Hollywood has just wrapped up its best summer in a decade and its biggest vibe shift since the pandemic.

After years of new-normal ticket sales and regular spells of unease, the summer box office rallied to $4. 61 billion in domestic ticket sales between May 1 and Aug. 31, according to Rentrak.

That's not just miles ahead of last year (a 26. 1% increase from 2025), but better than every summer other than 2013.