Editing Airplane! (section)

==Release==
Prior to the film's release, the directors were apprehensive following a mediocre audience response at a pre-screening, but the film earned its entire budget of about $3.5 million in its first five days of wide release.

''Airplane!'' opened on June 27, 1980, in seven theatres in [[Toronto]], grossing $83,058 in its opening weekend.<ref name=op>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=July 2, 1980|page=3|title='Empire' Major Exception To B.O. Slump, Hits $65-Mil In Five Wks.|last=Ginsberg|first=Steven}}</ref><ref name=Adv>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=July 2, 1980|page=17|title=Fasten Your Seatbelts! (advertisement)}}</ref> It also opened in two theaters in [[Buffalo, New York|Buffalo]], grossing $14,000 in its first week.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=July 9, 1980|page=14|title='Evil' Ominous 16G, Buff.; 'Lagoon' 7G}}</ref> The film then expanded on Wednesday, July 2 to 705 theaters in the United States and Canada, grossing $6,052,514 in its first five days of wide release, finishing second for the weekend with a gross of $4,540,000.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=July 9, 1980|page=3|title=Fox's Senior Notes, Debentures Primed For Undetailed Uses}}</ref> Overall, it grossed $83 million at the US and Canadian box office and returned $40 million in rentals,<ref name=gross/> making it the [[1980 in film#Highest-grossing films (U.S.)|fourth-highest-grossing film of 1980]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Airplane! (1980)|url=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=airplane.htm|website=[[Box Office Mojo]]|access-date=February 6, 2015|archive-date=March 26, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150326183710/http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=airplane.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> Worldwide, the film earned $130 million in its initial release,<ref name="AFI film-53895">{{AFI film|53895}}</ref> and by 2002 it had made $171 million.<ref name=ww>{{Cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|title=Top 50 worldwide grossers|date=July 15, 2002|last=D'Alessandro|first=Anthony|page=52, Paramount at 90 supplement}}</ref>