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Represents closing stock price on the last day of the quarter for NCMI's common stock.

No definition available.

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Fees paid to equity investee for installation services received from equity investee.

No definition available.

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Number of additional common units received from NCM.

No definition available.

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Number of company one common units held by company.

No definition available.

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Approximate ownership percentage held by Company.

No definition available.

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Remaining term of exhibitor services agreement.

No definition available.

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Value of common units received from company one.

No definition available.

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This item represents the carrying amount on the entity's balance sheet of its investment in common stock of an equity method investee. This is not an indicator of the fair value of the investment, rather it is the initial cost adjusted for the entity's share of earnings and losses of the investee, adjusted for any distributions (dividends) and other than temporary impairment (OTTI) losses recognized.

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This item represents the entity's proportionate share for the period of the net income (loss) of its investee (such as unconsolidated subsidiaries and joint ventures) to which the equity method of accounting is applied. This item includes income or expense related to stock-based compensation based on the investor's grant of stock to employees of an equity method investee.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

No definition available.