Jim Goss: All right. And a couple of questions about the cluster of films that sort of led the way in the summer. Barbenheimer and Sound of Freedom sort of sucked up a lot of the oxygen in the room. It seemed like Mission Impossible was one of the odd men out, and maybe the Indiana Jones movie did a little bit better, but not quite as well. With your collection or your – of multiple PLF screens, were you able to take better advantage of Mission Impossible than was true in the industry as a whole? Or did it also wind up being sort of squeezed out a little bit in your theaters as well?
GregMarcus: I don’t remember off top of my head exactly how it played out with that. I – look, I think it still ended up getting a little pinched, but we had more opportunity than anybody else, but it was – it didn’t get to have the same. Now, by the way, Mission Impossible, if you look at the history of Mission Impossible, we all went into this. Again, this is why I said, we – you know, we should have a regular weekly seance to figure out what the films are going to do to make predictions, because a bottoms up analysis is extremely challenging in this industry. And if you look at the history of Mission Impossible movies, it actually wasn’t a tremendous, you know, underperformance, but it’s Tom Cruise. We were all thrilled with what he did last year, with what’s it called with Top Gun. Very optimistically. But, but by the way, I love Mission Impossible. I watched that movie over and over.
Chad Paris: Yes, Jim, maybe I can add just a little color because I’ve got the numbers in front of me. I mean, we led the industry with Mission Impossible on our PLF screen. 67% of our opening weekend box on that film came from PLF, but you had Barbie and Oppenheimer debuting the same weekend shortly thereafter, and we used all of our PLFs in that opening weekend, essentially for those two films. So I think the Mission Impossible was probably hurt, really, just by the calendar, more so than anything else. It didn’t get a share of PLFs once those other two films premiered.
Jim Goss: All right. And one other thing in that area, IMAX took an outsized share of Oppenheimer box office. It really pushed that particular film and did really well with it. I’m wondering if that had any impact on what you feel you might have taken or was it not really that much of a comp issue in your particular markets? And also related to that, they’re bringing back Oppenheimer to the biggest screens. Are you thinking of doing something similar given the lack of some of the new content right now?
Chad Paris: So IMAX, you know, led with Oppenheimer on the weekend that those films debuted. We had the ability to play both Barbie and Oppenheimer on our PLF screens, particularly because we have a lot of multi PLF locations and because we were doing some flexible scheduling with those two films. So as I look at how we performed on PLFs, both of those films, I think, you know, we got more than our share, certainly of box office from PLFs.
Jim Goss: Okay. And on the hotel side, any construction status update aside from the ballroom at The Pfister? Are there any other things going on? And with that completion of that project, are you looking for some pretty good comps going forward with the renovated ballroom?
Chad Paris: I’ll start with the last part first. The sales teams have had some really nice success in selling that space in bookings, and we’ll see that over the next couple of years. But it, you know, it’s been really well received, particularly for social events. Active construction projects, we are kicking off the meeting space renovation here later in the quarter at Grand Geneva. And then we also have the rooms renovation at Pfister, which will begin right after the holiday. So that – and that’ll continue throughout the course of the spring and end with some of the common space and lobby renovations later in the spring. So the entire renovation at the hotel will be done before the RNC convention next summer. So there’s quite a bit of construction activity still happening in the hotel business.
