944 Film History Champion
For lay people, how serious the constraints of R-level movies are, this is just a vague concept. "It is recommended to watch over 17 years old" does not seem that bad. It is just that some children cannot watch. But in fact, the most important part of the film market is the family, but when children cannot watch it, it often affects parents and unwilling to watch it - leaving the children alone at home or asking them to their family and friends, and then parents go to the cinema alone to watch it. This is really troublesome. Even if they can, they will choose some love movies or comedy movies; this is just part of the constraints of R-level movies. Another key point is overseas markets. Many countries are unwilling to introduce R-level movies, especially those countries without a movie rating system or countries with conservative religious areas.
The number of overseas countries and regions released by "Titanic" is 66, "Star Wars 7: The Force Awakens" is 61, and "Avatar" is 74. However, for the R-level movie "Rampage Road", this set of data is 47. In comparison, "Pirates of the Caribbean 2" is 53, and "The Passion of Jesus" is thanks to the controversy over religious themes, and the number of released areas is 63.
Simply put, the difference in the base determines the difficulty of R-level movies in overseas markets.
It is precisely because of this that the performance of "Raging Road" in the overseas box office has become increasingly unbelievable. The disadvantage of quantity can only be compensated for by quality. This is the best expression of "Raging Road" overseas box office.
In the British market, the "Rampant Road" easily created history. The total box office of 123 million US dollars not only became the third work in British history to exceed 100 million, but also surpassed the "Titanic"'s 114 million record and officially crowned the throne of the box office champion in British film history.
In the German market, the "Rampage Road" also hit a new high, with a cumulative box office of 105 million US dollars. Although it did not break the record of "Titanic", it still became the second work in German film history with a box office of over 100 million, ranking second in film history.
Not only that, "Raging Road" has achieved exceptionally excellent box office data in France, Italy, Brazil, Mexico, the Netherlands, Spain, South Korea and other countries. It seems that every market is approaching the film history record of "Titanic", or "Lord of the Rings 3". In the current film history, a total of four works have exceeded one billion US dollars in global box office, and "Titanic" has achieved 2.1 billion results, "Lord of the Rings 3", "Jurassic Park", and "Star Wars Prequel 1" are closely behind. Judging from the box office curve of "Raging Road", it seems that it has become the fifth work in film history with a global box office of over one billion. The only suspense is: where is the limit of this R-rated movie?
Britain and Germany have become the "Raging Road" overseas markets with only two markets that have exceeded 100 million. In addition, France's 53 million, Italy's 67 million, Spain's 33 million, Brazil's 32 million, Mexico's 37 million... These results are all eye-catching. Globally, there are as many as 14 with box offices exceeding 10 million. The performance is exciting. Although it cannot be compared with the "Titanic" that swept through thousands of troops. It is estimated that the "Raging Road" is no longer a success in the overseas market's 1.5 billion results, but compared with the "Ring 3" with an overseas box office of 740 million, the "Ring Road" is not out of reach. The momentum of rapid progress is blooming in all markets around the world, as if the power of this movie can be felt in every corner.
The biggest surprise is not the mainland China region - after all, the box office potential of this region has not been truly tapped yet. 2006 was not 2011, but Japan. As the world's second largest film market, Japan and the United Kingdom have been competing for this title. In 2006, Japan's box office potential will determine the upper limit of the movie's overseas market. The box office of "The Lord of the Rings 3" is 94 million US dollars, while the box office of "Titanic" is 200 million US dollars.
Originally, professionals thought that the metal rock style of "Rampant Road" was close to the full color of the comics, which would win the love of Japanese audiences, but the ending was shocking. The final box office of "Rampant Road" in Japan was only 29 million - Japan is the only area in the global box office market where "Pirates of the Caribbean 2" beat "Rampant Road". Captain Jack Sparrow scored an excellent result of 84 million in this area, but "Rampant Road" was only 29 million. Even the box office champion for a week was not won and was suppressed. Although the box office performance of 20 million is still worthy of recognition due to controversy and reputation, compared to the movie's sweeping troops in other markets, the treatment of "Rampant Road" in Japan is indeed very cold.
Later, some people analyzed that the controversy about the "Raging Road" has become a magic weapon to promote box office in Western countries, but it is difficult to break through the blockade in Asia. Under the strong influence of Confucianism, the Asian region is still full of thorns on the road to eliminating discrimination. Not only Japan, but South Korea's "Raging Road" also has a fair box office. The result of 19 million is not bad, but it cannot be considered excellent.
However, overall, the "Raging Road" has not stopped making history. Small markets such as Argentina, Colombia, Denmark, Norway, Venezuela, and New Zealand have achieved excellent box offices of more than 7 million, which makes people deeply feel the storm that this movie has caused around the world. Including India, Indonesia, Singapore, China/Hong Kong, China/Taiwan, Egypt, South Africa and other regions have also delivered good answers.
Sixty-seventy-nine million, the ultimate "Rampant Road" earned a total box office of US$679 million in 47 countries and regions overseas!
In comparison, in this result, the overseas box office of "Pirates of the Caribbean 2" was 640 million. Even with Captain Jack Sparrow's powerful charm, sequel bonus, and regional number, the overseas box office of "Pirates of the Caribbean 2" still lost to "Rampant Road". Compared with North America, the disadvantage of this data makes Disney feel even more frustrated. You know, Chaos Pictures' overseas distribution channels are simply not comparable to Disney. In terms of overseas market distribution, Disney completely easily crushed Chaos Pictures, but it still lost another game.
It is worth mentioning that the North American box office of "Pirates of the Caribbean 2" finally moved past the threshold of 400 million and settled at 403 million. This also made "Pirates of the Caribbean 2" the eighth North American 400 million work in the history of film, and it is also the fifth global work in the history of film. However, the glory of "Pirates of the Caribbean 2" is still eclipsed in the face of "Raging Road".
In terms of horizontal comparison, the overseas box office of "The Lord of the Rings 3" is 742 million, while the Titanic is 1.528 million. In other words, the "Raging Road" surpassed the 626 million "Jurassic Park" and ranked third in the overseas box office rankings in film history.
Although it has not been able to set a new record for overseas box office like North America, the "Raging Road" has written its own history, especially the overseas box office has once again surpassed North American data, and once again proved that as a director, Lance has established his position in the world and truly became a palace-level figure.
In this way, the global box office of "Raging Road" finally reached 1.292 million. This is not only Lance's fourth North American work of 200 million, but also truly push Lance's career to an incomparable peak. The sixth work in the history of the film - after "Pirates of the Caribbean 2" - a global work that exceeded one billion. What is even more commendable is that with the crazy performance of the North American market, "Raging Road" surpassed "Lord of the Rings 3" in one go, ranking second on the global box office historical list, just lagging behind James Cameron's box office bomb "Titanic".
After experiencing the bombardment of the entire summer season, the world has changed. The top three places in the box office list of North American film history are "Raging Road", "Titanic", and "Star Wars"; the top three places in the box office list of overseas film history are "Titanic", "Lord of Rings 3", and "Raging Road"; the comprehensive global box office top, runner-up and third place are updated, "Titanic", "Raging Road", and "Lord of Rings 3".
North America is the first, third overseas, and second in the world. The box office answers of "Rampant Road" are perfect, setting an almost insurmountable peak!
If we want to count the records created by the "Raging Road", it is enough to fill two large pieces of painting paper, covering five continents from North America to Africa; from the premiere weekend to the box office accumulation speed, explosive power and durability are all dominant; from topic to attention, publicity strategies have become a symbol of cross-age... But the real magic of this movie is still the incredible cult style and the shocking breaking of discrimination. There is no doubt that the "Raging Road" will become a unique and beautiful landscape in the long river of the movie, which has nothing to do with records, but with the times.
What is even more incredible is that an investment of 150 million yuan has earned a global box office of 1.29 billion yuan. Chaos Pictures has become one of the six major Hollywood ranks with this work alone. Although Chaos Pictures is still too shallow at present, no one can deny that the film company has shown a stronger competitiveness than DreamWorks. Not only can every work be profitable, but every work can achieve explosive profits. This is the case with every previous work. The "Rampage Road" - although there is no detailed statistics yet - preliminary estimates will bring more than 500 million yuan in profits to Chaos Pictures.
Five hundred million? One work makes 500 million US dollars? This is simply too shocking and immediately attracted a burst of exclamation from all media in North America:
Chapter completed!