More: MTV is 36! Celebrate with these mind-blowing moments from the VMAs That’s a lot of passion that MTV made happen. That made it the third-biggest movie of 1983, behind Star Wars: Return of the Jedi and Terms of Endearment. It also spawned the hottest movie soundtrack since Grease (1978), temporarily knocking Michael Jackson’s Thriller from the top of the Billboard album chart and earning a Grammy album of the year nomination on its way to winning a best original song Oscar for Irene Cara’s fist-pumping Flashdance …What a Feeling (which beat out another Flashdance hit, Michael Sembello’s thigh-busting Maniac). The Cinderella story about a welder by day/dancer by night (Jennifer Beals) was a sleeper hit for studio Paramount, earning almost $100 million (double that worldwide) on a reported $8 million budget. Case in point: Flashdance, released 35 years ago this weekend (April 15), the first movie to latch on to the new channel as a marketing and storytelling tool, reaping a bonanza for both. Video may have killed the radio star when MTV arrived, but it breathed new life into both the film and music businesses.
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