Filmstaden jublar: ”Bästa biohelgen sedan pandemin”

AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. (d/b/a AMC Theatres, originally an abbreviation for American Multi-Cinema; often referred to simply as AMC and known in some countries as AMC Cinemas or AMC Multi-Cinemas) is an American movie theater chain founded in Kansas City, Missouri, and now headquartered in Leawood, Kansas. It is the largest movie theater chain in the world. Founded in 1920, AMC has the largest share of the U.S. theater market ahead of Regal and Cinemark Theatres. After acquiring Odeon Cinemas, UCI Cinemas, and Carmike Cinemas in 2016, it became the largest movie theater chain in the world. It has 2,807 screens in 353 European theatres and 7,755 screens in 593 American theatres.The company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange; from 2012 to 2018, the Chinese conglomerate Wanda Group owned a majority stake in the company. Private equity firm Silver Lake Partners made a $600 million investment in AMC in September 2018, but the voting power of AMC shares was structured so that Wanda Group still controlled the majority of AMC's board of directors. Amid financial downturns caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, in January 2021, Wanda's ownership was increasingly diluted due to new financing by AMC, as well as short squeezes that resulted in Silver Lake converting its $600 million debt holding to equity. In early-February 2021, Wanda converted its Class B shares to Class A shares, thus reducing its voting power to less than 50%.

Filmstaden, tidigare SF Bio, är Sveriges största biografkedja, ägda av AMC Theatres. Filmstaden bildades 1998 efter att Bonnier delat upp AB Svensk Filmindustris verksamhet i två bolag, biografbolaget SF Bio AB och produktionsbolaget Svensk Filmindustri AB. Efter att Bonnierkoncernen år 2017 sålt sina sista ägarandelar i SF Bio AB:s moderbolag Nordic Cinema Group till AMC Theatres genomfördes ett namnbyte på aktiebolaget till Filmstaden AB, då Bonnierkoncernen äger varumärket SF (Svensk Filmindustri). Filmstaden ingår i den nordisk-baltiska koncernen Nordic Cinema Group, som sedan 2017 är en del av Odeon Cinemas Group, AMC Theatres europeiska dotterbolag. Omskyltningen från SF till Filmstaden började den 26 oktober 2018 och förväntas pågå till mitten av 2019.