The economy, our relationship with the world, and now the floundering movie business—what can’t Barack Obama fix? The Hollywood Reporter notes that since 1980, the inauguration of a Democratic president has always coincided with an uptick in box-office receipts. Republicans sport a more mixed record, with three inaugurations coinciding with a good year at the box office and two with a plunge. “Most striking, the two worst years for box-office in past thirty years came the year after a Republican candidate was re-elected (after Reagan and Bush were given second terms).” The case of the latter, the movies were hopeless to match the real-life spectacle.
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