AMC Entertainment CEO Adam Aron
April 16, 2026
AMC Entertainment, the world’s largest theater operator in the world, is coming out on the record in favor of Paramount’s pending $110.9 billion equity merger with Warner Bros. Discovery, according to CEO Adam Aron.
That’s two days after the head of a cinema trade group criticized the pending merger for creating too much leverage in one media company at the expense of consumers and Hollywood.
“We believe this transaction will be harmful to exhibition, consumers and the entire entertainment ecosystem,” Cinema United CEO Michael O’Leary told attendees at the CinemaCon convention in Las Vegas.
Aron disagrees.
“It is time for AMC to make known our favorable view about Paramount’s desire to acquire Warner,’ Aron said in an April 16 media statement at CinemaCon. “I greatly appreciate [Paramount CEO] David Ellison’s track record of success and his passion to make movies that will dazzle audiences the world over. In just the short time he has owned Paramount Pictures, he already has begun to assemble a superb team around him and already has been increasing the number of movies being greenlit at Paramount.”
Aron largely favors the merger because of Ellison’s promise to release 30 theatrical titles per year, up from about 20 titles in 2025.
Warner is coming a banner 2025 theatrical campaign that featured 11 releases, including A Minecraft Movie, Superman, F1: The Movie, Weapons, Sinners and One Battle After Another, among others.
Paramount’s 2025 slate included Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, The Running Man and The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants, among others.
Aron wants more movies because AMC screens saw 3.4 million fewer moviegoers in the last 90 days of 2025.
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