Reception
Jailhouse Rock premiered on November 8, 1957 at Loews State Theater in Memphis, Tennessee. It opened nationally on November 18, and peaked at number 3 on the Variety box office chart, as well as reaching number 14 for the year at the box office. The film had an original budget of $400,000 (equivalent to $3,309,953 in 2012 dollars), and it grossed $4 million (equivalent to $33 million in 2012 dollars) at the box office. In 1957 Presley was ranked the 4th leading box office commodity in the film industry. According to Variety, by 1969, the gross income of the movie in the United States and Canada was comparable to that of The Wizard of Oz.
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Famous quotes containing the word reception:
“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
“I gave a speech in Omaha. After the speech I went to a reception elsewhere in town. A sweet old lady came up to me, put her gloved hand in mine, and said, “I hear you spoke here tonight.” “Oh, it was nothing,” I replied modestly. “Yes,” the little old lady nodded, “that’s what I heard.””
—Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)
“He’s leaving Germany by special request of the Nazi government. First he sends a dispatch about Danzig and how 10,000 German tourists are pouring into the city every day with butterfly nets in their hands and submachine guns in their knapsacks. They warn him right then. What does he do next? Goes to a reception at von Ribbentropf’s and keeps yelling for gefilte fish!”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)