AMC-Universal Peace Deal Sets Stage for Increased Tensions Elsewhere in Hollywood

With movie theaters closed and production paused for the foreseeable future, some people in the movie industry are asking why AMC and Universal decided this was the moment to make such a dramatic change

AMC, the world’s largest theater chain, and Universal agreed to shrink the time between a movie’s opening in theaters and when customers can rent it to watch at

home—to just 17 days, from 75. The two companies had been at public loggerheads over the issue of when to release movies for home viewing just a few months ago....

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