wish all of you have a good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late with us, i will see you at the end of tomorrow. of tomorrow. good evening chris, thank you my friend much appreciated. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. really happy to have you here. the basic plot is, that even though he s a good guy, even though he is our hero, he has to steal the declaration of independence. he has to break into the national archives and steal it, but it s for a good reason. it s because he has followed the string of ancient, creepy totally non plausible clues, and those clues have revealed to him a big secret. the big secret is that there is a big treasure and to find a big treasure, you have to follow the treasure map and the treasure map inconveniently is printed in invisible ink on the backside of the declaration of independence. and so he has to steal the declaration of independence. not just because he wants the tre
the document? did it take the bullets maybe? this is the 2004 smash hit movie national treasure, starring nicolas cage. the weekend before a national treasure, national treasure came out in 2004 i have to tell you, this movie beat the spongebob squarepants movie that came at the same weekend. it beat even that blockbuster for the number one spot in the u.s. box office, despite the fact that national treasure was viewed pretty well universally as absolutely ridiculous, it ended up crossing $350 million worldwide, even as it cost an astonishing $100 million to make, it s still made a quarter of a billion dollars profit on top of that. which again is especially