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- <text id=89TT1515>
- <title>
- June 12, 1989: Business Notes:Movies
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- June 12, 1989 Massacre In Beijing
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 51
- Business Notes
- MOVIES
- Indy Plunders The Box Office
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- <p> Talk about boffo box office. Now showing in 2,327 theaters
- in the U.S., Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is the
- biggest-opening blockbuster of all time. The third in the series
- of cliff-hanging tales directed by Steven Spielberg and starring
- Harrison Ford, Crusade has been breaking records since it made
- its debut May 24. The film accounted for more than half of all
- the movie tickets sold in the U.S. over Memorial Day weekend.
- Fans paid $11.2 million to see it on May 27 alone, the biggest
- one-day take ever scored by a movie, and shelled out an
- unprecedented $50.2 million the first week. Since that is about
- what the film cost to make, Indy has struck another platinum
- mine.
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- </body></article>
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