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.
The median annual wage for multimedia artists and animators was $61,370 in May 2012. The median wage is the wage at which half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $34,860, and the top 10 percent earned more than $113,470.