These positions remained unchanged in its third week of release. However, in its fourth week, "Raiders of the Lost Ark" began climbing box office charts, reaching the number two position with a gross of $7.3million, behind "Superman II" ($10.9million). By its sixth week, it had regained the number one position with $6.4million. The film spent most of the following nine weeks as the number one film, and forty-weeks straight as one of the top ten highest-grossing films. It had earned over $100million by mid-August and had been declared the top box office film of the summer by early September, with a total approximate gross of $125million. Of this figure, $72 million was estimated to have been returned to the studio; the profit-sharing deal with Spielberg and Lucas meant that after marketing costs, Paramount had earned $23million in profit.