Chuck Viane

Chuck Viane
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It all starts with good movies and we've been blessed with four in a row.
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It had been a chicken-or-the-egg situation. Exhibition said if there was content, they'd put in the equipment. Distribution said if there was equipment, they'd provide the content. We just decided it was time to start to do it to further the cause of the digital transition.
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I'm thinking we'll do $2 million-plus (Monday) because we still have 50 percent of the kids out of school and families tend to make this a long holiday. This is going to be well into the $20 millions by the end of the first week.
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They went really well. We played to 88 percent capacity, an extremely high number. It was well over 60 percent female-to-male and scored 90 percent in the Top Two boxes (excellent and very good), which is terrific.
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This is one of those movies that's playing to everybody, and everybody is loving it.
ahead audience holiday summer
Now we've got the summer ahead of us where every day is a holiday (and) our audience expands.
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The last time I saw a score like this was 'Remember the Titans,' which (did) $115 million, ... Having the next 12 days for word of mouth to percolate before we open (will help a lot).
opportunity waiting
It was an opportunity that was waiting to happen.
dog won
If you will, we won the dog race.
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Any time a new process comes into the market, there is always a pioneer. In this case, it's us, ... But this isn't about one picture, it's about the future. We are waiting to see how it all plays out. But at the same time, we are committed to the process and believe, as filmmakers (Robert) Zemeckis and (James) Cameron believe, this is where it is going.
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Immediately after Halloween, whatever it is, people's mind-set turns to movies,
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We're thrilled. It's not every day that you can make a movie for everyone and I think Gore and Jerry really did that. They did an absolutely terrific job of putting an original piece of film into the market this summer.
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We all knew Andy (Davis) did a really good job of making the movie,
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We're thrilled. We are going to take a couple hundred additional runs this Friday, trying to find the appropriate areas to add (while) trying not to step on the substantial runs we have today.