News Summary

• "The Wizard of Oz" has become probably the most famous movie of all time.
• Its images, dialogue, characters, and story are now templates unto themselves.
• The movie is 87 years old as of today, and it might not be an exaggeration to state that more people have seen it than any other film.
• It's hard to talk about the movie in any kind of fresh way, sadly, just because it's been so widely analyzed and relitigated over the decades.
• the movie has made over $103 million in DVD and Blu-ray sales alone.
• It also broke a Fathom Events record in 2019, and the recent "remix" of the movie at the Sphere in Las Vegas has apparently raked in about $2 million a day.