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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]
Budget Gross 1977 Star Wars (Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope) George Lucas: 20th Century Fox Lucasfilm Ltd. $11 million $775.5 million 1980 The Empire Strikes Back (Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back) Irvin Kershner: $33 million $547.9 million 1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark (Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark) Steven ...
The year 1977 in film involved some significant events. Highest-grossing films (U.S.) ... Star Wars: 20th Century Fox: $221,280,994 [1] [2] 2 Smokey and the Bandit:
The main Star Wars film series is a trilogy of subtrilogies; as it neared completion, Lucasfilm began to refer to it as the "Skywalker Saga". [1] [2] It was released beginning with the original trilogy (Episodes IV, V, and VI, 1977–1983), followed by the prequel trilogy (Episodes I, II, and III, 1999–2005) and the sequel trilogy (Episodes VII, VIII, and IX, 2015–2019).
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 ...
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.
Star Wars sits top with a total gross of $10.3B, while Avatar has the best average of any science fiction series at $2.6B. † Background shading indicates that at least one film in the series is playing in the week commencing 10 January 2025 in theaters around the world .
The ultimate space fantasy film franchise is on one of its longer breaks. While the Disney+ slate of Star Wars shows keeps on growing (The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, Obi-Wan Kenobi ...