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===13th Openings (2015-Fall 2017)===

'''Logo:''' These openings go over the same theater etiquette points as the previous two openings ("keep track of your stuff", "report suspicious characters", locate exits), but trade elaborate scenarios for items related to a theme.

* '''Horror''': The AMC logo appears and pans down, revealing a platform with blood stains all over it, the text "keep track of your stuff", and a white doll (resembling Annabelle) with {{color|red}} ponytail hair, an orange flower on the heart, {{color|red}} lips, sharp teeth, and glowing cat eyes. The doll cracks its head, then lunges towards the screen, blacking it out. We rotate around the text "report suspicious characters" with lights circling around (similar to the deadlights from ''It''), which then fade away. A static TV can be seen on the side as a hand appears and rocks it for a second. We zoom past the TV to see a door with a white glow behind it, and the text "front, behind, left, right" beside it. The door opens, revealing the floor to be a wooden textured one. We see the text "walk", with lights turning on behind it to reveal "move", "far", and "away". We zoom past the text and go up to an egg sitting on a chamber which opens (a reference to ''Alien''), with the text "coming soon" glowing blue for a moment. We zoom into the glowing portion of the egg, segueing into the MPAA band screen.

* '''Comedy''': The AMC logo appears and pans down, revealing the "keep track of your stuff" text hovering over a {{color|green}} floor (presumably a pool/casino game table) with a shot glass (with what appears to be beer) sitting there. Playing cards, from off-screen, are tossed under the table, residing underneath the text, while casino chips shortly fall afterwards onto them. We flip over to where the text is now next to a {{color|red}}-trimmed phone in which the shot glass rolls into (with tiny beer puddles barely seen next to it). The phone buzzes, as text saying "WHERE'S DOUG?!?!" is typed on-screen from a pop-up table. We zoom underneath the text and see a darkly-lit room with a checker-boarded floor. The text "report suspicious characters" in a {{color|lime|neon green}} color waves around (similar to a ghost). A knock-off version of the ghost trap from ''Ghostbusters'' (with a {{color|blue}}-{{color|yellow}} palette instead of a {{color|gray}}-{{color|yellow}} one) is tossed in from off-screen, opens up, and sucks the text in, with {{color|red}} and {{color|blue}} streaks also being pulled in the process. But the text is instead stripped from it's {{color|lime|neon green}} color, with it turning into the campaign's signature {{color|red}}. Two buttons on the ghost trap light up. The camera then zooms past it, with the text "right" spinning next to a brown-colored speaker with a plastic cup (and one laying down on the bottom) on a mat sitting on a rugged floor. The camera zooms out, revealing the text "front, behind" and "left," all next to the right and in a stacked alignment, via a {{color|blue}} light switching on. Everything thumps to the beat of the music, with a door sitting on the left. The door opens, revealing a light (ala the [[Virtual Studios]] logo) in which the camera zooms into. Over a {{color|darkred|maroon}}-colored polished plaid floor, the "walk" text is seen, with lights turning on behind it to reveal "move", "far", and "away". We fly by the text to a parallel glowing light, which is the edges of a bowling lane. A {{color|orange|carrot orange}} bowling ball rolls down the lane while the background illuminates to reveal a retro-style space background with {{color|yellow}}, {{color|red}}, {{color|blue}}, {{color|orange}}, and {{color|darkviolet|purple}} abstract stars eventually filling the screen (a reference to ''The Big Lebowski''). The camera zooms up to the text "coming soon", with the two words stacked on top of each other. The words are dislodged from their positions and fly off, while two more large stars flip on-screen (one with {{color|yellow}} edges and a {{color|darkgreen|dark green}} interior, and another with {{color|orange}} edges and a {{color|green}} interior). One of them engulfs the screen, segueing into the MPAA band screen.

* '''Action''': The AMC logo appears and pans down, revealing a {{color|brown}} steering wheel with a skull at the center and a chain going off-screen on a sandy floor (a reference to ''Mad Max''). The rusty text "keep track of your stuff" hovers over it. A wind briefly shakes the letters, moves the wheel, and launching it into the air, breaking off the text. We pan backward to reveal a briefcase full of money, passports and keycards (it looks more like play money). The case also has two pockets containing a passport, a notebook with "project debriefing report" written on the front, and $100 bills with a rubber band stuck to it. There is also a {{color|red}} watch counting down sitting on the front, as the same notebook and a red handbook is tossed in the briefcase. All of this has the text "report suspicious characters" hovering up on the top flap. The watch reaches "00" and starts flickering, as the case closes, locks, and the camera pans over it. We pan to a stony Coliseum-like structure (a reference to ''The Maze Runner'') with vines wrapped around the steps and a wooden door, with both halves parting. The camera zooms through it and pans to the right past a wall with arrows scraped on it and the people's names (Thomas, Matt, Rob, etc.) engraved. We briefly pass by leaves and the text "front, behind, left, right" is revealed in front of a mossy stone wall with an arrow pointing left engraved on it. A pitch-black door slides open, with {{color|orange}}-tinted light being emitted from it. We move through the light, revealing the text "walk" is seen, with lights turning on behind it to reveal "move", "far", and "away". The camera zooms past "away", revealing the text "coming soon" hovering over a road. Two cars with their headlights on drift at the camera (a reference to ''Fast and Furious''), and in a slow-motion shot, breaking the text. The other car drifts too far and one of its {{color|lime}}-colored stripes engulf the camera, segueing into the MPAA band screen.

* '''Drama''': The AMC logo appears and pans down, revealing the text "keep track of your stuff" with a thin rope tangling it. A volleyball with a red handprint face (resembling Wilson from ''Cast Away'') is pushed off by the upper text and falls into the water, with it being carried away by a wave. The camera zooms past it and reveals the text "report suspicious" with shadows of the word "people" sneaking across a dimly lit floor. When every letter is in the middle, the screen abruptly brightens, revealing that they are in front of a prisoner scale (a reference to ''The Usual Suspects''). The letters then push themselves on the wall, with the "l" twitching a little before straightening itself. Lights flash by the bottom of the screen. The camera pans away and gets to a door with the stacked text "front, behind, left, right" next to a {{color|gray}} cartoonish door with "DETECTIVE" on the window. A {{color|red}} stool with white feet and a {{color|gray}} bust is seen next to that. A figure with a bowler hat shows up at the door. After a few seconds, the door opens, emitting a large light that the camera zooms into. The text "walk" is seen, with lights turning on behind it to reveal "move", "far", and "away". The camera pans through it, and we see a {{color|tan|beige}}-colored string dimly lit, with a sparking light revealing it to be a fuse, illuminating the text "coming soon". The fuse curls a little bit before going through the first "o" in "soon". The camera quickly zooms up to it, where a large explosion fills the screen and segues the trailer into the MPAA band screen.

* '''Animation''': The AMC logo appears and we pan down to an ocean floor from the inside of a sea anemone (referencing ''Finding Nemo'' and its sequel ''Finding Dory'') while a blue tang is swimming outside (Dory from the aforementioned movies) with the text "keep track of your stuff", which is covered with seaweed and moss. The camera then zooms out of the anemone to the "report suspicious characters" text, which is made of technology parts, and below that is a test table with a banana on it (a reference to the ''Despicable Me'' movies), and the banana shrinks and then starts to grow large while we hear the Minions (likely it's Stuart, Bob and Kevin from the aforementioned movies) offscreen. When the banana fills the screen we zoom out and reveal a cantina made entirely of LEGO bricks (referencing ''The LEGO Movie'') and the text "front, behind, left, right" appears forming on the studded floor like the letters are made of LEGO bricks. On the right, a wall and a door assembles and we zoom right into it. The text "walk" is seen, with lights turning on to reveal "move", "far" and "away". The camera then pans through a wooden floor to reveal a crook, a cowboy boot with "Bonnie" written on it, a green dinosaur and a cardboard box that says "army base" on it with green army men toys on it (all references to the ''Toy Story'' movies, with allusions to the characters Bo Peep, Woody, Rex and the Green Army Men). Over one of the army men with a pair of binoculars, wen see the camouflage-styled text "coming soon" as two paratroopers descend into frame. We then zoom into the binoculars of the army man, segueing the trailer into the MPAA band screen.

'''Technique:''' CGI animation by Intake Studios.