AustLit

1. Also known as 'Crocodile' Dundee (UK / USA); Krokodil Dundee (Hungary/Turkey); Cocodrilo Dundee (Spain); Crocodile Dundee - Ein Krokodil zum Küssen (West Germany); Crocodile Dundee - en storviltjägare i New York (Sweden); Crocodilo Dundee (Portugal); Krokodyl Dundee (Poland); Krokotiilimies (Finland); Mr. Crocodile Dundee (Italy); O krokodeilakias (Greece).

2. Hogan and his business partner John Cornell (also Hogan's former comedy off-sider, 'Strop') set up Rimfore Films and raised $9 million to make Crocodile Dundee. The film went on to take $US350 million at the box office and remains both the most successful Australian movie of all time and (from a US perspective) one of the the most successful foreign films of all time. According to Sydney Morning Herald journalists John Garnaut and Kate McClymont, Hogan and Cornell are thought to have received twenty per cent of the profits from Crocodile Dundee and a larger profit share from the sequel in 1988 (which earned more than $US200 million). The Australian financial backers for Crocodile Dundee (who had invested to qualify for Part 10BA tax concessions) received another twenty per cent of profits, while the Hollywood distributor and exhibitor took the remaining sixty per cent. By July 1988, those investors had received an 860 per cent return on their original $9 million investment, according to a source who distributed the profits. The returns have since expanded to well over 1000 per cent, and the annual royalty cheques did not dip below $1 million until 1999. (Source: 'Crocodile Dundee Swept up in Tax Net', John Garnaut and Kate McClymont, Sydney Morning Herald 3 September, 2005.)