Chuck Viane Quotations

Now we've got the summer ahead of us where every day is a holiday (and) our audience expands.

It all starts with good movies and we've been blessed with four in a row.

It had been a chicken-or-the-egg situation. Exhibition said if there was content, they'd put in the equipment. Distribution said if there was equipment, they'd provide the content. We just decided it was time to start to do it to further the cause of the digital transition.

I think there's more than enough room for two major hits in a season, and because of the length of the holidays, both films are going to be here for a long, long time.

We're talking about 10 percent of the screens in the United States becoming digital. This makes it a very sizable toe in the water.

We're talking about 10% of the screens in the United States becoming digital. This makes it a very sizable toe in the water.

We're tremendously excited. But the weekend has certainly righted itself. This is probably going to be the record gross for this weekend in August. Along with that, having number three, four ('Freaky Friday') and six ('Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl') in the marketplace makes us feel terrific.

We're thrilled. We are going to take a couple hundred additional runs this Friday, trying to find the appropriate areas to add (while) trying not to step on the substantial runs we have today.

We're thrilled. It's not every day that you can make a movie for everyone and I think Gore and Jerry really did that. They did an absolutely terrific job of putting an original piece of film into the market this summer.

You can't crow about things if people aren't buying tickets to your movies. This proves that our animation team, with their commitment and resilience, can deliver.

We all knew Andy (Davis) did a really good job of making the movie,

The public votes with their wallets and this is an affirmation that funny is money.

Any time a new process comes into the market, there is always a pioneer. In this case, it's us, ... But this isn't about one picture, it's about the future. We are waiting to see how it all plays out. But at the same time, we are committed to the process and believe, as filmmakers (Robert) Zemeckis and (James) Cameron believe, this is where it is going.

It's clearly public word of mouth. This is one of those weekends where you can sit back and really enjoy what we do.

It's hard to believe in this day of the freefall second weekend that we could hold up like this. It's fabulous. When you go back and look in the era of mega openings of $50-60-70 million, this is one of the smaller drops.

It was an opportunity that was waiting to happen.

They went really well. We played to 88 percent capacity, an extremely high number. It was well over 60 percent female-to-male and scored 90 percent in the Top Two boxes (excellent and very good), which is terrific.

They went really well, ... We played to 88 percent capacity, an extremely high number. It was well over 60 percent female-to-male and scored 90 percent in the Top Two boxes (excellent and very good), which is terrific.

I'm thinking we'll do $2 million-plus (Monday) because we still have 50 percent of the kids out of school and families tend to make this a long holiday. This is going to be well into the $20 millions by the end of the first week.

Immediately after Halloween, whatever it is, people's mind-set turns to movies,

If you will, we won the dog race.

Being a family movie and Halloween becoming such a family experience in the last few years, we didn't want ('Bear') to compete with a natural problem of having families' attention drawn somewhere else, so we waited till Saturday,

I don't think those movies got the repeat business that summer movies got in other years. It's one thing to open big. But a true hit has to get the kids back for two or three viewings. After the summer, we were playing catch-up.

This is one of those movies that's playing to everybody, and everybody is loving it.

The last time I saw a score like this was 'Remember the Titans,' which (did) $115 million, ... Having the next 12 days for word of mouth to percolate before we open (will help a lot).