`STAR WARS' SHOWS GREEN SIDE OF FORCE.Byline: Dave McNary McNary may refer to:
Moviegoers turned out in force for ``Star Wars Trilogy A company founded in 1979 by Gene Amdahl to commercialize wafer scale integration and build supercomputers. It raised a quarter of a billion dollars, the largest startup funding in history, but could not create its 2.5" superchip. Special Edition'' on opening day Friday Friday: see Sabbath; week. Friday young Indian rescued by Crusoe and kept as servant and companion. [Br. Lit.: Robinson Crusoe] See : Servant with preliminary estimates by studio executives ranging from $10 million to $13 million in box office receipts at 2,104 theaters nationwide. The impressive first-day total for the revamped George Lucas Noun 1. George Lucas - United States screenwriter and filmmaker (born in 1944) Lucas classic indicates that many shows were selling out. Most industry trackers expected the opening weekend to total about $20 million, but the final gross for the Friday-Sunday period could be in the range of $30 million to $35 million. Should the gross top $30 million it would be one of the largest opening weekends for a non-summer, non-holiday movie. The 20th Century Fox studio spent an estimated $30 million on its ``Star Wars'' publicity campaign, and some movie chains began selling advance tickets last week for this weekend's shows. The original ``Star Wars'' took in about $323 million domestically following its 1977 release, the highest total ever at the time. It has since been surpassed by ``E.T. The Extraterrestrial,'' ``Jurassic Park,'' and ``Forrest For·rest , Nathan Bedford 1821-1877. American Confederate general who was active at the battles of Shiloh (1862) and Chickamauga (1863). He was a founder and the first leader (1866-1869) of the Ku Klux Klan. Gump.'' Lucas spent about $10 million for restoration and 4-1/2 minutes of additional footage for the film's re-release. |
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