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Three of the four highest-grossing films, including Avatar at the top, were written and directed by James Cameron.. With a worldwide box-office gross of over $2.9 billion, Avatar is proclaimed to be the "highest-grossing" film, but such claims usually refer to theatrical revenues only and do not take into account home video and television income, which can form a significant portion of a film ...
The first film that is confirmed to have had a $1 million budget is Foolish Wives (1922), with the studio advertising it as "The First Real Million Dollar Picture". [112] The most expensive film of the silent era was Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925), [139] costing about $4 million—twenty-five times the $160,000 average cost of an MGM ...
Film James Wan: Warner Brothers Ghostbusters: 1984 $2.18 billion: Merchandise sales – $1 billion [491] Box office – $1.1 billion [492] Home media – $85 million [493] Film Dan Aykroyd Harold Ramis: Sony Finding Nemo: 2003 $2.15 billion: Box office – $1.961 billion [494] DVD & Blu-ray sales – $196 million [495] Animated film Andrew ...
The world has produced countless coins, trading cards, comics and stamps. Most aren't worth more than their constituent metal or paper, but enough of them are valuable or at least interesting ...
An original poster set a record by selling for $690,000 in 2006. [64] [65] The ninth most expensive poster is also for this film, going for $357,750 in 2000. [66] The Mummy (1932) A movie poster for The Mummy was auctioned off for $453,000 in 1997, [67] making it the fifth most valuable poster. [66] Scripts: Casablanca (1942)
Movie studios were slow to recognize the value of their property, [3] "generally viewing the material as junk taking up precious backlot real estate." [ 4 ] Often, workers would just take souvenirs or sell items without permission, aware that their employers did not particularly care. [ 3 ]
The stock price has surged more than sevenfold over the past two years, and today, it topped the charts as the world's most valuable company in terms of market cap. The stock was up as much as 4.7 ...
The court of inquiry [5] of Commanding Lieutenant William Bligh for the loss of HMS Bounty to mutineers begins. Via flashbacks, Bounty sets out from Portsmouth, England on 23 December 1787, on an expedition to Tahiti to gather breadfruit pods for transplantation in the Caribbean, Bligh electing to sail the ship west round the tip of South America to use the expedition to fulfill an ambition to ...