Chapter 1900： Miracles don't stop

Breaking through 200 million is a miracle, but for the "L.A. Confidential", it is obvious that the pace of miracles has not stopped. After crossing the 200 million threshold without any suspense, the "L.A. Confidential" relies on the powerful Word of mouth and audience enthusiasm continued to advance in the North American market. After nearly eight months after the majestic release, the final cumulative box office fell at 260 million.

This makes "L.A. Confidential" successfully surpassed "Schindler's List" and "Speed ​​of Life and Death", becoming the second-highest work of Hugo's personal box office-just behind "Independence Day"; and in the film history box office list On top of that, it was successfully ranked in the top ten, and it happened to be in the tenth place. The outstanding performance has caused countless media to lose all the words, and only need to throw the "10th in the history of film, 260 million US dollars". Box office data is enough to shock the audience.

In this movie history box office list, "Independence Day", "Star Wars", "Alien e.t", "Jurassic Park", "Forrest Gump", "Lion King", "Planet" War 3: Revenge of the Samurai (return.of.the., "Indiana Jones", "Home Alone" and "L.A. Confidential", as many as seven works are fantasy and science fiction, with only three exceptions , Respectively are "Home Alone", "Forrest Gump" and "L.A. Secret".

"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. The atmosphere of family joy is a strong box office call. force. Therefore, the only real interloper is "L.A. Confidential".

As a fictional film with a horror and suspense theme, "L.A. Confidential" made up the last gap in the North American market: it was the first strictly fictional film since "Forrest Gump", and it ranked 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 movies have become the most important part of North American film history genres, and there are countless classics that have been born. Although the audience is relatively narrow, they are enduring. , Has always had a large number of loyal audiences.

But unfortunately, the thriller and suspense movies in history have not been able to really hit the world. Among all the works of horror, horror, and suspense, the truly epoch-making significance is the "Ghost Chaser" produced in 1984. This movie is in Sweeping the box office of 234 million US dollars that year completely changed the historical status of thriller and suspense movies. But it is a pity that "Ghost Chaser" is more often regarded as a comedy movie of fantasy adventure. The element of fear is only one of the gimmicks, so it still has not been able to open the situation.

Among the top 20 box office in film history, there is not a single seat in the real suspense movie. This is undoubtedly a huge regret for the North American film market.

Once the "seven deadly sins" were high hopes, but unfortunately, the last moment was a step away; now, "L.A. Confidential" has finally completed this feat. Although the movie is more suspenseful and plot than horror and horror, it is still It fills the gap in genre films, and even the film is one step closer to becoming one of the top ten in movie history, making the dominance of fantasy and sci-fi movies truly subverted.

This is a sensation for the entire film industry.

What's more, as a feature film, "L.A. Confidential" also joined forces with "Forrest Gump", once again proving that truly outstanding 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 completely changed Hollywood to drama art movies, and the importance of screenwriting reached a new high once again.

Two hundred and sixty million U.S. dollars, this is not only the result of breaking the 200 million box office, it is not only the outstanding work of the tenth place in film history, but also the driving force for "L.A. Confidential" to change the course of film history. Hugo once again wrote the road to miracles with an unexpected attitude.

From "Independence Day" in 1996 to "L.A. Confidential" in 1997, Hugo's pace in exploring the context of the film market has become faster, deeper and wider.

After "L.A. 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 film set in the 1950s in Los Angeles, the intricate story, the whispering narrative, and the lifelike characters, placed in any corner of the world, are all stories that can make people feel empathy-and compared to "vulgar" "Fiction", "L.A. Confidential" reveals the black inside story behind Hollywood, and it has also triggered a movie-watching frenzy among audiences all over the world.

"L.A. Confidential" was screened in 45 countries and regions overseas, and the best performance was no different from the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom was full of praise for the many dark humours in "L.A. Confidential", and for the meticulous film The script setting and the rigorous role setting were even more controversial. They definitely raised their hands and feet to agree with such a work. In the end, the film broke out with a box office of 57 million US dollars in the British Isles. "Seven Deadly Sins" achieved results in the UK market that year, and temporarily became the UK's annual box office champion.

In addition to the United Kingdom, the performance of movies in Japan, France and Italy is also very good, especially Japan. The largest film market in Asia has been completely crazy for Hugo-just like they are crazy for Tom Cruise. , "L.A. Confidential" won a strong box office of 53 million U.S. dollars here, becoming the only market in the world with a final box office of over 50 million, except for the United Kingdom and the United States. The performance was shocking and even made Warner Bros. All were stunned.

The box office of France and Italy both exceeded US$40 million, and both exceeded US$45 million, easily surpassing the previous box office data of the "seven deadly sins" here, and set off a frenzy of watching movies.

Only these four overseas markets have jointly contributed 207 million US dollars in the box office. This not only means that the overseas box office of "L.A. Confidential" exceeds the North American box office is already a certainty, but also means that the movie's overseas box office The box office will hopefully break through the 300 million threshold and become the third Hugo movie to reach such a high overseas box office after "Schindler's List" and "Independence Day".

"L.A. Confidential" did not disappoint Warner Bros. and the expectant audience.

Germany is one of the rare regions in the global box office market that is below the "seven deadly sins" performance. "L.A. Confidential" won the box office of 38 million US dollars here-still an absolutely outstanding result, temporarily ranking top in Germany The annual box office ranking champion position, but this data does not exceed the "seven deadly sins." It can be seen that Germany, a cold and serious country, prefers the cold and humid New York to the sunny Los Angeles-of course it is just fun.

Nevertheless, it includes Germany, Australia, Brazil, Argentina, Spain, Sweden, and China. country. delicious. The box office of seven countries and regions, including Hong Kong, exceeded 10 million U.S. dollars, and the box office of Australia and Brazil both exceeded 20 million. The outstanding performance has caused good news from all over the world and fully exceeded the "seven deadly sins." At the same time, it also made Warner Bros. smile.

In the end, "L.A. Confidential" easily crossed the 300 million threshold in 45 markets around the world, and it swept the box office of 350 million U.S. dollars, surpassing "Schindler's list", and became Hugo's personal overseas box office second. Gao's work completely refreshed Hugo's personal box office record.

In the North American market plus overseas markets, "L.A. Confidential" has stolen the box office of 610 million U.S. dollars. Even Warner Bros. can't expect this box office data. This work with an investment of only 40 million U.S. dollars There is no doubt that a mythical story has been created again, even more impressive than the original stories of "Life and Death" and "Pulp Fiction". It makes everyone once again witness the birth of this miraculous land in Hollywood. Can bring a steady stream of surprises.

Even more frightening is that "L.A. Confidential" relied on its strong box office performance to be on the top of the 1997 annual box office ranking list, unexpectedly surpassing a number of summer hot works, and temporarily above the North American annual box office list. High in the championship-defeated "Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World", "Men in Black", "Big Talker", "Air Force One" and other wonderful works; and only on the global annual box office list Temporarily lagging behind "Jurassic Park 2: The Lost WorldHighland is hanging in the runner-up position.

When this temporary list came out, almost the entire United States was in an uproar.

Summer movies failed to win the year-end box office championship. This is not news. Many works released during the holiday season can often explode with more box office energy; but the problem is that the fall movies temporarily hold the year-end championship in their hands, which is simply shocking. , The turmoil of the world turmoil, the most neglected, most underestimated, and most excluded schedule of the year, but the Jedi counterattack has been realized. This is simply... a big rebellion!

And it’s hard to imagine that it was a thriller and suspense story that created this achievement? The world seems to be no longer what people are familiar with. "L.A. Confidential" relied on its own efforts to add fire to the reform of the North American film market, burning up, and completely changing the rules of the entire industry.

All of this was placed two years ago, and it was almost impossible to happen, even if he didn't even dare to imagine it. Even if the "seven deadly sins" turned out to change some situations, it is still difficult for people to imagine such a situation: It seems that before the birth of the airplane, no one could imagine that a person could fly in the air. But now, the "L.A. Confidential" has just appeared, and it has reopened history with the strongest performance in an undisputed posture!