Wayne Lewellen
Wayne Lewellen
Wayne Lewellen was an American film distribution executive and producer for Paramount Pictures...
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The movie's weekend numbers were on the high end of what we expected. You have 'Harry Potter' next weekend, and it's a different audience than most of the competition, so it should bode well for our film going forward.
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It's within the grosses we were looking at from $18-20 million. Obviously, we hoped to get more, but that was the window we (anticipated).
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That's one of the reasons we're only in approximately 2,000 theaters. We had made (over) 3,200 prints for the initial release. We took those prints and cannibalized them (taking the best of the available reels) and came up with 2,000 good usable prints.
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We knew we had a terrific combination of films led by some of the biggest stars in the world, created by some of the top filmmakers in the business today, and we're thrilled that the audience responded in such a big way. We look forward to continuing the success this fall.