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thriller, we already have strong visibility of not only this year but next and indeed few years ahead. At least for the corner stone of studio and cinema profits. That is the sequels and Marvel/DC mega earners.
This was covered in company presentation and has been covered several times.
Along with this very strong base we have there will be other as yet unknown movies that will prove very successful.
It is in the interests of studios, actors and all involved to continue making product that will generate profits.
I won't personally expect any period of years any the soon that are terrible. (There will off course be fluctuations week to week or month to month. One year may end bit down on previous. However I don't see a shortage of big money earnings any time soon).

KTP, Listing was something a percentage here read WAY too much into. That's not the company's fault.
For Cine or any number of other companies it was and indeed is an option that is there to be considered and one day might occur.
They NEVER stated they were actively pursuing that individual avenue.

Your money your choice, our money our choice.
Nobody forces us to invest in any company, we all obviously do our own research and invest accordingly.
Turnip ;-)

Could the company not survive somehow?
Say even at the expense of shareholders by way of, oh I don't know ;-).....

Not a single mention of that claim RS.
As I fully expected not a mention on US listing either, as I have said few times here it was/is only one of many avenues the company "might" one day go down.

TS, No worries. I would say there really was little of note that we didn't already have good indications off. Few little bits and pieces nice to see/hear, but maybe most I took was no major negative shocks we didn't know off.

Cineplex is the elephant in the room, and as much as management talk a positive game on it, we and the markets are in the dark over final outcome (mind they were confident pre initial trial, or at least spoke confident).
I would be surprised/disappointed if we didn't at least achieve significantly reduced payout personal opinion, but despite what anyone says we just don't know.

Content with operational side of matters, can see where a positive path ahead can be there

Nothing new from FT in their "angles" when reporting on Cineworld.
That's my only opinion on their headlines.

Moving along....

Oh yes and debt covenants seems they have continued support on these with relaxation on what's required.
Percentages of revenues v 2019 now the acceptable measure.
For Q2 onwards I would fully expect us to achieve the 80 (85!?)% plus.

No, not your favourite Indian, Chinese, Kebab place.

From today's release and webanair update with further confirmation of what we all knew already.

COVID - now HIGHLY likely to be of little to zero negative impact to business.
Viewing habits - those that enjoy movies still enjoy movies and always will. The positive of COVID is that there is good potential for these people to go even more AND for more people to go (reference the company survey results increase in all reasons to go to cinema over previous years).
Measures taken by company will greatly help going forward and more than offset increased debt and cost of it. For example - closed poor performing sites, opened new good performing sites, refurbished key location sites that will significantly improve profitability for group, increased food/beverage and gaming options combined with people going larger all high profit elements of business.
Month by month revenues if it shows clearly if we have the content then people are going at levels that will see us profit and be able to reduce and improve financing/debts.
We have ahead of us a near certain list of Movies from now through next couple years that will support business achieving their 85% + levels.
October, December, Feb first half shows this clearly.
We have similar maybe in a couple cases even better product pretty much every month now.
Tough and costly decisions during COVID times have and will pay handsomely going forward i.e. the refurbishments and openings in key locations.
Market share due to the above has returned and good expectations to increase market share in 2022 and beyond (this sort of thing is what derampers omitt from their doom when talking debt or profit levels, similar with the spend per person and higher mix of premium viewings tickets costs)
Expect and working on further growth in membership schemes.
Studios and Cinema are a strong partnership and in both interest to maximise profits. They have good relations and have learnt from last 2 years.
Rent defferals obviously have a cashflow cost over next few years, but deals done mean not a significant effect on cashflows.
Last but certainly not least - Cineplex - Full faith in Canadian judicial system - strong confidence in appeal and system - 3 judges - added another legal team that have expertise in appeals - unsecured debt - full appeal from Cineworld expect to be in end next month.

Cineplex position will likely continue to drag share price so it will be excellent for this to start to unravel hopefully very positively.

I will personally also be keeping close eye on Box office mojo site and tracking each of our months ahead .
Hopeful and expecting good quarters from Q2 onwards.
Anyone missing foolish derampers head over and look back over last week or so on A D V F N site, bricksomethingorother was hilarious with his continued 10p then zero and company shareholders wipeout premonition for today. Ha ha

I would be surprised if any significant change.
The main uncertainties are still there for the shorters to be happy holding.

What's your favourite song from the Blues Brothers soundtrack ;-)

Styvow, part of today's RNS. Fairly well down report.

Naughty Bonks, trying to lead the witness eh ;-)
Apparently 10 more years of losses = profit.

Says it all regards the levels attracted here to spew nonsense.

"The Group does not expect damages to be payable whilst any appeal is ongoing, which is likely to take longer than the assessment out to 30 June 2023"

Cineplex looks like being a drag for a while yet then.
Good and bad, no payment anytime soon but potential to be an ongoing drag on SP.
Will listen in and hopefully pick few decent bits from webinar.
Initial flick through seems like it's slowly slowly on we go but it's all still a struggle.
Don't particularly expect anything huge in SP movements from this, but I won't complain if we are £3 end of day ;-) ha ha

Debt for equity.
Shareholders wipeout.
Negative equity.
Streaming.
Underwater.
Glad I got out.

We willing to trade a company executive for £1;86 per share then? ;-)

".... but that's not how to make money."
I predict I won't listen on how to make money from someone that banked a 70% loss on this share and has more bitterness than a bag of lemons.

I also predict that whatever happens to the share price today, end week, month, end year next 5 years up or down your loss will still be 70%

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/article/ed3715171332/?ref_=bo_hm_hp

HNS,
I think the point was possibly missed.
The business noted percentages and what that would equate to in each scenario.
At the 60% or below (I think it was) it simply wasn't good enough.

At the c. 90% the business was on the right road.

I have paraphrased largely.

Let's not kid ourselves here, at 60% or thereabouts the company does not run profitably and won't get waivers forever more.

The business surely doesn't want to run at say less than 80% of previous revenue levels on an ongoing basis.

We have been reopened for approaching a year now, at some point (soon) the business will want/need to be operating far nearer that c. 90% level.

To think 50 - 70% still is good enough is I would suggest naive.
We know from the business it is not profitable at those levels and more debt is the last thing we need

Cruis a movie I enjoyed also, but it won't do any great numbers at box office.
However getting 2 - 4 of these weekly to support the Marvel etal stuff would be great.