After A Buffo Summer, An Autumn Of Tumult At The Box Office

NEW YORK (AP) — Hollywood came into its fall season buoyed by a near-record summer, the comfort of having three aces up its sleeve (James Bond, "Star Wars" and the final "Hunger Games" film), plus a string of studio spectacles geared more for adults than teenagers. Last weekend, in particular, drove home the point, when five new wide releases — most strikingly the $30 million awards season heavyweight "Steve Jobs," with a paltry $7.1 million launch in wide release — all failed to click. The box-office downturn, too, comes at the same time new inroads are being made into the traditional theatrical release window — developments that could signal coming change for the industry, particularly if it continues to struggle to launch such movies. In an interview ahead of the release for "The Walk," Sony chief Tom Rothman called making broad-audience movies that aren't sequels or based on a comic book "the dominant issue in our business." While 3-D helped drive the robust grosses for Ridley Scott's "The Martian" ($167 million domestically, No.