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This is a list of films which placed number one at the weekly box office in the United States during 1978 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.
Total worldwide box office No. of films Average of films Highest-grossing film 1 ... Halloween (1978) $70,274,000: 7 Halloween II (2009) $39,421,467: 8 Resurrection ...
Halloween (advertised as John Carpenter's Halloween) is a 1978 American independent slasher film directed and scored by John Carpenter, who co-wrote it with its producer Debra Hill. It stars Donald Pleasence , Jamie Lee Curtis (in her film debut), P. J. Soles , and Nancy Loomis .
John Carpenter's Halloween wasn't a smash hit when it was first released in 1978, but it slowly built an audience and would eventually become one of the highest-grossing independent films of all time.
Opening Title Production company Cast and crew Ref. J A N U A R Y: 6 Coma: United Artists: Michael Crichton (director/screenplay); Geneviève Bujold, Michael Douglas, Elizabeth Ashley, Rip Torn, Richard Widmark, Lois Chiles, Hari Rhodes, Richard Doyle, Lance LeGault, Tom Selleck, Joanna Kerns, Ed Harris, Philip Baker Hall
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Highest-grossing films of 1978 Rank Title Distributor Box-office gross 1 Grease: Paramount: $159,978,870 [1] 2 Superman: ... October 25 – Halloween is released.