George
Lucas thought Steven Spielberg’s “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” would outperform
Star Wars so he proposed they trade 2.5% of the profit on each other’s films;
Spielberg took the trade, and still receives 2.5% of the profits from Star
Wars.
the spielberg-lucas broship
eternal-existence-of-weirdness:
In 1977 Steven Spielberg took out an ad i Variety congratulating George Lucas and his filmStar Wars when it overtook Jaws at the box office. This became a tradition between the two directors as you can see by the photos above. And when James Cameron’s Titanic beat Star Wars, George Lucas congratulated him with an ad too. [x]