Chuck Viane
Chuck Viane
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Immediately after Halloween, whatever it is, people's mind-set turns to movies,
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If you will, we won the dog race.
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Any time a new process comes into the market, there is always a pioneer. In this case, it's us, ... But this isn't about one picture, it's about the future. We are waiting to see how it all plays out. But at the same time, we are committed to the process and believe, as filmmakers (Robert) Zemeckis and (James) Cameron believe, this is where it is going.
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It's clearly public word of mouth. This is one of those weekends where you can sit back and really enjoy what we do.
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They went really well. We played to 88 percent capacity, an extremely high number. It was well over 60 percent female-to-male and scored 90 percent in the Top Two boxes (excellent and very good), which is terrific.
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They went really well, ... We played to 88 percent capacity, an extremely high number. It was well over 60 percent female-to-male and scored 90 percent in the Top Two boxes (excellent and very good), which is terrific.
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I don't think those movies got the repeat business that summer movies got in other years. It's one thing to open big. But a true hit has to get the kids back for two or three viewings. After the summer, we were playing catch-up.
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It's hard to believe in this day of the freefall second weekend that we could hold up like this. It's fabulous. When you go back and look in the era of mega openings of $50-60-70 million, this is one of the smaller drops.
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It was an opportunity that was waiting to happen.
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The last time I saw a score like this was 'Remember the Titans,' which (did) $115 million, ... Having the next 12 days for word of mouth to percolate before we open (will help a lot).
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This is one of those movies that's playing to everybody, and everybody is loving it.