Dan Fellman
Dan Fellman
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I think this is going to be a test for the studios,
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I've been telling people for a long time that I think it's content-driven. I don't think we had a film that jumped out for people this weekend, ... North Country.
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I'm very pleased with (the opening) considering what's going on in the world. I believe that certainly part of our potential audience was lost to war coverage. We have a movie that appeals primarily to young males and older males and I think that's the audience that spends more time watching (war) coverage. But, hopefully, we'll recapture that group sometime during the week or maybe next weekend.
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By Wednesday, we'll pass the largest R-rated movie ever, which was 'Beverly Hills Cop' with $234 million. We're opening 39 IMAX runs this week. The picture looks sensational and I think we'll get our core fans to come back and reload this weekend.
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As the audience has gotten older in time, faithful readers of the Potter books will remain faithful to the movies,
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That's much higher than we expected. We're hoping that means the box office can go higher than an audience of just young males could take it.
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I was very pleased with the opening. It exceeded our expectations.
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Joel Silver continues to deliver number one openings for Warner Bros.. This the eighth number one opening for Joel out of his last 10 pictures for the studio. With 'Matrix Reloaded' (May 15) and 'Matrix Revolutions'(Nov. 7) both going this year, he'll definitely extend that impressive record.
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T3's' five-day number becomes the largest July Fourth opening of any R rated movie, ... The highest grossing July Fourth movie was 'Terminator 2' (with) a five-day gross of $52 million. We exceeded that by 40 percent (and are) very, very pleased with that opening.
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This is an industry that is content-driven, and when the content is there, the box office responds. There's really nothing broken, it's just a matter of coming back with some good product. Fox is having a good year as we are.
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There's always those in the industry making predictions outside our company, but we knew the strength of our movie, ... we're nothing but thrilled.
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We've learned the audience has grown older with the movies, so the PG-13 rating just played into the core of the audience.
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We rallied the troops and said let's go into Los Angeles and see if we can get the movie rolling,
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We are thrilled to see the IMAX DMR version of this classic story continuing to generate substantial box office returns, even in its second season.