It's a big deal if a movie sells 3,000,000 tickets in a weekend.
The movie sold 87,000 cassettes with wholesale revenues of $4.5 million.
Since it first screened at Cannes, the movie has sold to over seventy countries around the world.
In its first month, the movie has sold $69 million worth of tickets, and should easily exceed $100 million.
Its songs were popular and the movie sold the most number of records and tapes in that year.
During the last five months, the movie has sold $6.5 million worth of tickets.
When did they lose their balls, that they didn't think the movie would sell as a 3+ hour feature?
An average movie will sell about 50,000 copies and a blockbuster four times that.
First-run movies on video usually sell best to families with children, who watch them repeatedly.
The movie sold to television for $40,000 in 1977.
