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Infographic: Sundance Box Office Hits & Misses

Sundance Success = $$$

The Financialist has supplied Park City movie-goers with the following nifty infographic for tracking how past entries have fared commercially after graduating from Sundance. (They've done pretty darn well over the last 10 years, averaging a net gain of five times their original budget.) But the real path to big bucks seems to come from the Toronto Film Festival, where prizewinners have raked in median box office receipts of over $41 million over the last decade.

Sundance Box Office

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