Hollywood stages fight-back with $4bn summer

HOLLYWOOD lived its own second-chance Rocky story this summer as a business that looked to be going down for the count two years ago rebounded with record revenue.

The movie industry had its first $4 billion summer according to box-office tracker Media By Numbers. That was up 8% from last summer.

Hollywood did not set a movie attendance record, though. Factoring in annual rises in admission prices, about 606 million tickets were sold this summer, but the season was only the sixth-best for modern