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Subject: Jedi six-day gross
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Date: Wed, 1-Jun-83 17:47:20 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun  1 17:47:20 1983
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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?