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The following events happened in July 1980: ... issued an order requiring all female government employees to wear the full-length chador and the ... July 25, 1980 ...
July 9, 1980: $2,893,659: The Empire Strikes Back grossed $8,309,772 nationally from all markets for the weekend ended July 6 [43] [44] 29: July 16, 1980: Airplane! $2,739,328: Airplane! reached number one in its third week of release grossing $7,105,024 for the five days to July 13 from all markets.
The film was first released in July 1980 under the title Ruckus in Madoc County. [1] The following month, in August 1980, it was released in some U.S. cities under the alternate title The Loner . [ 3 ]
20th Century Fox / Film Finance Group / Polyc International BV Richard Lang (director); Erich Segal , Martin Ransohoff , Ronni Kern , Fred Segal (screenplay); Shirley MacLaine , Anthony Hopkins , Bo Derek , Michael Brandon , Mary Beth Hurt , Edward Winter , K Callan , Rod Colbin , Steve Eastin , Billy Beck , Karen Philipp , Paul Bryar
The decade of the 1980s in Western cinema saw the return of studio-driven pictures, coming from the filmmaker-driven New Hollywood era of the 1970s. [1] The period was when the "high concept" picture was established by producer Don Simpson, [2] where films were expected to be easily marketable and understandable.
The 4:30 Movie is a television program that aired weekday afternoons on WABC-TV (Channel 7) in New York from 1968 to 1981. The program was mainly known for individual theme weeks devoted to theatrical feature films or made-for-TV movies starring a certain actor or actress, or to a particular genre, or to films that spawned sequels.
Central Film Company: Traditional: Theatrical: July 25, 1980: 77 minutes Wakakusa Monogatari 若草物語 (The Tale of Little Women) Japan: Yūgo Serikawa: Toei Animation Fuji TV: Traditional: Television film: Seventh animated special produced for Fuji TV's "Nissei Family Special" program. May 3, 1980: 68 minutes Yogi's First Christmas: United ...
April 29 – Sir Alfred Hitchcock, known as "the Master of Suspense", dies at his home in Bel Air, California, at the age of 80. May 21 – The Empire Strikes Back is released and is the highest-grossing film of the year (just as its predecessor, Star Wars, was three years prior).