Remember this from yesterday:

Hollywood still hopes to shake off early symptoms, but there is spreading concern that the summer boxoffice will be plagued by a nasty case of sequelitis.

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Reaction to the latest disappointments came swiftly.

“There very well could be some burnout with moviegoers, who are looking for something new and fresh,” a top studio exec lamented Tuesday.

Is “sequelitis” the supposed cause of the slack box office this May? Maybe not. Check out this:

Summer 2010 always looked soft from a distance. Why? Because of a lack of sequels [emphasis added]. No Spider-Man, Batman, Transformers, Bourne, or Harry Potter. But Pixar and The Karate Kid and Adam Sandler and Tom Cruise and Twilight and Angelina Jolie and a reboot of Predator and hopeful franchises The Last Airbender and The Sorcerer’s Apprentice are all on the way, amongst 3 more sequels, 2 remakes, Chris Nolan, Julia Roberts, Sly Stallone, and a Will Ferrell/Adam McKay comedy.

We’ve had eight wide releases so far this summer. Five of the eight have or will gross over $200m worldwide… and the other 3 were not released by majors (MacGruber technically was Universal… but it was a $10m Rogue property). The five? Three sequels, a video game, and Robin Hood.

Waa waa waa. Grow up and eat what’s in front of you.

Too many sequels… not enough sequels…

As William Goldman said about Hollywood, “Nobody knows anything.”