Wayne Lewellen
Wayne Lewellen
Wayne Lewellen was an American film distribution executive and producer for Paramount Pictures...
available best came good initial prints reasons took
That's one of the reasons we're only in approximately 2,000 theaters. We had made (over) 3,200 prints for the initial release. We took those prints and cannibalized them (taking the best of the available reels) and came up with 2,000 good usable prints.
high looking
It was on the high end of what we were looking for,
audience high next numbers weekend
The movie's weekend numbers were on the high end of what we expected. You have 'Harry Potter' next weekend, and it's a different audience than most of the competition, so it should bode well for our film going forward.
appear date exploit trying
You really didn't want to be on that date because you don't want it to appear that we were trying to exploit it,