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By MICHELLE CHAPMAN and STAN CHOE AP Business Writers

Got your popcorn? The wild ride for the summer's blockbuster stock, AMC, got even crazier on Thursday.

The movie-theater company's stock plunged nearly 40% in the morning after it announced plans to sell 11.6 million shares to raise cash, while warning buyers they could lose all their money. But it erased the loss in just a few hours. After the stock sale was complete, it climbed above the record closing price it had set a day earlier, only to sink back to an 8% loss later in the afternoon.

It's the latest stupefying, nearly unexplainable m...