A crappy summer gave 2017 one of the worst U.S. box office performances in decades
Hollywood had a pretty crappy summer last year, with predicted blockbusters like The Dark Tower, The Mummy, and Transformers: The Last Knight all failing to do much in the way of busting blocks. Now that we’ve got the actual numbers for the year’s overall ticket sales, it turns out that said lethargy managed to infect the rest of the annual box office, too; despite what was, generally a pretty good year from a critical point of view, Variety is reporting that U.S. movie ticket sales dropped by 6 percent in 2017, making it one of the worst years in decades. (Really, though, it was probably just Rotten Tomatoes’ fault.)