What I’m Hearing: The Adam Aron Sit-Down, Ellison’s Board Buddy & Maha’s Reboot

Welcome back to What I’m Hearing, back home from CinemaCon a little early so I missed today’s Disney and Paramount presentations. Thanks to everyone who showed up yesterday for my panel, the ballroom was packed! On Monday, Scott Mendelson and I will have a CinemaCon-themed look at the rest of this year (and a little of ’25) at the box office, but today I have a different movie-related treat.
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Welcome back to What I’m Hearing, back home from CinemaCon a little early so I missed today’s Disney and Paramount presentations. (I’m especially sad I missed the Gladiator II pageantry.) Thanks to everyone who showed up yesterday for my panel, the ballroom was packed! On Monday, Scott Mendelson and I will have a CinemaCon-themed look at the rest of this year (and a little of ’25) at the box office, but today I have a different movie-related treat…

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Thursday Thoughts…

Ellison’s Paramount board buddy: Much has been made this week of the four Paramount Global board members who will not stand for reelection at the shareholder meeting in June. But amid Paramount’s owner entering into exclusive sale talks with David Ellison, almost nothing has been said publicly about...

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RIPLEY, the new limited series from Academy Award® Winner Steven Zaillian follows Tom Ripley, a grifter scraping by in early 1960s New York who is hired by a wealthy man to travel to Italy to try to convince his vagabond son to return home. Tom's acceptance of the job is the first step into a complex life of deceit, fraud and murder. Based on Patricia Highsmith’s bestselling Tom Ripley novels. Andrew Scott plays Tom Ripley. Dakota Fanning plays Marge Sherwood. Johnny Flynn plays Dickie Greenleaf.

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Planet of the Ape

AMC C.E.O. Adam Aron and I have had many, uh, spirited conversations in private over the past few years, so I was excited when he agreed to join a panel that I moderated in Las Vegas, where we talked candidly about bankruptcy fears, his faith in a 2025 box office rebound, his desires for Apple and Amazon, and all his meme-stock-loving APE buddies.

MATTHEW BELLONI

Regular readers of What I’m Hearing are very familiar with Adam Aron, the C.E.O. of AMC Entertainment, the world’s largest movie theater company. Since naming him Villain of the Year in 2021 for his stock sales during the height of the “APEs” meme craziness, I’ve followed the AMC saga through the devastating aftermath of Covid, which shuttered most of his 10,000 theaters globally and 8,200 in the U.S. and Canada. To Aron’s credit, he has so far prevented AMC from going bankrupt, a fate that befell rivals Cineworld (home of Regal) and Alamo Drafthouse. But some believe it’s only a matter of time for AMC, and that Chapter 11 might even be...

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