BASIS OF PRESENTATION (Policies)

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2021

Temporarily suspended or limited operations. Throughout the first quarter of 2020, the Company temporarily suspended theatre operations in its U.S. markets and International markets in compliance with local, state, and federal governmental restrictions and recommendations on social gatherings to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and as a precaution to help ensure the health and safety of the Company’s guests and theatre staff. As of March 17, 2020, all of the Company’s U.S. and International theatre operations were temporarily suspended. The Company resumed limited operations in the International markets in early June 2020 and limited operations in the U.S. markets in late August 2020. A COVID-19 resurgence during the fourth quarter of 2020 resulted in additional local, state, and federal governmental restrictions and many previously reopened theatres in International markets temporarily suspended operations again.

As a result of these temporarily suspended or limited operations, the Company’s revenues and expenses for the six months ended June 30, 2021 were significantly lower than the revenues and expenses for the six months ended June 30, 2020, with significantly lower revenues and expenses during the first quarter of 2021 compared to the first quarter of 2020, partially offset by increased revenues and expenses during the second quarter of 2021 compared to the second quarter of 2020.

Liquidity

Liquidity. As of June 30, 2021, the Company has cash and cash equivalents of approximately $1.8 billion. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Company adjusted certain elements of its business strategy and took significant steps to preserve cash and is continuing to take significant steps to preserve cash, by eliminating non-essential costs, including reductions to its variable costs and elements of its fixed cost structure.

In addition to preserving cash, the Company enhanced liquidity through debt issuances, debt exchanges and equity sales as previously reported in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2020 and in its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the three months ended March 31, 2021. See Note 6—Corporate Borrowings and Finance Lease Obligations and Note 7—Stockholders’ Equity for further information. Recent updates to the Company’s liquidity enhancement initiatives are as follows:

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The launch of two additional “at-the-market” equity offerings to raise capital through the sale of the Company’s Class A common stock. During April and May of 2021, the Company sold 43.0 million shares, generating $427.5 million in gross proceeds and paid fees to sales agents of $10.7 million. In June of 2021, the Company

sold 11.55 million shares, generating $587.4 million in gross proceeds and paid fees to sales agents of $14.7 million and other fees of $0.3 million.

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The June 2021 issuance of 8.5 million shares of Class A common stock to Mudrick Capital Management, LP (“Mudrick”) in a private placement for $230.5 million in gross proceeds and paid fees of approximately $0.1 million related to this transaction.

The Company believes its existing cash and cash equivalents, together with cash generated from operations, will be sufficient to fund its operations, satisfy its obligations, including cash outflows for deferred rent and planned capital expenditures, and comply with minimum liquidity and financial covenant requirements under its debt covenants related to borrowings pursuant to the Senior Secured Revolving Credit Facility and Odeon Term Loan Facility for at least the next 12 months. In order to achieve net positive operating cash flows and long-term profitability, the Company believes it will need to increase attendance levels significantly from their current levels to achieve levels in line with pre COVID-19 attendance. The Company believes the global re-opening of its theatres, the anticipated volume of titles available for theatrical release, and the anticipated broad appeal of many of those titles will support increased attendance levels. However, there remain significant risks that may negatively impact attendance, including a resurgence of COVID related restrictions, potential movie-goer reluctance to attend theatres due to concerns about the COVID variant strains, movie studios release schedules and direct to streaming or other changing movie studio practices.

The Company entered the Ninth Amendment (as defined below) to the Credit Agreement (as defined below) pursuant to which the requisite revolving lenders party thereto agreed to extend the suspension period for the financial covenant (the secured leverage ratio) applicable to the Senior Secured Revolving Credit Facility (as defined below) from March 31, 2021 to March 31, 2022 (the “Extended Covenant Suspension Period”), as described, and on the terms and conditions specified, therein. The Company is currently subject to minimum liquidity requirements of approximately $145 million, of which $100 million is required under the conditions for the Extended Covenant Suspension Period, as amended, under the Senior Secured Revolving Credit Facility, and £32.5 million (approximately $45 million) of which is required under the Odeon Term Loan Facility. Following the expiration of the Extended Covenant Suspension Period, the Company will be subject to the financial covenant under the Senior Secured Revolving Credit Facility, beginning with the quarter ending June 30, 2022. The Company currently expects it will be able to comply with this financial covenant. See Note 6—Corporate Borrowings and Finance Lease Obligations for further information. The Company’s liquidity needs thereafter will depend, among other things, on the timing of a full resumption of operations, the timing of movie releases and its ability to generate cash from operations.

The Company received rent concessions provided by the lessors that aided in mitigating the economic effects of COVID-19 during the pandemic. These concessions primarily consisted of rent abatements and the deferral of rent payments. As a result of the deferral of rent payments of approximately $420.6 million as of June 30, 2021, the Company’s cash expenditures for rent are scheduled to increase significantly in the second half of 2021 and future years. See Note 2—Leases for further information.

Use of Estimates

Use of Estimates. The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the condensed consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

Principles of Consolidation

Principles of Consolidation. The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of AMC, as discussed above, and should be read in conjunction with the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10–K for the year ended December 31, 2020. The accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2020, which was derived from audited financial statements, and the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America for interim financial information and in accordance with the instructions to Form 10–Q. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and footnotes required by the accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America for complete consolidated financial statements. In the opinion of management, these interim financial statements reflect all adjustments (consisting of normal recurring adjustments) necessary for a fair presentation of the Company’s financial position and results of operations. All significant intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. Due to the seasonal nature of the Company’s business and the suspension of operations at all the Company’s theatres due to the COVID-19 pandemic, results for the six months ended June 30, 2021 are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for the year ending December 31, 2021. The Company manages its business under two reportable segments for its theatrical exhibition operations, U.S. markets and International markets.

Baltics' theatre sale

Baltics’ theatre sale. On August 28, 2020, the Company entered into an agreement to sell its equity interest in Forum Cinemas OU, which consisted of nine theatres located in the Baltics’ region (Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia) and was included in the Company’s International markets reportable segment. The completion of the sale took place in several steps and was contingent upon clearance from each regulatory competition council in each country. In October 2020, the Company completed the divestiture of its equity interest in Latvia. In February 2021, the Company received cash consideration for the remaining equity interest in Estonia of $3.8 million (€3.2 million), net of cash of $0.3 million. In May 2021, the Company received cash consideration of $31.4 million (€26.2 million), net of cash of $0.1 million and transaction costs of $0.3 million, which completed the sale of its remaining 51% equity interest in Lithuania and eliminated the Company’s noncontrolling interest in Forum Cinemas OU. The Company recorded the net gain from the sale of its equity interest in Forum Cinemas OU of $5.5 million, net of transaction costs of $2.6 million, in investment income, during the three and six months ended June 30, 2021.

Restricted Cash

Restricted Cash. Restricted cash is cash held in the Company’s bank accounts in International markets as a guarantee for certain landlords.

Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)

Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss). The following table presents the change in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) by component:


	Foreign
(In millions)	Currency		Pension Benefits		Total
Balance December 31, 2020	$	60.1	$	(21.4)	$	38.7
Other comprehensive income (loss)		(33.4)		3.8		(29.6)
Realized loss on foreign currency transactions reclassified into investment expense (income)		(0.9)		—		(0.9)
Balance June 30, 2021	$	25.8	$	(17.6)	$	8.2

Accumulated depreciation and amortization

Accumulated depreciation and amortization. Accumulated depreciation was $2,417.7 million and $2,243.1 million at June 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, respectively, related to property. Accumulated amortization of intangible assets was $43.3 million and $42.0 million at June 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, respectively.

Other expense (income)

Other expense (income). The following table sets forth the components of other expense (income):


	Three Months Ended				Six Months Ended
(In millions)	June 30, 2021		June 30, 2020		June 30, 2021		June 30, 2020
Derivative liability fair value adjustment for embedded conversion feature in the Convertible Notes	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	(0.5)
Derivative asset fair value adjustment for contingent call option related to the Class B common stock purchase and cancellation agreement		—		(6.4)		—		13.7
Credit losses (income) related to contingent lease guarantees		(3.7)		3.9		(5.7)		9.2
Governmental assistance due to COVID-19- International markets		(42.2)		(4.4)		(50.4)		(4.4)
Governmental assistance due to COVID-19 - Domestic markets		—		—		(4.2)		—
Foreign currency transaction (gains) losses		3.4		(2.1)		(0.4)		(0.1)
Non-operating components of net periodic benefit cost (income)		(0.2)		0.1		(0.4)		0.1
Financing fees related to modification of debt agreements		—		2.8		1.0		2.8
Other		—		(0.5)		—		(0.5)
Total other expense (income)	$	(42.7)	$	(6.6)	$	(60.1)	$	20.3

Accounting Pronouncements Recently Adopted

Accounting Pronouncements Recently Adopted

Income Taxes. In December 2019, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued ASU 2019-12, Income Taxes (Topic 740) Simplifying the Accounting for Income Taxes (“ASU 2019-12”), which is intended to improve consistency and simplify several areas of existing guidance. ASU 2019-12 removes certain exceptions to the general principles related to the approach for intraperiod tax allocation, the methodology for calculating income taxes in

an interim period and the recognition of deferred tax liabilities for outside basis differences. The new guidance also clarifies the accounting for transactions that result in a step-up in the tax basis for goodwill. ASU 2019-12 was effective for the Company in the first quarter of 2021. The adoption of ASU 2019-12 did not have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.