1974 Novel
First print-run: 30,000
Total copies sold to date: More than 4 million
Weeks it reportedly took Stephen King to write the book: 2
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Victims of Carrie’s wrath during prom: 440
King’s current estimated annual income: $40,000,000
1976 film version
Budget for the film: $1,800,000
Domestic gross: $33,800,000
Rentals: $15,207,514 (USA)
Sissy Spacek’s age at the time: 26
Nights Spacek slept in a bloody prom gown to maintain filming consistency: 2
Oscar nominations: 2 (Spacek and Piper Laurie as Carrie’s mother)
Years since Laurie’s previous film, “The Hustler”: 15
Months it took to film: 3
Number of times King’s name misspelled in the trailer as “Steven”: 1
2013 film version
Projected opening weekend gross: $21,000,000
Projected total domestic gross: $500,000,000
Gallons of pig blood dumped on Carrie during the prom-scene 5
Age of Chloë Grace Moretz, who plays Carrie in the remake: 16
1988 musical version
Cost: more than $7 million
Total number of performances: 5
Number of times The New York Times called it “the most expensive flop in Broadway history”: 1
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