Paul Dergarabedian
Paul Dergarabedian
audiences either event fun house motivation needed theater unique
Audiences needed more motivation to get them out of the house and into the movie theater than ever before, ... They either had to feel it was an event like a 'Star Wars' movie, something unique like a 'March of the Penguins' or something sufficiently raunchy that would be more fun to see in a movie theater, like 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin' or 'Wedding Crashers.'
entire fair fix peril plenty time warning
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.
audiences comedies pulled sort
There are just too many of these adult-oriented comedies out there that audiences were sort of pulled in a lot of different directions.
delay lots reasons
There can be lots of reasons for a film's delay.
beyond films great huge mainstream mega positive production spending spread
There hasn't been a lot of positive word-of-mouth on the mainstream films this summer. Great marketing, huge production spending can probably get you a mega opening, but beyond that, it's up to the moviegoers to spread the word.
audience capture changing habits knows lessons lightning next summer tastes trying
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?
box office seen start summer weekend worst year
This was the worst weekend of the year at the box office and the slowest start to summer we've seen in years.
business goodness harry overall people potter strong thanksgiving year
To have such a strong Thanksgiving and the second-best ever business in what has overall been a down year is pretty impressive. Thank goodness for Harry Potter . It has reinvigorated a lot of people to go to the movies.
appeal audience choice perfect younger
You have to look at who's online, who's the audience for the movie. For this movie, it's a perfect choice because it will appeal to younger audiences.
believe drop people
Believe me, when 'Star Wars' comes out, people will drop everything and come to the theater.
darn good looks next summer unique year
Every summer has its own unique pathology, trajectory, and this is not a summer we want to repeat. Next summer looks really good, it looks like a pretty darn good summer, ... If next year we're down, it will be 'Houston, we have a problem.'
cds choice five technology video
Everyone thought we had so much choice with video and CDs and just the technology we had five or 10 years ago,
animated casualties entering
Every month, there's a new animated film entering the marketplace. Not all of them can do well. There's going to be some casualties out there, for sure.
adjustment people
At some point, there will have to be some kind of ticket-price adjustment just to get people back into theaters.