- ^ a b Sources disagree on both the amount of the original budget and the final budget. The starting budget has been recorded as $1 million,[21] $2 million,[19][42][43][14] and $2.5 million,[23][44] while Coppola later demanded—and received—a $5 million budget.[31] The final budget has been named at $6 million,[31][23][45][46] $6.5 million,[42][47] $7 million,[48] and $7.2 million.[49]
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^ a b Sources disagree on the amount grossed by the film.
- 1974: Newsweek. Vol. 84. 1974. p. 74. The original Godfather has grossed a mind-boggling $285 million...
- 1991: Von Gunden, Kenneth (1991). Postmodern auteurs: Coppola, Lucas, De Palma, Spielberg, and Scorsese. McFarland & Company. p. 36. ISBN 978-0-89950-618-0. Since The Godfather had earned over $85 million in U.S.-Canada rentals (the worldwide box-office gross was $285 million), a sequel, according to the usual formula, could be expected to earn approximately two-thirds of the original's box-office take (ultimately Godfather II had rentals of $30 million).
- Releases: "The Godfather (1972)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved March 17, 2022. Original release: $243,862,778; 1997 re-release: $1,267,490; 2009 re-release: $121,323; 2011 re-release: $818,333; 2014 re-release: $29,349; 2018 re-release: $21,701; 2020 re-release: $4,323; 2022 re-release: $3,999,963; Budget: $6,000,000
- ^ Sources disagree on the date where Paramount confirmed their intentions to make Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather into a feature-length film. Harlan Lebo's work states that the announcement came in January 1969,[14] while Jenny Jones' book puts the date of the announcement three months after the novel's publication, in June 1969.[16]
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