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'''Visuals:''' On a black background, a {{color|blue}}/{{color|gold|yellow}} flash appears. 10 saturated black and white photographs of celebrities, popular in the New Hollywood era, zoom in on a {{color|blue}} circle outline while a white shine is revolving around the circle. After the last one (Charlie Chaplin) appears, the circle turns sideways revealing an outline of a projector. The shine starts to eliminate the outline and creates a red "A" in its signature design. A filmstrip comes from the bottom and goes next to the "A" forming the outline of the "M". The filmstrip gets removed and makes the "M" red. The same happens for the "C" except it comes from the top of the screen. Several white curved-edged rectangles zoom in around "AMC" and centers the logo. Stars appear on the bottom forming "THEATRES". A bright light appears on the "A" and "C". "{{color|blue|Our Feature Presentation}}" fades in one by one with the music. A bright light fades on the "A" and shines along with the "M" and "C". The logo fades to black.

'''Visuals:''' The sequence starts off by seeing 10 filmreels, 5 on each side rotating. Text flies by the top of the reels. The camera cuts to the top view of the reels: 2 on the top, 3 on the bottom and the other 5 are flipped on the other side. Text reading "There is a difference" goes in between the reels from right to left. As the text disappears, the reels start separating as the "AMC" text in a glass outline appears. The camera turns to face the front of the text while a laser draws the outline in red. When the camera stops turning, "Feature Presentation" flies in from the right while a {{color|gold|yellow}} circle with a trail flies in from the right, going through the text. Other {{color|gold|yellow}} dots, circles, and squiggly lines all fly in. The logo shines for a bit while the star at the bottom right corner spins. The logo fades out.

'''Visuals:''' The sequence starts by fading into a shot of a film case with "AMC" with a red outline on top. A label below reads "Feature Pres." while a spotlight shines on it. The camera zooms out while the case spins and shakes. The case pops open while an anthropomorphic figure made of filmstrips (named Clip, who was AMC's mascot from 1991 to 2009) flies out. He flips and lands while he is shaking his head. He waves his film hand at the case as a film reel pops out and bounces with him while he walks on the {{color|darkviolet|purple}} floor. While they are walking, a film reel is shown sideways behind them with the text saying "{{font|serif|There is a Difference}}". Clip jumps and when he lands, he waves his film hand around him leaving a trail of {{color|blue}} light. The camera cuts to the floor turning sideways as he jumps on the film reel and flies away. While that is happening, the AMC logo begins to draw itself in from left to right. A few more circles of {{color|gold|yellow}} and red appear on the bottom right of the screen. A {{color|gold}} rectangle flies in from the bottom with the text "Feature Presentation" on it. The copyright mark appears of at the end of the "C". Clip flies past the logo and through the screen leaving a trail of stars behind.

'''Visuals:''' The sequence starts off as we see Clip who is much more {{color|gold}} than usual (especially his facial expressions), flying around on the film reel. The building is all {{color|gold|golden}} film reels with filmstrips moving from many film cameras on the sides. There is also film reels moving on the ceiling. In the far distance, "AMC" is shown under spotlights while "THERE IS A DIFFERENCE" is shown underneath while filmstrips pass over it. Clip stops in front of the camera and starts flexing his film arms. He leans on the right side and falls off the film reel as it races to catch him. The camera cuts to a hole where filmstrips circle around and lights are shown. Clip is still falling and the film reel races to catch him. The camera cuts again to the same room in the beginning but zoomed in. The film reel positions itself as Clip falls onto it. He gets up with a sigh of relief. While that is happening, "AMC" in {{color|gold}} lines is drawn in from the bottom behind him. A red outline drops in behind the text and the logo is drawn a thicker red outline. Clip then flies from right to left while "Feature Presentation" pops in one by one. The (C) symbol appears again beside the C. Like the last logo, Clip flies past the logo and through the screen. The logo fades out.

'''AFI's 100 Years 100 Movies Variant:''' In 1998, an anniversary FP logo is used celebrating a century of movies: It starts by showing a picture of "AMC" in its FP form with "{{color|silver|Salutes}}" underneath on a black background. It then cuts to another set of text saying "{{color|gold|AFI's 100 YEARS 100 MOVIES}}" with a red star on the left side of "AFI", tilted. Another set of text fades in on top saying "Celebrating A Century Of American Cinema". It cuts to a clip from ''Annie (1982)'' where Mr. Warbucks says: "Let's all go to the movies!" It then fades to footage of the Radio City Music Hall marquee from that same movie. It cuts to an AMC Theatres sign from daytime to nighttime, the outline of "AMC" glows {{color|gold|yellow}}. It then cuts to an updated footage of the 2nd logo without the popcorn popping, then there is a timelapse of people filling up the seats. Then we see shots of an audience, including a group of people, a couple with the husband feeding popcorn to the wife, another couple kissing, and the audience clapping. Then a film starts to play and the audience reacts to it. In order of appearance, the featured films are:

* '''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 from ''The Conjuring'' Universe) with red ponytail hair, an orange flower on the heart, red lips, sharp teeth, and glowing cat eyes. The doll cracks its head, then lunges towards the screen, blacking it out. The screen rotates 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 (a reference to ''Poltergeist''). The logo zooms 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. There is the text "walk", with lights turning on behind it to reveal "move", "far", and "away". The logo zooms 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. The logo zooms 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 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. The logo zooms 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|gold|yellow}} palette instead of a {{color|gray}}-{{color|gold|yellow}} one) is tossed in from off-screen, opens up, and sucks the text in, with 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 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|gold|yellow}}, 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|gold|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.

* '''Superhero''': The AMC logo appears and pans down, revealing a {{color|navy}}-colored backpack sitting against a bedroom window, with a city skyline and police lights flashing outside. The backpack contains a camera, an AMC logo badge, an spiderweb badge, and a Spider-Man-like suit hanging from it. The screen briefly flashes {{color|gold}} twice (referring to Spider-Man's Spider-Sense), before a web sling attaches to the backpack and pulls it away. All the while the "keep track of your stuff" text hovers beside it. Two ropes reach down, and the camera zooms through the window and pans down the city to reveal the text "report suspicious characters" hovering over a wooden table with "GCPD" (standing for "Gotham City Police Department", a reference to ''Batman'') and "EVIDENCE" inside black and red rectangles on a document folder. A name tag and a fan are seen on both sides of the folder, as it opens to reveal three photos (2 on the left containing a drawing of what appears to be the Joker combined with Harley Quinn, with "HA HA HA HA HA HA" written around it, with the other containing what appears to be a baseball bat with "LIGHT" written vertically on a stone background), with a little post-it note with a picture of the left photo stuck on it. The right photo flaps a little bit before the fan turns and blows away the text. A silver-colored safe emerges from the darkness as two {{color|blue}} lasers reveal the text "front, behind, left, right" (darkened at first, but gaining their signature red a second later). The two lasers move to the right and criss-cross each other, forming an "X" light (a reference to ''X-Men''). The two lasers combine horizontally and two red lasers zap themselves onto the safe, opening it and the screen on the right saying "access granted" in {{color|lime|green}}. The safe emits a light which the screen zooms into, revealing the "walk" text, with lights turning on behind it to reveal "move", "far", and "away". After the camera pans by it, the screen zooms through an open manhole on a brick floor, and the {{color|lime}}-colored ooze from ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' spilled on the very bottom from two broken parts of the T.C.R.I. (Techno Cosmic Research Institute) canister. A pizza box is seen as well. The "coming soon" text is messily arranged on top of the ooze, which brightens a couple seconds later to segue into the MPAA band screen.

* '''Romance''': The AMC logo appears and pans down, revealing a dimly lit {{color|navy|dark blue}} background with bubbles flying past the screen until the camera gets to a seabed with the text "keep track of your stuff" (which is rather rusty) hovering over it. Then, a locket with a sapphire heart floats down and settles on the bed (similar to the one from ''Titanic''). The camera pans up and we see a masquerade mask with a {{color|darkred|maroon}}, bubbly crown, and red feather pieces (likely a reference to ''Fifty Shades of Grey'') laying on a polished wood floor. The camera turns and reveals the text "report suspicious", followed by "characters" zooming in under it. The mask falls and resides on the text. A spotlight can be seen for a brief moment before the camera swiftly pans to the right to reveal the text "front, left" and "behind, right" wobbling next to a stone doorstep with vines around its holding frame with light beaming above a wooden door. One of the doors opens, with petals being thrown out of it. The camera then zooms into the other half of the door, which also opens. 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". The text "coming soon", over a polished wood floor, is seen over a white rose laid over a green letter with "To My Love" in a red script font. As it zooms closer, the letter has a gold rim with vertical oblongs overlapping each other. The text dissolves and the oblongs move down, segueing into the MPAA band screen.

* '''Action''': The AMC logo appears and pans down, revealing a {{color|saddlebrown|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. The screen pans 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 red watch counting down (a reference to the James Bond films) 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. The screen pans 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. The camera moves 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 red stool with white feet and a {{color|gray}} bust (a reference to ''The Maltese Falcon'') 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" (a reference to ''Mission: Impossible''). 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.