2137. Chapter 2137 2137 A call to the world
"Hugo Lancaster", every time the name is mentioned, people can remember his strong box office appeal in the North American continent, almost every work can write box office miracles, except for the three films "Smell the Fragrance and Know the Woman", "Before Sunrise", and "Death Row Walk", since the Golden Raspberry Award in 1992, each of his works has been able to exceed 100 million at the North American box office, including five works of 200 million - "The Sixth Sense of the Supernatural" is the sixth.
Globally, though, the name is clearly more prevalent, breaking down borders, cultures, and languages, and truly winning recognition from everyone in every corner of the world. For the overseas market, Hollywood releases a large number of new works every year, and it is not easy to make waves in it, and the audience in the North American market has a system of selecting their own works, but in other countries and regions, they rely more on experience - famous directors, famous screenwriters, famous actors. Therefore, for them, the golden sign of "Hugo Lancaster" represents quality assurance.
Since the beginning of "Schindler's List", Hugo's global appeal has been rising, according to statistics, after this work that made Hugo really famous all over the world, Hugo starred in a total of nine works, six of which are higher than the North American box office overseas, and the remaining three works, "Vulgar", "Death Row Walk" and "Truman's World" The overseas box office and the North American box office are basically the same, and the gap is within five million dollars.
This is definitely quite a feat. As we all know, it is definitely not easy for a Hollywood film to achieve an overseas box office explosion, because North America is currently the world's largest film market, while other regions have a high and low acceptance of Hollywood, such as the Japanese market and the British market, Hollywood films have repeatedly been able to create good results here, but their support for local films has never changed - this situation has not changed fundamentally until after the "Titanic".
Under such circumstances, Hugo's works have been able to achieve better results in overseas markets every time - and on the premise that the North American box office is already incredible, from this point of view, Hugo's appeal in overseas markets has even far exceeded that of North America.
As long as it is the work of "Hugo Lancaster", it will go to the cinema unconditionally. This happened to the "supernatural sixth sense" again!
Unlike the cautious and cautious North American market, even the theater release has to be carefully considered, and the overseas market is definitely full of confidence in the "supernatural sixth sense", and many countries and regions have discussed with Disney early on the purchase of distribution rights, hoping to be able to watch this work simultaneously with North America for the first time.
Thanks to Hugo's strong appeal and Disney's distribution system around the world, "The Sixth Sense" was simultaneously released in 16 countries and regions around the world in the first week of August, including the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, France, Argentina, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand and other major markets.
Similar to North America, "The Sixth Sense" has achieved excellent praise in major overseas markets, winning the unanimous approval of critics and audiences, which has undoubtedly started the film's dominance at the box office. The film achieved the feat of reaching the top on the opening weekend in 16 countries and regions, showing an absolutely strong posture from the beginning, and then completed the championship in 16 countries and regions, of which 14 countries and regions have completed three consecutive championships, of which Germany, Italy and Brazil have followed in the footsteps of North America and achieved an incredible six consecutive championships, which can be called phenomenal performance.
In the end, "The Sixth Sense of the Supernatural" was released in 55 countries and regions around the world, and all of them won the championship! What's even more terrifying is that as many as 18 countries and regions around the world have achieved six consecutive championships - including North America, which is undoubtedly the most dominant work so far this year, and even shows a competitive level comparable to "Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace", a situation that no one could have predicted.
In the overseas market, the United Kingdom, Argentina, and Germany have become the largest box office warehouses, with the box office of the three regions exceeding $30 million, of which the United Kingdom has unbelievably handed over $43 million in box office data, which also exceeds the "Truman's World", which is comparable to "Independence Day", laying the pace of this work to the highest point in history.
One of the most incredible is Argentina, the box office results of "The Sixth Sense" are even close to the "Titanic", showing the strong support of Hugo in this land, coupled with the box office data is also approaching 20 million US dollars in Brazil, and Chile, which has crossed the 10 million threshold, it can be seen that the fanaticism of the South American continent has surpassed Europe and has become the continent with the highest degree of support for Hugo outside North America.
Looking back, Maracanã witnessed the pinnacle of glory to death, with more than 700,000 people joining in that New Year's Eve carnival and writing an unsurpassed page in the history of music, so it is not surprising that Hugo was able to win such a high level of support on the South American continent.
The cumulative box office of these three countries and regions alone has reached an incredible 110 million US dollars, almost bursting out with energy comparable to that of North America, which is enough to compete with any top commercial film, which is absolutely impossible to replicate for a horror movie.
Even "The Shining" and "The Exorcist" could not have written such a miracle - of course, the fact that the global film market was not developed in a real sense is also a conjecture that is destined to be unprovable. But it is undeniable that the overseas box office performance of "The Sixth Sense" has indeed created a myth of horror movies - in the next two decades, there are only a handful of North American horror films that have achieved more than 100 million data at the overseas box office.
In addition to the United Kingdom, Argentina and Germany, the performance of "The Sixth Sense" in other overseas countries and regions is not inferior, 29 of which have achieved more than 10 million US dollars at the box office, and the final cumulative box office of nine countries and regions has reached 20 million, even compared to "Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace", "Independence Day", "Titanic" and other history-making works are not inferior.
In fact, the final overseas performance of "The Sixth Sense" broke through the threshold of 500 million and came to 510 million US dollars, which is only behind "Titanic", "Independence Day", "Star Wars Prequel 1: The Phantom Menace", "Jurassic Park", "The Lion King" and other six works in the long history of film, ranking seventh in film history, which is also the only seven works with an overseas box office of more than 500 million in the long history.
Prior to this work, Hugo's most outstanding overseas box office performance was "L.A. Confidential" - except for "Independence Day", "L.A. Confidential" grossed $350 million overseas, which was extremely good, but it was not enough to be among the top in the entire history. Now, "The Sixth Sense" has filled this gap, ranking among the top 10 in film history with an overseas box office of $510 million, truly proving Hugo's unparalleled appeal around the world.
More importantly, the overseas box office of "The Sixth Sense" has entered the threshold of 500 million, and the overseas box office of "L.A. Confidential", "Truman's World", "Schindler's List", and "Speed of Life and Death" have all reached more than 300 million US dollars, but except for the anti-heaven performance of "Independence Day", no work has been able to make further breakthroughs. Now, the overseas box office of "The Sixth Sense of the Supernatural" has risen by two steps, not only breaking through 400 million, but also reaching 500 million, completely detonating Hugo's global appeal.
The $500 million overseas box office once again continues the incredible miracle in North America, proving that the film's success in North America is not a "myth", but a trace, and the overseas market has given a similar response to the excellent North American box office, and all signs show that the work has won the love and support of everyone around the world.
From North America to overseas, "The Sixth Sense" continued its history-making pace, with a total global box office of $890 million, unfortunately not able to break the threshold of $900 million, but this is undoubtedly history-making for a horror movie with an investment of only $60 million.
Among all Hugo's works, there are five films that have exceeded $500 million at the global box office, which is absolutely unique in the world, even Harrison Ford, who has won the "Star Wars" series and the "Raiders of the Lost Ark" series. What's more, after "Independence Day" exceeded $1.2 billion, Hugo has now achieved another $890 million work, which can definitely be called the first person in film history!
Hugo's global appeal is truly unique.
The outstanding performance of "The Sixth Sense" last year was enough to win the year-end North American and global box office champions - and last year's feat was achieved by "Truman's World", coupled with the "Independence Day", "Titanic", and "Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace", which had previously detonated the entire blockbuster era, this situation completely pushed the prosperity of the entire film market to the peak.
At the historic moment of the 21st century, the film market has also entered a historical rhythm, and among them, "Hugo Lancaster" is an important figure who drives the entire history forward. Perhaps, twenty or a century from now, when people talk about the prosperity of the nineties, they will say, "It was a giant that moved history forward."