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Looking at the North American box office charts in 2005, the most eye-catching of the top ten are undoubtedly Wedding Crashers, Sin City and Batman Begins: Beginnings of the Batman Begins. With their unique charm, they became the biggest winners on the list.

Objectively speaking, The Mystery of Shadows lost money. With an investment of 150 million yuan, it achieved a box office of 206 million in North America and 374 million in the world. The loss of Warner Bros. has reached at least three Ten million, or even more. However, The Mystery of Shadow has achieved a big win in terms of word of mouth, and the praise of film critics and audiences has revitalized the Batman series of movies, which also means that the next sequel movie of Warner Bros. At the same time, the video rental market will also win more returns and reduce losses.

In addition to these three works, Fruit Candy has won attention in an alternative way. This small-budget work, which only cost 900,000 US dollars, has a North American box office of 58 million. Only ranked forty-three in the world, it seems not worth mentioning at all. But the point is that this work has achieved more than 50 times the profit, which is also the highest box office in North America in the whole year. It is enough to make any film company rejoice if it can achieve five times the profit, but Hard Candy But he won a full fifty times. Such an excellent result has already made all languages ​​lose their color.

What's even more frightening is that, if including overseas box office, the global box office of Hard Fruit Candy reached 113 million, and finally made a profit of more than 50 million.

Fifty million, an independent work with an investment of less than one million, but it brought Chaos Pictures a profit of fifty million U.S. dollars? It's just... too crazy to be conceived by the boldest dreamer, not even by the magic fairy tale of Las Vegas get-rich-quick.

From Sin City to Hard Candy, relying on only two works, Chaos Pictures' profit report in 2005 reached 180 million - pre-tax income. It is worth noting that this data does not include the results of the video tape rental market, because the distribution department of Chaos Pictures has just started, and their video tape rental business has not yet fully developed. After the relevant business is launched, I believe that the profit data will be further improved rise. But even so, this achievement is enough to make the six major film companies feel ashamed.

In Hollywood's year-end report, the six major film companies are naturally still the best, but Chaos Pictures has already taken an absolute advantage in the competition of medium-sized film companies, and the speed of its rise is staggering. What's more, people should not forget the achievements of Chaos Films in the global box office list.

In the face of Hollywood's sluggish performance in 2005, the global box office has not been able to make a breakthrough. The global box office of no work has exceeded the one billion threshold throughout the year, and even 900 million has not been touched. Harry Potter and Goblet of Fire is proud of the crowd with a score of 896 million, and Star Wars Episode 3 is ranked second with a score of 848 million. More than 800 million.

Behind these two works, The Chronicles of Narnia occupies the third place on the list with 745 million. After that, the global box office of all works is less than 600 million. The results are indeed hard to be exciting.

War of the Worlds, King Kong, Madagascar, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sin City, The Mystery of Shadow, and The Rival of All People followed closely, occupying the year-end global box office rankings respectively There are seven spots left in the top ten.

It can be seen that there are no earth-shaking changes in the global box office list and North America. The Rival of All People replaced Wedding Crashers and entered the top ten. The jump of Madagascar is a big surprise, but the overall downturn is still the same. , except for Sin City, other works have encountered varying degrees of problems in terms of profitability.

This also highlights the incredible achievements of Sin City and Hard Candy. Interested people in the industry can easily find that the overseas box office of these two works has surpassed the North American box office. Although the American color of the two works is not so strong, they are different from works with typical American culture like Wedding Crashers. This is an important reason; but it is undeniable that the name Lancelot-Strello is gradually forming a brand with a strong influence on a global scale.

Why? Because among the five works that Lance has released so far, except for Murder with a Borrowing Knife, the overseas box office of the other four works has exceeded the North American box office. This is definitely not a coincidence.

As a director of the new generation, Lance's accurate grasp of social malpractices, the core of evil, and grassroots characters showed the audience more dark sides without losing the fun of the movie itself, even the heaviest and most serious. The audience's emotions are always affected by the camera, which really allows the audience to follow the director's camera into a whimsical world. This is undoubtedly an important reason why Lance has achieved great success all over the world.

This also makes Lance, who is far away in Africa, always the object of people's attention. Now Mad Max 4 is obviously unable to catch up with the Berlin Film Festival, but the Cannes Film Festival is still making every effort to invite Lance to attend the 2006 film festival. The Cannes Film Festival, and there are even rumors that they invited Mad Max 4 as the opening work of the film festival-if it happens, then Lance will create a record in film history and become the first one for the three major European film festivals. The unveiled director under the age of 40 has reached such a height at such a young age, which is really eye-catching.

Undoubtedly, when the curtain came to an end in 2005, Chaos Films became the biggest winner. The works that the six major film companies placed high hopes on all encountered Waterloo to varying degrees, even Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Stars. Pre-Battle 3 also seemed disheartened, and the results were unsatisfactory. Such an ending is definitely not expected by everyone at the beginning of 2005, so what about 2006? And who can say for sure!

However, the six major film companies did not get nothing. In addition to the comedy films led by Wedding Crashers, the comic films led by The Mystery of Shadows also achieved gratifying results again.

Works such as Mystery of Shadows, Fantastic Four, Constantine and City of Sin have tested the water respectively, and the results have been mixed. Naturally, Sin City and Mystery of Shadows needless to say Well, the $100 million investment in Constantine failed to yield a return. Warner Bros. suffered a severe setback with its box office results of $75 million in North America and 230 million worldwide.

And Fantastic Four can be called the biggest surprise of the year. With the same cost budget of 100 million US dollars, it has harvested 330 million box office worldwide. From the perspective of profitability, 20th Century Fox has only harvested The profit of less than 20 million is not worth celebrating, but this work, like Mystery of Heroes, has won the audience's enthusiastic pursuit. The excellent reputation not only makes the film return in the video tape rental market, but also Jessica Alba is popular!

From the perspective of an artist, Lance is a well-deserved absolute celebrity this year, but he has set off a storm of surprises last year, and this year's success does not seem to be unexpected; The success of the two works of The City and Fantastic Four made her a sample of the perfect goddess overnight, and the inexplicable emotional history between her and Lance added a touch of confusing mystery The color has successfully captured the hearts of countless fans for her. This angel with a hot figure and a sweet face is definitely the biggest discovery in 2005.

Where Johnny Depp's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was a hit but not a hit, Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds fell far short of expectations Under the circumstances, in the case of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's marriage / extravagance / affair ruined the romantic dream, the heroines in Star Wars Episode 3, King Kong and other works have not been able to communicate. In the case of an eye-catching performance... the rising Jessica quickly became people's new favorite, and her rising speed even surpassed Lance, truly composing a Hollywood Myth.

However, from this point of view, even Jessica's popularity is directly related to Chaos Films, and even comic-adapted movies have been seized by Chaos Films. The combination of DC Comics and Marvel Comics has not been able to stop it. Dark Horse Comics shines in the hands of Chaos Pictures. This aspect also proves the unique position of Chaos Films in Hollywood today.

This is also an important reason why Mad Max 4 has attracted so much firepower. Will this work lead Chaos Films one step closer, or will it hit the pace of Chaos Films' rise hard? Not only the six major film companies, but the whole of Hollywood is paying close attention. Some want to suppress, some want to follow suit, and some stand by, but no matter what the stance, the focus on Chaos Films continues unabated, and with the pre-Mad Max campaign The vigorous and continuous heating up, this situation seems to be unstoppable at all.

If we say that 2005 delivered excellent results in terms of box office and popularity, people have more expectations for Mad Max 4; People's blood spurts—the discussion on the Internet about cars, characters, and plots is very appropriate, and it gives people a new understanding of Lance's director skills. In a trance, Lance has become a representative figure of the most talented director in the minds of contemporary young people, just like... just like Stanley Kubrick.

Stanley Kubrick? Unconsciously, Lance has reached such heights, which is the most staggering and frightening fact-yes, this is the fact that is happening!