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Variety.com is reporting that Hollywood is crediting global warming with creating this summer’s box office boom, forgetting that the same cause was cited the past few years for drooping box office results.

Credit at least one studio exec for common sense. According to Variety, Michael Lynton, chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment, said, “Box office was up this summer because the movies were good. All the people I talk to say it’s really all about the product.”

But whether news is good or bad, never let it be said that Hollywood missed an opportunity to politicize things. Here’s this, straight from Variety.com:

Is global warming good for Hollywood? Extreme heat and heavy rain across large swaths of the U.S. sent more people to theaters, looking for relief. The onset of the extreme weather — record-breaking temperatures in the western U.S., rain up and down the Eastern seaboard, the Midwest and Texas — started at the end of June, just as the box office was starting to see a bump. “You went from dreadful heat to downpours,” Snyder says. “Historically, we’ve seen a bounce in grosses when the weather is bad. Also, when kids can’t go outside, and make their parents nuts, they send them to the movies.”

Umm… right. Or, more appropriately… left. Before you know it, Algore and John Edwards will be starring in an NBC drama as truck accident lawyers.

Randy Stonehill was right: “It’s a great, big, stupid world.”

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