Within the last 30 years Hollywood has been obsessed with the summer blockbuster. Every summer every major film studio pumps millions of dollars into movies in hope to lure bored teenagers into theaters over and over and over again. It’s all about the money and it has not been any other way since 1975 when Jaws was released. Millions of moviegoers crowded the streets in hope of a good scare. It was the first movie to make over 100 million dollars. That was just the beginning.

Jaws didn’t cost all that much to make, not even 12 million. That is what a summer blockbuster should be made for. Jaws was a great movie, made for a small sum, and grossing millions. With a profit like that, it is a mystery to why Hollywood doesn’t contribute that money to other societal problems. Since then however, summer blockbusters have been progressively losing money.

In the summer of 2003, the average summer movie cost over 100 million dollars. Each one was supposed to

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