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Remarks of Dan GlickmanMPAA Chairman and CEO To the ShoWest Annual ConventionLas Vegas, NV 
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March 11, 2008
Good morning.
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 Jeffrey Katzenberg,
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congratulations on
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Monsters v. Aliens.
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What a terrific showcase for the 3-D futur
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and, I think we can all agree, easily the best documentary yet on the last few months in Hollywood.
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 Although, who knows, I guess it could turn out to be about politics. What would I know,
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on the campaign trail
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still nothing close to what you see in Britain. The bar was set at the House of Commons in afamous exchange between Lady Astor and
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I guess things could be far worse.
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they could hardly be better at the box office. Last year,
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heck of a lot more than a perfect game in bowling. Now, we have
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anotherphenomenon of modern movie-making 
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something you just have to see in the theater. And, what a highlight reel: 17 $100-
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they really loved us in2007
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m incredibly proud of the diversity of films in the 2007 slate and how widely they wereembraced by movie-goers around the world. John, last year we joked that we needed a new 
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 What a milestone for the movies and the theatrical experience.
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an extraordinary foreign film that challenged us to stop and think.
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. I found it technically exquisite. It blew 
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then almost blew out my knee when I tried to copy some of the moves.
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Speech follows a 3-D sneak peak of Dream 
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highlight reel of $100M+ films in 2007.
 
 
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I still have to leavethe lights on just to think about that movie.
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Charlie and I worked together in theHouse. As you saw in the film, he was an
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I hoped to have him joinus for our screening in Washington. But Charlie was recovering from a heart transplant. Onhis behalf 
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I made a point of sharing with our guests that all of 
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are now in full working condition. Whether we work in this industry or simply love the movies, we have a tendency in thiscountry to talk in terms of numbers. I guess that sort of makes us the baseball of the art- world. It certainly 
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I do think i
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of affection and a respectable proxy for
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 Last year, we celebrated a box office that was back in black, once again growing at a healthy pace. Today, we stand on a new mountaintop, and I have to say: I like the view. We hadabout 5% growth in the domestic and worldwide box office
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all-time highs for both
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 reminding us once again that good stories well told always find a place in our hearts, ourlives and our local theaters.Despite these troubling times we have internationally, movies transcend politics. In fact,
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no surprise when it now stands at twice the US box office.Here in the U.S., we sold about 1.4
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tickets to your theaters last year. MPAA went out
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77% said going to the movies
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 Also, the top-grossing 20 films of last year offered morediverse fare
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a 50% increase in PG films (Alvin and the Chipmunks to Enchanted
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truly for everyone. We also continue to see tremendous growth in independent film. In 2002, there were about450 movies total. Last year, it was 600. All of that growth is independent film. In 2002,MPAA studios made up about half of all films
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something we see all around us here at ShoWest. What a year we have in store:
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 So when people ask me about the state of the movies and the moviehouse, I say theaudience has spoken and the future is bright indeed. I
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MPAA regularly talks to consumers about their entertainment experience. I thought I mightshare some of what we heard. We asked consumers how digital their homes werebecom
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home theaters, digital downloads and all the rest. We found, contrary to conventional wisdom,
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as they might say on MTV, the more they go to the movies. High-tech consumers go to themovies 50% more often than their lower-tech counterparts
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an extra four trips each year. And, overwhelmingly consumers say the ultimate movie experience is going to the movies.So as digital as our lives become, we cannot have a thriving movie industry without athriving exhibition industry. Period. When we watch the Sunday evening news, we get thelatest basketball scores. W 
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a part of the fabric of American culture. At the same time, we need to adapt with our customers. And, here, too, it seems there aresome genuine opportunities. Maybe
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 just seems we spend far too much time worrying about the future and not enough timeexploring its many possibilities for all of us.Our goal has to be to ensure more people watch our products whether in theaters, in theirhomes, on their PCs or in the palm of their hand, so we have the value chain
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the financialsupport mechanism
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that ensures great movies continue to be made.It
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tant to keeping the pipeline robust, particularly with movies becoming soexpensive to make
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more expensive, it seems, by the day. The way I see it we can deliver
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them work and enhance the value
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or we continue to lose our customers, as too often we already do, to lawlessness.
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point in our lives. But I do want to thank NATO and truly all of the theater owners forbeing such a strong ally in our fight for the future of intellectual property rights. For ourbusinesses and for the country,
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 which our allies are growing by the day, literally around the world.I
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out on something important to the future of the movies and our economy as a whole. We began this morning celebrating the innovation underway in theaters. We talked aboutthe many ways all of us are responding to evolving consumer demands. There is so muchpossibility today. And, all of us here know that the greatest threat to this potential is piracy.No one here needs a lecture on what happens when one illegal copy makes its way to theInternet
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God forbid on opening weekend
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and is instantly available to the world. Today,
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