Everyone is looking for the sure thing. They are looking to hedge their bet. They think the way to do that is to go with a proven quantity, a remake of something you have already seen. That is their mindset.

A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.

Nobody ever puts a seat belt on in a movie. It's 'uncool.' I think that's incredibly irresponsible.

I think the bet right now is they're seriously going for it. It's certainly a better dynamic than we've seen in the past.

While it was occasionally done here or there, nobody else had a figurehead like Walt doing it. Jack Warner wasn't on TV. Walt was the boss, but he had a real public profile and he used it to his advantage. And he became a household face.

Movie theaters still exist in spite of all of the alternatives that are available, video and video-on-demand and DVD and streaming video and all of these things.