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Star Wars was completed less than a week before its May 25, 1977, release date. With all of the film's elements coming together just in time, Lucas described the work as not so much finished, but "abandoned". [158] Star Wars began production with a budget of $8 million; the total budget eventually reached $11 million. [159]
Star Wars: $2,291,696: Star Wars returned to number one in its seventh week of release grossing $6,197,462 nationally in the weekend ended July 10 [31] [32] 29: July 20, 1977: $2,231,720: Star Wars grossed $6,806,951 nationally in the weekend ended July 17 [33] [34] 30: July 27, 1977: $2,789,667: Star Wars grossed $7,000,644 nationally in the ...
$140 million [3] 1977 Star Wars: George Lucas 20th Century Fox: $11 million [4] $775.5 million 1979 More American Graffiti: Bill L. Norton [5] Universal Pictures:
The original 1977 'Star Wars' comes in high, but not quite first. You might be surprised by some of the other titles. The 10 highest-grossing movies of all time — there's one movie that beats ...
Lucas has directed three such films, all of which are part of the Star Wars franchise, which he created: the original Star Wars (1977), and two of its prequels The Phantom Menace (1999), and Revenge of the Sith (2005). James Cameron has also directed three such films: Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Titanic (1997), and Avatar (2009).
The first Star Wars film had just come out in May 1977 and was the biggest thing in pop culture.So, in September of that year, The Donny & Marie Show put on their very own Star Wars special.
Highest-grossing films of 1977 Rank Title Distributor Domestic gross 1 Star Wars: 20th Century Fox: $221,280,994 2 Smokey and the Bandit: Universal: $126,737,428 3 Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Columbia: $116,395,460 4 Saturday Night Fever: Paramount: $94,213,184 5 The Goodbye Girl: MGM / Warner Bros. $83,700,000 6 A Bridge Too Far ...
The Red Leader X-wing Starfighter that was used in the 1977 film “Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope" sold for about $3.1 million after a bidding duel between two collectors, the auction house ...