And that gain came on top of a 34 percent increase in 2001.
The gains could not come at a better time for Hollywood.
And the gains have come even though inflation has not exactly taken off.
The gains came on a 23 percent increase in revenue, to $6.25 billion.
The industry's most concrete gains recently have come on the legal front.
So all the gain for the year would come from the currency movement.
But the gains in the past few years have come from acquisitions.
The 1975 gain came even though dividends were cut that year, as they had been in 1974.
The gains came as the force was significantly expanded in the 1990's.
But these gains have come at a terrible and continuing cost.