10 Quotes by Martin Grove


  • Author Martin Grove
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    I think in troubled times, we're going to see the same genre that worked during the depression -- comedy. People need to escape, they need to laugh, they need to forget the grim realities of the world. Comedies are going to become king at the box office.

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  • Author Martin Grove
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    It hasn't been a great year so far for Universal -- that's no surprise at this point. But the fourth quarter has a number of major releases that the studio is very hopeful about.

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    This summer is off to a fabulous start. People thought it was going to be dominated exclusively by 'Star Wars.' It turns out there are a number of hits in the marketplace. The marketplace expanded, Star Wars is doing great, but there are a lot of other hits that are playing in theaters now.

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    What's especially important is that it comes on a non-summer, non-holiday, non-weekend day. It's a plain-old Wednesday in mid-May -- that's not bad business.

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    Bottom line: Hollywood is worried. Nobody wants to see this really healthy industry ... just put flat on its back.

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    On TV, where you have the miniseries form which allows a long time to develop and deal with a story that's complicated, perhaps the material is better served by that form.

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    As a result you may see studios open fewer movies in the coming weeks, just because it's very difficult to market them.

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