Brandon Gray
Brandon Gray
Box Office Mojo is a website that tracks box office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way, founded in 1999. In 2008, Box Office Mojo was bought by the Internet Movie Database, owned by Amazon. The website is widely used within the film industry as a source of data. From 2002–11, Box Office Mojo had forums popular with film fans. On October 10, 2014, the website's URL was redirected to Amazon's IMDB.com website for one day, but the website returned the...
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It's too early to tell whether Kong is a success or not.
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It would be an extraordinary success if they were able to replicate that in every city. It would be a mega-blockbuster.
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It was the number one Super Bowl weekend opening of all time.
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It was the No. 1 Super Bowl weekend opening of all time. The industry was really expecting only expecting it to gross in the mid-to-high teens.
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DVD is both a curse and a blessing. It's a blessing because it's this great new revenue stream for Hollywood. It also increases movie viewing because it's so convenient and collectable. But there is the perception that it is cannibalizing theatrical business to an extent,
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Satire is traditionally a tough sell and the cynicism in it is one of the reasons for that. There are certain times of the year studios will release movies that they aren't confident about ... and the potential for business this time of year is huge.
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Sci-fi is not the easiest thing to market. But if the story is strong enough, it will do well, regardless of the genre.
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Computer-animated pictures tend to make a lot of money. The most popular ones tend to have universally appealing stories.
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Warner Bros. is releasing a bunch of movies and hoping a number of them stick.
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March of the Penguins is a unique film in part because it is an unprecedented look at a real-life phenomenon, ... And it anthropomorphizes these animals, and that is a tremendous selling point. And penguins are amusing.
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I'm hearing that 'Shark Tale' is unoriginal and uninspired,
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People want to be inspired by the movies, they want to have a cathartic experience and they want to laugh and they crave that and when its not there they notice that absence and that's what they talk about instead of going to the movies,
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I can't find another example of when we had two movies with black actors on top.
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This year's best picture nominees are the least popular on record.