Paul Dergarabedian
Paul Dergarabedian
good harry people potter reason showing
Harry Potter is showing that people still want to go to the movies, but still they need a good reason to go.
clearly dominating everybody exceeding harry hoped living maybe performance
Harry Potter' is clearly dominating the business. It's the movie that everybody hoped it would be. The box-office performance is living up to, and maybe at this point, exceeding expectations.
good leading run
This was a good kickoff to what I think will be a pretty good run leading up to summer.
bucks certainly house leap movies pay people per reason strong unique worthwhile
I think people need a really strong reason to go to the movies and to pay the 10 bucks per person and to go out of the house and take that leap of faith, and 'March of the Penguins' certainly was unique and made it worthwhile to go out to the movie theater.
opened peter
I think the thought is that this movie would have opened bigger, because it's 'King Kong' and it's Peter Jackson.
close few ground last months next
We really need them to do well, ... There's a lot of ground to make up in the next few months if we're even going to be close to last year's attendance.
against carries competing films next top
That's very respectable. They're in the top 10 (for the weekend), and there were a lot of other independent films out there competing against it. We'll see how it carries over to next weekend.
That's the movie that could get us out of the slump.
competition family great perfect timing
Great marketing; a perfect family film; perfect timing with no competition for a family film.
capitalize envelope films notion push territory
These are films that capitalize on the notion of being able to push the envelope and go into territory that you could not go into in a PG-13.
films natural
These films are still very robust, but it's natural filmgoers like to see new films.
kinds
This is one of those save-the-day kinds of movies,
focus negative summer
The focus of this summer tended to be more negative than positive,
stands
You could say the 'NC' stands for 'No Cash,'