Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site ucbvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxi!mhuxa!houxm!hogpc!houti!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!ucbcad!ucbvax!upstill From: upstill@ucbvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Jedi six-day gross Message-ID: <177@ucbvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 1-Jun-83 17:47:20 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.177 Posted: Wed Jun 1 17:47:20 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Jun-83 10:31:33 EDT Organization: U. C. Berkeley Computer Science Lines: 17 According to today's New York Times, Revenge of the Jedi has taken in $41.1 million at the box office in its first six days of release. Needless to say, this is an all-time record. Just to put this into perspective, consider: -- It cost $31M to produce (which doesn't mean it has yet turned a profit, however, since $31M represents the "negative" cost of getting one print in the can, and doesn't include distributors and exhibitors' fees, costs of prints, promotion, etc. But, still...) -- The previous record-holder, ET, grossed $25M in seven days. -- Only a handful of films have even made that much money during their entire releases history. Ghandi, for instance, is just about at the $40M mark six months after release. What does it all mean, Mr. Natural?