Newcomers ignored as summer box office fades
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Hollywood attempted to  squeeze a few more dollars out of a record summer by launching  a handful of midrange movies that mostly came up short at the  North American box office during the weekend.
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"Evan Almighty" did not live up to its name at the weekend box office in North America.
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Late August generally is a time when Hollywood&#39;s studios dump movies for which they have low box office expectations, and this week continues that old philosophy with four new films crowding theaters nationwide.
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The Ocean State was looking pretty dry. Rhode Island had not seen a single day of film production last year. Or 2002 for that matter.
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Small-budget movies are making bigger hits than big-budget movies.
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The new &quot;Harry Potter&quot; movie drew  lukewarm reviews on Tuesday, but millions of &quot;muggles&quot; are  expected to ignore the critics and turn out in droves for the  widest release ever for Warner Bros. studio.
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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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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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But the film will not draw in the audiences.
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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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LOS ANGELES Just as the trailers for &quot;The Forgotten&quot; show creepy images of people being sucked into the atmosphere, the movie sucked people into theaters over the weekend.
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One might imagine, similarly, that teenage moviegoers would see less television than their more movie-averse peers.  But that is not so, according to data from IMMI.
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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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Of The People, Jayaraj's latest sequel of his trendsetting 4 the People has a long list of newcomers, but none of them makes an impact.
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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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The summer box office season in  North America ended on an "Invincible" note during the U.S.  Labor Day holiday weekend as the Mark Wahlberg football movie  scored a second week at No. 1.
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Summertime in Hollywood is not as hot as it looked at the beginning.