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AMC to buy Europe’s Odeon & UCI in deal helped by weaker British pound

AMC Entertainment Holdings said Tuesday that it would acquire European movie theatre operator Odeon & UCI Cinemas Group for about £500 million ($650 million) in a deal helped by the weaker British pound following the UK’s vote to leave the European Union.

AMC to buy Europe’s Odeon & UCI in deal helped by weaker British pound

AMC Entertainment Holdings said Tuesday that it would acquire European movie theatre operator Odeon & UCI Cinemas Group for about £500 million ($650 million) in a deal helped by the weaker British pound following the UK’s vote to leave the European Union.

AMC said while there are "some uncertainties" related to the Brexit vote, the decades-low exchange rate between the US dollar and British pound made the deal highly favourable to AMC.

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