The Secret to a Smash Movie? Lure Hispanics

6:00 AM PDT 10/2/2012 by Pamela McClintock

The recent success of "Hotel Transylvania" and "End of Watch" speaks to the power of Latinos as Hollywood grapples with how (and how not) to tap into the overindexing audience.

On the face of it, 3D kids pic Hotel Transylvania and gritty LAPD cop drama End of Watch have little in common other than the fact that both films wildly overperformed in their openings. Yet their bond is the Hispanic moviegoer, who played a big role in driving each movie to success.