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Monte L Fullmer
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posted 02-18-2008 10:56 PM

quote: Michael Coate
Q#2: What was the first movie to gross $100 million?

Q#3: What was the first movie to be assigned a rating by the Motion Picture Association of America, and what was the rating?

Q#4: What was the first movie to be rated PG-13?

I'll shoot on these three questions since I don't know the 1st one:

Q2: JAW'd in 1975
Q3: "the Graduate" 1968 .. "M" rating
Q4: Indy Jones "Temple of Doom" (I know this is the wrong answer, but it was this feature to bring out the "PG-13" rating afterwards...)

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Mike Schindler
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posted 02-18-2008 11:21 PM

quote: Michael Coate
Q#4: What was the first movie to be rated PG-13?

Red Dawn

And in case anyone was wondering...

quote: Mike Schindler
In BATMAN RETURNS, Batman's boot is a modified version of what shoe?

The Air Jordan VI

Q: What film does Irvin Kershner consider to be his biggest influence on THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (no, not STAR WARS)?

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Anslem Rayburn
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posted 02-18-2008 11:54 PM

quote: Michael Coate
Q#4: What was the first movie to be rated PG-13?

Q#5: Who has been nominated the most times for an Academy Award?

#4: The Flamingo Kid

#5: Walt Disney

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Mike Blakesley
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posted 02-19-2008 12:21 AM

"Red Dawn" was indeed the first movie to be rated PG-13.

"Jaws" is often cited as the first movie to break $100 million but I just read recently (maybe somewhere on this forum?) that that's incorrect. But I don't know what the true answer is.

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Mike Schindler
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posted 02-19-2008 12:26 AM

Actually, I just looked on the imdb, and while RED DAWN was the first PG-13 movie to be released, THE FLAMINGO KID was the first film to be given the rating. Anslem wins.

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Michael Coate
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posted 02-19-2008 01:14 AM

quote: I asked:
What was the first movie to gross $100 million?

quote: Monte answered:
JAW'd in 1975

quote: Blakesley followed with:
"Jaws" is often cited as the first movie to break $100 million but I just read recently (maybe somewhere on this forum?) that that's incorrect. But I don't know what the true answer is.

Monte: "Jaws" is not the correct answer.

Mike B: You may be recalling my comment in the recent Roy Scheider obit thread where I remarked about how annoying I find it to keep reading the erroneous claim about "Jaws" being the first.

For the record, "Jaws" was the first movie to break $100 million in rentals (i.e. the percentage of the gross returned to the distributor).

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Anslem Rayburn
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posted 02-19-2008 11:45 AM

quote: Michael Coate
What was the first movie to gross $100 million?

I would have to guess "The Sound of Music"

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Michael Coate
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posted 02-19-2008 01:51 PM

quote: Anslem Rayburn
I would have to guess "The Sound of Music"

Correct! (And there were at least three others that cracked $100 mil before "Jaws" did.)

What was the first movie to gross $200 million?

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Leo Enticknap
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posted 02-19-2008 03:36 PM

What do Snow White and the Seven Dwarves and Pulp Fiction have in common?

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Mike Schindler
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posted 02-19-2008 04:34 PM

They were both released by Disney?

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Robert W. Jones
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posted 02-19-2008 04:46 PM

Thunderball?

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Anslem Rayburn
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posted 02-19-2008 05:01 PM

quote: Mike Schindler
They were both released by Disney?

I'm pretty sure "Pulp Fiction" was from Miramax.

quote: Michael Coate
What was the first movie to gross $200 million?

Another guess, but "Star Wars" is the only thing I can think of.

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Mike Schindler
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posted 02-19-2008 06:24 PM

Yeah, but Disney owns Miramax.

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Anslem Rayburn
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posted 02-19-2008 06:42 PM

quote: Mike Schindler
Yeah, but Disney owns Miramax.

I don't know how I forgot about that. Sorry. [Frown]

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Mike Blakesley
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posted 02-19-2008 07:05 PM

quote: Leo Enticknap
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves

"Dwarfs"

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