Gitesh Pandya
Gitesh Pandya
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There's a tremendous financial upside to winning a Golden Globe. The amount of excitement that it creates and the amount of extra attention your film gets is priceless.
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They probably wouldn't have done as well as they did. Controversy simply brought in so much extra business.
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A one-year gap between films is pushing it as it is. Normally you want two years between sequels. An audience needs a little time to regroup.
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Something that's made $50 million could go on to do $100 million now.
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After Sept. 11, Arnold Schwarzenegger's 'Collateral Damage,' about a fireman who loses his family to terrorists, was delayed a year - and it opened at No. 1, ... After the East Coast sniper case, 'Phone Booth' was delayed, and that opened at No. 1. Delaying these films to a more marketable date helped both of them.
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Just like with any trend, when you get too many players, you start to get some strikeouts.
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I think this shows a growing divide between the expensive Hollywood films, which make a lot of money, and the artistic lower budget films which are made more from quality.
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Hollywood is down versus last year by a significant amount. Nothing is impossible but it will take a few surprise blockbusters.
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Right now studios are just happy to break even at the box office.
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Paris Hilton is probably the best example. She was one of many attractive starlets out there, then that tape hits and it's all the sensation. The reality show gets a boost and it propels her into one of the top five celebrity actresses in the world.
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For the really big-budget films, the North American box office gross does not always have to be spectacular. International is becoming a bigger part of the pie and so are worldwide video sales.
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Star Wars' is going to be a massive hit,
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In the U.S., a movie like 'Saw' made a lot of money. You look at horror films in India, they're almost non-existent. It's not what the masses want to see.
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These are bold films in the sense they are tackling subject matter that's daring. This year there is tremendous upside for these films because there is a huge audience ahead of them. They reached only a fraction of the total audience.