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Published on Friday, September 05, 2008
By LA Daily News Staff Writer
Led by stupendous grosses for "The Dark Knight," Summer 2008 was another blockbuster season for Hollywood with moviegoers forking out $4.13 billion for tickets.
The total was just a slight dip from the $4.16 billion spent at the movies last summer. It would not have happened without "Knight," which is responsible for $505.4 million of that total and is now the second-highest grossing movie of all time behind only "Titanic."
Other summer megahits were "Iron Man" (317.8 million), "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" ($315.9 million), "Hancock" ($227.4 million), and "Wall-E" ($218.5 million).
Many films crossed the $100 million mark, and two of them were my summer faves: "Sex and the City" ($152.5 million) and the musical "Mamma Mia" starring Meryl Streep, which has grossed $132.8 million to date.
It was just a few years ago that people were sounding the death knell for the movie exhibition industry
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