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I was looking through the Variety.com web site and noticed that the biggest grossing film for 1999 was Star Wars:EpisodeI,The Phantom Menace. This got me to thinking. There were better movies then Star Wars in 1999,so why should this be the biggy. I don't know what the answer is, but something seems to be off here.Because a film draws the biggest gross, does that make it the best?

No it does not make it the best. Why did it gross so much? we were all stuck in lenghty contracts to play the film fot 12 + weeks that tied up our largest auditoriums for the entire time. Therefore nothing else had a chance to gross as much as the seating was not there. Plus the star wars fans etc. and the curiosity can it be better than the originals