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Top 25 Summer Films of All Time

Rank Title Studio Domestic gross1 Date opened
1 Shrek 2 Dreamworks $436,471,036 5/19/04
2 Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace Fox 431,088,295 5/19/99
3 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Buena Vista 423,032,628 7/7/06
4 Spider-Man Sony 403,706,375 5/3/02
5 Star Wars: Episode III—Revenge of the Sith Fox 380,270,577 5/19/05
6 Spider-Man 2 Sony 373,377,893 6/30/04
7 E.T. The Extra Terrestrial 2 Universal 359,197,037 6/11/82
8 Jurassic Park Universal 357,067,947 6/11/93
9 Finding Nemo Buena Vista 339,714,978 5/30/03
10 Spider-Man 3 Sony 336,530,303 5/4/07
11 Shrek the Third Paramount 322,719,944 5/18/07
12 Transformers Paramount 319,246,193 7/3/07
13 Star Wars: Episode II—Attack of the Clones Fox 310,676,740 5/16/02
14 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End Buena Vista 309,420,425 5/25/07
15 Independence Day Fox 306,169,255 7/3/96
16 Pirates of the Caribbean Buena Vista 305,411,224 7/9/03
17 Forrest Gump 2 Paramount 300,565,286 7/6/94
18 The Sixth Sense Buena Vista 293,506,292 8/6/99
19 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Warner Bros. 292,004,738 7/11/07
20 The Matrix Reloaded Fox 281,519,061 5/15/03
21 Shrek Dreamworks 267,665,011 5/16/01
22 The Lion King 3 Buena Vista 267,435,034 6/15/94
23 Iron Man 1 Paramount 261,235,207 5/2/08
24 Return of the Jedi 2 Fox 251,747,877 5/25/83
25 Batman Warner Bros. 251,188,924 6/23/89
First Run Grosses Only through 5/29/08
1. Film is still tracking.
2. Total including reissues and original release.
3. 1st Wide Release on 6/24/94
Source: Exhibitor Relations.
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Summer Muscle; The weather's heating up, and it's time to sit back, relax and try to look up Brad Pitt's skirt. Hollywood hasn't given many women lead roles, so here are a few good men. (Newsweek)

`Signs,' `XXX' wrap up stellar summer. (Theatrical).(Box office report, including top 100 films, from 2/22/02 through 8/25/02) (Video Store)

Idon't remember the first book I ever bought or the first film I went to see in the cinema. But I do remember the first album I bought with my own money. It was Now That's What I Call Music! 5 and it was in the summer of 1985. I was 10 years old and up to that point the closest I came to albums were my mother's old ABBA and Joe Dolan vinyls. (Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland))

The Zurich Film Festival: Sundance Europe? it is one of those stormy, humid days Zurich has endured all summer. Inside the offices of the Zurich Film Festival, its director Karl Spoerri is excited. He knows that in only its third year, his creation is bigger and growing faster than even he imagined.(EVENT) (Swiss News)

Channel surfin': the sun is shining, the birds are singing. Who cares. There's too much good stuff on TV.(SUMMER TV PREVIEW)('South Park and Philosophy: You Know, I Learned Something Today' and 'Documenting Gay Men: Identity and Performance in Reality Television and Documentary Film')(Television program review)(Book review) (The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine))

The A-list: Hollywood's top publicists; Lauded by the press and their peers for their integrity and their effectiveness. Anita Chabria charts the achievements of Tinseltown's finest PR professionals. (PR Week (US))

'Robot' battles its way to box office top; 'Fahrenheit' now highest-grossing doc.(Theatrical) (Video Store)

The Big Tents. (Top of the Week).(big corporations likely grow)(Brief Article) (Broadcasting & Cable)

Film town, Florida: for a new generation of filmmakers, Florida is increasingly becoming the place to be and Tallahassee the place to start. (Florida Trend)

A film star is born; Columbia's movie school rivals NYU's. (Crain's New York Business)

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