It's not going to be smooth sailing all the time. But sometimes you just have to take the good with the bad, learn from it and just move on. |
It's the biggest one-two producing punch ever. You've got to hand it to Jerry Bruckheimer. |
Paul has been my chief lieutenant in managing the day-to-day administration of the international division for quite some time, and there is no one better prepared to take on the challenges and opportunities presented by this division. He has built a strong relationship with key personnel in all of our international offices, and he has earned their confidence and respect by demonstrating his skill as a business leader with a great inside understanding of Sony's global marketing and distribution apparatus. |
Summer is when audiences expect us to deliver excitement. Some movies just didn't fulfill that promise. |
That was the message that was heard loud and clear by Hollywood. Why not get everyone if you can? There's great value in having a picture that can appeal to everyone. |
The breaks started going our way at that point. We had some balls that went off of horses and other things went in our favor. |
The lightning speed with which these copies spread around the planet was horrifying, ... No matter how much you spend on security or what precautions you take, the grim truth is once a film gets uploaded on the Internet, suddenly it's everywhere. |
The lightning speed with which these copies spread around the planet was horrifying. No matter how much you spend on security or what precautions you take, the grim truth is once a film gets uploaded on the Internet, suddenly it's everywhere. |
The scariest part (of these past few weeks) is that usually you can rely on there being a hit every week of the summer or at least every week in July. The biggest concern in the industry is two out of four weeks in our best month, there were no major openings. Clearly 'Stealth' did share a lot of the same problems that 'The Island' did. It just seemed that both were typical summer action fare that did not seem to resonate at all. |
The way you handle it is come back out the next week and throw five touchdowns; that's what Daunte did yesterday. |
There were a lot of weekends where there were just no winners. Even in July, our best month of the year, you had two weekends where none of the films really worked. That's a scary thought to us. |
There were some weekends when you had the big new film of the weekend, when you thought you were going to be the only kid on the block. And a film that was a week or two old would be No. 1. There was no way to predict whether people were going to come out for the movies or what they were going to choose. |
This is about getting 'All the King's Men' right; it's not about the rest of the slate. We will slot it where it can have its due. It will be a high-profile spot for a high-profile movie. |
Today we used all of our players and we cut down on our mistakes. (Patron) Scott (Devon) is a big part of our team, and we didn't use him right Sunday. Today we got him more involved offensively, and he was a big help for us. |
Unlike the trend of sequels this summer, this movie will exceed the total of the original at the end of week one, |