AMC AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc

SCHEDULE 13D

Introduction

This Amendment No. 1 (the “Amendment”) is being filed by Wanda America Entertainment, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“WAE”); Qingdao Wanda Movie and TV Investment Co., Ltd., a limited liability company incorporated under the laws of the People’s Republic of China (“QWM”); Dalian Wanda Group Business Service Co., Ltd., a limited liability company incorporated under the laws of the People’s Republic of China (“DWGB”); Wanda America Investment Holding Co. Ltd., a Delaware corporation (“WAI”); Qingdao Wanda Culture Investment Co., Ltd., a limited liability company incorporated  under the laws of the People’s Republic of China (“QWC”); Beijing Wanda Investment Co., Ltd., a limited liability company incorporated under the laws of the People’s Republic of China (“BWI”); Beijing Wanda Culture Industry Group Co., Ltd., a limited liability company incorporated under the laws of the People’s Republic of China (“BWC”); Dalian Wanda Group Co., Ltd., a limited liability company incorporated under the laws of the People’s Republic of China (“DWGC”); Dalian Hexing Investment Co., Ltd., a limited liability company incorporated under the laws of the People’s Republic of China (“DHI”); and Jianlin Wang, a citizen of the People’s Republic of China (“Mr. Wang,” and, together with WAE, QWM, DWGB, WAI, QWC, BWI, BWC, DWGC and DHI, the “Reporting Persons”) and amends the statement on Schedule 13D originally filed by the Reporting Persons on September 18, 2018 (the “Schedule 13D”) relating to the Class A common stock, par value $0.01 per share (“Class A Shares”) of AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Issuer”), which may be deemed to be beneficially owned by certain of the Reporting Persons. The Items below amend the information disclosed under the corresponding Items of the Schedule 13D as described below. Except as specifically provided herein, this Amendment does not modify any of the information previously reported in the Schedule 13D. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings attributed to them in the Schedule 13D.

Item 5. Interest in Securities of the Issuer.

(a)                                 As of the date of this Schedule, the Reporting Persons beneficially own an aggregate of 30,455,290 Class A Shares, or 6.8% of the total outstanding Class A Shares of the Issuer. The beneficial ownership percentages used in this Schedule are calculated based on a total of 450,156,186 Class A Shares outstanding as of March 11, 2021.

(b)                                 The Reporting Persons are deemed to share voting and dispositive power with respect to all 30,455,290 Class A Shares that are beneficially owned by the Reporting Persons.

(c)                                  Except as described below, to the knowledge of the Reporting Persons, none of the persons named in response to Item 5(a) has effected any transactions in the Class A Shares or Class B Shares of the Issuer during the past 60 days.

As reported in a Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the Issuer on January 27, 2021, affiliates of Silver Lake Group, L.L.C. (“Silver Lake”) and certain co-investors (collectively, the “Noteholders”) elected to convert $600.0 million of the Issuer’s 2.95% Convertible Senior Secured Notes due 2026 into shares of Class A common stock at a conversion price of $13.51 per share. The Conversion settled on January 29, 2021 and resulted in the issuance of 44,422,860 shares of Class A common stock to the Noteholders. Pursuant to a Stock Repurchase and Cancellation Agreement (the “Stock Repurchase Agreement”) between the Issuer and WAE, dated as of September 14, 2018, 5,666,000 shares of Class B Common Stock (“Class B Shares”) held by WAE were forfeited and cancelled in connection with the conversion by the Noteholders on January 29, 2021.

On February 1, 2021, WAE converted all 46,103,784 Class B Shares held by the Reporting Persons into 46,103,784 Class A Shares.

On February 1, 2021, WAE sold 2,061,060 shares of Class A common stock in the open market at a weighted average price of $14.5901 per share.

On March 19, 2021, WAE sold 1,582,996 shares of Class A common stock in the open market at a price of $14.43 per share.

On March 20, 2021, WAE sold 12,004,438 shares of Class A common stock in the open market at a price of $13.98 per share.

(d)                                 Except as disclosed in Item 2, no person is known to the Reporting Persons to have the right to receive or the power to direct the receipt of dividends from, or the proceeds from the sale of, any securities covered by this Schedule.

(e)                                  Not applicable.

SIGNATURES

After reasonable inquiry and to the best of my knowledge and belief, I certify that the information set forth in this statement is true, complete and correct.

Date: April 9, 2021