The Fame has been available for sale.
Fame (1980 film) . The script , originally titled Hot Lunch , became the subject of a bidding war among a host of established film studios before it was sold to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ( MGM ) . Fame grossed $ 21.2 million in North America against an $ 8.5 million budget . The Fame . The Fame became the fifth best-selling album of 2009 . It has sold 4.7 million copies in the United States as of April 2016 and is the seventh best-selling digital album in history . The album sold 15 million copies worldwide as of November 2010 .