Bob Mondello
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1,800 appearances
192 recordings
5 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 8 Sep
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They're in a tight battle for third place.
Altogether, the weekend will take in roughly $150 million, all but guaranteeing that this summer we'll end up Hollywood's best in a decade.
Bob Mondello, NPR News.
Bob Mandelo reports.
When the Odyssey first opened, it was playing on every IMAX screen in the country.
Now it's sharing a few IMAX screens with Spider-Man Brand New Day.
And together those two films will take in about ninety million dollars this weekend in North America.
Conventional movie screens, meanwhile, have not one but two movies with rampaging dinosaurs.
The end of Oak Street, which is sort of Jurassic suburbia.
And the animated kid flick Paw Patrol Dino Movie.
They're in a tight battle for third place.
Altogether, the weekend will take in roughly $150 million, all but guaranteeing that this summer we'll end up Hollywood's best in a decade.
Bob Mondello, NPR News.
Spider-Man, Brand New Day, The Odyssey, Toy Story 5, movie theaters are raking in so much cash that forecasters say the film industry is on track to have its first $10 billion year since 2019.
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But through the end of July in 2019, cinemas had sold 747 million tickets.
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This year's ticket sales are way down, fewer than 500 million.
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What's keeping the dollar totals high is prices.
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Seven years ago, the average movie ticket cost $9.16.
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Today, audience fondness for premium formats like IMAX has pushed the average ticket price above $13, which means fewer patrons for bigger event films.
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Whether that's sustainable is a big question, but this summer it's led to a slew of box office records, including the biggest overall weekend in Hollywood history.
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