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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: The Summer of 2026 Is Officially the Most Profitable Movie Season in Cinematic History · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: There's been an awful lot of talk about the end
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  Speaker 2: of the movie business, as we know it, with theaters
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  Speaker 2: slowly going extinct. But if the summer of 2026 is
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  Speaker 2: any indication, that's not happening anytime soon.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, film's summer season, which ended on Labor Day weekend,
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  Speaker 3: now stands as the most profitable ever domestically at $ 4. 76 billion.
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  Speaker 1: Which is more than a billion dollars better than last summer,
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  Speaker 1: but barely tops the previous best summer, 2013, which brought
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  Speaker 1: in $ 4. 75 billion. billion.
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  Speaker 2: And it's largely thanks to two particular smashes, Spider-Man, Brand
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  Speaker 2: New Day, and The Odyssey, which earned about a third
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  Speaker 2: of that massive total all on their own.
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  Speaker 3: But it's also the first summer ever where all four
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  Speaker 3: months on the calendar raked in at least a billion.
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  Speaker 3: So they're not the only story.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, smaller movies like Obsession and Backrooms earned way more
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  Speaker 1: than they were expected to.
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  Speaker 2: You could argue that higher ticket prices are the reason
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  Speaker 2: for this record-breaking summer. And there's some truth to that.
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  Speaker 2: But actual attendance still paints a sunny picture. Last summer,
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  Speaker 2: 275 million seats were filled. This season, 322 million. And
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  Speaker 2: there's now hope this could be the first year to
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  Speaker 2: eclipse 10 billion since 2019. That's direct from Hollywood.