31, 2012
through
December 31, 2012
(restated)
   
  March 30, 2012
through
August 30, 2012
 
 
  (Successor)
  (Successor)
   
  (Predecessor)
 

Numerator:

                       

Earnings (loss) from continuing operations

  $ 80,493   $ (41,982 )     $ 55,004  

Denominator:

                       

Shares for basic earnings (loss) per common share

    1,534.92     1,514.48         1,279.14  

Stock options and nonvested restricted stock

                7.67  
                   

Shares for diluted earnings (loss) per common share

    1,534.92     1,514.48         1,286.81  
                   

Basic earnings (loss) from continuing operations per common share

  $ 52.44   $ (27.72 )     $ 43.00  
                   

Diluted earnings (loss) from continuing operations per common share

  $ 52.44   $ (27.72 )     $ 42.74  
                   

        The following tables sets forth the calculation of the shares for earnings (loss) per common share (in thousands):

 
  Number
of days
outstanding
  Number
of shares
outstanding
  Weighted
average
percentage
  Weighted average
number of shares
  Amount    

Class A shares

    123     1,338.05     100.0000 %   1,338.05   $ 700,000   Merger consideration

Class A shares

    123     96.69     100.0000 %   96.69     50,000   Capital contribution

Class N shares

    123     3.50     100.0000 %   3.50     1,811   Merger consideration

Class A shares

    97     96.69     78.8618 %   76.25     50,000   Capital contribution
                             

          1,534.92           1,514.48   $ 801,811    
                             

 
  Number
of days
outstanding
  Number
of shares
outstanding
  Weighted
average
percentage
  Weighted average
number of shares
   
   

Class N shares

    154     2.02     100.0000 %   2.02          

Class A-1 shares

    154     382.47     100.0000 %   382.47          

Class A-2 shares

    154     382.47     100.0000 %   382.47          

Class L-1 shares

    154     256.09     100.0000 %   256.09          

Class L-2 shares

    154     256.09     100.0000 %   256.09          
                               

          1,279.14           1,279.14          
                               

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        There are no outstanding options to purchase shares of common stock or restricted stock during the nine months ended September 30, 2013.

Pro Forma Earnings per Share from Continuing Operations

        Pro forma earnings per share from continuing operations is computed by dividing net earnings from continuing operations by the weighted average number of common shares expected to be outstanding following this offering and reflects (i) the conversion of all outstanding shares of the Company's existing Class A common stock and Class N common stock into shares of Class B common stock and Class A common stock, respectively, (ii) the issuance of the Offering Bonus Shares and (iii) the issuance of the shares of Class A common stock offered hereby. Each holder of existing Class A common stock will receive 49.514 shares of Class B common stock and each holder of existing Class N common stock will receive 49.514 shares of Class A common stock. Diluted earnings per share from continuing operations includes the effects of outstanding stock options, if dilutive. The following table sets forth the computation of basic and diluted loss from continuing operations per common share:

(in thousands, except per share data)
  Nine Months
Ended
September 30, 2013
  Transition Period  

Numerator:

             

Earnings (loss) from continuing operations

  $ 80,493   $ 17,914  

Denominator:

             

Shares for basic earnings (loss) per common share

    95,052.71     91,947.83  

Stock options and nonvested restricted stock

         
           

Shares for diluted earnings (loss) per common share

    95,052.71     91,947.83  
           

Basic earnings (loss) from continuing operations per common share

  $ 0.85   $ 0.19  
           

Diluted earnings (loss) from continuing operations per common share

  $ 0.85   $ 0.19  
           

        The following tables sets forth the calculation of the shares for pro forma earnings per common share (in thousands):

 
  Number
of days
outstanding
  Number
of shares
outstanding
  Weighted
average
percentage
  Weighted average
number of shares
 

Class A shares outstanding

    273     173.15     100.00 %   173.15  

Class A shares offered hereby

    273     18,421.05     100.00 %   18,421.05  

Class B shares outstanding

    273     75,826.93     100.00 %   75,826.93  

Class A shares issued to management

    273     631.58     100.00 %   631.58  
                       

          95,052.71           95,052.71  
                       

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  Number
of days
outstanding
  Number
of shares
outstanding
  Weighted
average
percentage
  Weighted average
number of shares
 

Class A shares outstanding

    276     173.15     100.00 %   173.15  

Class A shares offered hereby

    276     18,421.05     100.00 %   18,421.05  

Class B shares outstanding (shares inclusive of Merger date contributed capital)

    276     71,039.52     100.00 %   71,039.52  

Class A shares issued to management

    276     631.58     100.00 %   631.58  

Class B shares (post-Merger date capital contribution)

    97     4,787.41     35.14 %   1,682.53  
                       

          95,052.71           91,947.83  
                       

        There are no outstanding options to purchase shares of common stock or restricted stock during the pro forma nine months ended September 30, 2013 or the pro forma Transition Period.

        Options to purchase                         shares of common stock at a weighted average exercise price of $            per share were outstanding during the period above, but were not included in the computation of diluted earnings per share since the options were anti-dilutive.

Offering Transaction Pro Forma Adjustments

(1)
Reflects the estimated cash sources and uses of funds in connection with the Offering Transaction as summarized below.

Sources of Funds
  Amount  
Uses of Funds
  Amount  
 
  (thousands
of dollars)

   
  (thousands
of dollars)

 

Proceeds from the sale of common stock

  $ 350,000  

Underwriting fees for sale of common stock

  $ 18,375  

       

Professional and consulting fees for sale of common stock

    9,000  

       

Company cash

    322,625  
               

  $ 350,000       $ 350,000  
               

 
  Amount  
 
  (thousands of dollars)
 

Class A Common Stock issued hereby (18,421,053 shares, $.01 par value)

  $ 184  

Additional paid-in capital

    322,441  
       

Company cash

  $ 322,625  
       
(1a)
Pro forma adjustments have been made to stockholders' equity to reclassify par value of $.01 per share between additional paid-in capital and common stock for the Reclassification as follows:

Existing Class A Common Stock (1,531,424 shares, $.01 par value)

  $ (15 )

Class B Common Stock (75,826,927 shares, $.01 par value)

    758  
       

Additional Paid-in Capital

  $ (743 )
       

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Merger Transactions Pro Forma Adjustments

(2)
Represents the elimination of historical breakage income recorded for packaged tickets and lower amounts of breakage income for gift cards. At the date of the Merger, our deferred revenues were adjusted to estimated fair value by eliminating unrecognized breakage. As a result of the Merger, we will not recognize breakage income on package tickets for 18 months subsequent to the Merger and will initially recognize reduced amounts of breakage income for gift cards subsequent to the Merger due to the elimination of amounts of unrecognized breakage from deferred revenues.

(thousands of dollars)
  Transition Period  

Eliminated historical package ticket breakage

  $ (4,802 )

Reduced gift card breakage for Merger

    (3,656 )
       

  $ (8,458 )
       

We defer 100% of the revenue associated with the sales of gift cards and packaged tickets until such time as the items are redeemed or breakage income is recorded. See Note 1—Revenues to the Company's audited Consolidated Financial Statements contained elsewhere in this Prospectus for further information.


We recognize breakage income for gift cards using the Proportional Method, pursuant to which we apply a breakage rate for our five gift card sales channels that ranges from 14% to 23% of our current month sales and we recognize that total amount of breakage for that current month's sales as income over the next 24 months in proportion to the pattern of actual redemptions. Our methodology for recording deferred revenues for gift cards at fair value involved removing the amount of unrecognized breakage included in our deferred revenues as of August 30, 2012 which was $7,441,000 such that we would only recognize breakage income during the Successor period following the Proportional Method on sales that were generated subsequent to August 30, 2012 and would recognize a normal profit margin on those gift cards that were sold prior to August 30, 2012 and that were expected to be redeemed in the future. Our total breakage income included in the Transition Period was $11,259,000, of which $7,776,000 was recorded during the five month Predecessor period and $3,483,000 was recorded during the four month Successor period. Had the Merger occurred on March 30, 2012, we would have applied the Proportional Method only to those sales that were generated after March 30, 2012 and our breakage income for the nine months ended December 31, 2012 would have been $7,603,000 which is $3,656,000 less than the historical amount recorded in the Transition Period of $11,259,000. As a result, we adjusted our breakage income to reduce it by $3,656,000 such that our total breakage income for gift cards was $7,603,000 on a pro forma basis for the Transactions.


We recognize breakage income for packaged tickets following the Remote Method pursuant to which we recognize breakage income for sales greater than 18 months old based on an estimated breakage rate of 14.5% of monthly sales. Our methodology for recording deferred revenues for packaged tickets at fair value involved removing the amount of unrecognized breakage included in our deferred revenues as of August 30, 2012, which was $24,859,000, such that we would not recognize income during the Successor period following the Remote Method for sales that were generated prior to August 30, 2012 and would recognize a normal profit margin on those packaged tickets that were sold prior to August 30, 2012 and that were expected to be redeemed in the future. Our total breakage income included in the Transition Period was $4,802,000, of which $4,802,000 was recorded during the five month Predecessor period and $0 was recorded during the four month Successor period. Had the Merger occurred on March 30, 2012, we would have applied the Remote Method only to those sales that were generated after March 30, 2012 and were less than 18 months old and our breakage income for the nine months ended December 31, 2012 would have been $0 which is $4,802,000 less than the historical amount recorded in the Transition Period of $4,802,000. As a result, we adjusted our breakage income to reduce it by $4,802,000 such

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(3)
As a result of the Merger we eliminated our deferred rent liabilities related to future escalations of minimum rentals for our digital projectors. Subsequent to the Merger our straight line rent expense increases as a result of this Merger adjustment. We also increased unfavorable license amounts for our 3D licensing agreement with Real D which have the effect of reducing our Real D expense in the future.

(thousands of dollars)
  Transition Period  

Increase in straight line rent expense for digital projectors

  $ 1,555  

Decrease in license expense for 3D agreement

    (82 )
       

  $ (1,473 )
       

Prior to the Merger, we recorded straight-line rent expense for future escalations of minimum rentals pursuant to our licensing agreements for the projectors over the lease term of 12 years. As part of fair value accounting, we reduced the recorded deferred rent liability for these agreements by $6,830,000 to a fair value of $0. Subsequent to the Merger, we recognized the future escalations of minimum rentals over the remaining lease term, which is less than 12 years as of August 30, 2012, as the projectors have been deployed in our theatres throughout the period starting in March of 2010 through the date of the Merger at various deployment dates. The licensing agreements call for significant increases in rent beginning in October 2016 and, as a result, we are recording the same escalations that will occur in October 2016 over a shorter lease term for the projectors. We determined our Predecessor deferred rent expense as the difference between our cash rent payments and the total rent expense computed by dividing total minimum rentals over the remaining lease term by the remaining lease term. We have computed our Successor deferred rent expense in the same manner. Our deferred rent expense recorded during the Transition Period was $3,617,000, which was computed using the methodology described above. Our deferred rent expense on a pro forma basis for the Transition Period was $5,172,000, which was computed using the methodology described above and assuming the Merger occurred on March 30, 2012. We determined the adjustment to increase our deferred rent expense recorded during the Transition Period of $1,555,000 as the difference between the expense recorded during the Transition Period of $3,617,000 and the pro forma amount for the Transition Period of $5,172,000.

(4)
As a result of the Merger we eliminated our deferred rent liabilities related to future escalations of minimum rentals for our theatre leases. Subsequent to the Merger our straight line rent expense increases as a result of this Merger adjustment. We also increased unfavorable lease liabilities for certain of our theatre leases which has the effect of reducing our rent expense in the future.

(thousands of dollars)
  Transition Period  

Increase in straight line rent for theatre leases

  $ 4,030  

Decrease in deferred rent expense for unfavorable theatre leases

    (5,093 )
       

  $ (1,063 )
       

Prior to the Merger, we recorded straight-line rent expense for future escalations of minimum rentals pursuant to our theatre leases over the remaining lease term. As part of fair value accounting, we reduced the recorded deferred rent liability for these agreements by $109,508,000 to a fair value of $0. Subsequent to the Merger, we recognized the future escalations of minimum rentals over the remaining lease term, which is less than the original lease terms used by the Predecessor as the theatres have been in operation for various amounts of time prior to the Merger. The rental agreements for many of our theatres call for increases in rent in the future and, as a result, we are recording the same escalations that will occur in the future over a shorter lease term for the theatres. We determined our Predecessor deferred rent expense as the

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In connection with the Merger, we recorded our unfavorable leases at fair value of $220,903,000, which resulted in a purchase price adjustment to increase these liabilities by $133,064,000. We determined the adjustment to reduce our deferred rent expense recorded during the Transition Period of $5,093,000 as the difference between the contra expense amortization recorded during the Transition Period of $16,130,000 ($6,363,000 for the 5 month Predecessor period plus $9,767,000 for the 4 month Successor period) and the pro forma amount for the Transition Period of $21,223,000. We calculated the pro forma amount to reduce our deferred rent expense of $21,223,000 for the pro forma Transition Period by dividing the total estimated fair value of the unfavorable leases of $220,903,000 by the average remaining lease term of approximately 7.8 years and multiplying that annual amount by 75% to estimate the nine month Transition Period.

(5)
Prior to the Merger we paid management fees to the Former Sponsors of $1,250 per quarter. Subsequent to the Merger these management fees have ceased.

(6)
In connection with the Merger we remeasured our pension and post-retirement plan liabilities and as a result eliminated amortization of net loss and prior service credit on our plans.

(thousands of dollars)
  Transition Period  

Amortization of net loss—Pension Benefits

  $ (899 )

Amortization of net loss—Postretirement Benefits

    (88 )

Amortization of prior service credit—Postretirement Benefits

    448  
       

  $ (539 )
       

The various components of adjustment (6) were derived from amounts reflected in Note 13—Employee Benefit Plans to the audited Consolidated Financial Statements included elsewhere in this prospectus for the periods March 30, 2012 through August 30, 2012.

(7)
We recorded our amortizable intangible assets in connection with the Merger at estimated fair value. The gross carrying amount of our intangible assets was reduced significantly from amounts recorded prior to the Merger. As a result, we will experience a lower amount of amortization expense for intangible assets subsequent to the Merger.

(thousands of dollars)
  Transition Period  

Amortization of intangible assets

  $ (2,370 )

In connection with purchase accounting applied in connection with the Merger, we recorded our intangible assets at fair value. See Note 6—Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets to the notes to our audited Consolidated Financial Statements included elsewhere in this prospectus for the periods March 30, 2012 through August 30, 2012 for additional information.


The gross carrying amount of our amortizable intangible assets with respect to which the amortization is recorded to depreciation and amortization declined by $90,606,000 (excluding the TRA intangible with respect to which the amortization is recorded in investment income as opposed to depreciation and amortization). The decline in the gross carrying amount was primarily

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The net carrying amount of our amortizable intangible assets increased by $70,034,000 as a result of the Merger primarily due to an increase in net carrying amount for favorable leases. We do not believe that the decline in gross carrying amount of our amortizing intangible assets is indicative of a potential impairment as we actually recorded an increase to the net carrying amount of $70,034,000. We did not have significant individual net carrying values of amortizing intangible assets that were written down as of August 30, 2012 and as a result do not believe any potential impairment in the recorded values existed at the time of the Merger that should have been recognized. The adjustment to reduce intangible asset amortization of $2,370,000 is primarily due to elimination of amortization on our Moviewatcher loyalty program intangible asset and increased estimated useful lives for our favorable leases. We calculated the pro forma adjustment to reduce intangible asset amortization by $2,370,000 as follows. We removed historical intangible asset amortization for the Transition Period of $7,856,000 and replaced it with pro forma intangible asset amortization for the Transition Period of $5,486,000. The difference between $7,856,000 previously recorded for the Transition Period and the pro forma amount for the Transition Period of $5,486,000 results in a pro forma adjustment to reduce intangible asset amortization by $2,370,000. We calculated the pro forma amount of intangible asset amortization for the Transition Period by dividing $120,986,000 fair value of amortizable intangible assets in the table below by the estimated average remaining useful lives of approximately 16.5 years and multiplying that annual amount by 75% to estimate the nine month Transition Period.

(thousands of dollars)
  Net Carrying
Amount
August 30, 2012
  Purchase
Price
Adjustment
  Net Carrying
Amount
August 30, 2012
  Remaining
Useful Life
 
 
  (Predecessor)
   
  (Successor)
   
 

Amortizable Intangible Assets:

                         

Favorable leases

  $ 40,939   $ 71,557   $ 112,496     1 to 46 years  

Customer frequency program

    1,035     (1,035 )          

Management contracts

    5,316     (626 )   4,690     1 to 8 years  

Non-compete agreement

    3,499     301     3,800     3 years  

Other intangible assets

    163     (163 )          
                     

Total amortizable

  $ 50,952   $ 70,034   $ 120,986        
                     

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(8)
In connection with the Merger we recorded our debt at fair value, which resulted in the elimination of deferred charges for debt issuance costs and related amortization and also resulted in an increase to our previously recorded debt balances based on estimated fair values.

(thousands of dollars)
  Transition Period  

Remove historical amounts from Predecessor period:

       

Amortization of deferred charges

  $ (2,345 )

Amortization of discount

    (497 )

Include post-Merger amounts for:

       

Accretion of premium on debt

    (6,602 )
       

  $ (9,444 )
       

Quoted market prices were used to estimate the fair value of our debt (Level 2) at the date of the Merger. We recorded premiums on our 8.75% Senior Notes due 2019 of $57,000,000, premiums on our 9.75% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2020 of $63,000,000 and a premium of $585,000 on our Term Loan due 2016. We amortize the premiums to reduce interest expense using the effective interest method over the remaining term of the debt instruments. Our expected pro forma amortization for the Transition Period is $9,849,000 for these premiums and because we had already recognized $3,247,000 of the amortization during the Successor period ended December 31, 2012, we recorded a pro forma adjustment of $6,602,000.

(9)
We recorded our equity method investments at estimated fair value in connection with the Merger. The increase in the carrying value of our equity method investment for NCM caused us to change the way in which we record earnings related to NCM. Prior to the Merger a majority of our Tranche 1 investment in NCM was recorded at $0 carrying value and as a result our equity in earnings was limited to cash distributions on Tranche 1. Subsequent to the Merger, our carrying value in Tranche 1 is recorded at fair value and we record our share of NCM's earnings as equity in earnings in our investment account with cash distributions recorded against the investment balance. Additionally, the step up in carrying value of our equity method investments created differences between our investment and our underlying ownership share of the investee's net assets. We amortize these basis differences to equity in earnings over the respective lives of the underlying assets and liabilities.

(thousands of dollars)
  Transition Period  

Amortization of basis difference for NCM

  $ 1,263  

Amortization of basis difference for DCIP

    (264 )

Revalued NCM equity earnings

    (3,433 )
       

  $ (2,434 )
       

Quoted market prices for NCM, Inc. based on the August 30, 2012 closing price per share of $14.44 were used to estimate the fair value of our investment in NCM (Level 1) at the date of the Merger. We recorded our investment in 17,323,782 common units of NCM at an estimated fair value of $250,155,000. See Note 7—Investments to the Notes to our audited Consolidated Financial Statements included elsewhere in this prospectus for additional information about our investment in NCM.


We determined the pro forma adjustment for the amortization of basis difference for NCM created by the step up to purchase accounting by first performing a hypothetical purchase price allocation of the fair value of our investment in NCM to our proportional ownership share of the carrying value of NCM's assets and liabilities and members' capital. Our hypothetical allocation of purchase price based on the value of our NCM investment indicated that our proportional share of the carrying value of NCM's intangible assets should be stepped up by $99,486,000 and that the carrying value of their debt and related deferred costs should be increased by a net amount of

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We performed a similar hypothetical purchase price allocation for DCIP as a result of the write down to fair value of our investment in DCIP of $10,141,000. DCIP has no recorded goodwill. We identified long-term assets including property, deferred financing costs and deferred rent that we determined to adjust downward based on our purchase price allocation. The estimated remaining useful lives for these long-term assets were 16 years and as a result our expected annual contra-expense amortization is $634,000 and our pro forma 9 month Transition Period contra expense is $476,000. Because our actual recorded amortization for the Successor period was $212,000 we made a pro forma adjustment of $264,000 such that our expense for the pro forma Transition Period would be $476,000.


As discussed above as a result of the Merger, our equity in earnings of NCM will simply be calculated based on our share of their reported net earnings. Our share of NCM's reported net earnings of $95,700,000 for the Transition Period based on our ownership percentage was $15,177,000. Because we only recorded $11,744,000 for the combined Predecessor and Successor Transition Period, we made a pro forma adjustment for $3,433,000 such that our pro forma Transition Period equity in earnings were $15,177,000.

(10)
Prior to the Merger, our distributions from NCM pursuant to the Tax Receivable Agreement ("TRA") were recorded as part of equity in earnings for our Tranche 1 investment and as a return of capital for our Tranche 2 investment. In connection with the Merger, we identified the TRA as an identifiable amortizing intangible asset and recorded it at fair value. Subsequent to the Merger, cash distributions from NCM for the TRA and amortization of the intangible asset are recorded as components of investment income.

(thousands of dollars)
  Transition Period  

Cash receipts for TRA

  $ 0  

Amortization of TRA intangible asset

    627  
       

  $ 627  
       

In connection with NCM's IPO, NCM and the founding members entered into a tax receivable agreement ("TRA"). Under the terms of this agreement, NCM agreed to make cash payments, net of administrative expenses, to the founding members in amounts equal to 90% of NCM's actual tax benefit realized from any tax amortization of intangible assets. The TRA generally applies to NCM's taxable years up to and including the 30th anniversary date of the IPO. We determined the value of the TRA using a discounted cash flow model. For the purposes of our analysis, we estimated the cash receipts from taxable transactions that are known as of the date of the Merger. We did not consider future transactions that NCM may undertake. We estimated a run-off of the intangible asset amortization benefits due to the following transactions:

1.
ESA (Exhibitor Services Agreement)—relates to the amortization due to a modification of the initial ESA agreement.

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(11)
Represents the expected income tax impact of the Transactions, in U.S. tax jurisdictions at our expected state and federal tax rate of 37.5%.

(12)
We will enter into revised stock-based compensation arrangements in connection with the offering whereby 631,579 fully vested shares will be issued to management and we will recognize $12,000,000 of expense in connection with these share grants. Expense for the share grants is determined based on the issue of 631,579 fully vested shares to management valued based on an assumed offering price of $19.00 per share (the midpoint of the range set forth on the front cover of this prospectus). Because the Offering Bonus Shares are one-time grants at the time of the offering they are only reflected as an adjustment to the pro forma balance sheet since they will not have a continuing impact on our results of operations.

Pro forma adjustment to our balance sheet is as follows:

 
  Amount  
 
  (thousands of dollars)
 

Class A Common Stock issued to management (631,579 shares, $ .01 par value)

  $ 6  
       

Additional paid-in capital

    11,994  
       

Accumulated earnings

  $ (12,000 )
       

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SELECTED HISTORICAL FINANCIAL AND OPERATING DATA

        The following table sets forth certain of our selected historical financial and operating data. Our selected financial data for the nine months ended September 30, 2013, the period December 30, 2011 through August 30, 2012, the period from inception August 31, 2012 through September 27, 2012, the period from March 30, 2012 to August 30, 2012, the period from August 31, 2012 to December 31, 2012 and the fiscal years ended March 29, 2012, March 31, 2011, April 1, 2010 and April 2, 2009 have been derived from the Consolidated Financial Statements for such periods either included elsewhere in this prospectus or not included herein.

        The selected financial data presented herein should be read in conjunction with "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations," Consolidated Financial Statements, including the notes thereto, and our other historical financial information, including the notes thereto, included elsewhere in this prospectus.

 
  Nine Months
Ended
September 30,
2013
  From
Inception
August 31,
2012
through
September 27,
2012
   
  December 30,
2011
through
August 30,
2012
   
  From
Inception
August 31,
2012
through
December 31,
2012(6)
(restated)
   
  March 30,
2012
through
August 30,
2012(1)
  52 Weeks
Ended
March 29,
2012
  52 Weeks
Ended
March 31,
2011
  52 Weeks
Ended
April 1,
2010
  52 Weeks
Ended
April 2,
2009
 
 
  (Successor)
  (Successor)
   
  (Predecessor)
   
  (Successor)
   
  (Predecessor)
  (Predecessor)
  (Predecessor)
  (Predecessor)
  (Predecessor)
 

Statement of Operations Data:

                                                                   

Revenues:

                                                                   

Admissions

  $ 1,365,178     76,356       $ 1,241,857       $ 548,632       $ 816,031   $ 1,721,295   $ 1,644,837   $ 1,659,549   $ 1,534,644  

Food and Beverage

    589,026     32,365         513,729         229,739         342,130     689,680     644,997     627,235     608,977  

Other theatre

    82,247     5,785         86,929         33,121         47,911     111,002     72,704     71,021     71,435  
                                                   

Total revenues

    2,036,451     114,506         1,842,515         811,492         1,206,072     2,521,977     2,362,538     2,357,805     2,215,056  
                                                   

Operating Costs and Expenses:

                                                                   

Film exhibition costs

    718,725     34,659         657,730         291,561         436,539     916,054     860,470     901,076     819,192  

Food and Beverage costs

    80,032     4,778         69,946         30,545         47,326     93,581     79,763     69,164     64,733  

Operating expense(2)

    534,059     46,059         468,680         230,434         297,328     696,783     691,264     588,365     555,468  

Rent

    339,213     33,493         299,805         143,374         189,086     445,326     451,874     419,227     427,617  

General and administrative:

                                                                   

Merger, acquisition and transactions costs                

    1,952     504         6,670         3,366         4,417     3,958     16,838     2,578     1,481  

Management fee

                3,750                 2,500     5,000     5,000     5,000     5,000  

Other

    59,797     7,269         42,644         29,110         27,023     51,495     58,157     58,274     53,800  

Depreciation and amortization

    147,435     16,602         137,818         71,633         80,971     212,817     211,444     186,350     198,224  

Impairment of long-lived assets

                285                     285     12,779     3,765     65,397  
                                                   

Operating costs and expenses

    1,881,213     143,364         1,687,328         800,023         1,085,190     2,425,299     2,387,589     2,233,799     2,190,912  

Operating income (loss)

    155,238     (28,858 )       155,187         11,469         120,882     96,678     (25,051 )   124,006     24,144  

Other (income) loss

    (184 )   49         2,496         49         960     1,965     42,687     (74,202 )    

Interest expense:

                                                                   

Corporate borrowings

    97,704     10,241         109,960         45,259         67,614     172,159     177,459     168,439     182,691  

Capital and financing lease obligations

    7,914     442         3,878         1,873         2,390     5,968     6,198     5,652     5,990  

Equity in (earnings) losses of non-consolidated entities                                

    (38,143 )   3,378         (18,240 )       2,480         (7,545 )   (12,559 )   (17,178 )   (30,300 )   (24,823 )

Gain on NCM transactions

                                          (64,441 )        

Investment (income) expense(3)

    (3,406 )   (1 )       (66 )       290         (41 )   17,619     (484 )   (286 )   (1,724 )
                                                   

Earnings (loss) from continuing operations before income taxes

    91,353     (42,967 )       57,159         (38,482 )       57,504     (88,474 )   (169,292 )   54,703     (137,990 )

Income tax provision (benefit)

    10,860     100         3,005         3,500         2,500     2,015     1,950     (36,300 )   5,800  
                                                   

Earnings (loss) from continuing operations

    80,493     (43,067 )       54,154         (41,982 )       55,004     (90,489 )   (171,242 )   91,003     (143,790 )

Earnings (loss) from discontinued operations, net of income tax provision(4)

    4,290     24         34,533         (688 )       35,153     (3,609 )   (3,062 )   (11,092 )   (5,256 )
                                                   

Net earnings (loss)

  $ 84,783   $ (43,043 )     $ 88,687       $ (42,670 )     $ 90,157   $ (94,098 ) $ (174,304 ) $ 79,911   $ (149,046 )
                                                   

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  Nine Months
Ended
September 30,
2013
  From
Inception
August 31,
2012
through
September 27,
2012
   
  December 30,
2011
through
August 30,
2012
   
  From
Inception
August 31,
2012
through
December 31,
2012(6)
(restated)
   
  March 30,
2012
through
August 30,
2012(1)
  52 Weeks
Ended
March 29,
2012
  52 Weeks
Ended
March 31,
2011
  52 Weeks
Ended
April 1,
2010
  52 Weeks
Ended
April 2,
2009
 
 
  (Successor)
  (Successor)
   
  (Predecessor)
   
  (Successor)
   
  (Predecessor)
  (Predecessor)
  (Predecessor)
  (Predecessor)
  (Predecessor)
 

Basic earnings (loss) per share of common stock:

                                                                   

Earnings (loss) from continuing operations                        

  $ 52.44   $ (29.87 )     $ 42.34       $ (27.72 )     $ 43.00   $ (70.74 ) $ (133.90 ) $ 71.16   $ (112.23 )

Earnings (loss) from discontinued operations                                

    2.80     .01         26.99         (0.45 )       27.48     (2.82 )   (2.39 )   (8.67 )   (4.10 )
                                                   

Net earnings (loss) per share

  $ 55.24   $ (29.86 )     $ 69.33       $ (28.17 )     $ 70.48   $ (73.56 ) $ (136.29 ) $ 62.49   $ (116.33 )