7 Times When Hollywood's Top Moneymakers Handed Off the Baton Through Good-Spirited Ads

A 40-year Spielberg-Lucas tradition continues

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Long before Disney dominated the leaderboard of big earners at the box office, rising Hollywood hitmakers Steven Spielberg and George Lucas started a fun and friendly tradition of congratulating each other on the success of their blockbuster films.

The 1970s and ’80s were a time of rapid evolution in the way we watched movies, with Jaws ushering in the era of the summer blockbuster, bigger theaters arising across the suburbs and video rental growing rapidly from a pricey niche to shared experience across almost all American homes.

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