OK, so there's still a week left in the lucrative summer movie season. Keeping that in mind, it's safe to assume that Paramount Pictures will be the big winner as far as the movie studios are concerned.

After all, Paramount released the biggest film so far this year, "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen," which rang up nearly $400 million in ticket sales in the United States alone.

The studio also had a successful re-invention of the "Star Trek" movie franchise (No. 5, $256 million). And it launched a possible new franchise with "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra" (No. 17, $103 million).

All in all, that's a very good summer — if not, a very good year. Now if only the Weinstein Company could say the same thing.

The once-mighty indie "boutique" studio barely made a blip on the radar. Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" was the studio's one release of the summer, and Weinstein doesn't have one film in the yearly top 100 list so far.

Based on the numbers (courtesy www.boxofficemojo.com), here are some assessment of the other studios' summers:

THE WINNERS

Disney scored another huge hit by collaborating with the Pixar animation wizards ("Up" was No. 2, with $288 million).

The live-action comedies "The Proposal" (No. 10, $158 million) and "G-Force" (No. 18, $101 million) were successes as well.

Warner Bros. had the Nos. 3 and 4 films of the summer — "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" ($285 million) and "The Hangover" ($266 million), respectively.

THE SOMEWHERE IN-BETWEENS

Fox had as many hits (the "Ice Age," "Night at the Museum" and "X-Men" sequels) as outright busts.("I Love You, Beth Cooper" bombed with $14.5 million, as did "Aliens in the Attic," with its $21 million take.)

Sony hit $100 million with "Angels & Demons." And good reviews and word of mouth buoyed the small-budgeted "District 9" ($47 million).

But neither "Year One" ($43 million) nor the highly touted "Julie & Julia" ($47 million) performed as originally forecast.

THE LOSERS

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Summit Entertainment couldn't do anything with the critically acclaimed "The Hurt Locker" ($10.6 million) or the supposed "tween appeal" musical comedy "Bandslam" ($3 million).

Luckily, the studio has the surefire hit "Twilight" sequel "New Moon" coming this fall.

Universal's "Bruno" ($60 million) couldn't match the performance of "Borat," and even big-name stars Will Ferrell and Adam Sandler couldn't get people to see either "Land of the Lost" or "Funny People" ($49 million apiece).

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