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Article: Movie Industry Hopes Summer Sequels Will Reverse Lackluster Year at Box Office.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- April 27, 2003
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By Greg Hernandez, Daily News, Los Angeles Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Apr. 27--"The Matrix Reloaded" has the potential to be the summer's biggest sensation, but Keanu Reeves and company will be competing for box office supremacy with more than a dozen other sequels ranging from Arnold Schwarzenegger's return in "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines" to Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu donning halos again in "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle."
The films are among the 16 sequels hitting the nation's multiplexes this summer. They join a host of big-budget action films, comic book adaptations and star vehicles that Hollywood hopes will ...