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“It's mostly Americans voting and to a large extent, they are Southern California people. It's much more a Hollywood crowd and that affects voting.”
Gitesh Pandya
“After Sept. 11, Arnold Schwarzenegger's 'Collateral Damage,' about a fireman who loses his family to terrorists, was delayed a year - and it opened at No. 1, ... After the East Coast sniper case, 'Phone Booth' was delayed, and that opened at No. 1. Delaying these films to a more marketable date helped both of them.”
“'Titanic' was supposed to open in July 1997 as a big summer movie, but it got delayed until the very end of the year,”
“After Sept. 11, Arnold Schwarzenegger's 'Collateral Damage,' about a fireman who loses his family to terrorists, was delayed a year - and it opened at No. 1. After the East Coast sniper case, 'Phone Booth' was delayed, and that opened at No. 1. Delaying these films to a more marketable date helped both of them.”
“'Titanic' was supposed to open in July 1997 as a big summer movie, but it got delayed until the very end of the year.”
“We don't have a Star Wars this summer, but we've got Superman and X-Men . We don't have Tom Cruise in War of the Worlds , but we've got him in Mission: Impossible 3 . A good summer could turn things around in a big way.”
“Something that's made $50 million could go on to do $100 million now.”
“These are bold films in the sense they are tackling subject matter that's daring. This year there is tremendous upside for these films because there is a huge audience ahead of them. They reached only a fraction of the total audience.”
“I think this shows a growing divide between the expensive Hollywood films, which make a lot of money, and the artistic lower budget films which are made more from quality.”
“When you look at 2005, which overflowed with remakes and sequels, I think that the Academy recognized that the best films came from independent filmmakers not the big studios.”
