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12 Movies That Made 100 Times Their Budget at the Box Office

Here are 12 Movies that made 100 times their budget at the box office. One was so successful it opened the door to Star Wars.

Miller made his film in his native Australia, and cast an unknown actor named Mel Gibson in the lead role. Jared Hess shot the film in his native Idaho, and cast his college buddy Jon Heder in the league role. First, ABC bought it to turn it into a made-for-TV movie, but they wanted to hire writers for rewrites, so Stallone’s Lords of Flatbush co-star Henry Winkler used his Happy Days cache to manage to get them to sell him the rights back.

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