Even for an independent producer operating without studio overhead, “The Return of Billy Jack” will have to take in about $40 million or more to break even. Whether there’s another blockbuster ahead for Billy Jack depends on how well a fresh generation of moviegoers will take to him. That success is credited with altering the way Hollywood markets its films. The film went on to make an additional $100 million.
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Laughlin re-released it in nearly 1,200 theaters that he rented himself and quadrupled the percentage of money that studios normally spent on TV advertising at that time. The film had grossed $6 million in two years with Warner Bros. Laughlin became something of a cult hero among independent film makers when he bought “Billy Jack” back from Warner Bros.
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Laughlin introduced the Billy Jack character in a 1967 film called “Born Losers.” That was followed by “Billy Jack” in 1971, “The Trial of Billy Jack” in 1974 and “Billy Jack Goes to Washington” in 1977.
If “The Return of Billy Jack” sounds like the Second Coming, it’s actually the fifth. A steward on an airplane told him that, by example, Billy Jack had turned his son from a life of crime to a career as an attorney. 1 disease in the Western world is loneliness. Three out of four people who are asked in research interviews say they want another Billy Jack picture, and that more than one of two would prefer a new episode of Billy Jack to those of either Rocky, Dirty Harry, Rambo or Indiana Jones. The “Billy Come Latelies"-an allusion to the characters associated with Chuck Norris, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Charles Bronson and Sylvester Stallone-lack the humanity at the core of Billy Jack. The studios have lost their way and are no longer making movies people want to see.
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