AMC, the world’s biggest movie theater chain, said it will open virtually the entirety of its US areas beginning Friday, denoting a critical achievement for the company that barely evaded bankruptcy in the midst of the pandemic.

Shares of AMC rose almost 6% to $14.35 in early Thursday exchanging on the news.

AMC’s shares have flooded more than sixfold this year during the “Reddit Rally” that has additionally supported shares of beforehand out for the count names including GameStop.

AMC said it would open 98% of its US theaters by Friday and that by March 26, 99 percent of its entryways would be open. The current week’s reopening will incorporate every one of the 25 of its Los Angeles region theaters and each of the eight of its San Diego region theaters in California. AMC said it anticipates 52 of its 54 areas in the state to be open as of March 22 “when legitimate neighborhood endorsements are set up.”

AMC theaters are reopening with restricted capacity, which change dependent on state guidelines. For instance, California said movie theater capacity should be restricted to 25 percent or 100 individuals, “whichever is less,” while in New York the breaking point is basically 25%.

Also, all AMC theaters will resume with its pandemic-time safety conventions, which encompasses mandatory mask wearing, improved cleaning, contactless ticket and concession buys and scattered seating.

AMC, which has more than 630 theaters in the US, had to close the entirety of its entryways during the pandemic and consistently verged on petitioning for Chapter 11. At the point when AMC and other movie theater chains started reopening toward the finish of the previous summer, they confronted capacity guidelines and a deficiency of new movies to screen as Hollywood studios deferred their greatest movies.

The Leawood, Kansas-based company lost $4.6 billion out of 2020. It concocted a salvage bundle from the get-go in the year that permitted it to get by for a large portion of 2021, regardless of whether the business doesn’t improve.

“It was by and large one year prior that we shut all AMC areas in the United States,” CEO Adam Aron said in the articulation late Wednesday. With the attention presently on reopening, AMC is “working with the most elevated dedication to the wellbeing and safety,” he said.