AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. (AMC)
Movie theatres, mostly part-time associates. Read November 9, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 23, 2026. Ranked 46 of the 51 Communication Services companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
33%
projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index
End of 2028
42%
Employees, annual report
33,311
Leading staffing pattern
Motion Picture and Video Industries
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.
- Now33%
- End of 202741%
- End of 202842%
- End of 203042%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 61%
- Becomes checking a model's work 29%
- Handed over with lighter checks 9%
The filing states 33,311 associates at December 31, 2025, 2,931 full-time and 30,380 part-time, 23,777 in the United States, and describes theatre operations with a support center it does not count, so the whole workforce is read at motion picture and video industries by description.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 33% now, 41% at the end of 2027, 42% at the end of 2028, 42% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 42% desk work, 29% people work and 29% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 61% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 29% becomes checking a model's work and 9% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
33,311 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). 23,777 of 33,311 associates in the United States and 9,534 in international markets (stated).
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we employed a total of 33,311 associates consisting of 2,931 full-time and 30,380 part-time associates, down from a total of 33,382 associates consisting of 2,915 full-time and 30,467 part-time associates as of December 31, 2024.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Motion Picture and Video Industries | 100% | The filing describes theatre operations with frontline associates serving guests, food and beverage and premium formats, and a Theatre Support Center with no count, so the whole workforce is read at motion picture and video industries, where theatres sit, by description (c). |
What the filing says about the workforce: 33,311 associates at December 31, 2025: 2,931 full-time and 30,380 part-time; 23,777 in the United States and 9,534 in international markets (Odeon in Europe); frontline operations staffed rapidly at certain times of the year; Theatre Support Center and Theatre Leadership associates complete compliance courses.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Motion Picture and Video Industries, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five. Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.
- Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. (WBD, 35,500 employees)42% now, 55% by 2028
- Cinemark Holdings, Inc. (CNK, 27,900 employees)33% now, 42% by 2028
- The Marcus Corporation (MCS, 8,390 employees)27% now, 33% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
25 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI mostly in its risk factors: the use of AI in filmmaking has been a significant issue in negotiations between the studios that supply its movies and the writers and actors guilds, and a failure to agree could affect the supply of movies for its theatres.
- “The following is a summary list of risk factors: 19 Table of Contents Financial Risks ● absent significant increases in revenues and attendance, our ability to obtain additional liquidity, which if not realized or is insufficient, likely would result in us seeking an in-court or out-of-court restructuring of our liabilities, and in the event of such future liquidation or bankruptcy proceeding,...”
- “Use of artificial intelligence ("AI") technology in the filmmaking process has been a significant issue in 24 Table of Contents recent negotiations between the film studios that supply the movies we exhibit and the various labor unions involved in the filmmaking process, including the writers and screen actors guilds.”
- “If studios and labor unions are unable to agree on the parameters of AI technology utilization in the filmmaking process, it could negatively impact the supply of movies available for exhibition in our theatres.”
- “Additionally, audience acceptance of movies made utilizing AI technology is not known.”
- “In addition, new technology, including generative AI, is evolving rapidly and our ability to compete could be adversely affected if our competitors gain an advantage by using such technologies.”
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20210median 0
- Fiscal 20220median 0
- Fiscal 20230median 1
- Fiscal 202421median 4
- Fiscal 202525median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 2,931 | 2026-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 2,915 | 2025-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 2,881 | 2024-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 2,787 | 2023-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 3,046 | 2022-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 3,449 | 2021-03-12 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 3,952 | 2020-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 4,408 | 2019-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 4,332 | 2018-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 3,194 | 2017-03-10 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 970 | 2016-03-08 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 900 | 2015-03-10 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 900 | 2014-03-04 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The collector's pick, 33,382, is the prior year's total named in the same sentence, and the Index row carries the 2,931 full-time count; the stated total at December 31, 2025 is 33,311 (rule 2).
- No count by function; one pattern by description (c), the uncounted Theatre Support Center inside it.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001411579-26-000016, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 33% now and 42% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc.'s own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. employ?
- 33,311 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states. About 71% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Motion Picture and Video Industries; by those patterns the work is about 42% desk work, 29% people work and 29% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 25 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 0, 21 and 25 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on November 9, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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