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 LOS ANGELES (AP) - Summertime in Hollywood is not as hot as it looked at the beginning.
While the three May blockbusters — Sony's "Spider-Man 3," DreamWorks Animation's "Shrek the Third" and Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" — have combined for nearly $1 billion in domestic revenue, overall business and movie attendance are well below the record pace many show business types had expected.
In fact, attendance is running behind last summer's and has even fallen below that of summer 2005, a year of box-office duds that had some analysts predicting audiences were abandoning movie houses in favor of home theaters and other entertainment options.
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