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Cruis what do you mean it is going straight to Netflix, I was of the understanding that is a cinema release movie!?

Mountainous, If most of us really are LTH here and most are also a fair bit below our buy in average I don't see the value in a few percentage points rise for part of a day before falling back.

I said price rose on Bond, but importantly it didn't last very long.
Yes Spiderman and court result same time but news of these combined didn't cancel each other out the price fell off yet another cliff losing near half value before a small recovery.

The SP goes up and down almost every single day with or without any news.
Who can honestly say they can trade these movements and get them right constantly?

Heck we can go back a year if we really want and say SP was £1:24 and we had the debts then, the business was only about to open AGAIN and we knew of the Cineplex case hanging over us.

As I said if there is a significant and lasting rise to SP on back of Dr Strange box office only I will be delighted to come on and say how wrong I was.

Hussartbr I don't do something as foolish as predict short term share prices.

If two years on this board has taught many of us anything it is how foolish it is to predict SP movements/prices.
Almost every week or even day we have had someone shown to be absolutely wrong on that.

I HOPE at some point while I still hold these shares the price will be significantly higher than it is now.
It sitting at 1/4 of what it was when many of us here were holding and showing good profits but not selling doesn't have me jumping for joy I can honestly say that.
We also have a reality that Box Office is miles from where company needs it to be and soon.

Unfortunately there is NOT strong buying currently (or selling).
Look at the volumes.

Even IF this were the case then technicals and a dream of a vote at AGM regards out of country RT settlement neither are related to your claim Dr Strange box office would push share price up.

Anyway let's hope we get a reason, any reason to see a run up on SP .

Hussartbr I will on this occasion be DELIGHTED to be wrong.
What basis do you have for your conclusion though, as I said Spiderman (which I will be surprised if Dr Strange does more than. As will all the sites that forecast box office) failed to raise the share price.

Why?
Well I say 3 main reasons:

Cineplex $1bn
Overall box office is what is ultimately king, not one film and that's so far way short.
Debt.

None of these have improved since Spiderman or Bond.

We can all hope and wish for things, but it is more useful if we have a basis for these hopes.

We shall see in c. 3 week's.

How much do you believe it will raise SP by then?

Hussartbr, while I hope Dr Strange outperforms current forecasts, even if it does I will be surprised if that alone has any material impact on share price.
Currently with Cineplex hanging over us on top of all else then I feel pretty sure it will take much more than one film no matter how big

If you doubt this then look at how short the lift from Bond was and then see how Spiderman had ZERO noticeable impact.

Let's hope we start racking up quarters of strong box office, then I can see some possibilities with SP.

Never mind ONLY 300% gain from here and we are back to a year ago where many of us should have taken different action.

Hey ho hey ho it's off to AGM we go!!!

Yes it was indeed that venue BB.
Yeah light-hearted sill fun movie.

Some nice snaps of Sandra Bullock etal on Cineworld Social media outside Cineworld for what I assume was a UK premiere :-)

Continuing your cine losses over on xrp I see.

* Evil smile*

£1:83 by Friday and we will all be laffing so hard some may need new incontinence panties.

** Friday referred to is Friday 37th Janeverary 3027.

BB, The UK is NOT the issue or for us the priority.
UK has been running fairly strong since re-opening on the whole (though still below levels company will ultimately want but reasonably close).
The US is where we need MASSIVE improvements from what has so far been witnessed.

Hopefully that's not too far away (fingers and toes crossed).

For some clarity on possibly errors or missunderstandings earlier in thread and previous discussions.

Box Office Mojo numbers used is $ from ticket sales so we don't know actual attendance as such, but we know spend per person is running higher post COVID than pre COVID. Both in terms of ticket prices, premium experiences e.g. 4dx, 270o Superscreen etc AND from concessions spend (B.O.MOJO only ticket revenues).

Cineworld have given us details on revenues and their comparison is TICKETS SALES + CONCESSIONS v 2019 comparative.

So BOMOJO 2021/2022 Ticket sales v 2019 as % for US.
Cineworld 2021 Tickets plus concessions v 2019 as % in (brackets)

July 45% (50%)
Aug. 49% (54%)
Sept. 54% (60%)
Oct. 80% (90%)
Nov. 54% ( 56%)
Dec. 80% (88%)
Jan. 48% ( 54%)
Feb. 58% ( 64%)
March 60% ( * not yet comfirmed, following previous suggest 65 - 70%)

So Cineworld revenues are NOT significantly higher and very close to 2019 levels.
They are for most months WAY too low and short of required.

It's difficult to know the company's flow through of revenues to profits v 2019 as they have made savings but also taken on additional much more expensive debts.

The revenue mix will flow higher percentage through to bottom line than previous (currently at least) as a higher portion is coming from the much more lucrative concessions.

HOWEVER these are also due to much lower attendance levels still as a raw number going to be much lower than pre COVID times.

This is why company is aiming at something less than 100% of 2019 levels as it likely requires a bit less overall revenues to achieve a similar bottom line.

Surviving not increasing debt any more or by small amounts is NOT enough medium to long term so again this is why it has noted US c.85% and UK 90/95% was it!?

Each week, month, quarter, year we are not at those sort of levels reduces the time period to pay down debts and while it's not an aim of the company to pay debts completely, it IS a priority and indeed necessity to reduce current levels and pretty significantly.

Simply put, we compare to 2019 as our debt levels require us to operate at or near those levels in order to not only service these debts but also get into a position of reducing the noose around our neck.
No business wants to be in decline either, so again it is correct to compare and look to exceeded previous good periods.

https://insidethemagic.net/2022/04/doctor-strange-2-isnt-projected-to-dominate-the-box-office-kb1/

https://thedirect.com/article/doctor-strange-2-box-office-projections-mcu-opening

Let's see where this one does end up.

https://www.boxofficepro.com/long-range-box-office-forecast-doctor-strange-in-the-multiverse-of-madness/

Reppyrr,
We closed last year at 31.99 so we haven't really moved in over 3 months now.

Yes, we have been higher in that period (also been lower).
As things stand there is nothing to move us significantly up (or down really but with ongoing uncertainty, small volumes and no institutional buying it's easy to pull the share price down or at least suppress any rise).

Mountainous, Only if Robins idea of a gofundme is successful or an appropriate sponsorship deal is struck to cover my travel and subsistence costs .

Ha ha.
Surely someone on these boards rather closer to where AGM is to be held that could go than this tight Jock ;-)

Cruis, they have already said they do some of this.
Mooky covered in one or more of previous updates. Has also spoke about flexibility in pricing e.g. by location, by movie size, when in its run and such.

LTHAMIGO,
Capex pretty small second half last year and current year.
Mostly only spending on projects that were already committed to some time ago.
Keep in mind most sites are leased and there is likely fair bit cost absorbed by landlords of some of these sites.