AMC attendance surpasses 2019 levels for first time during pandemic – CNBC
An AMC theatre is pictured in Times Square in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, June 2, 2021.
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Disney's "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings" topped $90 million in sales at the domestic box office over the four-day Labor Day weekend, helping AMC Entertainment smash its admissions record for the holiday.
More than 2 million people watched movies at AMC's U.S.-based cinemas between Sept. 2 and Sept. 5, marking the highest number of admissions for Labor Day weekend in the company's history.
This holiday weekend also marked the first time since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic that attendance during a weekend in 2021 outpaced attendance from the same weekend in 2019.
"This encouraging surge in attendance at...