Dennis McAlpine Quotes (28 Quotes)

The 8 billion (rental) business isn't going to disappear. This isn't buggy whip time. Everybody's got a DVD player.

Hollywood has never been bashful about its own competence. If studios see somebody else do something, they think they can do it better. But it's not as simple as it looks -- the story has to attract people.

Tell me where the good news was. I haven't seen anything that's good except video game sales.

It costs more now to go skiing than to go to Disney World. That's going to drive skier-days down.

The temptation is too great for Hollywood to resist.

You've seen an incredibly high profitability. In the future, it'll be part of union contracts, but for the most part it's not yet.

They've cut back their risk profile significantly -- they're making movies not to lose money, rather than to make money. They got a little carried away and they have no upside either.

A lot of ads that companies thought would work online aren't. Advertisers are now looking for results.

Given the new threat of terrorism, there has be some concern that new bookings are not holding up.

You're looking at an industry that's still not growing substantially, particularly if snowboarding doesn't continue to grow.

Combine that content with the Turner content and you're probably going to see more channels created.

You'd like to see things improve (at Disney's animation studios).

Paramount could make the most money out of this. They've got a couple of cheap movies.

One of the things that helped on the numbers was the fewer number of shares. The bottom line operating numbers were not much different than expected.

Time Warner has to show they still have their expertise.

I wish I knew the answer, whether fans got tired of 'Matrix,' or whether the second one turned them off. But something didn't work.

The technology for creating animated films has come down to fairly simplistic levels, so a lot of people can make animated films. The trick is to make animated films people want to see. Disney has shown you can make animated films that nobody wants.

The Polar Express' showed that the 3D IMAX combination could attract an audience that might not have been otherwise interested in the movie.

Some of these movies could be in trouble. I suspect that a bunch will fall by the wayside. There is not enough demand.

There is still that onus hanging over the teams as to what happens if there is another strike, and that is preventing some long-term commitments, particularly in some of the ancillary markets.

The reality is that it probably has no negative impact on advertisers. The only thing that (advertisers) really worried about is the publicity that comes from those special interest groups going against that kind of show, and sort of tarring them with the same brush.

Advertisers still want to avoid controversy.

I wouldn't be at all surprised to see radio and outdoor come up for sale, and Mel using some of his money to buy them again, if for no other reason than to show he can make it work.

This is something that was expected for some time. It takes a fair amount of overhead to run these things. The same overhead can run two or three of these channels. ESPN has shown that it has some muscle with cable networks because it has many channels.

We're used to seeing a radio station turn around in one rating period. You change the talent, the ratings go up, your revenues follow and you've made a fortune out of it. Television, unfortunately, is going to take a couple of years to get most of that around.

I don't know how they get an attraction out of this. Look at the top films and tell me who's starring in them. If I were an advertiser on the Oscars, I'd look for something else. This is not going to give Hollywood a chance to promote the idea of going to the movies for entertainment.

Spielberg will be a magnet for Paramount to attract interesting and creative projects.

They've done their own thing for the most part. Disney has been content to leave them alone and give them money and pull in all the Academy Awards.