Back to the Future Part III effects for "Part III" were managed by effects company Industrial Light & Magic; the head of its animation department, Wes Takahashi, returned to once again animate the DeLorean's time travel sequences. The film grossed $23 million in its first weekend of U.S. release and $87.6 million altogether in U.S. box office receipts (or about $152.4 million when adjusted for inflation as of January 2011) – $243 million worldwide. On December 17, 2002, Universal released "Back to the Future Part III" in a boxed set with the first two films on DVD and VHS. In the DVD widescreen edition, there was
Back to the Future to see if any other of the major studios wanted a piece of us." Every major film studio rejected the script for the next four years, while "Back to the Future" went through two more drafts. During the early 1980s, popular teen comedies (such as "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" and "Porky's") were risqué and adult-aimed, so the script was rejected for being too light. Gale and Zemeckis finally pitched "Back to the Future" to Disney, but they felt the story of a mother falling in love with her son was not appropriate for a family film under the Disney