Michael Barker
Michael Barker
attracted audience gives mainstream posterity profile
It's very important for a film like 'Capote.' It gives real posterity to a film. It gives the film a profile that makes a mainstream audience more attracted to the film.
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We're becoming more and more selective. There is long-term business in foreign-language films, but it's still very tough.
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We did our job and the jury did theirs. I suspect the jury never could get past the statement he made to the police.
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We were struck by how it avoided sentimentality, in the way the great John Huston movies did.
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You know, we did our job, and the jury did theirs, and the judge did his. Sometimes this is the outcome.
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It's helpful. The stories say it's wrong because it's one of the year's great movies. So the story is not about the arcane rules of the Academy, but about how good a film 'Cache' is. That gains traction with the audience.
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David Derrick did the only thing he felt he could do to protect his children.
family introduced
It's very much a family affair; Fernanda introduced me to her son-in-law and daughter,
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It will turn around. These are strong films that happen to be small. But the public still has plenty of time to find them.
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It occurred as a result of stress and terror.
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Boy, that 'Cache' is hanging in there. That's really something. Just think, we're going to be over $1 million on just five cities and we have the whole country to go. The film is going to do great.
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We felt very confident about (Philip Seymour Hoffman's) performance from the very beginning. And we had always planned to expand on February 3, using the strategy of getting the best picture nomination. I think ultimately we will more than double the gross we have now.
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It's obvious the film has strong staying power in urban and suburban areas.
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It's almost a shade of Sam Peckinpah .