Paul Dergarabedian
Paul Dergarabedian
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I think we're being blinded by the blockbusters. Sports movies have been pretty consistent. It's not a hotbed of $100 million films, but it's a solid performing genre.
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Family films and horror films are the most consistently performing genres at the box office, and there really is a lot of choice out there for both right now.
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The track record of horror films tells you maybe Hollywood should just release horror movies to be successful. I can't think of a more consistently performing genre at the box office.
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It gave people a way to discover these movies rather than the traditional marketing that is thrown their way. Hey, whatever gets 'em in the theater, I'm sure the studio doesn't mind.
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It had a huge impact. It was really a film that everyone became instantly fascinated by and it emboldened filmmakers and studios to believe that if you had the right concept and a great marketing campaign, it did not matter what the budget of the movie was.
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I think the thought is that this movie would have opened bigger, because it's 'King Kong' and it's Peter Jackson.
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People are pulled in so many directions. We're all trying to find enough time in the day to get our music fix, food fix, movie fix, and there's only so much time in the day or week to do that. . . . The trick is to make your entertainment option the most desirable.
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We really need them to do well, ... There's a lot of ground to make up in the next few months if we're even going to be close to last year's attendance.
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Out of 400 or 450 movies released every year, maybe 300 are independent films. The only ones you hear about are the breakouts. They don't all make money. Most don't, even if they only have only a $1 million budget, ... If you break even you're doing great.
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Out of 400 or 450 movies released every year, maybe 300 are independent films, ... The only ones you hear about are the breakouts. They don't all make money. Most don't, even if they only have a $1 million budget. If you break even you're doing great.
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I think it has more to do with product than any other factor because, look, last summer huge summer, ... There were DVDs. The ticket prices were high. The concession prices were high. But people were lining up for those movies more than they are this year because of the movies more than anything.
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Star Wars' opened the door to the idea of a franchise that could be successful, even if a sequel doesn't do well. It made viable the idea that, with sequels, the law of diminishing returns doesn't always apply.
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I think people need a really strong reason to go to the movies and to pay the 10 bucks per person and to go out of the house and take that leap of faith, and 'March of the Penguins' certainly was unique and made it worthwhile to go out to the movie theater.
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There are just too many of these adult-oriented comedies out there that audiences were sort of pulled in a lot of different directions.