Paul Dergarabedian
Paul Dergarabedian
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Family films and horror films are the most consistently performing genres at the box office, and there really is a lot of choice out there for both right now.
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Who would have thought in a year we're having this down box office that we'd have the second-biggest Thanksgiving ever?
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Trying to take lessons from this summer is going to be like trying to capture lightning in a bottle, ... because it's all changing all the time. By next summer, who knows where audience habits and tastes will be?
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This should be a wakeup call. It's fair warning with plenty of time to fix things. If ignored, it's at the peril of the entire industry.
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There are just too many of these adult-oriented comedies out there that audiences were sort of pulled in a lot of different directions.
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With the box office dwindling, all this is seen as another nail in the coffin. Theater owners are afraid once you start releasing films this way (simultaneously in other formats), all movies could go this way. That would put their business in jeopardy.
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We're still waiting for the fall to supply us with a major hit.
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We still have to acknowledge that we're down.
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You look at the fact that DVD sales are down and it tells you again that it's product-driven, ... Because why would somebody want to buy a DVD of a movie they didn't want to see in the first place? You still need to have great movies at the beginning of the pipeline and that feeds everything else.
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The pressure is on, ... This holiday season is being held to a high standard in terms of quality, because we always need that quality, and in terms of the box office.
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There are these cycles in Hollywood. Part of that is once there's one success, everyone tries to emulate the success,
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We have an up weekend - 5% over the last New Year's weekend. Propelled by these two blockbusters, it's really moving the box office.
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We're at a technological and cultural crossroads. It's possibly the dawn of a new paradigm in how films are released.
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People are pulled in so many directions. We're all trying to find enough time in the day to get our music fix, food fix, movie fix, and there's only so much time in the day or week to do that. . . . The trick is to make your entertainment option the most desirable.