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).

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

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 three viewings. After the summer, we were playing catch-up.

Being a family movie and Halloween becoming such a family experience in the last few years, we didn't want ('Bear') to compete with a natural problem of having families' attention drawn somewhere else, so we waited till Saturday,

If you will, we won the dog race.

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

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 the $20 millions by the end of the first week.

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 is terrific.

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 is terrific.

It was an opportunity that was waiting to happen.