Superbad still tops the box office chart Corina Ciubotaru

Summer figures look really good for Hollywood. 606 million movie tickets will have been sold by the end of the season, topping the $4 billion mark in sales. "Superbad", a movie about three geeky teenagers with no major stars in the cast, has done very well, scoring $18 million this weekend out of a $68.6 million total and staying at the top of the ticket sales list for two straight weekends. This is the second best-selling movie from Sony, after "Spiderman 3" brought over $336.5 million so far. The top five movies this weekend are "Superbad", "The Bourne Ultimatum" from Universal which made $12.4 million, followed by "Rush Hour 3" with $123 million. "Mr. Bean's Holiday", also by Universal, debuted on fourth place, raising $10.1 million in its first U.S. weekend, after having scored $188.9 million overseas. Lions Gate's "War" came in fifth in the countdown. The top 12 movies cashed in $90.2 million last weekend and these numbers show an increase in profits even though fewer, yet more expensive tickets were sold compared to the same periods in other years. The highest attendance was in 2002, when box offices sold 653.4 million tickets. The movies this summer were a combination of sequels, comedies and drama which kept people coming to the cinema, as both attendance and sales rose from the same time last year. Figures are expected to fall though, in the coming months, as the summer season is coming to an end on Labor Day (September 3rd) and school starts.

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by Corina Ciubotaru for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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