Editing Tron (section)

=== Box office ===
''Tron'' was released on July 9, 1982, in 1,091 theaters in the United States and Canada grossing [[USD]] $4 million on its opening weekend. It went on to gross $33 million in the United States and Canada<ref name="boxoffice">{{cite web|title=''Tron'' |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=tron.htm |access-date=July 9, 2008 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120722/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=tron.htm |archive-date=July 22, 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> and $17 million overseas, for a worldwide gross of approximately $50 million,<ref name=gross/> which was Disney's highest-grossing live action film for 5 years.<ref name=letters>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Daily Variety]]|page=10|date=February 23, 1984|title=Letters to the Editor|last=Lisberger|first=Steven|author-link=Steven Lisberger}}</ref>

In addition, the film had $70 million in wholesale merchandise sales.<ref name=letters/>

Despite the gross and merchandise sales, it was seen as a financial disappointment, and the studio wrote off some of its $17 million budget.<ref>Stewart, James B. (2005). ''DisneyWar: The Battle for the Magic Kingdom'' (p. 45). New York: [[Simon & Schuster]]</ref>