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John Scalzi - SciFi Movies Made Money Before Star Wars, Too 
blogs.amctv.com | by John Scalzi | Thu, May 21
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However, it's not fair to say that Hollywood never saw science fiction as a moneymaker before Star Wars, either -- quite a number of science fiction movies did gangbuster business from the very start of the industry: The highest grossing film of 1916, for example, was a version of 20,000 L...
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