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Hollywood closed out an up-and-down 2023 with Wonka regaining No 1 at the box office, strong sales for The Color Purple and an overall US$9 billion ($14.24. ....
Recovery of the movie business. it is the first summer that is fully, i don t want to say post covid because it s still around but the executives feel that consumers feel that they are now beyond covid, and the question is how much of the recovery is going to spill into the summer box office because that is the key movie making or grossing time of the year, and 40% of the entire year s grosses come from this eight-week, nine-week period. they need moviegoers to come back to the theaters, and they have these movies lined up one after another all summer, hoping to lure them in. i only named a couple of them. there are a lot of big name folks out there, big budget movies. how much nervousness are you hearing when you talk to folks in the industry? extreme nervousness because keep in mind, these are already normally expensive movies, but when you add in the added cost associated with covid, that can ....
Which not many people think about now, but yeah, we did well. anthony: you ve got to love that moment of corporate terror in the film industry when people are looking at the weekend grosses, and it s like, what is this? who is this audience that did not appear in our metrics? freddy: no, it was a great, great experience. detergent alone, can t.% oa ....
It s nice. it s moist. dana: i did have it. emily: if you guys could have any dessert for the rest of your life, what would you have? juan: if i was on death s row, i think i would have this. i m going to be a fat man. dana: you have the best metabolism of anybody. frozen hot chocolate. that s our iconic drink. dana: thank you. enjoy. dana: you are going to love this the most. [laughter] jesse: you know what i noticed? greg wasn t in any of those. where were you? greg: i was busy. i m not a big fan of watching people eat. a kind of grosses me out. you know in movies, people go to lunch and they talk about what ....
Another earth shattering event, wild style . freddy: i had an idea, if we could make a movie, and show that this rapping, this dancing, and this deejaying was one thing. so i was on a trip to germany not long after the film had aired, and i see these kids break-dancing. i m like, what the hell is going on? as i got closer, i noticed the moves the kids were doing were the exact same moves that the rock steady crew does in wild style . but i then knew that this was going to translate globally. anthony: i remember that film opening, and that was a nuclear bomb. and it ended up being like the second highest grossing freddy: second to terms of endearment . which not many people think about now, but yeah, we did well. anthony: you ve got to love that moment of corporate terror in the film industry when people are looking at the weekend grosses, and it s like, what is this? who is this audience that did ....