From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!upstill Newsgroups: net.movies Title: movie grosses caveat Article-I.D.: ucbvax.7976 Posted: Sat Jul 10 10:40:48 1982 Received: Sun Jul 11 03:45:30 1982 If you're interested in hard figures on movie grosses, the Variety numbers must be taken with the following caveat: They represent a sample of theaters across the land, and as such the figures involved generally run about a quarter of the actual income for a film. Moreover, the theaters sampled are skewed toward the urban, and so the 1/4 rule varies quite a bit. For example in the survey put on the net yesterday, Porky's is given $17M, where the actual figure is bearing down on $100M. This is a film with more appeal in the hinterlands. However, in general, the rankings are pretty valid.