Who sank and who swam at the summer box office?
But not every multiplex offering found its way to a fresh patch of green this season.
Check out who soared and who flopped (hard) in the gallery ahead.

Warner Bros. Pictures; Sanja Bucko/Warner Bros.; Jaimie Trueblood/Universal Pictures; Barry Wetcher/Warner Bros.; Quantrell D. Colbert; Lionsgate
WINNER:Mid-range comedies
Tight budgets and simple concepts kept these star-studded genre affairs afloat.


Jacob Yakob/LD Entertainment

Frank Masi/Warner Bros.

The Fred Rogers Company

Death of a Nation/Facebook

MetroGoldwyn Mayer Pictures/Pantelion Films

David Lee/Focus Features

Hopper Stone SMPSP/STXfilms

Warner Bros. Pictures

Bob Mahoney/Sony

A24

Paramount Pictures