Universal’s traditional windows for electronic sell through (EST) and video on demand (VOD) remain unchanged. This latest deal is strictly between AMC and Universal. The deal brings to mind AMC and Paramount’s deal on 2015’s Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse and Blumhouse’s Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension. The difference with that deal is that when screens dropped below a certain hundreds level, Paramount could have the next home window kick in, with those theaters, AMC and other indies, sharing in the monies from that stream. That means AMC is getting a cut of the PVOD revenues. “It’s what we’ve been waiting for,” said one studio boss who foresees other studios falling in line and hammering out similar terms with AMC, and the other big chains, Regal and Cinemark.Ĭommenting on the agreement, Adam Aron said, “AMC enthusiastically embraces this new industry model both because we are participating in the entirety of the economics of the new structure, and because premium video on demand creates the added potential for increased movie studio profitability, which should in turn lead to the green-lighting of more theatrical movies.” Rival distributors are already calling the deal “seismic”. Scoot McNairy To 'Speak No Evil' For Blumhouse & Universal They’re apt to live the green of the theatrical run out.

like a Get Out, Fast & Furious movie, Illumination title or Jurassic World, Uni won’t simply cut and run and put the feature on PVOD. From what I hear, if a movie is performing like gangbusters at the box office, i.e. One of Universal’s big pics this year abroad is MGM’s Bond movie No Time to Die being released in November. In the coming weeks, the two companies will begin talks surrounding international distribution agreements in the countries in Europe and the Middle East served by AMC.

After that time Universal has the option to make such titles available on PVOD platforms, including AMC Theaters on Demand. Universal and Focus Features releases will play at AMC theaters for a 17-day exclusive theatrical window. 1 exhibitor and the Hollywood studio have broken bread with the following multi-year agreement: After AMC CEO Adam Aron publicly threatened that he would never play Universal movies as along as the studio had a plan for simultaneous theatrical-PVOD releases like Trolls World Tour, the world’s No.

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