Contributed greatly by the success of Spider-Man 3, Hollywood has managed to break Summer 2004's $4.009 billion record by bringing in an estimated $4.11 billion in domestic ticket sells.

Despite a competive summer which only brought three films to hold back-to-back weekend titles (Spider-Man 3, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End and Superbad), Hollywood managed to greatly increase its box office take over the last few years.

Spider-Man 3 was the top grossing film of the summer, bringing in $336.5 million from US theaters and a worldwide haul of $885.4 million.  Shrek the Third, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Transformers and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix round out the top five.