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...miraculously, the third week saw a 30% gain over the sagging second and the fourth a 26% jump above that. In its first 26 days, Star Trek brought in a total of $53 million. By ordinary standards, it is a blockbuster. But it went far over budget, finally costing Paramount Pictures more than $50 million to produce and promote; thus the film will have to gross between $75 million and $100 million before the studio makes its money back...
While bullion buffs have been ringing up spectacular profits, Dallas Megamillionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt, 53, should have been quietly humming Silver Threads Among the Gold. As the nation's paramount silver hoarder. Hunt and at least one brother, William Herbert Hunt, have amassed a new Comstock Lode. Over the past nine months they have earned an estimated $2 billion to $4 billion, and one former business associate sets the Hunts' silver holdings at 100 million oz. Even for a man who could play Monopoly with real money, the silver boom is stunning...
...Picture deals with deep issues in a surface manner--probably the result of compromise with film executives who were afraid of too much cerebral content in a G-rated film being released at Christmas time. (An original story by Roddenberry and science fiction Guru Harland Ellison was rejected by Paramount because it dealt with the identity...
...Star Trek--the Motion Picture" opens today at approximately 900 movie theaters around the country; Paramount and Pocket Books hope that "Star Trek"--the fad--will open at the same time...
Pocket Books and Paramount are counting on those 35 million fans to snap up "Star Trek" paraphernalia. These include 17 different books, a soundtrack album and a "make your own Star Trek costume" book, Suzanne Gordon, publicity agent for Paramount, said yesterday...