Gitesh Pandya Quotes (34 Quotes)

Paris Hilton is probably the best example. She was one of many attractive starlets out there, then that tape hits and it's all the sensation. The reality show gets a boost and it propels her into one of the top five celebrity actresses in the world.

It should not have been a surprise that these films made so much money. We've seen it before and often times Hollywood forgets that.

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.

It's films like 'Sideways' and 'Super Size Me' that make folks realize that low-budget films are attractive because you can spend less to reach profitability.

It was a big flop for Disney. The biggest reason is it looked too close to last year's 'Madagascar.' It's essentially the same story.

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.

When it's the right film with the right story and the right star, then you've got a box office hit on your hands. Often times they are very profitable movies because the budgets aren't very high it's a matter of targeting the audience and reaching out to them.

Typically, the big computer-animated films are spaced out four or five months apart. It is very odd that so many of these are squeezed together.

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.

It's a very popular franchise. People know exactly what they're getting. There's still a big audience for these spoof comedies. They had very good marketing.

The public excitement just isn't there. 'Just Like Heaven' had a good opening, but not a Reese Witherspoon-sized opening.

Both of these movies would have to be bigger smashes than anyone expects to erase that gap, and that's probably not going to happen.

For the really big-budget films, the North American box office gross does not always have to be spectacular. International is becoming a bigger part of the pie and so are worldwide video sales.

Hollywood is down versus last year by a significant amount. Nothing is impossible but it will take a few surprise blockbusters.

There's a tremendous financial upside to winning a Golden Globe. The amount of excitement that it creates and the amount of extra attention your film gets is priceless.

The remakes that do well shoot for audiences that might not have ever seen the original. The title isn't enough to get people, especially young people, into theaters.

A one-year gap between films is pushing it as it is. Normally you want two years between sequels. An audience needs a little time to regroup.

You have so much media and so many celebrities, some people will do anything to get attention.

This helps save them from times when they have a drought at the box office.

People outside the Hollywood mainstream were the ones making the films that were most compelling. It might be an indication of the growing divide in this business. The big studios are more and more focused on making money and making what sells.

Studios are learning that they can tap into their film libraries and reap some pretty strong profits. The DVD is where studios can have more consistent success with older audiences since there is the nostalgia factor.

They probably wouldn't have done as well as they did. Controversy simply brought in so much extra business.

Even if you get a nomination for best picture but have no chance in hell of winning you can reap incredible profits at the box office.

A lot of the genre divisions are acquiring and releasing movies with black stars and black movies and most of them seem to be working. It's a very attractive audience, very large and loyal and they come out and spend money on good films. It doesn't matter what color the people are if they come out and spend the green, that's what movie companies care about.

Though industry people thought it was a bad sign, ... the public simply got more excited, and it became the biggest movie of all time.

It might not be a great year for movies. But there's still time left for it to be a good one.

This year a lot of the winning films have subject matter that isn't necessarily mainstream. It's daring studios and filmmakers to make these films.

In the U.S., a movie like 'Saw' made a lot of money. You look at horror films in India, they're almost non-existent. It's not what the masses want to see.

It's one of the most crowded Christmas seasons I've ever seen. Many of them might end up being casualties.

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.

Even though Tom Cruise has gone a little nuts recently, he is still a huge action star in this picture. But certainly some people who are turned off by Tom Cruise will skip this movie just like 'War of the Worlds.' The numbers for that film were great, but might have reached 250 million.

When there's a popular film like 'Lord of the Rings' or 'Titanic,' audiences will tune in to watch their favorite films get crowned. We didn't have that this year.

It takes time to market a movie like this because the subject matter is something which not everyone across the country will embrace right away.

Ticket prices are going up every year. That can certainly change consumer behavior, and at the very least it makes people a lot more picky about what they'll see.