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Article: MOVIE MALAISE HITS HARD HOLLYWOOD IN BIG SLUMP AT BOX OFFICE.(News)(Statistical Data Included)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- May 10, 2005
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Byline: Greg Hernandez Staff Writer
What if you spent hundreds of millions of dollars making and marketing a bunch of movies and nobody cared enough to watch them?
Hollywood is living out that nightmare as it suffers through its longest box office slump in five years.
The summer season's first big release, ``Kingdom of Heaven,'' made just $19.6 million domestically over the weekend, even less than distributor 20th Century Fox originally estimated, according to final box office figures released Monday.
The lackluster performance of ``Heaven,'' a historical epic directed by Ridley Scott, contributed to the 11th-consecutive weekend in ...