The pair put this concept to the test and agreed that if Close Encounters made more money, Lucas would receive 2.5 points from Spielberg’s stake in the film, but if Star Wars became the victor successful, Spielberg would get the 2.5 points of Lucas’ stake.
With his friend, Steven Spielberg, having just recently directed the highest grossing film of all time (Jaws) just two years earlier, George Lucas was positive that Spielberg’s next film, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, was going to be a bigger hit than Star Wars in 1977.