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This is a list of films which placed number one at the weekly box office in the United States during 1977 per Variety.The data was based on grosses from 20 to 22 key cities and therefore, the gross quoted may not be the total that the film grossed nationally in the week.
Studio 54 officially opened on April 26, 1977, [157] [156] with workers rushing to finish the decorations just hours before the grand opening. [157] Although the space could fit 2,500 guests, [ 134 ] [ 157 ] four thousand people attended the club on opening day. [ 156 ]
Opening Title Production company Cast and crew Ref. J A N U A R Y: 7 The Sentinel: Universal Pictures: James B. Harris (director); Jeffrey Konvitz (screenplay); Chris Sarandon, Cristina Raines, José Ferrer, Martin Balsam, Ava Gardner, John Carradine, Arthur Kennedy, Burgess Meredith, Sylvia Miles, Deborah Raffin, Eli Wallach, Christopher Walken, Jerry Orbach, Beverly D'Angelo, Hank Garrett ...
Opening Night is a 1977 American psychological drama film written and directed by John Cassavetes, and starring Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara, Joan Blondell, Paul Stewart, Zohra Lampert, and Cassavetes. Its plot follows a stage actress who, after witnessing the accidental death of a fan, struggles through a nervous breakdown while she prepares for ...
November 16 – Close Encounters of the Third Kind opens to widespread critical acclaim and massive box office success, becoming one of the top-grossing films to date and cementing Steven Spielberg's status as one of the most talented and profitable film directors of all time.
On December 14, 1978, Studio 54 was raided after Rubell was quoted as saying that only the Mafia made more money than the club brought in. In June 1979, Rubell and Schrager were charged with tax evasion , obstruction of justice , and conspiracy for reportedly skimming nearly $2.5 million in unreported income from the club's receipts, in a ...
The following table lists known estimated box-office ticket sales for various high-grossing musical films that have sold at least 75 million tickets worldwide. Note that some of the data are incomplete due to a lack of available admissions data from a number of countries.
On the other hand, for films like Avengers: Age of Ultron and Captain America: Civil War which opened in several markets a week ahead of their respective releases in the US-Canada market, the 'opening' is the sum of the opening grosses in the markets where they were released first and the opening in the US-Canada market. In the latter case, the ...