The threshold figure for VARIETY's annual report of boxoffice champs, as they called them, was one millon dollars distributor's gross for the annual list, four million dollars distributor's gross for the all-time champs list. One million dollars distributor's gross translates to roughly three million dollars at the box office. These numbers are usually based on the original release. Cult films of various sorts have "legs" (in Varietyese) that carry them for a long time past the original release figures. Unless the distributor reports a revised figure the original release number is carried forward. Most distributors do not bother to report revised figures, unless they are the result of a major re-release. Again, cult films are at the low end of these scales since many (most?) are distributed by smaller firms that operate on day-to-day, hand-to-mouth basis (even if ultimately profitably). ------------------------------------------------------------------- Cal Pryluck, Radio-Television-Film, Temple University, Philadelphia <[log in to unmask]> <PRYLUCK@TEMPLEVM>