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BUSINESS, Page 51Business NotesMOVIESIndy Plunders The Box Office
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.