Before the film's opening, writer William Goldman published a short book about the making of "A Bridge Too Far", intended as a publicity tie-in, in which he made the amazing claim that the film (which cost a then-staggering $26.7 million) had actually already gone into profit before anyone had seen it as a result of the massive advances paid to the film company by exhibitors around the world. This, of course, was nonsense - although very large sums had been paid out in advance of the film's opening, these were all conditional upon the film's actual box-office performance, the money to be returned if the film proved unpopular. "A Bridge Too Far" was a financial catastrophe, so much so that the producing career of producer Joseph E. Levine was essentially terminated. It was one of several extremely expensive flops released in the summer of 1977 - others included "New York, New York", "Exorcist II: The Heretic" and "Sorcerer" - and the only big hit of that season was the much cheaper "Star Wars".

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