Summer Box Office Hits a High, Despite Lows
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In a summer when many of the studios' biggest bets failed to pay off, it was familiarity in the form of sequels and low-budget comedies that resonated with movie audiences.
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The economy headed into the summer with better momentum, propelled by a manufacturing rebound and consumers who eagerly went shopping and sightseeing despite high gas prices.
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Septemberâs slow box office showed no signs of letting up this weekend. It had been hoped that the opening of âSky Captain and the World of Tomorrowâ would bring audiences to the movies.
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Profits at US investment bank Goldman Sachs are better than expected, despite slow summer business.
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Hollywood is only marginally ahead of its lackluster 2005 in terms of dollars and cents. Studios are miles ahead in terms of summer hits and misses, though.
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In Hollywood, box-office  records exist to be broken. Last month saw several records fall  as Sony Pictures&#39; &quot;Spider-Man 3,&quot; and then the Walt Disney  Studios&#39; &quot;Pirates of the Caribbean: At World&#39;s End&quot; stormed the  multiplex.
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Hollywood had one of its best summers in recent history, but to hear many studio executives talk, the movie business is closer to the edge of a cliff than ever.
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SYDNEY  - "Ocean's Twelve" sailed to  the top of the international box office this weekend, and "The  Incredibles" flew past $300 million during a busy period that  also saw encouraging debuts for "Ray" and "The Aviator."
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"Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" set the record for the highest opening in box office history on Sunday, selling an estimated $132 million worth of tickets in its first three days of release across North America and beating the four-year-ol...
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LOS ANGELES  - As far as the box office  is concerned, summer's over.
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It's not without faults, but the film scores higher than its stage version
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The summer box office  season officially wraps this Labor Day holiday weekend, during  which three wide releases will open in theaters. None is likely  to cross the $20 million mark for the four-day period.
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Ticket sales at North American cinemas rose this summer, reversing last year's decline.
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Moviegoers are not following the script written for them by the Hollywood studios. In a sign that big-budget sequels may be losing their allure, North American ticket sales for the first three big films of the lucrative summer season have not kept pace with their respective predecessors.
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US summer box office takings surpass $4bn for the first time as comedy Superbad tops the chart.
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Small-budget movies are making bigger hits than big-budget movies.
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With movie makers wrapping up a  record $4 billion summer on Friday, Hollywood turned to fall  films and the Oscar hopefuls it hopes will push the annual box  office beyond last year's $9.5 billion.