Chapter 1900: Chapter 1900
Breaking through 200 million is a miracle, but for "LA Confidential", it is clear that the pace of creating miracles is far from stopping. After passing the 200 million threshold without any suspense, "LA Confidential" relies on a powerful Word of mouth and the enthusiasm of the audience continued to advance in the North American market. After nearly eight months of release, the cumulative box office finally fell to 260 million.
This makes "LA Confidential" successfully surpassed "Schindler's List" and "Speed", becoming Hugo's second highest-grossing work at the personal box office-only behind "Independence Day"; On top of that, he successfully made it into the top ten, and just hung on the tenth place. His outstanding performance has already caused countless media to lose all words, and he only needs to throw out the "tenth place in film history, 260 million US dollars" The box office data is enough to shock the audience.
In this film history box office list, "Independence Day", "Star Wars", "Alien E.T", "Jurassic Park", "Forrest Gump", "The Lion King", "Planet Great War 3: Samurai Revenge (Return. Of. The. Jedi)", "Raiders of the Lost Ark", "Home Alone" and "L.A. Confidential", as many as seven works are fantasy and science fiction types, only three works The exceptions are "Home Alone", "Forrest Gump" and "LA Confidential".
"Home Alone" is a pure family comedy movie, while "Forrest Gump" is divided into war and comedy genres. Comedy can also be said to be an irreplaceable part of the American film market, and the happy family atmosphere has a strong box office appeal force. Therefore, the real intruder is only "LA Confidential".
As a thriller and suspense drama film, "LA Confidential" fills up the last gap in the North American market: it is the first drama film in a strict sense since "Forrest Gump" to rank among the top ten box office in film history; At the same time, it has also become an absolute masterpiece of thriller and suspense movies, filling the gap that suspense movies have never really occupied a place in the box office market, and creating history.
Since the birth of Alfred Hitchcock, thriller and suspense films have become the most important part of genre films in North American film history, and countless classic masterpieces have been born. Although the audience is relatively narrow, they are enduring , always has a large number of loyal viewers.
But it is a pity that horror and suspense movies in history have never been able to truly make a name for themselves. Among all horror, horror, and suspense works, the truly epoch-making significance is "Ghost Chaser" produced in 1984. It swept $234 million at the box office that year, completely changing the historical status of thriller and suspense movies. But it's a pity that "Ghost Chaser" is more often regarded as a fantasy adventure comedy movie, and the fear element is just one of the gimmicks, so it still hasn't been able to open up the situation.
Among the top 20 box office box office in film history, there is no real suspense movie. This is undoubtedly a huge regret for the North American film market.
Once "Seven Deadly Sins" had high hopes, but it was a pity that it missed a step at the last moment; now, "LA Confidential" has finally accomplished this feat. Although the movie is more about suspense and plot than thriller and horror, it still It filled the gaps in genre films, and even made movies a step closer, ranking among the top ten in film history, truly subverting the pattern of fantasy and science fiction movies dominating the world.
This is a sensation for the entire film industry.
What's more, as a feature film, "LA Confidential" also joined hands with "Forrest Gump", proving once again that truly excellent art films can still attract enough box office. In particular, "L.A. Confidential" can be said to be a perfect textbook for drama movies, which has completely changed Hollywood's attitude towards drama art movies, and the importance of screenwriters has once again reached a new high.
260 million US dollars, this is not only a breakthrough of 200 million box office, not only the tenth outstanding work in film history, but also the driving force for "LA Confidential" to change the course of film history. Hugo once again wrote the road of miracles with an unexpected gesture.
From "Independence Day" in 1996 to "LA Confidential" in 1997, Hugo's pace of exploring the context of the film market has become faster, deeper and wider.
After "LA Confidential" achieved incredible box office results in North America, it came to overseas markets and still won the hearts of the audience. Although this is a movie set in Los Angeles in the 1950s, the intricate story, the narration, and the lifelike characters, placed in any corner of the world, are stories that people can empathize with - and compared to "vulgar "L.A. Confidential" reveals the dark inside story behind the Hollywood scenes, and it even triggers a movie-watching frenzy among audiences all over the world.
"LA Confidential" has been screened in 45 overseas countries and regions, and the most outstanding performer is no different from the UK. The UK is full of praise for the many black humor in "LA Confidential", while the film's meticulous The script setting and the rigorous role setting are even more controversial. They absolutely agree with both hands and feet for such a work. In the end, the movie broke out at the box office of 57 million US dollars in the British Isles. Not only did it explode " "Seven Deadly Sins" achieved results in the UK market that year, and temporarily became the annual box office champion in the UK.
In addition to the UK, the film also performed very well in Japan, France and Italy, especially Japan, which is currently the largest film market in Asia, is completely crazy about Hugo - just like they are crazy about Tom Cruise , "LA Confidential" took a strong box office of 53 million US dollars here, becoming the only market in the world other than the United Kingdom and the United States where the final box office exceeded 50 million. The performance was so shocking that even Warner Bros. They were all stunned.
The box office of France and Italy both exceeded 40 million US dollars, and both exceeded 45 million, easily surpassing the previous box office data of "Seven Deadly Sins" here, setting off a movie-watching frenzy.
Just these four overseas markets have jointly contributed a box office of 207 million US dollars, which not only means that the overseas box office of "LA Confidential" surpasses the North American box office is already a certainty, but also means that the film's overseas box office The box office will hopefully break through the 300 million threshold, making it the third of Hugo's solo films to achieve such a high overseas box office after "Schindler's List" and "Independence Day".
"L.A. Confidential" did not disappoint Warner Bros. and the audience who were looking forward to it.
Germany is one of the few regions in the world where the box office has underperformed "The Seven", where "LA Confidential" took in $38 million—still an absolute stellar result, topping Germany's for the time being. No. 1 position on the annual box office list, but this data does not surpass "Seven Deadly Sins". It can be seen that Germany, a serious country, prefers the cold and humid New York to the sunny Los Angeles-of course, it is just a joke.
Nevertheless, including Germany, Australia, Brazil, Argentina, Spain, Sweden, China. country. fragrant. In seven countries and regions including Hong Kong, the box office has exceeded 10 million U.S. dollars, and the box office of Australia and Brazil has exceeded 20 million one after another. Their outstanding performance has caused frequent successes from all over the world, surpassing the "seven deadly sins" in an all-round way. At the same time, it also made Warner Bros. smile.
In the end, "LA Confidential" easily crossed the 300 million threshold in 45 markets around the world, sweeping a box office of 350 million US dollars, surpassing "Schindler's List" and becoming Hugo's second overseas box office. Gao's work has completely refreshed Hugo's personal box office record.
In the North American market and the overseas market, "LA Confidential" has horribly grabbed a box office of 610 million US dollars, a box office figure that even Warner Bros. themselves dare not expect. This work with an investment of only 40 million US dollars Undoubtedly, it created a mythical story again, which is not inferior to the original stories of "Speed", "Pulp Fiction", and made everyone witness once again that Hollywood, the land of miracles, always It can continuously bring surprises.
What's even more frightening is that, relying on its strong box office performance, "LA Confidential" was on the top of the 1997 annual box office list, surpassing many popular summer works, and temporarily topped the North American annual box office list High on the throne of champions - defeated "Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World", "Men in Black", "Liar", "Air Force One" and other wonderful works; and on the global annual box office list is only Temporarily behind "Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World", hanging high in the runner-up position.
When this provisional list came out, almost the entire United States was in an uproar.
It is not news that the summer movies failed to win the year-end box office championship. Many holiday movies can often explode more box office energy; but the problem is that the autumn movies temporarily hold the year-end championship in their hands. This is simply appalling. , The chaos of the world, the most neglected, underestimated, and most excluded schedule of the year, but the Jedi's counterattack has been realized. This is simply... a big rebellion!
And it's hard to imagine that it was a thriller and suspense drama movie that created this achievement? It seems that the world is no longer what people are familiar with. "LA Confidential" has once again fueled the reform of the North American film market by relying on its own power. It ignited and completely changed the rules of the entire industry.
All of this was almost impossible to happen two years ago, and even dare not imagine it. Even if the "seven deadly sins" turned out to change some things, people still can't imagine such a situation: It seems that no one could imagine that people can fly in the air before the birth of the airplane. But now, "LA Confidential" has just appeared, and it has re-opened history with the most powerful performance in an undisputed posture!