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...office behind Harry Potter. Unlike Potter, however, it ended up on numerous critics' best-of-the-year lists and received 13 Oscar nominations. This time it's widely assumed in Hollywood that Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, set for release on Dec. 18, will outgross Chamber of Secrets. Potter-mania seems to have quieted, partially because there hasn't been a Potter novel in two years. While Philosopher's Stone pulled in $318 million in the U.S., the sequel is expected to make closer to $250 million - still an impressive number, and Potter will undoubtedly win the merchandising...
...Artisan Entertainment for $1.1 million, went on to become the feel-scared (or -shafted) movie of the summer and to earn nearly $140 million at the domestic box office. By this yardstick, Happy, Texas, which Miramax Films picked up for about $6 million, should sweep the Oscars and outgross Titanic...
Shampoo, The Deep, Funny Lady and Tommy. Columbia's latest winner, Close Encounters of the Third Kind* may outgross 20th Century-Fox's Star Wars as the biggest box-office success of all time...
...potatoes and gravy." His first four postwar features-Make Mine Music, Song of the South, Fun and Fancy Free and Melody Time-looked like mashed potatoes all right, but they didn't bring in much gravy. Disney's next big picture, however, made plenty: Cinderella may eventually outgross Snow White. And though Alice in Wonderland was a flop, Peter Pan was another smash hit. which exchanged Barrie sentiment for Hollywood slapstick and almost made the crocodile the hero...
...language version of one movie is strictly a moneymaking device. The German market for U.S. films is booming (yearly net for Hollywood: about $5,000,000). But, explains Preminger, pictures with a German-language sound track usually outgross the U.S. products, and one of the reasons is that "the German people would rather have even mediocre 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...