Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "The Big Boss" in English language version.
The movie cost US$100,000 to make.
Shown in only sixteen Hong Kong theaters, The Big Boss took in $372,000 Hong Kong dollars in its first day and passed the magical HK$1 million mark in just three days. Over its three-week run in local theaters, The Big Boss grossed HK$3.2 million. The China Mail estimated that 1.2 million Hong Kongers out of a population of four million paid to see the movie.
They're made in Hong Kong and the biggest hero of them all at the moment, surely the biggest box-office attraction there, is a face pretty familiar to American television audiences. Remember Bruce Lee, the swift, agile oriental chauffeur in "The Green Hornet"? (...) Lee already has starred in three Chinese boxer (another label) pictures and there are several dozen others available to the international market. They reportedly are sweeping the European market and have just started to infiltrate the American scene. (...) The first two pictures grossed more than $5 million in Southeast Asia alone, according to Weintraub.
The Big Boss grossed over $12 million, an Asian box office record.
