The movie, which is not expected to be a hit abroad, will probably bring Fox about $3 million in foreign film rentals.

Its 1986 releases earned a paltry 2.7 percent of the market share in domestic film rentals.

In 2010-adjusted dollars, the domestic film rentals exceeded $141 million.

Of that $5,683, Fox got 50 percent or $2,841.50 in film rentals and charged the movie's account $852.45 to distribute it.

The movie had earned film rentals of $12.6 million.

Around 47 percent of the ticket money goes back to the movie distributor as film rental.

Universal took in less than $10 million in film rentals on "Howard" last summer.

So far Warner has probably kept 70 percent of the box office gross, or what the industry calls film rentals.

The movie has earned only $1.5 million in film rentals.

But the movie played through the summer of 1988, earning nearly $22 million in film rental.