{"id":154819,"date":"2026-08-15T04:03:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T03:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/154819\/hollywood-box-offices-are-back\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T04:03:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T03:03:50","slug":"hollywood-box-offices-are-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/154819\/hollywood-box-offices-are-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood Box Offices Are Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Hollywood has once again cheated death. The first seven-plus months of 2026 have revived the industry\u2019s faith \u2014 not just in movies but in the act of going to the theater. Global ticket sales have increased 15% from a year earlier and are on pace for their best annual total since 2019. Five movies have eclipsed $1 billion, with Spider-Man: Brand New Day almost clearing that on opening weekend. With new installments of Dune and Avengers coming, that group could swell to seven \u2014 the second-most on record. Bloomberg News Media &amp; Entertainment Managing Editor Lucas Shaw brings us the latest from Hollywood.  (Source: Bloomberg)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood has once again cheated death. The first seven-plus months of 2026 have revived the industry\u2019s faith \u2014 not just in movies but in the act of going to the theater. Global ticket sales have increased 15% from a year earlier and are on pace for their best annual total since 2019. Five movies have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lightning_design_setting":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2012],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-livecrudeoiltraderoomresults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}