Adam Aron, CEO of top movie theater circuit AMC Entertainment, suffered a minor stroke on Nov. 17 but expects to make a “speedy and full recovery,” the company said Thursday.
An official statement about the episode, saying that Aron “remains in full command at the helm of AMC.” The company said it decided to put out a “fulsome statement to proactively dispel any conjecture that might arise during any of his public or private appearances.”
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The episode occurred during a London business trip, AMC said, with Aron immediately receiving treatment at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurological Sciences. He stayed overnight for two nights.
The statement said there are “no indications of loss of cognitive brain function,” with a slurring of speech the only significant result of the stroke, Aron started speech therapy and has seen a “remarkable recovery in the quality and tenor of his voice. He expects to make a speedy and full recovery,” according to the statement.
Aron, 71, cuts an outsized figure in the movie business and is known among AMC’s army of individual shareholders as The Silverback, a reference to the “apes” who turned the company into a meme stock. Along with steering the company through an unlikely rebound from the depths of Covid, he has also invested in a silver mine, launched a popcorn business and started a distribution label whose Taylor Swift documentary offered relief to theaters during the 2023 Hollywood strikes.
In 2023, Aron revealed on Twitter that he had been targeted in a catfishing scam, describing it as “entirely a personal matter” that had been resolved.
The statement about his stroke said Aron attended the recent Los Angeles premiere of Avatar: Fire and Ash before returning to his personal residence and AMC headquarters in the Kansas City area. He has worked “on a full-time basis” since his release from the hospital, the statement said.
“I so much want to thank the immensely skilled and caring staff of the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurological Sciences,” Aron said. “In thinking more broadly about what transpired of late, I am a poster child for listening to one’s own body, and immediately seeking emergency medical care at the very first signs of any potentially serious abnormality. I urge any and all not to delay should warning signs ever arise. For those alert enough to obtain such care quickly, the incredibly devoted men and women in emergency rooms the world over save lives every single day.”
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