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The film organization Cineworld would possibly locate that attracts potential buyers to its business, which viewers, with the lifting of a 70-year US law that prevented primary schoolers from having their own screens.
The British company, which is the largest cinema chain in the world and has more than 500 locations in the United States, saw its stock rise nearly 50% last week on the London Stock Exchange after a federal ruling ruled before this month that the U.S. Department of Justice can revoke the so-called “supreme decree.”
The executive order, which came into force in 1948, was intended to spare him the main studios of the time: Paramount, Warner Bros, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 20th Century Fox and RKO Radio Theatres, as well as Universal, Columbia and United Artists: to monopolize the entire industry.
At the time, the studios made and distributed their films, and the law prevented them from owning the cinemas where they would show. At that point, every time a studio sold a film to an independent cinema, it may do so in “blocks.”
To showcase a highly successful film, cinema also had to agree to exhibit several low-quality, low-income systems from the same studio.
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Cineworld, which reported revenues of $4.4 billion last year, suffered as much as the rest of the COVID-19 pandemic entertainment industry, with the transient closure of its 787 rooms.
“Since the district court enacted Paramount’s decrees, the film industry has undergone abundant changes,” the Justice Department said when it began its review of the executive order a few months ago.
“None of Paramount’s defendants own a significant amount of cinemas. Also, unlike seventy years ago, the maximum metropolitan spaces have more than one cinema,” he added.
Now that the decree is a thing of the past, investors have warned that Cineworld would possibly be a buying target for one of Hollywood’s top studios, which in turn took its shares above 0.60 pence ($0.80) closer to $0.30 ($0.40) at first. of the week.
On Monday, stocks at 0.47 cents ($0.62), after falling from last week’s highs.
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“It costs Cineworld about $50 million a month despite the license,” wrote Michael Hewson, a leading strate fellow at CMC Markets, a corporate foreign exchange strater.
“The concern is that any additional delays in film studio premieres, as well as social estrangement and PPE requirements, can cause the film industry to start running out of money very temporarily if consumers show little enthusiasm for the return,” he said.
With the advent of streaming and video-on-demand like Netflix, Amazon and Disney, the film industry and consumers watching videos have replaced forever.
In the case of Cineworld, a giant studio can buy your entire company, or even just its American theaters, many analysts have speculated.
The company makes 75% of its profits from the U.S. market, thanks to the acquisition of its rival Regal in 2018, and has more screens in the United States than anywhere else in the world, according to its website.
Restrictions on mass bookings, for example, will remain in place for two years, when the technology, viewer behavior, and entertainment activity themselves may have changed completely.
“The existing stage has been described by at least one studio director as an “egg and hen” stage, where film studios need to release videos in theaters when only a few are open; however, cinemas need it to open without new successful content. “Goldman Sachs analysts said in an August 50 memo.
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