Word: grossingers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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And then there is the sparkling presence of Julie Andrews. These days Julie has considerably more than Sound of Music to feel bright about. Her Mary Poppins, now more than a year old, led Variety's list of top-grossing pictures of 1965 with $28.5 million. The Sound of...
What makes the box-office figures the more astonishing is that both films are grossing nearly as much the second time around as the first. Sparking the revival is the success of Goldfinger, the third Bond film, still finishing its first run and heading for a gross that now seems...
Another method, especially for a huge, not particularly good musical, is lavish promotion. For Baker Street, Producer Alexander Cohen primed the pump with $50,000. He stationed red-coated, busy-topped actors on the sidewalk in front of the box office, filled the lobby with Sherlock Holmes memorabilia, and transformed...
With next season's schedules all but inked in, NBC calmly revealed that the Huntley-Brinkley news, already 80% sold, will be the biggest-grossing show on television. Its $21,000 per minute of commercial is not really all that big-Bonanza, the top-rated series, gets $63,000...
Curiously, however, the play may well build to a long and financially successful run. With just one modest set and three actors, it can break even merely by taking in $12,000 a week, or 27% of the theater's capacity. It is not grossing even that much yet...