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US theater chain whose SEC filings show 73% of 2025 tickets sold online and whose Lincoln Square 13 site drew the 1,500-foot Dune 3 line.
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Adam Aron apologized on X after the Dune: Part Three onsale broke AMC's site and promised $2 million in fixes. The number that explains the failure is 30: the count of 70mm IMAX venues.
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AMC's filings show 73% of tickets sold online in 2025, up from 8.5% in 2013. Scarcity and a failed resale market for 70mm Imax seats just sent premium demand back to the physical box office.
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Onsales that open four months before release concentrate a year's peak traffic into one morning. AMC's CEO says Dune traffic ran triple the last Spider-Man, and the stack did not hold.
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