Indiana Jones, superheroes aim to rule Hollywood summer

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LOS ANGELES (AFP) — Hollywood is gearing up for summer's blockbuster movie season, with aging Indiana Jones making a big-budget comeback and several superheroes competing for audience share with a flurry of comedies.

Theaters in the United States and Canada traditionally pull in about 40 percent of their annual ticket receipts from May to August. This year's take so far is down 3.1 percent on 2007.

Last year broke box office records, topping 9.62 billion dollars in receipts largely on the backs of "Spiderman 3," "Shrek the Third" and "Transformers," each of which broke through the 300-million-dollar barrier in North America.

"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" is the latest in the franchise about an adventure-seeking archeologist, played by...