UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

National CineMedia, Inc.

(Exact name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

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Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

On October 21, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of National CineMedia, Inc. (“NCM, Inc.” or the “Company”) appointed Simon Mullaly as a member of the Board, effective immediately. Mr. Mullaly was appointed to fill the vacancy created by the previously announced resignation of Nathan “Tripp” Lane that was effective immediately prior to the appointment of Mr. Mullaly. Mr. Mullaly was designated by Blantyre Capital Limited (“Blantyre Capital”) in accordance with the Director Designation Agreement (the “Designation Agreement”), dated August 7, 2023, between the Company, the Consenting Creditor Designation Committee (as defined in the Designation Agreement) and Blantyre Capital.

Mr. Mullaly, age 59, joined Blantyre in January 2023 as a Senior Advisor and has served as a Senior Investment Executive since June 2023. Prior to Blantyre, Mr. Mullaly served as Managing-Director - Head of Credit Sales and Trading at Guggenheim Partners from January of 2021 until November of 2022. Previously, Mr. Mullaly worked at Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers and Deutsche Bank. He also founded and operated Yorvik Partners, an independent niche fixed-income brokerage business, until its sale in 2014. He has over 25 years of global capital markets experience, focused on leverage credit, restructurings and special situations trading and investing while working out of both London and New York. Mr. Mullaly earned an MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and obtained a BSc (Hons) from Nottingham Trent University, England.

The Board has determined that Mr. Mullaly is an independent director as determined by the rules of the Nasdaq Stock Market. There are no family relationships between Mr. Mullaly and any director or executive officer of the Company. Mr. Mullaly does not have any direct or indirect material interests in any transaction required to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K. At the time of this current report, Mr. Mullaly has not been appointed to any committees of the Board but may be appointed to a Board committee in the future.

Upon his appointment, the Company entered into an indemnification agreement with Mr. Mullaly on the Company’s standard form of indemnification agreement for directors.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.