It would not surprise me if there were a deal, either way.

This is year-end cleaning out the closet, putting stuff in order, getting ready for the new year.

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...

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

The negative impact on cable networks will be more than on broadcast networks.

If Hong Kong works, there’s a good chance that Shanghai will get built. If Hong Kong bombs, it won’t.

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...

You had an awful lot of snow out there. You had it early and you had it long. It’s probably going to be difficult (to match) next year.

Lions Gate has generally been successful with horror and it’s not surprising. Horror is the sort of thing that smaller independents have historically done well.

They haven’t been able to manage the acquisitions well.

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

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...

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

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...

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.

You think that’s an accident?.

The thing is that Cineplex has lost its market dominance. Distributors are able to raise the price on them. Now, they should be able to force film costs down as a percentage of revenue.

Unfortunately, it is not quite that simple.

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.

It means one of them at least is going to be happy because he’s going to get some carriage on something approaching 11 million consumers.

It would have been a surprise if ‘Scary Movie’ hadn’t been No. 1. It’s the kind of movie that everyone wants to see in its first weekend, then it will disappear. It’s when (the Weinstein...

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

Overall I think it was a very good year. It points out how strong 2002 was. I think last year was a B-plus. This year going in looks like it is a B to B-plus,...

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.

The price tag is a little more than people were expecting.

At some point, she’s going to have to focus on one thing rather than spreading herself out all over the place. Let’s face it: she’s no Oprah Winfrey or Dr. Phil.

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...

Things are getting better, but they were so bad that they had do. Is there a real turnaround here? It’s way too early to tell.

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...

You have to keep developing something new.

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

Her relationship with advertisers is pretty tenuous and she’s got to be careful how she handles it.

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

Anytime you do a movie with a cost of $200 million, you have a risk.

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.

Advertisers still want to avoid controversy.

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

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.

Time Warner has to show they still have their expertise.

Even Rachel Ray is planning to come out with her own magazine.

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

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

It means we’re going to be off to a pretty slow start compared with last year.

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.

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

The temptation is too great for Hollywood to resist.

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

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...