"Cozy Counters" and "R2-D2 Me Too"

I watched this show last night on TCM called Spielberg on Spielberg where the director discussed his filmography. It was interesting. He made a half-hearted apology for all the bad things he has said about Jaws over the years (well, I still don't forgive him) but he also revealed a few interesting details.

One detail is that after George Lucas had finished shooting Star Wars he came to the set of Close Encounters of the Third Kind (or Cozy Counters as I called it when I was a kid; I also begged to go see Star Wars by screaming to my mom, "R2-D2, me too!"). Lucas told Spielberg that Close Encounters would be a bigger hit then Star Wars so Lucas asked Spielberg to swap 2.5 points on Close for 2.5 points on Wars. He agreed and as Spielberg stated in the documentary, he is still making money off that swap.