New shares will be issued with new big player(s). We are unsure of the short percentage. Inaccurate reporting some might say. Others saying that AMC is a large international company and we do not know how this gets carried forward to the US portion. Class B shares are converted to Class A
I quote:
A U.S.-based division of Wanda (AMC China) converted its Class B common stock in AMC to Class A shares on Monday, Feb. 1, "in order to permit sales of its common stock," AMC revealed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday.