Editing Sudden Impact (section)

===Box office===
In its opening weekend, the film took $9,688,561 in 1,530 theaters in the US.<ref name="mojo">{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=suddenimpact.htm |title=Sudden Impact |access-date=March 1, 2009 |publisher= IMDB |work= [[Box Office Mojo]]}}</ref> In total in the US and Canada, the film made $67,642,693, making it the highest grossing of the five films in the ''Dirty Harry'' franchise.<ref name="Hughes69" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=dirtyharry.htm |title=Dirty Harry Movies|access-date=March 1, 2009 |publisher=[[Box Office Mojo]]}}</ref> The film also surpassed the $63.6 million gross of ''[[Thunderball (film)|Thunderball]]'' (1965) to become the highest-grossing fourth installment of a film in the United States and Canada.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=June 30, 1997|page=19|title=Top Five Fourth Chapters}}</ref> Worldwide, it grossed more than $150 million.<ref name=gross/>