Hollywood's big summer turns ho-hum
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Summertime in Hollywood is not as hot as it looked at the beginning.
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April's rosy forecast that Hollywood would reap a record $4 billion at the box office this summer has been replaced by hopes of merely keeping pace with 2006 as Friday's midpoint of the season nears.
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Summer at movie theaters was a true underdog story for Michael Moore and a gang of dodgeball dimwits, who helped propel Hollywood to another season of record revenue, though the number of moviegoers fell slightly.
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The junky, clunky, grimly unfunny âRush Hour 3â isnât the worst movie of the summer. But itâs an enervating bummer nonetheless.
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Remember when the good old summertime was the movies' silly season? This summer, smaller films pushed the frontiers of psychological realism and sexual candor.
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April&#39;s rosy forecast that  Hollywood would reap a record $4 billion at the box office this  summer has been replaced by hopes of merely keeping pace with  2006 as Friday&#39;s midpoint of the season nears.
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Hollywood's having a fire sale at the box office this weekend.
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Paris Hilton told Larry  King that she has two films lined up for the summer. It is  absolutely inconceivable that she will perform in either of  them any better than she did while dodging King&#39;s mostly  superficial questions on Wednesday night.
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With movie makers wrapping up a record &#36;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 &#36;9.5 billion.
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How the movie studio climbed back on top after a series of costly flops
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Hollywood's major studios are  parading their big Oscar contenders, but low-budget art films  and even animated movies are stealing their thunder as the  contest warms up for the U.S. film industry's top honors.
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This summer is proving the apotheosis of the one-week blockbuster.
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na summer when many of the studios&#39; 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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Hollywood's blue-collar infrastructure is going to take a beating this weekend.
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So abandon hope, all ye who enter &quot;Open Water&quot; with expectations of another &quot;Jaws,&quot; the 1975 Steven Spielberg beach blast that became -- for better and worse -- Hollywood&#39;s model summer blockbuster.
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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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The summer may be loaded with blockbusters, but itâs now becoming crowded with more adult fare that usually opens in the fall.