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Natalie Migliore, WOR Reporter · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Now it's sevent ten war Spat on the Street with
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  Speaker 1: Natalie Migliori seaw.
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  Speaker 2: Natalie Craziouz raining downstairs China solicit from New York. Is
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  Speaker 2: your opinion on what movie going now? Yes? Movie going.
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  Speaker 3: I mean it's no secret that movie theaters spent years
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  Speaker 3: trying to figure out how to fill seats in recent years, really,
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  Speaker 3: but it seems like they've found some secret formula after
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  Speaker 3: back to back smashing weekends at the box office, one
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  Speaker 3: where The Honesty had a two hundred and sixty four
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  Speaker 3: million dollar opening weekend worldwide and then Spider Man Brand
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  Speaker 3: New Day blew that out of the water with a
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  Speaker 3: nine hundred and twenty seven million dollar opening weekend globally.
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  Speaker 3: So what is leading to such a strong comeback.
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  Speaker 4: I think right now is that they're making better movies.
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  Speaker 4: What seems to keep happening when it comes to movies
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  Speaker 4: is that everybody keeps just making remakes of movies, and
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  Speaker 4: it seems like now we're the new ideas, and they're
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  Speaker 4: pushing those new ideas, which is bringing people to the
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  Speaker 4: actual theaters to make it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, show it.
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  Speaker 5: I think we're in a state where people are looking
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  Speaker 5: for you know what was before social media, you know,
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  Speaker 5: going out and connecting again. You're starting to see that more.
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  Speaker 5: I'm doing that with some people that I know personally,
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  Speaker 5: you know, I'm not into the social media like that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and there's some true to that in a sense,
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  Speaker 3: because the numbers show attendance for this summer's movie showings
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  Speaker 3: are in line with those of twenty nineteen. So pre
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  Speaker 3: COVID levels and ticket sales are up at least ten
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  Speaker 3: percent this summer summer compared to last. Right, So this
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  Speaker 3: New Yorker went to see Spider Man twice and says
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  Speaker 3: the theater, you know, who's in the seat speaks for itself.
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  Speaker 4: It was definitely a full packed house. I went to
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  Speaker 4: Regal Cinema a fourteenth Street in New York. It was
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  Speaker 4: packed house. So you've seen a lot of people wearing
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  Speaker 4: their spider gear. There was definitely some people cosplaying. So yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it was definitely an amazing turnout.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe they are.
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  Speaker 6: Coming back because I do see when I do go
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  Speaker 6: to movies there's a nice, steady crowd going in there.
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  Speaker 6: It's not empty, you know, So it's good to see
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  Speaker 6: people getting off the couch, getting from the phones.
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  Speaker 3: And going to the movies now, Curtis, Curtis Lowry, you're
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  Speaker 3: one of those people.
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  Speaker 2: You went to the movies this weekend, did you know?
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't know. It was sold out. It was sold
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  Speaker 2: out again. I thought you made it in. You made
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  Speaker 2: it sound like you made it in. I never made
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  Speaker 2: it sound like that. I said it several times this morning.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: You know what was in the movies now?
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  Speaker 1: It was out this summer too. That people get forgetting
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  Speaker 1: Toy Story five, Yeah, I had a huge opening to look.
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  Speaker 3: The Odyssey and Spider Man Brand New Day are the
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  Speaker 3: most recent box office It's you're.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Toy Story five.
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  Speaker 3: You've got even the project Hell Mary, which was Amazon's
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  Speaker 3: first major smash, Michael the the MJU based biopic, and
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  Speaker 3: Obsession Right. So the the were just major box office
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  Speaker 3: hits that kept coming. But some people there's always one
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  Speaker 3: resistant to heading to.
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  Speaker 7: The movies, like you ought to see is three hours.
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  Speaker 7: I want to see it. I heard it's very good,
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  Speaker 7: but I don't want to, you know, sit there for
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  Speaker 7: three hours four hours. I can't do it, you know,
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  Speaker 7: especially if you got aches and pains. Even though they
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  Speaker 7: got those reclining chairs, still, it's a long time to
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  Speaker 7: sit there. And then what about the falling asleep factor?
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  Speaker 7: You know, I fall a sleat in my house. I
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  Speaker 7: can rewind it. You know, cost me fifty dollars to
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  Speaker 7: get in. I fall asleep. I can't rewind it.
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  Speaker 3: If you get in, if you get in, Larry, you
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  Speaker 3: better not fall asleep.
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  Speaker 2: This is expectations high pressure here.
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  Speaker 3: He's got a point, especially after an analysis from cabletv
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  Speaker 3: dot com revealed taking a date and getting popcorn we'll
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  Speaker 3: ring in at just under seventy four bucks on average.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, seventy four dollars. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I took eight people to the movies and putting my
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  Speaker 1: grandkids you numb a cost me over four hundred dollars.
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  Speaker 2: That's insane. I don't want greg kids now I had.
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  Speaker 3: But this New Yorker says, the popcorn.
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  Speaker 2: Is the best part to me, it's misson silly.
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  Speaker 6: It's worth the price if the popcorn is good to me.
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  Speaker 2: Popcorn makes the movie. I grew up on the movies.
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  Speaker 2: Popcorn makes the movies. What's the best popcorn you've ever had?
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  Speaker 3: And can you remember what.
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  Speaker 2: Movie it was?
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  Speaker 6: Oh? My goodness, uh, I think it was twenty third
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  Speaker 6: Street Theater off eighth A. You it's since closed down.
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  Speaker 6: Now they're body gonna condimentingum over there.
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  Speaker 2: And I think it was Twilight, my man, Twilight. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if it was the popcorn for him or
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  Speaker 2: the movie.
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  Speaker 3: That was great, But I too remember seeing all of
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  Speaker 3: the Twilight movies in the theaters.
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  Speaker 2: I can see you seeing it. Him seeing it was
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  Speaker 2: a little odd. My uncle took me anyway, So I
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  Speaker 2: don't know everybody. No, But wasn't it a bit teen
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  Speaker 2: girl movie?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: It was a great movie. But guy, he's one hundred
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  Speaker 2: percent right.
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  Speaker 3: You cannot recreate movie popcornt absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: But that's possible with that synthetic butter. Yes, just all
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  Speaker 2: of it, just drenched. That's butter.
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  Speaker 3: If you get in, that's what you've gotta do, Larry,
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  Speaker 3: you've gotta get some popcorns.
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  Speaker 2: Is that mozzola in on margre not butter?
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  Speaker 7: Hell?
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  Speaker 6: It is, I think it is.
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  Speaker 2: Is the liquid stuff liquid? Yes, that's literally. Anyway, we'll
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  Speaker 2: be talking to your shame time, shame place tomorrow. We
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  Speaker 2: should have