Summer Box-Office Blasts to $4.35 Billion

This summer set an all-time high for box office takings. You'd never know this country's in a recession--except for the media constantly reminding us. Most of the general public, however, seems to simply have backed off on extravagances (and probably because their credit cards have been shut down).

I know I already talked about this, but now the final numbers are in. Variety reports...

Final domestic tally on the record-setting summer has come in at $4.35 billion, or 5% ahead of 2008 -- thanks in part to this summer containing an additional weekend.

A moderate Labor Day weekend generated a total of $124.7 million, led by the soph sesh of Warner/New Line's "The Final Destination" with $15.3 million. The holiday frame total was less than $1 million ahead of the 2008 Labor Day.

Year-to-date domestic biz remains well above 2008 at $7.4 billion, or 8.1% ahead of the same point last year.

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