Todd Wagner Quotations

Bubble' is just the beginning. It's a process of learning the best way to package and integrate and market movies so consumers can buy a DVD in a theater or Best Buy or go to the theater or do both.

If it's good, people will see it. If it's bad, we could release it on everyone's cell phone the next morning, and no one would watch it.

We can make a movie, put it on our TV stations, put it in our own theaters, and we didn't need anybody's blessing to do that.

We think consumers should have the chance to consume movies.

Landmark has always had a tremendous commitment to promoting independent film. Having Mercury as such an important and strategic ally in our continued efforts will immediately create opportunities essential to the continued growth and success of independent film.

Our core business strategy is to create new opportunities for the consumer, ... what we¹re doing has never been done before. As studios and exhibitors search for ways to retain audiences frustrated with the theatre experience, we believe the competitive solution lies in increasing value for customers.

Our argument is that people want to go to the movie theaters because they want to go to the movie theater. It's not about seeing it just because it's not at home. I have food at home, too, but I still go to restaurants.

Steven was like, 'Well, I've got some movies that might make sense if you guys are willing to do this. 'Well, yeah, let's sit down and figure out how we can do this.' If Todd and Mark say it, it's one thing. If Steven says it, too, it adds a whole new credibility level.

Steven's A-list credibility has made the community take us more seriously, has accelerated the process and brought it into the open. Steven will help. Writing checks for 'Enron' will help.

While you may say that's not a big number, if you do the math with me ... believe me, it's big. It's helpful to an industry that has razor-thin margins. The exhibition industry is a horribly tough industry.

We continue to focus on maintaining our first- mover advantage, ... aggregating content, developing our network infrastructure and capitalizing on opportunities through these distribution partnerships.

We continue to expand our turnkey business-to-business Internet broadcasting services, as we delivered 960 events in the second quarter of 1999, more than double the number of events in the second quarter of 1998 and a 45 percent increase over the first quarter of 1999,

We want the exhibitors to be a part of this because they should be and from my perspective, they always should have been.

We think we can lower the cost, increase the revenue and realize that the customers are in charge.

Why do we make the assumption that five months later people are still interested in your product?

We've got a business model in place that works in today's market. The ability to reach people in the office, the ability to reach the daytime in-office part has never been done before.

This way we can cut through the clutter once. We'll spend the money once and allow people to buy it however they want to consume it, whenever they want to watch it. Imagine that, literally listening to consumers.

As studios and exhibitors search for ways to retain audiences frustrated with the theatre experience, we believe the competitive solution lies in increasing value for customers.

This is not Spider-Man 3 , but it's the start of a process.

It's not inherent in the industry to be entrepreneurial. It's a culture of cover your ass: 'As long as I keep getting a big star in my movie, I can't get fired.' We view innovation and taking chances as part of our business. If we don't do it, someone else will, and they'll knock us down.

It's the beginning of a very slow process. It's like throwing the first pitch in a nine-inning baseball game.

It's important to note that this movie was designed for a niche audience. Going in, we knew we had a very atypical film for the marketplace, and the day-and-date strategy provided an economic framework that let us take a chance on a unique, challenging and exceptional film and make it profitable.

It's important to note that this movie was designed for a niche audience.

In this world, people don't want to wait.

We want people to go to the movies. But the reality is that this is a digital world and we have to adapt to that reality.

Truth sounds like hate to those who hate the truth

Don't confuse what FEELS right, for what IS right.

The Internet started in a silent-movie phase -- a text-oriented Internet. But now it's moving. We look at ourselves as that portal that people come to for streaming audio or video programming.