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Big summer for Hollywood

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1. Sure the US may be in a recession.
2. Americans have decided a bucket of popcorn and 2 hours of big screen entertainment is still an affordable treat.
3. The summer of 08 could actually beat last summer’s record breaking numbers.
4. ‘This summer May was a little bit down. In the past 3 weeks we’ve been up.’
5. ‘We’ve actually pulled ahead of last year’s summer in terms of both revenue and attendance’.
6. That’s big thanks in part to Iron Man’s success.
7. It’s the first film of the year to hit $300 million at the domestic box office.
8. ‘We had a rough first quarter in terms of box office versus last year.
9. Revenues are running just less than half a % behind last year.
10. The one possible fly in Hollywood’s honey is a potential screen actor’s strike starting June 30th.