These were subsequently bought and taken over by UCI. In 1995, AMC pioneered the first North American megaplex, a theater that can accommodate thousands, when it opened the AMC Grand 24 in Dallas, Texas â the first megaplex in the world had been built by European chain Kinepolis in 1988.
Average Salary. Artists in the Fine Arts sector earn an average annual salary of $57,400, or $27.60 an hour according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). This average includes illustrators in the newspaper, periodical, book and directory publishing industry.
What Salary Could I Earn? The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that multimedia artists and animators, a category of artists that includes special effects animators, earned an average annual salary of $72,400 in May 2013 (www.bls.gov).