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It was a bummer of a summer at the box office

Even Rocky couldn’t save Hollywood’s wilted crop of summer movies.

Heading into Labor Day weekend, the summer US box office stood at $4.04 billion, down 6.7 percent from last year — despite Tinseltown pumping out 209 movies, seven more than in 2011.

“We think it will be down around 3 percent over last year,” said an optimistic Hollywood.com box office analyst Paul Dergarabedian. “We’re penciling in $4.27 billion, down from $4.4 billion.”

“Summer revenues are down compared to last year and the lack of excitement is reflected in the lower box office,” added Dergarabedian.

Prior to the weekend, the per movie box office average was a weak $19.3 million, according to BoxOfficeMojo. You’d have to go back to 1987 to find a lower average. Imagine how poor the summer would have been without “The Avengers,” with a whopping summer BO of $620 million.

Plus, roughly 100 million fewer movie tickets will be sold this summer, versus a decade ago.

While the official summer tally won’t be out until tomorrow, it’s not too early to round up a list of the summer’s biggest bombs.

Yes, we’re looking at you “Oogieloves ” and at you, Ben Stiller, star of “The Watch,” which cost $68 million to produce but brought in just $33.5 million from its US run.

The box office of “Apparition” was a horror, pulling in only $4.2 million after Warner Bros. spent $17 million releasing it in 810 theaters.

Even “The Expendables 2,” starring Sylvester Stallone, which has been hanging around the top of the box office list since its Aug. 17 opening, pulling in $66.2 million, likely won’t recoup its $100 million budget. It opened at $28.6 million and has performed weakly since.

Explanations for the poor summer abound, and include a strong Olympics, weather events, the poor economy and, of course, the Colorado theater shootings at a midnight screening of “The Dark Knight Rises” in July.

Even while Hollywood’s casting departments rolled out handsome leading men such as Joseph Gordon-Levitt in “Premium Rush,” and Bradley Cooper in “Hit and Run,” audiences were more interested in a small political movie: “2016: Obama’s America.”

The indie flick, made for $2.5 million, captured $31,000 in its first weekend, but has since racked up $13 million, according to BoxOfficeMojo.

Bike messenger pic “Premium Rush,” drew $6 million in its opening weekend while Cooper and Kristen Bell’s “Hit and Run” garnered a measly $4.5 million.

Flops were spread among the studios with Sony’s Whitney Houston biopic “Sparkle” and Fox’s “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days” doing modest numbers.

“Sparkle” brought in just $11.6 million in its debut, with a total gross of $19.6 million to date while “Wimpy Kid” took in around $9 million less than its predecessor “Rodrick Rules,” with $14 million.

Even light-hearted fare such as Lionsgate’s “What to Expect When You’re Expecting,” didn’t produce. While the book has sold more than 34 million copies since its 1984 debut, the movie, with big talent like Cameron Diaz, Chris Rock. Jennifer Lopez and Elizabeth Banks, mustered a US box office of just $41.2 million.