AMC Entertainment, Inc. And Dreamscape Immersive Announce Wide-Ranging Strategic Partnership

"Dreamscape Immersive ushers in an exciting new world in virtual reality and reminds us through its trailblazing all-enveloping technology that we really are living in the 21st century. A dazzling future is now at hand," said Adam Aron, CEO and President of AMC Entertainment. "What makes Dreamscape Immersive and AMC Theatres a perfect fit together is the vast and impressive experience of Dreamscape's founders in cinematic storytelling that is sure to resonate with AMC's moviegoers."

As part of the three-pronged partnership, AMC will be the lead investor in a $20M Series B financing round. AMC will commit $10M in equity investment into Dreamscape Immersive and will finance up to six Dreamscape Immersive VR centers within AMC cinemas and standalone locations in North America and the U.K. over the next 18 months. These locations are in addition to Dreamscape Immersive's flagship location at Westfield Century City Mall in Los Angeles, slated to open to the public in Q1 2018. In addition to the round, AMC will also invest $10M into a content fund.

Walter Parkes, Dreamscape Immersive co-chairman notes, "While Dreamscape's immersive technologies represent the cutting edge of the digital world, its heart and soul rests firmly in the shared language of film – so it's tremendously exciting that our first major commercial partnership is with the world's largest cinema exhibitor."  Dreamscape Immersive CEO Bruce Vaughn adds, "We look forward to working with AMC to offer audiences the opportunity to actually step into and experience imaginative worlds previously only available through watching movies."

The company, spearheaded by Parkes, Wall, CEO and former Disney Imagineering chief Bruce Vaughn, and COO Aaron Grosky, utilizes unique body-mapping technologies, developed by the Swiss research foundation Artanim, which give participants full body presence as rendered avatars inside of extraordinary virtual worlds. Unlike other VR platforms, Dreamscape Immersive offers a social experience in which participants explore and interact with up to six people simultaneously, untethered from a computer, with full use of their senses – just as they would in the real world.  

Dreamscape Immersive has green-lit its first piece of original content and is currently in licensing conversations with several major studios and IP-holders. The company completed its Series A funding in January 2017, with a roster of initial investors including Bold Capital Partners, Warner Bros., 21st Century Fox, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), IMAX Corporation, Westfield Corporation, and Steven Spielberg. It has also attracted an A-list group of advisors including Yves Behar, renowned industrial designer, as Brand and Design Advisor; Hans Zimmer, Music Advisor; Dan Fellman, Past President, Domestic Distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures, as Distribution Advisor; Rick Carter, Academy Award winning production designer, as Production Advisor; Tom Staggs, former COO of the Walt Disney Company, as Corporate Strategy Advisor; and Gore Verbinski, Academy Award winning filmmaker, as Creative Advisor.

About Dreamscape Immersive
Dreamscape Immersive is a location-based VR entertainment company that was founded in January, 2017.  Led by co-chairmen Walter Parkes, Kevin Wall, CEO Bruce Vaughn and COO Aaron Grosky, with technology created by Swiss research institute Artanim, Dreamscape offers untethered VR experiences with body-mapping technology that allows participants to enter into, explore, and interact within cinematic worlds in a way they never dreamed possible. The Dreamscape Immersive team is made up of a dynamic group of cinematic storytellers, music trailblazers, theme park attractions-experts, gaming executives, technologists and medical researchers, who all share one thing in common: a collective commitment to bringing an entirely new entertainment experience to a mass audience. Dreamscape Immersive is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

About AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc.
AMC (NYSE: AMC) is the largest movie exhibition company in the U.S., in Europe and throughout the world with approximately 1,000 theatres and 11,000 screens across the globe. AMC has propelled innovation in the exhibition industry by: deploying more plush power-recliner seats; delivering enhanced food and beverage choices; generating greater guest engagement through its loyalty program, web site and smart phone apps; offering premium large format experiences and playing a wide variety of content including the latest Hollywood releases and independent programming. AMC operates among the most productive theatres in the United States' top markets, having the #1 or #2 market share positions in 22 of the 25 largest metropolitan areas of the United States, including the top three markets (NY, LA, Chicago). Through its Odeon subsidiary AMC operates in 14 European countries and is the # 1 theatre chain in Estonia, Finland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Spain, Sweden and UK & Ireland. For more information, go to www.amcteatres.com.

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