Despite the Aurora theater massacre, movie attendance is up 21% over the same weekend in 2011, and "Dark Knight Rises" tops box office once again
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Last week, many news sources reported that the Aurora massacre had scared away moviegoers. Wrong: attendance, according to Box Office Mojo, was 40% higher last weekend than the previous weekend ($231.3 million to $165 million) and up 21% from same weekend last year (when the total take was $190.6 million).
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