Jim Tharp Quotations

No one thought we could get above the mid-80s for the three days.

That's the highest percentage of women I can ever remember for one of our films. Clearly, we needed more romantic-minded men to show up.

We needed more romantic-minded males to show up this weekend.

Under the direction of Michael Bay, and with Steven Spielberg executive producing, we know that 'Transformers' is going to be the kind of explosive action movie that is perfect for the height of the summer movie season,

We knew that women liked suspense and horror, but we didn't expect them to be that big a percentage. They're the group turning out more than any other this summer.

When you have a movie that's compelling, people will show up in the same numbers they always do, ... Dreamer.

Fifty-six percent of the audience was under 25 with 58 percent male, ... substantially above average for males and females and all age groups. Those scores indicate the audience will broaden beyond the 'Saturday Night Live' crowd.

Families were hungry for something everyone could see.

Women are coming out to the theaters, but they're coming out to movies with each other and not their boyfriends and husbands. I think we've lost a lot of our male audiences this year. The video game industry may be having more of an effect than we originally thought it might.

We didn't make it compelling enough for the guys to show up. But we're hoping the women who liked the movie will bring the men out over the next week.

The term gets used a lot, but we do think this is a movie that can be carried by word of mouth,

Young kids were about a third, parents were about a third, and then the rest was the general audience.

It's a lot less stressful to wait for the box office numbers for Red Eye than it is for The Island .

In the U.S., they weren't as well-known as people might imagine. I think they certainly will be after this weekend.

In the US, they weren't as well-known as people might imagine.

In the under-12 group, it was evenly split between boys and girls. Eighty-four percent of the audience rated 'Sinbad' in the top two categories. Ninety-four percent of the under-12s rated it excellent or very good.

In the under-12 group, it was evenly split between boys and girls, ... Eighty-four percent of the audience rated 'Sinbad' in the top two categories. Ninety-four percent of the under-12s rated it excellent or very good.

Certainly, we're disappointed. These grosses indicate a continuous downtrend in the popularity of non-comedy traditional animated movies. This is a movie that plays well. It was 85 percent families. Sixty-three percent of the adults were moms.

Certainly, we're disappointed, ... These grosses indicate a continuous downtrend in the popularity of non-comedy traditional animated movies. This is a movie that plays well. It was 85 percent families. Sixty-three percent of the adults were moms.