Numbers

By Melissa August, Harriet Barovick, Daren Fonda, Unmesh Kher, Ellin Martens and Sora Song

Moviegoers had a short attention span this summer. Box-office grosses fell quickly. The drop-off (in millions):

$11.4 Final Fantasy, Weekend 1 $3.7 Final Fantasy, Weekend 2

$68.5 Planet of the Apes (1) $27.5 Planet of the Apes (2)

$47.7 Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (1) $19.8 Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2)

Sources: ACNielsen, EDI and USA Today