Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Is the Epic Summer at the Box Office Enough to Save the Movie Business?

Is the successful summer season at theaters...enough to save the move business?

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.

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Thanks to dinosaurs and race cars, it appears that the
movie business is more than just surviving, it is thriving.
Jurassic World Rebirth has debuted to the best box office
weekend of twenty twenty five, raking in more than three
hundred and eighteen million globally, one hundred and thirty five
million more than experts have predicted, and that success is
hot on the heels of Brad Pitt's F one last weekend,

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which repped up a still sizeable one hundred and forty
four million dollars in its debut. Both projects are just
the latest and a flurry of movie hits this summer
which have pushed cinema's earnings up by more than fourteen
percent compared to last year, and there's still plenty of
popcorn to enjoy as this weekend sees Superman arrive along
with The Fantastic Four and I Know What You Did
Last Summer later this month.

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That's Direct from Hollywood