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Marshall recalled that the first Indiana Jones movie, "Raiders of the Lost Ark," made $8.3 million on its opening weekend in 1981 when it first showed on 1,078 screens (and only in the United States). The current juggernaut, starring a 65-year-old Ford, will be released Thursday on 15,000 screens worldwide, including those in Europe, Latin America, Australia, Asia and the Middle East. The studio has been churning out prints from six laboratories in 17 dubbed-language versions, including Russian, Arabic and Swedish. The film may pull in more than $200 million on its first weekend -- or so hopes Paramount Pictures, which spent an estimated $125 million making the film and could go through an additional $75 million or more marketing it.