Looking at the North American box office list in 2005, the most notable of the top 10 are undoubtedly "Wedding Proud", "Sin City" and "Batman Prequel: Mystery of the Heroes", which showed their unique charm and became the biggest winners on the list. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Objectively speaking, "The Mystery of the Heroes" lost money, with an investment of 150 million, it achieved a box office of 200 million and 600 million in North America and 374 million worldwide, and Warner Bros. lost at least 30 million or more. However, "The Mystery of the Movie" has achieved a big victory in word-of-mouth, and the praise of critics and audiences has revitalized the Batman series of movies, which also means that Warner Bros.'s next sequel film will be turned around, and the video rental market will also win more returns and reduce losses.

In addition to these three works, "Hard Fruit Candy" has gained attention in an offbeat way, with a small budget of only $900,000 and a North American box office of 58 million, ranking only 43rd on the year-end list, which seems to be 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 for the whole year, and to be able to make five times the profit is enough to make any film company happy, but "Fruit Hard Candy" has won 50 times, such a good result has made all languages lose their color.

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

50 million, an independent work with an investment of less than 1 million, but brought 50 million dollars in profits to Chaos Pictures? It's simply ...... It's so crazy that even the most daring dreamers wouldn't dare to conceive it, not even the magical fairy tale of getting rich overnight in Las Vegas.

From "Sin City" to "Hard Candy," Chaos Pictures relied on just two productions to report a profit of $180 million in 2005 — pre-tax revenue. It is worth noting that this data does not include the results of the videotape rental market, because the distribution department of Chaos Pictures has just started, and their videotape rental business has not yet been fully launched. But even so, this achievement is enough to embarrass the six major film companies.

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

In the face of Hollywood's sluggish performance in 2005, the global box office has not been able to make a breakthrough, and no work has exceeded the one billion threshold at the global box office throughout the year, not even 900 million, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" is proud of 896 million, and "Star Wars Prequel 3" ranks second with 848 million, which is also the only two works to exceed 800 million at the global box office.

Behind these two works, "The Chronicles of Narnia" occupies the third place on the list with 745 million, and after that, all works have grossed less than 600 million worldwide. The results are really hard to be exciting.

"War of the Worlds", "King Kong", "Madagascar", "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", "Sin City", "Mystery of the Shadows" and "Rivals of Love" followed closely behind, occupying the remaining seven positions in the top 10 of the year-end global box office charts.

It can be seen that there have been no earth-shaking changes in the global box office list and North America, "Rivals of Love" has replaced "Wedding Proud" in the top ten, and the rise 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 Fruit Candy. It is not difficult for people in the industry to find that the overseas box office of these two works has exceeded the North American box office, although the "American" color of the two works is not so strong, which is different from works with typical American culture such as "Wedding Aoke", which is an important reason; But it is undeniable that the name "Lancelot-Strello" is gradually forming a brand with a strong presence on a global scale.

Why? Because among the five works that Lance has released so far, except for "Killing with a Knife", the overseas box office of the other four works has exceeded the North American box office. This is definitely no coincidence.

As a new generation of directors, Lance's accurate grasp of social ills, the core of crime, and grassroots characters shows the audience more of the dark side, while not losing the fun of the movie itself. This is undoubtedly an important reason for the great success of Reims worldwide.

Now "Mad Max 4" is obviously unable to catch up with the Berlin Film Festival, but the Cannes Film Festival is still doing everything it can to invite Reims to attend the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, and there are even rumors that they invited "Mad Max 4" to be the unveiling work of the film festival - if it happens, then Reims will set a film history record and become the first director under the age of 40 to open the three major European film festivals, It's amazing to reach such heights at such a young age.

There is no doubt that when the curtain came down in 2005, Chaos Pictures became the biggest winner, and the works that the six major studios had high hopes for all suffered varying degrees of Waterloo, and even "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" and "Star Wars Prequel 3" looked disgraced and unsatisfactory. Such an ending was definitely something that no one expected at the beginning of 2005, but what about 2006? And who can say for sure!

However, the six major film companies are not for nothing, in addition to the comedy movies led by "Wedding Aoke", the comic films led by "The Mystery of the Heroes" have also achieved gratifying results again.

"The Mystery of the Shadows", "The Fantastic Four", "Constantine" and "Sin City" and other works have tested the waters respectively, and the results have been mixed, "Sin City" and "The Mystery of the Heroes" naturally need not be repeated, "Constantine's" investment of 100 million US dollars has not been able to achieve a return, and the box office results of 75 million in North America and 230 million in the world have made Warner Bros. fall hard.

And "Fantastic Four" is the biggest surprise of the year, the same $100 million cost budget, the global box office of 330 million, from the perspective of profitability, Twentieth Century Fox only reaped less than 20 million profits, not worth celebrating, but this work is the same as "The Mystery of the Movie", won the audience's enthusiastic following, excellent reputation not only made the film pay off in the video rental market, but also made Jessica Alba popular!

From an artist's point of view, Lance is the absolute celebrity of this year, but he already set off an amazing storm last year, and this year's success does not seem to be unexpected; But Jessica was born out of thin air and amazed the world, the success of the two works "Sin 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 mystery, successfully captured the hearts of countless fans for her, this angel with a hot body and a sweet face is definitely the biggest discovery in 2005.

In the case of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" starring Johnny Depp but not popular, in the case that Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg's "War of the Worlds" was far from meeting expectations, in the case that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's marriage/affair/affair ruined the romantic dream, and in the case of "Star Wars Prequel 3", "King Kong" and other works The heroines have not been able to hand over eye-catching performances...... The rising Jessica quickly became people's new favorite, rising even faster than Lance, and truly composed a "Hollywood myth".

It's just that, from this point of view, even Jessica's popularity is directly related to Chaos Pictures, and the comic book adaptation movie was actually seized by Chaos Pictures, and DC Comics and Marvel Comics joined forces to prevent Dark Horse Comics from shining in the hands of Chaos Pictures. This aspect also proves more and more the unique position of Chaos Pictures in Hollywood today.

This is also an important reason why "Mad Max 4" has attracted so much firepower, will this work lead Chaos Pictures one step closer, or will it take a heavy blow to the rise of Chaos Pictures? Not just the big six studios, but the whole of Hollywood are watching closely. Some people want to suppress and stop it, some people want to follow suit, and some people stand by and watch, but no matter what the position is, the focus on Chaos Pictures continues unabated, and with the vigorous and continuous heating up of the "Mad Max" pre-publicity campaign, this trend seems to be unstoppable.

If 2005 delivered excellent results at the box office and popularity, people have more expectations for "Mad Max 4"; Then the sudden rise of "Fruit Hard Candy" in the awards season is even more blood-pumping - the discussion between cars, characters, and plots on the Internet is extremely appropriate, and people have a new understanding of Lance's directing skills. In a trance, Lance has become the representative of the most talented director in the minds of contemporary young people, as if ...... It's like Stanley Kubrick.

Stanley Kubrick? Before Lance knew it, he had reached such heights, and that was the most staggering, frightening fact - yes, that's what was happening! (To be continued.) )