Star Wars, by the Numbers
- $1.75 Price of a poster for the then-upcoming Star Wars at one of the first Comic-Cons in 1976
- $3 Cost of a ticket at San Francisco's Coronet Theatre on opening weekend in 1977
- $7,500 A single day of voice work by James Earl Jones
- $15,000 Amount Fox docked from George Lucas' pay due to overruns during filming
- $255,000 Box office revenue on the first day of A New Hope's release in 32 theaters
- $2.2 billion Total box office revenue for all the Star Wars movies released so far
- 42 million Star Wars items sold in 1977
- 26 million Star Wars action figures sold in 1977
- $10 "Donation" cost of a 3-hour training session on how to wield a lightsaber from San Francisco's Golden Gate Knights
- 29 million Views on YouTube garnered by the viral hit video of chubby "Star Wars kid" showing off his sweet lightsaber skills
- 53,917 The number of New Zealanders who listed Jedi as their religion in the last census
- $4 billion Expected earnings from the yet-to-be-released The Force Awakens, according to Disney CEO Bob Iger
This article originally appeared in print under the headline "Star Wars, by the Numbers."
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