'Sex and the City' will sell

May 29, 2008 When studio release slates for the summer boxoffice season were first unveiled, Warner Bros. was thought to have a potential underperformer on its hands with "Sex and the City." Must-see interest in prerelease tracking surveys has been growing impressively during the past two weeks, and online-ticket service Fandango reports almost unprecedented group purchases by women. Elsewhere this weekend, Universal unspools its youth-oriented teen horror film "The Strangers" in wide release.

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