Paul Dergarabedian
Paul Dergarabedian
august box fairly weekend
It was a fairly unremarkable weekend at the box office. August usually is a slowdown month.
entertainment food music option people pulled time trick trying week
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.
quite summer weekend
It was quite an underwhelming week, ... This is theoretically the first weekend of the summer and It doesn't feel like one.
audience beginning generate good great hold perform weekend
But I think this is a movie that's going to perform well this weekend and be in this for the long term, because it's a really good movie, and that will hold it in good stead and generate great audience reaction. So this is just the beginning for this film.
opposed pale surprised typical weekend year
In all fairness, this was more of a typical late-October weekend, as opposed to a year ago, when 'The Grudge' surprised everyone and made this weekend look pale by comparison.
definitely weekend
Definitely not a weekend we'd want to see repeated.
films four slump summer weekends
The summer slump really put us into a shortfall, ... It's heartening that there were four up weekends in a row, and that we have some big films in the pipeline.
films four slump summer weekends
The summer slump really put us into a shortfall. It's heartening that there were four up weekends in a row, and that we have some big films in the pipeline.
definitely weekend
Not every weekend can be a blockbuster. This weekend definitely was not.
emotions loss love movies pull relate
Love and loss are two emotions that everyone can relate to, and that's why these movies really pull at our heartstrings.
stands
You could say the 'NC' stands for 'No Cash,'
audiences battling tougher
It's a tug-of-war now, ... battling for audiences that are tougher and tougher to get.
builds critical fuss mouth people word
This is a film that builds through word of mouth and critical acclaim. People want to see what all the fuss is about.
cds choice five technology video
Everyone thought we had so much choice with video and CDs and just the technology we had five or 10 years ago,