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Stitch, Superman and a flock of creepy children drew audiences to movie theaters this summer, but it wasn’t enough to jolt box office revenue past even the dreary levels reached last year.

Nightmares about their car accident happen pretty much every time Hank closes his eyes, each one jolting us with the sound of a loud cracking bat.

But all this shuffling is happening a year after those very voters jolted state Democrats.

“More and more, it has to be either some kind of visual spectacle or a family movie. To really jolt and move the needle theatrically, it has to be something extraordinary.”

It received a jolt in the 1970s, when the Troubadour, a neighboring music venue, began booking big acts such as Elton John, drawing large crowds to the area.