The consumer spending estimate is based on the average sales price for the title in the retailers we survey. The market share is converted into a weekly sales estimate based on industry reports on the overall size of the market, including reports published in Media Play News.įor example, if our weekly retail survey estimates that a particular title sold 1% of all units that week, and the industry reports sales of 1,500,000 units in total, we will estimate 15,000 units were sold of that title. Our DVD and Blu-ray sales estimates are based on weekly retail surveys, which we use to build a weekly market share estimate for each title we are tracking. Smokey and the Bandit/Smokey and the Bandi… Smokey & The Bandit: The 7-Movie Outlaw Co… Ouch! 7.Smokey and the Bandit: Pursuit Pack: The F… The new executive refused to honor his predecessor’s promise, and Reynolds was left without a car. As he learned, the executive he talked to previously had retired. Reynolds didn’t want to seem like someone begging for free stuff, but he eventually decided to call Pontiac after a few months had passed. However, some time passed and Reynolds never got a call from the Pontiac executive about the car he promised him. After the film’s release, the 1977 T-Top Trans Am started selling like wildfire. Specifically, the executive offered to give him a Trans Am like the ones used in the film.Īs we now know, Smokey and the Bandit was a huge box office success. On the same DVD documentary, Reynolds revealed that a senior executive at Pontiac had promised him a free car if the movie was a success. Burt Reynolds Was Promised A Car If The Movie Hit It Big You would never guess that watching the finished product though, would you? 6. As Needham admitted in a DVD documentary about the movie, the cars could hardly run by the end of the whole thing. However, the cars weren’t in the best of shape by the time they were wrapping up.
Surprisingly, the cast and crew only had to use three Trans Am cars throughout the entire film.
Smokey and the Bandit was responsible for introducing two new generations of the Pontiac Trans Am to the public. But Gleason was a pro at it, and his performance benefited as a result. It takes a great deal of talent to be able to make material up on the spot like that. Believe it or not, most of the lines Gleason recites in the movie were entirely improvised! Cast as Sheriff Justice in the film, Gleason proved why he was one of the greatest actors of his era.
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