That kind of hold is just remarkable by anybody’s standards. By the end of the third week, we’ll be at the $200 million level. It’s one of those kind of dream stories.

It puts us in very good company,

We all knew Andy (Davis) did a really good job of making the movie,

Long time coming. You never expect that. We’re usually more consistent.

We’re talking about 10% of the screens in the United States becoming digital. This makes it a very sizable toe in the water.

scored a 92 percent, which put it in the excellent bracket. The common thread of any of the films that have ever scored a 92 with us is that they all had legs. I’m talking...

These two movies are energizing the business.

We’re thrilled. We are going to take a couple hundred additional runs this Friday, trying to find the appropriate areas to add (while) trying not to step on the substantial runs we have today.

This is a fantastic hold. We’re probably looking at breaking the $200 million barrier by New Year’s Eve. I think what you have here is a movie instantly becoming one of those holiday classics.

We’re talking about 10 percent of the screens in the United States becoming digital. This makes it a very sizable toe in the water.

It’s an extremely good opening and we’re all proud as can be. It’s going to be a shade above ‘Princess Diaries’ first week (of) $37.8 million. We’ll be $39 million-something for the first seven days.

We’re tremendously excited. But the weekend has certainly righted itself. This is probably going to be the record gross for this weekend in August. Along with that, having number three, four (‘Freaky Friday’) and six...

You can’t crow about things if people aren’t buying tickets to your movies. This proves that our animation team, with their commitment and resilience, can deliver.

Sometimes I think we forget that people go to the movies to escape, to be entertained. The movies that deliver the smiles and laughs are doing well this season.

The last time I saw a score like this was ‘Remember the Titans,’ which (did) $115 million. Having the next 12 days for word of mouth to percolate before we open (will help a lot).

Word of mouth is your best tool. Studios can’t just tell people to like a movie.

I think there’s more than enough room for two major hits in a season, and because of the length of the holidays, both films are going to be here for a long, long time.

They scored exactly the same as our ‘Princess Diaries’ — 91 percent in the top two boxes, … So we’ve got high hopes for it. Families just loved it.

They went really well, … We played to 88 percent capacity, an extremely high number. It was well over 60 percent female-to-male and scored 90 percent in the Top Two boxes (excellent and very good),...

The public votes with their wallets and this is an affirmation that funny is money.

I’m thinking we’ll do $2 million-plus (Monday) because we still have 50 percent of the kids out of school and families tend to make this a long holiday. This is going to be well into...

Our filmmakers are very, very happy because the movie scored a 90 in the top two boxes (excellent and very good). We have wonderful word of mouth working for us again.

I don’t think those movies got the repeat business that summer movies got in other years. It’s one thing to open big. But a true hit has to get the kids back for two or...

We really thought starting the weekend that we would be somewhere between $16.5 million and just over $17 million on ‘Jungle Book,’ based on the way the matinees played out, … You’re probably looking at...

[Applauding writer-director Audrey Wells for making a film] the audience absolutely loves, … Our exit research gives us 90 percent in the top two boxes. We are heavily skewed female, but there were an amazingly...

We exceeded the predictions, but we lived up to our own internal expectations.

If you will, we won the dog race.

This is one of those movies that’s playing to everybody, and everybody is loving it.

They went really well. We played to 88 percent capacity, an extremely high number. It was well over 60 percent female-to-male and scored 90 percent in the Top Two boxes (excellent and very good), which...

[Focusing on] House, … We (sneaked it) two weeks ago. We thought word of mouth would help spin this movie over the top. Obviously, it did. More importantly, the Friday night word of mouth really...

It had been a chicken-or-the-egg situation. Exhibition said if there was content, they’d put in the equipment. Distribution said if there was equipment, they’d provide the content. We just decided it was time to start...

It’s hard to believe in this day of the freefall second weekend that we could hold up like this. It’s fabulous. When you go back and look in the era of mega openings of $50-60-70...

Any time a new process comes into the market, there is always a pioneer. In this case, it’s us, … But this isn’t about one picture, it’s about the future. We are waiting to see...

Counter programming has always been a very necessary ingredient of the type of pictures we make. There’s no question, if we do it properly we can really score.

Immediately after Halloween, whatever it is, people’s mind-set turns to movies,

[Asked where] Holes … We opened ‘The Rookie’ a couple years ago to $16 million and went on to (nearly) $76 million. And here we are with $17 million-plus and every bit the (same strong)...

Now we’ve got the summer ahead of us where every day is a holiday (and) our audience expands.

Goofy Movie’ went on to do $35 million. With all the holidays ahead of us, I can’t wait to see where this one goes.

It was an opportunity that was waiting to happen.

We’re thrilled. It’s not every day that you can make a movie for everyone and I think Gore and Jerry really did that. They did an absolutely terrific job of putting an original piece of...

It’s clearly public word of mouth. This is one of those weekends where you can sit back and really enjoy what we do.

There is a voluntary word of mouth being spread,

We’re ecstatic,

[On the production side, Sony Pictures is the only studio so far to sign on to a future 3-D production using the Real D process, as it plans to bow Zemeckis’] Monster House … There...

It all starts with good movies and we’ve been blessed with four in a row.