Trade Round-Up: Sept. 4, 2007

Adios Summer 2007
The summer movie season ended with a scream on the Labor Day holiday, with Dimension Film’s Halloween scaring up a surprising $31 million take, reports Variety. In today’s story, Variety writes that summer 2007 delivered an 8% upswing over summer 2004, which was the previous record frame. In other box-office news, the trade states that art-house fare didn’t post as big of returns or snag as much of the spotlight as it did in previous years like it did last summer with Little Miss Sunshine and Crash.