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During their run, they are pursued by Sheriff Buford T. Justice (Gleason), of Portague County, Texas. [5] Smokey and the Bandit was a box office success, grossing $127 million against a $4.3 million budget, becoming the second-highest-grossing domestic film of 1977 in the United States. [6]
Budget Box office revenue Box office ranking Refs. North America Adjusted for inflation (North America) [j] Other territories Worldwide All-time North America All-time worldwide Star Wars: May 25, 1977 $11 million $460,998,007 $1,608,419,900 $314,600,000 $775,598,007 No. 16 No. 90 [71] [72] The Empire Strikes Back: May 21, 1980 $33 million ...
This is a list of films which placed number one at the weekly box office in the United States during 1977 per Variety.The data was based on grosses from 20 to 22 key cities and therefore, the gross quoted may not be the total that the film grossed nationally in the week.
The Economic Stimulus Appropriations Act of 1977 was a stimulus package enacted by the 95th Congress and signed into law by President Jimmy Carter on 13 May 1977. [1] Developed in response to the longest and deepest economic recession post World War II , the primary objective of the stimulus package was to provide the economy with a boost.
In its May 30, 1977, issue, Time named Star Wars the "Movie of the Year". The publication said it was a "big early supporter" of the vision which would become Star Wars . In an article intended for the cover of the issue, Time ' s Gerald Clarke wrote that Star Wars is "a grand and glorious film that may well be the smash hit of 1977, and ...
Death Game (also known as The Seducers) is a 1977 American psychological thriller film directed by Peter S. Traynor, and starring Sondra Locke, Seymour Cassel, and Colleen Camp. The film follows an affluent San Francisco businessman who finds himself at the mercy of two violent, deranged women with a fetish for violence, whom he unwittingly ...
Randy Burt ate pepperoni pizza and drank red wine for dinner on Sept. 24, 1977. The next morning, he put on his old high school gym uniform and went to the starting line of the first Chicago Marathon.
The producers also collateralized any possible losses with their big-budget entry, New York, New York (whose eventual losses were covered by Rocky 's success). [18] [19] The film's production budget ended up being $1,075,000, with a further $100,000 spent on producers' fees and $4.2 million on advertising costs. [20]