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  • May 25 - Episode IV A New Hope opens in theaters and becomes the highest grossing movie to date. The film revolutionizes the use of special effects in film and television production, and also popularizes the notion of omitting any sort of opening credits sequence, something that would become commonplace in American cinema by the mid-1990s. In 1977, however, it attracted heavy criticism and director George Lucas ultimately resigned from several film production guilds over his decision.
  • The average price of a movie ticket in the United States is about $2.25

  • June 22 - Walt Disney Pictures releases The Rescuers, which instantly brought back an interest in animation that had been lost to both film-goers and critics throughout the beginning of the '70s.

Top grossing films

North America
  1. Episode IV A New Hope

  1. Smokey and the Bandit
  2. A Star Is Born
  3. King Kong
  4. The Deep
  5. Silver Streak
  6. The Enforcer
  7. Close Encounters of the Third Kind, starring Richard Dreyfuss
  8. In Search of Noah's Ark

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Other movies released

1977 | 1977 films | Years in film

Filmjahr 1977 | 1977 au cinéma | 1977 בקולנוע | 1977 a filmművészetben | 1977年の映画 | 1977 w filmie | Filmåret 1977

 

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