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Here's how the summer box office blew up and Hollywood got its mojo back

Here's how the summer box office blew up and Hollywood got its mojo back

Hollywood has just wrapped up its best summer in a decade and its biggest vibe shift since the pandemic. After years of new-normal ticket sales and regular spells of unease, the summer box office rallied to $4.61 billion in domestic ticket sales between May 1 and Aug. 31, according to Rentrak. That’s not just miles ahead of last year but better than every summer other than 2013. Accounting for inflation, it’s less of a record season. But any way you slice it, summer 2026 was the summer Hollywood got its mojo back.