Final bids are due April 10, said Joshua Sussberg of Kirland Ellis. Two strategic suitors were potentially interested in the full company but the offers were too lowball to consider moving forward with. Meanwhile, a comprehensive restructuring plan is close to being ready, he said, as Regal, its lenders and unsecured creditors are “dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s.
Sussberg said he hoped a plan might be filed as soon as tomorrow. A rep for the lenders agreed the sides are close, but noted that these “are important i’s to dot and t’s to cross.” Cineworld filed for bankruptcy last fall in U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Texas. Judge Marvin Isgur said today he’s sticking with an April 20 date to go over the plan and set May 26 as a confirmation date. Debtors would end up owning 100% of the publicly trading company, which last week as required by UK securities law, set a meeting for beleaguered shareholders outside London, also on April 20.
Bankruptcy has allowed Regal to shutter theaters and renegotiate leases with landlords. Sussberg, as in previous hearings, stressed a recent string of hits at a recovering box office, albeit entering a bit of a slower period until May. He also cited reports that Apple will spend $1 billion annually on theatrical releases.
The hearing comes amid speculation about another theater deal after a report that Amazon may be looking at buying AMC Entertainment, boosting AMC stock.
This was always going to be the issue and why Cineworld got into the mess as it was madness to buy Regal in 2017 as why would you buy into a market that has had little real growth in over 20 years similar to the UK
I want Cineplex to buy the Regal portion.
CEOAdam - Let’s buy them? 🤔🤔🤔