Hollywood's summer rebound drives first 4 billion box office
Hollywood topped 4 billion in a summer box office for the first time with an estimated 4.15 billion from May through Labor Day. Attendance rose 3 percent to about 606 million tickets as major hits from Spider-Man 3 to Pirates of the Caribbean and Shrek the Third fueled a yearlong rebound despite a June slowdown and a softer September outlook.
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Los Angeles
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Rory Bruer
Sony
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Chris Aronson
20Th Century Fox
Spider-Man 3 Tops 2007 Summer Box Office
Spider-Man 3 led 2007 summer blockbusters with $336.5 million, followed by Shrek the Third and Transformers. Pirates of the Caribbean At World's End and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix filled the top five, with several other hits like Ratatouille and The Bourne Ultimatum also showing strong domestic performance.
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Ratatouille
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Order of the Phoenix
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Spider-Man
Ocean's Thirteen
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Decline of hunters widens gap for wildlife agencies
New figures from the U S Fish and Wildlife Service show hunting numbers fell 10 percent 1996 to 2006 from 14 million to about 12 5 million with New England the Rockies and Pacific states hardest hit. Fishing also dropped 15 percent bringing strain to state wildlife budgets and land access concerns rise as hunting lands shrink.
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New England
Rocky Mountains
Pacific States
Gregg Patterson
Ducks Unlimited
Patterson
Fish and Wildlife Service
Rachel Brittin
Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies
New Hampshire
Fish and Game Department
Judy Stokes
Stokes
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