Earnings Call Webcast to Discuss Second Quarter Financial Results
Scheduled to Post to Corporate Website on Monday, August 18, 2025
NEW YORK, Aug. 14, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Reading International, Inc. (NASDAQ:RDI) (“Reading” or our “Company”), an internationally diversified cinema and real estate company with operations and assets in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand, today announced its results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2025.
Key Financial Summary Results – Second Quarter 2025
- Total Revenues of $60.4 million increased by 29%, from $46.8 million in Q2 2024.
- At $2.9 million, our Operating Income, which improved by 138% compared to a loss of $7.7 million in Q2 2024, represented the highest Operating Income achieved since Q2 2019 reflecting improved performance in both our global Cinema and Real Estate divisions.
- A positive EBITDA of $6.3 million improved by 276% compared to an EBITDA loss of $3.6 million for Q2 2024. This improvement in EBITDA reflects improved operational performances and a gain of $1.8 million on the sale of our Cannon Park Property in Australia.
- Basic loss per share of $0.12 improved by 79% compared to a basic loss per share of $0.57 in Q2 2024.
- Net loss attributable to Reading of $2.7 million improved by 79% compared to a loss of $12.8 million in Q2 2024.
Key Financial Summary Results – Six Months of 2025
- Total Revenues of $100.5 million increased by 9% compared to $91.9 million for the first six months of 2024.
- Operating Loss of $4.0 million improved by 74% compared to a loss of $15.2 million for the same period in 2024.
- A positive EBITDA of $9.2 million improved by 222% compared to an EBITDA loss of $7.5 million for the same period in 2024.
- Basic loss per share of $0.33 improved by 73% compared to a basic loss per share of $1.16 for the first six months of 2024.
- Net loss attributable to Reading of $7.4 million improved by 71% compared to a loss of $26.0 million for the first six months of 2024.
Both the Q2 2025 Australian and New Zealand dollar average exchange rates weakened against the U.S. dollar by 2.7% and 1.9%, respectively, compared to Q2 2024 and the average six months 2025 exchange rates weakened against the U.S. dollar by 3.6% and 4.6%, respectively, compared to the same period of 2024. With 47% of our Total Revenues being generated by our Australian and New Zealand businesses, the weakness in the currency impacts our U.S. reported operating results.
President and Chief Executive Officer, Ellen Cotter said, “Our improved performance this quarter underscores our continued confidence in long term future of our Company. During the second quarter of 2025, we joined the cinema industry in celebrating the record box office success of two Warner Bros movies, A Minecraft Movie and Sinners, and Disney’s Lilo & Stitch. Following the second quarter’s cinema momentum, we also enjoyed an exciting July 2025 thanks to movies like Jurassic World: Rebirth, Superman, and The Fantastic Four: First Steps. The success of these engaging, high-quality and well-marketed movies reinforce our confidence in the appeal of the theatrical experience. For the remainder of 2025, we look forward to a robust line-up, including TRON: Ares, Wicked: For Good, Zootopia 2 and Avatar: Fire and Ash.”
Ms. Cotter added, “Our global Real Estate division also delivered strong results in the second quarter and year-to-date 2025 with our Operating Income increasing 56% quarter-over-quarter and 67% year-over-year. During the second quarter of 2025, we closed on the sale of our real property assets in Cannon Park, Australia for AU$32.0 million and used the funds to decrease our overall debt position.”
Ms. Cotter concluded, “We greatly appreciated the efforts of our teams across all three countries over the first half of 2025 and their execution of our various strategic priorities. Our cinema teams kept a laser focus on operating efficiently but still handling the increased revenues. And, our property teams continued to maintain their focus on the real estate operations, while also completing the monetization of two major property assets in Australia and New Zealand proceeds of which were used to reduce our Company’s gross debt by $32.1 million.”
Cinema Business
- Driven by stellar box office results from movies such as A Minecraft Movie, Sinners, Lilo & Stitch and Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, our Q2 2025 global cinema: (i) revenue increased 32% to $56.8 million and (ii) operating income increased by 218% to $5.5 million from an operating loss of $4.6 million in Q2 2024. Q2 2025 milestones include:
- Our average ticket price (“ATP”) in both Australia and New Zealand cinema divisions achieved their highest quarter ever.
- Our ATP in the U.S. achieved its highest second quarter ever and that takes into account our successful discount Tuesday programs: Mahalo Tuesdays in Hawaii and Half Priced Tuesdays in our other U.S. markets.
- With respect to our food and beverage (“F&B”) programs for Q2 2025: (i) at A$8.26, our F&B sales per person (“SPP”), represented the highest second quarter ever for our Australian Cinemas, (ii) at NZ$7.14, our New Zealand cinema division’s F&B SPP set a record for the highest quarter ever, and (iii) at $9.13, our U.S. cinema F&B SPP also ranked the highest quarter ever for periods when our U.S. circuit was fully operating (i.e. excluding pandemic closure periods) and is the highest among our publicly traded competitors that disclose their F&B sales per person (SPP).
- Our Cash Flow Pre-Occupancy per capita ranked the highest in each cinema division reflecting a laser focus on cost management.
- Continuing our efforts to streamline our cinema operations, we closed an additional underperforming U.S. cinema in April 2025. Currently, we operate 469 screens in 58 theatres, in the U.S., Australia and New Zealand.
- Through the quarter, we continued to work with our cinema landlords to reduce our occupancy costs to reflect that the business, while improving, has not returned to pre-pandemic revenue levels and that we continue to operate in an inflationary environment with increased labor and other operating costs.
Real Estate Business
- With respect to our global Real Estate business: (i) revenue decreased by $0.4 million to $4.7 million, compared to Q2 2024 and (ii) operating income of $1.5 million increased by 56% from $0.9 million in Q2 2024 and represented the best second quarter result since Q2 2018.
- Our Q2 2025 U.S. Real Estate Revenues of $1.7 million represented a 15% increase from Q2 2024 due to the improved performance of our Live Theatre assets in NYC.
- Within the last 18 months we completed the following property monetizations: (i) our Culver City building in Q1 2024 for $10.0 million, (ii) our Wellington (New Zealand) property assets in Q1 2025 for NZ$38.0 million, and (iii) on May 21, 2025, we sold our Cannon Park ETC in Townsville, Queensland, Australia, which consisted of our Cannon Park City Center and Cannon Park Discount Center properties (approximately 9.4-acres) for AU$32.0 million. We retained the right to operate the cinemas at our Wellington and Cannon Park locations under long-term leases.
- As of June 30, 2025, our combined Australian and New Zealand property portfolio has 59 third-party tenants, with a portfolio occupancy rate of 99% and total leased gross lettable area of just under 157,000 SF. During Q2 2025, we executed 15 third party lease transactions, which included new tenants and renewals of existing tenants. At Newmarket Village in Brisbane, we extended a long-term lease with a third-party anchor tenant.
Balance Sheet and Liquidity
As of June 30, 2025,
- Our cash and cash equivalents were $9.1 million.
- Our total gross debt of $173.4 million, decreased by 14.4% (or $29.3 million) from December 31, 2024. With respect to our debt position, over the first half of 2025:
- Following the sale of our Wellington property assets in Q1 2025, we paid off (i) our NZ$18.8 million (USD equivalent of $10.7 million) loan to Westpac and (ii) $6.1 million to Bank of America/Bank of Hawaii.
- Following the sale of our Cannon Park property assets in Australia on May 21, 2025, we paid off (i) our AU$20.0 million (USD equivalent of $12.9 million) bridging facility to National Australia Bank (“NAB”), (ii) an additional AU$1.5 million (USD equivalent of $1.0 million) on our NAB Corporate Loan facility, and (iii) an additional paydown of $1.5 million on our Bank of America/Bank of Hawaii loan.
- On May 2, 2025, we extended the maturity of our loan on 44 Union Square to November 6, 2026, with an option to extend further to May 6, 2027.
- On July 3, 2025, we extended the maturity of our Bank of America/Bank of Hawaii loan to May 18, 2026, and modified the principal repayment schedule.
- On July 18, 2025, we extended the maturity of our loan on our Live Theatre assets in NYC to June 1, 2026.
- Our assets had a total book value of $438.1 million, compared to a book value of $471.0 million as of December 31, 2024.
Conference Call and Webcast
We plan to post our pre-recorded conference call and audio webcast on our corporate website on or before Monday, August 18, 2025, which will feature prepared remarks from Ellen Cotter, President and Chief Executive Officer; Gilbert Avanes, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer; and Andrzej Matyczynski, Executive Vice President – Global Operations.
A pre-recorded question and answer session will follow our formal remarks. Questions and topics for consideration should be submitted to InvestorRelations@readingrdi.com by August 15, 2025, by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. The audio webcast will be able to be accessed by visiting https://investor.readingrdi.com/financial-information/quarterly-results.
About Reading International, Inc.
Reading International, Inc. (NASDAQ:RDI), an internationally diversified cinema and real estate company operating through various domestic and international subsidiaries, is a leading entertainment and real estate company, engaging in the development, ownership, and operation of cinemas and retail and commercial real estate in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand.
Reading’s cinema subsidiaries operate under multiple cinema brands: Reading Cinemas, Consolidated Theatres and the Angelika brand. Its live theatres are owned and operated by its Liberty Theaters subsidiary, under the Orpheum and Minetta Lane names. Its signature property developments, including Newmarket Village in Brisbane, Australia, and 44 Union Square in New York City, are maintained in special purpose entities.
Additional information about Reading can be obtained from our Company’s website: http://www.readingrdi.com.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This earnings release contains a variety of forward-looking statements as defined by the Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including those related to our expected operated results; our belief regarding our business structure and diversification strategy; our belief regarding the quality, the quantity and the appeal of upcoming movie releases in the remainder of 2025 and our revenue expectations relating to such movie releases; our expectations regarding our monetization of our fee interests under our cinemas and our other real estate assets; our beliefs regarding the upcoming movie slates, the refocus of film distributors and its impact on our business; and our expectations of our liquidity and capital requirements and the allocation of funds. You can recognize these statements by our use of words, such as “may,” “will,” “expect,” “believe,” and “anticipate” or other similar terminology.
Given the variety and unpredictability of the factors that will ultimately influence our businesses and our results of operation, no guarantees can be given that any of our forward-looking statements will ultimately prove to be correct. Actual results will undoubtedly vary and there is no guarantee as to how our securities will perform either when considered in isolation or when compared to other securities or investment opportunities.
Forward-looking statements made by us in this earnings release are based only on information currently available to us and speak only as of the date on which they are made. We undertake no obligation to publicly update or to revise any of our forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required under applicable law. Accordingly, you should always note the date to which our forward-looking statements speak.
Because forward-looking statements relate to the future, they are subject to inherent uncertainties, risks and changes in circumstances that are difficult to predict and many of which are outside of our control. Therefore, you should not rely on any of these forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause our actual results and financial condition to differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements include, among others, those factors discussed throughout Part I, Item 1A – Risk Factors – and Part II Item 7 – Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations – of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the most recently ended fiscal year, as well as the risk factors set forth in any other filings made under the Securities Act of 1934, as amended, including any of our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, for more information.
Reading International, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Unaudited Consolidated Statements of Operations
(Unaudited; U.S. dollars in thousands, except per share data)
| Quarter Ended | Six Months Ended | |||||||||||||||
| June 30, | June 30, | |||||||||||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | 2025 | 2024 | |||||||||||||
| Revenue | ||||||||||||||||
| Cinema | $ | 56,782 | $ | 42,942 | $ | 93,186 | $ | 84,213 | ||||||||
| Real estate | 3,596 | 3,867 | 7,361 | 7,648 | ||||||||||||
| Total revenue | 60,378 | 46,809 | 100,547 | 91,861 | ||||||||||||
| Costs and expenses | ||||||||||||||||
| Cinema | (46,883 | ) | (42,758 | ) | (83,460 | ) | (83,478 | ) | ||||||||
| Real estate | (1,840 | ) | (2,461 | ) | (3,795 | ) | (4,696 | ) | ||||||||
| Depreciation and amortization | (3,380 | ) | (4,011 | ) | (6,756 | ) | (8,216 | ) | ||||||||
| General and administrative | (5,384 | ) | (5,271 | ) | (10,537 | ) | (10,693 | ) | ||||||||
| Total costs and expenses | (57,487 | ) | (54,501 | ) | (104,548 | ) | (107,083 | ) | ||||||||
| Operating income (loss) | 2,891 | (7,692 | ) | (4,001 | ) | (15,222 | ) | |||||||||
| Interest expense, net | (4,354 | ) | (5,377 | ) | (9,096 | ) | (10,662 | ) | ||||||||
| Gain (loss) on sale of assets | 1,872 | 9 | 8,398 | (1,116 | ) | |||||||||||
| Other income (expense) | (2,273 | ) | (216 | ) | (2,607 | ) | 123 | |||||||||
| Income (loss) before income tax expense and equity earnings of unconsolidated joint ventures | (1,864 | ) | (13,276 | ) | (7,306 | ) | (26,877 | ) | ||||||||
| Equity earnings of unconsolidated joint ventures | 285 | 119 | 308 | 94 | ||||||||||||
| Income (loss) before income taxes | (1,579 | ) | (13,157 | ) | (6,998 | ) | (26,783 | ) | ||||||||
| Income tax benefit (expense) | (1,225 | ) | 156 | (753 | ) | 379 | ||||||||||
| Net income (loss) | $ | (2,804 | ) | $ | (13,001 | ) | $ | (7,751 | ) | $ | (26,404 | ) | ||||
| Less: net income (loss) attributable to noncontrolling interests | (137 | ) | (195 | ) | (328 | ) | (370 | ) | ||||||||
| Net income (loss) attributable to Reading International, Inc. | $ | (2,667 | ) | $ | (12,806 | ) | $ | (7,423 | ) | $ | (26,034 | ) | ||||
| Basic earnings (loss) per share | $ | (0.12 | ) | $ | (0.57 | ) | $ | (0.33 | ) | $ | (1.16 | ) | ||||
| Diluted earnings (loss) per share | $ | (0.12 | ) | $ | (0.57 | ) | $ | (0.33 | ) | $ | (1.16 | |||||