John Fithian
John Fithian
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The issues of collapsing windows will still be an important topic. But I do not think it's as hot or as controversial as it was in October. The vast majority of the studios have given us very strong, private and public, assurances that sequential release works for them as a business model.
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This is something that drives us nuts. When Wal-Mart starts putting up signs a month and a half or two months into the movie's run, that just kind of tells the consumer: 'Wait -- it's coming.
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If consumers seriously analyzed their options, they'd realize that the cinema is the best value for a buck.
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They go to the movies to escape their houses, ... and they like to escape their healthy diets too.
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The court did nothing to change the law as it applies to copyrights. We view the case as a decision in patent law. If the law were changed for copyrights, it would not mean block booking was legal.
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I'm not sure who was asleep, but it wasn't the exhibition industry. Here's what we know about 2005: The movies aren't as good.
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It's stunning to me, the barrage of articles about the impending death of the movie theater.
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I like to describe it as business decisions that made a lot of sense individually added up to make some not-so-good sense collectively.
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I don't know what's going on with consumers that they have to talk on phones in the middle of theaters.
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After years of planning, developing technical specifications and considering business models, the digital-cinema revolution begins in 2006. All of those three components have come together, and deals are being negotiated now between theater companies and equipment and financial entities. It will take several years for this transition to occur, but 2006 certainly marks the beginning of the transition.
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We will actually petition the Federal Communications (Commission) to remove the block on jamming cell phones.
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We strongly encourage (theater owners) to keep the ads limited in duration and make them entertaining in their own right. We hope there will be a migration toward fewer ads that don't replicate what's on television, because people can't stand that.
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We still don't have completely DCI-compliant systems operating in the marketplace. This year will see that those systems come together and begin to get integrated.
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We regret this tragic incident, but we have to remind our patrons that violence at theaters is extremely rare. We've had 1.5 billion people come to the theaters in each of the past three years, and there were only a handful of violent incidents. Though very unfortunate, this type of incident is very rare at the cinema. At this time we don't know if there is any association of this particular incident in connection with the film that was playing. We'll let the police do their investigation.