AMC’s new place as a favourite of the newest YOLO binge can also be boosting the shares of different movie show chains, although the aren’t rising practically as a lot but.

Cinemark Holdings was up practically 12% by early Wednesday afternoon, whereas U.Ok.-based Cineworld closed buying and selling in London with a ten% acquire. Nationwide CineMedia, which makes a speciality of on-screen promoting on the main chains, was final up 20%. These nonetheless look delicate subsequent to AMC’s shares — final up 236% for the day.

Satirically, the enhance got here following a little bit of downbeat information for theater chains. AT&T reported that activations to its HBO Max streaming service totaled 17.2 million on the finish of the fourth quarter —double what the service had on the finish of the final quarter.

That may very well be a foul omen for theaters, because the quarter included the discharge of “Surprise Lady 1984” into each theaters and on HBO Max on the identical day — that’s solely the primary of a number of Warner Bros. blockbusters that can see such remedy this yr. Hopefully, the Reddit crowd saves some cash to choose up some precise film tickets when the time comes.