The Boys in the Boat, the inspiring movie about the scrappy University of Washington crew that won gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, had grossed $45 million at the box office a month after its release, putting it past its $40 million budget. Producer and director George Clooney told Forbes that he gave his salary back before the production finished under budget, and his salary was returned. The similarly titled book by Daniel James Brown on which the movie is based was a number-one New York Times bestseller when it came out in 2013 and sold over three million copies. Currently, it’s in fifth place on the Amazon nonfiction charts.
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