---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001411579-25-000077"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AMC"
cik: "0001411579"
company_name: "AMC ENTERTAINMENT HOLDINGS, INC."
filed_at: "2025-12-11T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T13:29:09.798688+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# AMC stockholders approve doubling authorized shares to 1.1B; board declassification fails

## Summary
- Authorized Class A common stock increased from 550M to 1.1B shares.
- Board declassification proposal failed — 90.3% for but needed majority of outstanding shares.
- Proposals to allow written consent and remove special meeting limit also failed on same threshold.
- Class II directors Aron, Koch, Saich elected to terms expiring 2028.
- Say-on-pay approved with 52.8% for; EY ratified as auditor.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001411579-25-000077
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AMC
- cik: 0001411579
- company_name: AMC ENTERTAINMENT HOLDINGS, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-12-11T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 3.03, 5.03, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1411579/000141157925000077/0001411579-25-000077-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1411579/000141157925000077/amc-20251210x8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  AMC ENTERTAINMENT HOLDINGS, INC.: Increased authorized Class A common stock from 550M to 1.1B shares and removed references to retired Class B common stock and prior reclassifications, conversions and splits (effective 2025-12-10).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2025-12-10
  source text: the Company’s stockholders approved an amendment to the Company’s Third Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the “Certificate of Incorporation”) to increase the total number of authorized shares of the Company’s Class A common stock (“Common Stock”) from 550,000,000 to 1,100,000,000 shares of Common stock (the “Share Increase”). The Company also amended the Certificate of Incorporation to remove references to Class B common stock, which was previously retired, and references to prior reclassifications, conversions and splits of common stock.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1411579/000141157925000077/0001411579-25-000077-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.