Editing Mississippi Burning (section)

===Box office===
''Mississippi Burning''{{'}}s first week of limited release saw it take $225,034, an average of $25,003.40 per theater.<ref name="BOMWeekend" /> The film grossed an additional $160,628 in its second weekend.<ref name="BOMWeekend" /> More theaters were added during the limited run, and on January 27, 1989, the film officially entered wide release. Over its first weekend of wide release, the film grossed $3,545,305, securing the number five position at the domestic box office with a domestic gross to date of $14,726,112.<ref name="BOMWeekend" /> The film generated strong local interest in the state of Mississippi, resulting in sold-out showings in the first four days of wide release.<ref>{{cite book|first=Adam |last=Nossiter|title=Of Long Memory: Mississippi and the Murder of Medgar Evers|date=Jun 16, 2009|publisher=[[Da Capo Press]]|location = United States|chapter=8. Downfall of the Old Order and Reawakening of Memory|pages=228–231|isbn=978-0-306-81162-3}}</ref> After seven weeks of wide release, ''Mississippi Burning'' ended its theatrical run with an overall gross of $34,603,943.<ref name="BOMWeekend" /> In North America, it was the thirty-third highest-grossing film of 1988<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/1988/?grossesOption=totalGrosses|title=1988 Yearly Box Office Results|website=Box Office Mojo|access-date=April 29, 2016|archive-date=May 14, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160514034417/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=main&id=mississippiburning.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> and the seventeenth highest-grossing [[Motion Picture Association of America film rating system|R-rated]] film of that year.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/mpaarating.htm?rating=R&yr=1988&p=.htm|title=1988 Yearly Box Office for R Rated Movies|website=Box Office Mojo|access-date=April 29, 2016|archive-date=June 9, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160609181154/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/mpaarating.htm?rating=R&yr=1988&p=.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>