Boxoffice - March 2016

BYRON HOWARD
AT THE MOVIES
"I was nine years old when
I saw Star Wars for the first
time in a tiny little theater,
and I went bonkers when
that Star Destroyer went
over my head. I somehow
convinced my dad to take
me to the next showing and
ruined the movie for the man
sitting in front of us because
I was so excited that I talked
through the whole first act.
He yelled at me, and that’s
where I learned not to talk in
the theater."
Oscar winner
J.K. Simmons
(Whiplash) voices
Leodore Lionheart, a
noble lion who is the
mayor of Zootopia.
RICH MOORE
AT THE MOVIES
"I remember seeing [Star
Wars] at the Avco cinema
in Westwood when I was 12.
I’m not sure if that theater is
still standing, but I can still
remember how the popcorn
smelled that day. To this day
there are times when I smell
popcorn and think, “That
smells like Star Wars!” But
the earliest memory that
stands out for me is the time
I went to see The Jungle
Book. I was four or five, and
it might have been the first
movie I saw in a theater—it
was at the Carriage Square
Theatres in Oxnard, where I
grew up. It was scary at first,
a big place with curtains and
full of people, but when the
lights went down I fell in
love. I was the youngest of
four kids, and we didn’t do
too many things where the
whole family was present,
but for some reason my
parents, siblings, and maybe
even my grandmother came
along. I remember loving the
movie and riding back home
in the car thinking, “I want
more of that! How can I get
more of that?”
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