CKEC Carmike Cinemas, Inc.

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 22, 2016

Registration No. 333-176201

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1

TO

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

One AMC Way
11500 Ash Street
Leawood, Kansas 66211
(Address, including zip code, of Principal Executive Offices)

DEREGISTRATION OF UNSOLD SECURITIES

Carmike Cinemas, Inc. (the “Company”) is filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-176201) (the “Registration Statement”) filed with the SEC on August 10, 2011, pursuant to which the Company registered 1,600,000 shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.03 per share, for issuance under the Company’s Carmike Cinemas, Inc. 2004 Incentive Stock Plan (the “Plan”).

Pursuant to the terms of the Amended and Restated Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of July 24, 2016 (the “Merger Agreement”), among the Company, AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. (“AMC”) and Congress Merger Subsidiary, Inc., an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of AMC (“Merger Sub”), Merger Sub merged with and into the Company, with the Company continuing as the surviving corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of AMC (the “Merger”).  In connection therewith, and subject to the terms of the Merger Agreement, at the effective time and as a result of the Merger, each share of common stock issued and outstanding immediately prior to the effective time of the Merger, was cancelled, and each option to purchase shares of Common Stock will no longer be exercisable for shares of common stock.  Accordingly, pursuant to the undertaking contained in the Registration Statement to remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold, the Company is filing this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement to deregister any and all shares of the Company’s common stock covered by the Registration Statement which remain unissued as of the date of this filing.

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