Rich Gelfond | Chief Executive Officer |
Patrick McClymont | Chief Financial Officer |
Eric Handler | MKM Partners |
Vasily Karasyov | Cannonball Research |
Steven Frankel | Dougherty |
Chad Beynon | Macquarie |
Mike Hickey | Benchmark Company |
[Call Started Abruptly] …including today's call have been posted in the Investor Relations section of our Web site. At the conclusion of this call | our historical Excel model and guidance information would be posted to Web site as well. |
I'd like to remind you of the following information regarding forward-looking statements. Our comments and answers to your questions on this call | as well as the accompanying slide deck may include statements that are forward-looking and that they pertain to future results or outcomes. Actual future results or occurrences may differ materially from these forward-looking statements. Please refer to our SEC filing for a more detailed discussion of some of the factors that could affect our future results and outcomes. |
During today's call | references may be made to certain non-GAAP financial measures as defined by Regulation G of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Discussion of management's use of these measures - their definition as well as reconciliations for such measures - including adjusted net income - adjusted EPS and adjusted EBITDA as defined by our credit facility - are contained in this afternoon's press release. |
With that | let me now turn the call over to Rich Gelfond. |
Thanks, Mike, and good afternoon, everyone. We believe our achievements over the past 18 months have set the stage for IMAX several blockbuster year in 2019. The story is quite simple. Beginning in 2017, we made a series of strategic and tactical decisions to improve the performance of our business from top to bottom. We committed to increasing the differentiation of the IMAX experience, more effectively marketing the IMAX brand and tackling our challenges in China.