Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...United Artists' profits climbed fast. Last week pictures distributed by United Artists got 17 nominations for Academy Awards. United Artists is also a front runner in the three-dimensional race, having bought Arch Oboler's B'wana Devil for $1,750,000. The picture has already grossed about $1,000,000 in only 15 showings. On a take of 30-70%, depending on the movie, Krim expects United Artists' 1952 gross profits to hit the $30-million mark...
...interest of harmony, the two groups have agreed to divide the gross receipts from last Tuesday's showing, sponsored by the Liberal Union--in exchange for a similar arrangement for a future Ivy Films picture with equal drawing appeal. "Treasure of Sierra Madre" grossed $280 and had an audience...
...aren't we overlooking their significant importance as a symbol of a loyal, interested school behind their team. The argument we find hard to follow is the recommendation that existing cheerleaders "pack away their uniforms" in favor of "informal, genuine cheering" at indoor events. Not only is this a gross absurdity, since there are no cheerleaders at the games, but the informal hisses, shouts, and disordered applause we have witnessed warrant a more effective system of expressing our loyal support. Basketball is the nation's biggest spectator sport and it is time that we brought our team...
...never been done before. Usually such things happen when things get bad. We just had our best year ever." All that was true enough. In 1952, sales of Outboard, Marine had reached an alltime high of more than $42 million or about $10 million over 1951's gross (net earnings were off some...
...pictures in their own tongue than dubbed American pictures." Dubbing German dialogue into The Moon Is Blue would have cost Preminger about $6,000. But he calculated that the cost of importing a small German cast and making the German version (about $120,000) might earn a 90% bigger gross in Germany...