Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,’ ‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’ and ‘Up’ lead the way as a new box office standard is setBy Adam Shapiro
Meg Fox takes stand of sorts in T2
HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 09/05/09 - Movies have always done well in tough times since the Great Depression. Yet never a record $4.2 billion box office like this year. And none with so few blockbusters, for those seeking a little escapism from the bills in the mailbox.As the summer movie season officially comes to an end tomorrow, reflecting on the success at the box office draws one major conclusion: Summer 2009 was historic at the box office as U.S. ticket sales reached $4.2 billion through September 3, exceeding the previous record of $4.16 billion set in 2007 (when ‘Spider-Man 3,’ ‘Pirates of the Caribbean 3,’ ‘Shrek 3,’ and the first installment of ‘Transformers’ crashed the box office)
Although no movie was as monumental as last summer’s phenomenon, Warner Bros. ‘The Dark Knight,’ this year’s charge was led by films that featured the return of gargantuan robots, a maturing boy wizard and an elderly man dragging his house behind him through the sky. Paramount’s ‘Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen’ was the summer’s biggest hit, on the verge of grossing $400 million domestically and becoming the ninth-highest grossing picture of all time. And while proven franchises reeled in audiences, surprise contenders like
Meg Fox takes stand of sorts in T2
HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 09/05/09 - Movies have always done well in tough times since the Great Depression. Yet never a record $4.2 billion box office like this year. And none with so few blockbusters, for those seeking a little escapism from the bills in the mailbox.As the summer movie season officially comes to an end tomorrow, reflecting on the success at the box office draws one major conclusion: Summer 2009 was historic at the box office as U.S. ticket sales reached $4.2 billion through September 3, exceeding the previous record of $4.16 billion set in 2007 (when ‘Spider-Man 3,’ ‘Pirates of the Caribbean 3,’ ‘Shrek 3,’ and the first installment of ‘Transformers’ crashed the box office)
Although no movie was as monumental as last summer’s phenomenon, Warner Bros. ‘The Dark Knight,’ this year’s charge was led by films that featured the return of gargantuan robots, a maturing boy wizard and an elderly man dragging his house behind him through the sky. Paramount’s ‘Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen’ was the summer’s biggest hit, on the verge of grossing $400 million domestically and becoming the ninth-highest grossing picture of all time. And while proven franchises reeled in audiences, surprise contenders like
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