Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorBuried in AMC’s 1Q 2020 earnings release today on page 3 was the statement, “While we are in active dialogue with Universal, no movies made by Universal Studios are currently on our docket.”The note comes a little bit more than a month after AMC CEO and President Adam Aron alerted the studio in a public note to Universal Studios Chairman Donna Langley that the circuit is barring all the studio’s future titles.
Aron’s embargo came in the immediate wake of NBC Universal CEO Jeff Shell‘s victory lap for the $100M-grossing PVOD release of Dreamwork Animation’s Trolls World Tour and statements made to the Wall Street Journal that the studio would “release movies on both formats,”.
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