At its second week of release, the film's gross revenue was $ 13, 386, 457, landing again in the # 1 position.

The film's budget was $ 10 million, so it likely made a profit after foreign revenue was taken into account.

The film's initial failure in revenue, the loss of the European market due to the Second World War, and its mixed critical reaction led to the abandonment of this idea.

For the film's U. S. release, Filmation partnered with a company called Seymour Borde and distributed it through a process called four wall distribution, whereupon the studio rented venues to show it and kept all of the box office revenue.

In the Japanese market, the film's gross revenue summed up to $ 9, 712, 635 during 2005.

" In addition, Warner complained about the film's extensive location shooting in Texas that exceeded its production schedule and budget until he ordered the crew back to the studio backlot, which it had planned to anyway for final process shots.

It was reported in Variety that Morris's Brylcreem expenses exceeded any other item in the film's budget.

The film's budget exceeded that of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men, but earned only $ 2. 5 million.

" (" The Medieval Dead " would later be used as the film's subtitle for its UK release as Army of Darkness: The Medieval Dead ).

However, the film's ambitious scope and its extensive effects work forced Campbell, Raimi and producer Rob Tapert to put up $ 1 million of their collective salaries to shoot a new ending and not film a scene where a possessed woman pushes down some giant pillars.

The film's most striking quality is its extensive use of the split-screen.

The film's lesbian eroticism was however significantly cut for its US release.

In the years after World War II, the French film critic and theorist André Bazin reacted against this approach to the cinema, arguing that film's essence lay in its ability to mechanically reproduce reality, not in its difference from reality.

A common workflow for film editing involves edge-coding printed film simultaneously with the film's synchronized audio track, on 35mm magnetic film, so that a foot of film and its synchronized audio have identical edge numbers.

He inferred the film's subject was weighty from the ponderous momentum he observed in the movements of its arms and legs, in the sagging of the knee as weight came onto it, and in the flatness of the foot.

When The Wild Bunch was re-released for its 25th anniversary, it received an NC-17 rating from the MPAA, proving the film's continued impact after so many years.

One of the few critics to praise the film was Roger Ebert, and in fact, the film's reputation has grown in recent years, with many noting its uncompromising vision as well as its anticipation of the violent black comedy which became famous in the works of such directors as David Lynch and Quentin Tarantino.

Massive cost overruns resulted in the film's box-office take being just over half of its budget.

The HK Flix edition is a version of the BFI's Salò DVD, complete with a factory imperfection at the film's 01: 47: 19 mark ; however, its quality is unequal to that of the Gaumont DVD, and, still, it is missing a scene.

Critics later frequently praised both the film's aesthetic quality and its power.

The film's worldwide gross outside of the US was $ 10, 300, 000, bringing its worldwide gross to $ 27, 739, 163.

Todd McCarthy in Variety magazine wrote, " One of the film's indisputable triumphs is its soundtrack, which mixes Carter Burwell's original score with classic pop tunes and some fabulous covers.

Hughes won the investors over with his argument that due to the film's low budget of one million dollars and its single-location shoot, the risks involved were minimal.

During a cast reunion in honor of the film's 25th anniversary, Ally Sheedy revealed that it was Hughes ' director's cut, but Hughes ' widow did not disclose any details concerning its whereabouts.

Director Neil Jordan, in later interviews, attributed this failure to the film's heavily political undertone, particularly its sympathetic portrayal of an IRA fighter.

In response to a letter from Paul Truswell, MP for the Pudsey constituency ( which includes Horsforth, a town proud of its connection with HMS Aubretia ), U. S. president Bill Clinton wrote assuring that the film's plot was only a work of fiction.

The filmmakers also increased the size of the film's Velociraptor and changed the shape of its snout.

" She said of the Stansfield character, " In this preposterous role, Mr. Oldman expresses most of the film's sadism as well as many of its misguidedly poetic sentiments.

Dirty Harry essentially lifted its star Clint Eastwood out of his cowboy typecasting, and became the urban-action film's first true archetype.

According to Booth, the film's true controller is the creative energy " that hundreds of people put into its production, agreeing and disagreeing, inserting and cutting ".

Professor Roy M. Anker argues that the film's thematic center is its direction to the audience to " look closer ".

The studio decided to contribute half of the film's $ 12 million budget.

The film's total budget was estimated to be US $ 6 million.

Although a moderate box-office success, grossing $ 58 million domestically on an estimated $ 45 million budget, it was panned by critics, many of whom disliked the film's abrupt contrast between actual comedy and tragic melodrama.

The Return of Godzilla was a reasonable success in Japan, with attendance figures at approximately 3, 200, 000 and the box office gross being approximately $ 11 million ( the film's budget was $ 6. 25 million ).

Sources differ on the film's final cost, offering figures between $ 93, 000 and $ 300, 000.

When the film opened in June 1989, it was backed by the biggest marketing and merchandising campaign in film history at the time, and became one of the biggest box office hits of all time, grossing well over US $ 250 million in the US alone and $ 400 million worldwide ( numbers not adjusted for inflation ) and earning critical acclaim for the performances of both Keaton and Nicholson, as well as the film's production aspects, which won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction.

The film received positive reviews for the film's stop motion animation, musical score and original storyline and was a box office success, grossing $ 50 million.

The film's opening weekend drew what The Hollywood Reporter dubbed " a dispiriting $ 8. 4 million ".

The film's combined domestic and international box office gross is $ 816, 969, 268, which at one point was the second-highest worldwide gross of all-time.

Prior to the film's release, executive producer and Apple Computer founder Steve Jobs stated " If Toy Story is a modest hit — say $ 75 million at the box office — we'll and Disney both break even.

Theatrically, the film's break-even point was actually $ 6. 3 million, approximately twice the production cost, a figure it never came close to achieving in its initial release.

The film's final cost, including prints and promotional advertising, was $ 2, 626, 620, and it remained in the red until it was reissued in 1942.

RKO bought the screen rights in June for $ 1, 004 and Hawks briefly worked with Wilde on the film's treatment.

The film's final cost was $ 1, 096, 796. 23, mostly due to clauses in Hawks ', Grant's and Hepburn's contracts about overtime pay.

In total the film's budget for sets and props was only $ 5, 000 over budget, while all actors, including Nissa and Skippy, were paid approximately double their initial salaries.

On its initial run the film recorded a loss of $ 365, 000 if Hawks ' additional fee of $ 40, 000 it added to the film's budget.

While popular belief long held that Detour was shot for about $ 20, 000, Noah Isenberg, in doing research for his book on the film, discovered that the film's actual cost was upwards of $ 100, 000.