So 2011 fizzled during a movies. Attendance and box bureau were down – by some measures, behind to 1996 levels.
The informed franchises did OK, though audiences avoided copiousness of good- to-near-great movies, as good as a diseased ones. The mega-hits were few and really distant between. And a holidays were a sobering knowledge for those banking on code names like Spielberg (“War Horse,” “The Adventures of Tintin) or Matt Damon (“We Bought a Zoo”)