Here are the summer’s best and worst box office surprises

The summer is officially over, which means it’s time to note the big wins, the big losses, the various lessons and everything in between. For the moment, I wanted to look at a handful of genuine honest-to-goodness surprises that took place between April 27 and Aug. 31. In this era of relatively accurate tracking, preordained blockbusters and my own predictions (which fortunately are correct more often than they are not), it was a genuine kick to see myself caught off guard here and there. So, without further ado…