Movie Theaters Struggle Despite Summer’s Super Blockbusters
Filed under: Company News, Media, Walt Disney, Entertainment
After a hot start this year, your local multiplex is emptying out again.
Hollywood.com statistics show that attendance during the telltale summer season tallied 533 million moviegoers in North America, nearly 4% fewer than last summer. You have to go all the way back to 1993 to find the last time fewer tickets were sold.
Last year was the first year since 1995 that domestic theaters failed to sell at least 1.3 billion movie tickets. Are we in for another repeat performance?
Strong Start,…
Movie Theaters Struggle Despite Summer’s Super Blockbusters originally appeared on DailyFinance.com on 2012-09-07T06:00:00Z.
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