Chuck Viane
Chuck Viane
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We're thrilled. We are going to take a couple hundred additional runs this Friday, trying to find the appropriate areas to add (while) trying not to step on the substantial runs we have today.
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We're tremendously excited. But the weekend has certainly righted itself. This is probably going to be the record gross for this weekend in August. Along with that, having number three, four ('Freaky Friday') and six ('Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl') in the marketplace makes us feel terrific.
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We're thrilled. It's not every day that you can make a movie for everyone and I think Gore and Jerry really did that. They did an absolutely terrific job of putting an original piece of film into the market this summer.
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You can't crow about things if people aren't buying tickets to your movies. This proves that our animation team, with their commitment and resilience, can deliver.
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The public votes with their wallets and this is an affirmation that funny is money.
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We all knew Andy (Davis) did a really good job of making the movie,
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Now we've got the summer ahead of us where every day is a holiday (and) our audience expands.
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It had been a chicken-or-the-egg situation. Exhibition said if there was content, they'd put in the equipment. Distribution said if there was equipment, they'd provide the content. We just decided it was time to start to do it to further the cause of the digital transition.
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I think there's more than enough room for two major hits in a season, and because of the length of the holidays, both films are going to be here for a long, long time.
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It all starts with good movies and we've been blessed with four in a row.
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We're talking about 10 percent of the screens in the United States becoming digital. This makes it a very sizable toe in the water.
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We're talking about 10% of the screens in the United States becoming digital. This makes it a very sizable toe in the water.
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I'm thinking we'll do $2 million-plus (Monday) because we still have 50 percent of the kids out of school and families tend to make this a long holiday. This is going to be well into the $20 millions by the end of the first week.
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Being a family movie and Halloween becoming such a family experience in the last few years, we didn't want ('Bear') to compete with a natural problem of having families' attention drawn somewhere else, so we waited till Saturday,