More flat admission figures give record '07 a little static

March 07, 2008 When the MPAA offers its annual report card on the movie business, as it did this week, it serves up plenty of colorful charts and graphs to make its points as dramatically as possible. [...] dig deeper into the MPAA's report, compiled with the assistance of the number-crunchers at Nielsen EDI, and one stubborn fact jumps out. Despite all the dire predictions that greeted 2005's boxoffice slump, competition from DVDs, video games and new media hasn't destroyed moviegoing habits as many feared.

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