Complex sentence: Universal Pictures acquired the film for $1,000,000 and released it in 1973, to a considerable amount of Iceberg Slim fanfare; the movie grossed $11,000,000 at the US box office.
Split into simpler sentences: Universal Pictures acquired the film for $1,000,000 and released it in 1973 to a considerable amount of Iceberg Slim fanfare. The movie grossed $11,000,000 at the US box office.