Chuck Viane
Chuck Viane
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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,
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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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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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Immediately after Halloween, whatever it is, people's mind-set turns to movies,
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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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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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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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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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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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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.