AMC Offers Private Movie Theater Rentals Starting at $99

AMC is betting some individuals are bored with watching films on their sofa, with the nation’s largest cinema chain now providing to let prospects lease out whole theaters for as little as $99.

The “Private Movie Showing” program, because it’s been dubbed, permits as much as 20 folks to have a theater to themselves for a couple of hours. Customers can decide from a listing of 34 films, which incorporates older releases like “Jurassic Park” and new movies like “The New Mutants” and Christopher Nolan’s “Tenant.” Older films begin at $99 (excluding tax), and new films price $149.

It can get pricier than that, although. Depending on the film choice and theater location, AMC’s web site stated it could actually price as much as $349 to host a non-public film celebration. On high of that, should you’re actually trying to maintain court docket, AMC will lease you a microphone to deal with your pals for $100.

Customers who need to deliver their very own meals shall be charged a $250 catering charge — however AMC stated it received’t enable meals that requires a “heating element.” Customers additionally received’t be capable of deliver meals that the theater already sells.

AMC is providing the brand new rental plan in most states, though locations like Hawaii and Alaska aren’t included. Potential prospects can enroll on AMC’s web site, the place they’ll be requested to select a film, date and time.

The plan, first rolled out on Friday, comes lower than every week after AMC warned it might run out of money by early 2021. AMC sounded the alarm in a Tuesday submitting to the Securities and Exchange Commission, pointing to low attendance figures for theaters which have managed to reopen amid the pandemic and the drought of main Hollywood movies to lure moviegoers into its venues.

AMC isn’t the one chain attempting the rental plan out, both. Cinemark, the mother or father firm of Century Theaters and CineArt, can also be providing non-public theater leases beginning at $99. Its slate of films consists of “Ghostbusters,” “Grease,” and “Coco,” amongst different choices. Cinemark has additionally capped the leases at 20 folks per theater.