1.   In computers, the retailers who were counting on a blockbuster season have been disappointed so far.

2.   Summer is blockbuster season, from the multiplex to the august halls of culture.

3.   This is not blockbuster season, and yet suddenly this spring, the Met has blockbuster fever.

4.   Arnold Schwarzenegger may be a tough guy during the summer blockbuster movie season, but when the holidays roll around he turns into a pussycat.

5.   Blockbuster season is here.

6.   Predictably, summer blockbuster season is bursting with sequels, remakes, the odd adaptation of a video game and the latest Julia Roberts romantic comedy.

7.   The movie starring Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu as the glamorous detectives had the second-best debut ever outside of the summer blockbuster season.

8.   They also narrowly topped the record March take from a week earlier, generating summer-like returns months before the customary blockbuster season begins.