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Small budget, big box-office bling

Budget: $5 million Worldwide Gross: $368,744,044 This sleeper hit, about an unwed Greek thirtysomething who takes life by the horns and meets the man of her dreams, hit a chord with audiences everywhere. Without a big advertising budget, the film relied on grass-roots efforts like e-mail campaigns to get the word out.

Budget: $5 million

Worldwide Gross: $368,744,044

This sleeper hit, about an unwed Greek thirtysomething who takes life by the horns and meets the man of her dreams, hit a chord with audiences everywhere. Without a big advertising budget, the film relied on grass-roots efforts like e-mail campaigns to get the word out.  (Sophie Giraud / Associated Press)

"Halloween"

Budget: $1 million

Worldwide Gross: $225 million

The theme music of John Carpenter‘s horror tale is just as well-known as the William Shatner-masked killer that the director let loose on our collective consciousness. Using suspenseful cinematic angles and flashes of Michael Myers in the background, “ Halloween” is generally thought of the first of the low-budget slasher films that became prevalent in the ‘80s and ‘90s, though there was very little gore.  (George Wilhelm / Los Angeles Times)

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