Chuck Viane
Chuck Viane
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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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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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The public votes with their wallets and this is an affirmation that funny is money.
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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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We all knew Andy (Davis) did a really good job of making the movie,
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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. 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 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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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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It's clearly public word of mouth. This is one of those weekends where you can sit back and really enjoy what we do.