AMC Partners With Zoom to Bring Meetings to a Theater Near You – CNET [CNET]

Zoom Rooms at AMC aims to offer a movie theater experience, complete with snacks and refreshments, to go along with your meetings.

AMC Theaters has partnered with Zoom to transform select movie theaters into enormous video conferencing Zoom Rooms, it said Monday. It’s designed to offer companies with decentralized workforces and customers a way to bring people from different markets together “for cohesive virtual and in-person events and meeting experiences,” it noted in a release.

The Zoom Rooms at AMC service will offer traditional movie theater food and beverage options and provide all the equipment needed for a full Zoom Room experience. Companies will be able to book movie theaters online, with capacity ranges between 75 and 150 seats for three-hour blocks at a time across multiple markets simultaneously.

“One of the lessons learned during the pandemic when so many of us were forced to work remotely was the importance of a reliable, dynamic communications platform,” AMC Theatres CEO Adam Aron said. “We also learned that even though we may be spread far apart, the ability to come together in person is as important as ever. That is why I’m so excited about this AMC partnership with Zoom.”

Zoom Rooms at AMC is slated to launch sometime in 2023 across 17 major US markets.