Life Movie theater chain AMC: ‘We have reason to be optimistic’ despite $4.6 billion pandemic loss March 10, 2021 Nathan Bomey, USA TODAY Comments Off on Movie theater chain AMC: ‘We have reason to be optimistic’ despite $4.6 billion pandemic loss AMC Entertainment lost nearly $4.6 billion in 2020 in a crushing year that immersed the nation's largest movie chain in an existential crisis.