Breaking through 200 million, this is a miracle, but for "Los Angeles Confidential", it is obvious that the pace of creating a miracle is far from stopping, and after crossing the threshold of 200 million without suspense, "Los Angeles Confidential" relied on a strong reputation and the enthusiasm of the audience, and continued to soar in the North American market, and after nearly eight months of vigorous release, the final cumulative box office fell at 260 million.

This allowed "L.A. Confidential" to surpass "Schindler's List" and "Speed of Life" and become Hugo's second-highest grossing work - just behind "Independence Day"; And on the box office list of film history, it successfully ranked among the top ten, just hanging in the tenth position, and the outstanding performance has made countless media lose all words, just throwing out the box office data of "tenth place in film history, 260 million US dollars", which is enough to shock the audience.

In this box office list of film history, "Independence Day", "Star Wars", "Alien E. T", "Jurassic Park", "Forrest Gump", "The Lion King", "Star Wars III: Revenge of the Warrior (Return. Of。 The。 Jedi), Raiders of the Lost Ark, Home Alone, and L.A. Confidential, as many as seven titles are all fantasy and sci-fi genres, with the exception of only three works, namely "Home Alone", "Forrest Gump" and "L.A. Confidential".

"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, and the atmosphere of family fun has a strong box office appeal. So, the only real intruder is "L.A. Confidential".

As a thriller and suspense drama film, "L.A. Confidential" fills the last gap in the North American market: it is the first strictly sense of the drama film since "Forrest Gump" to rank among the top ten box office in film history; At the same time, it has also become an absolute masterpiece of thriller and suspense films, filling the gap that suspense movies have never really occupied a place in the box office market, creating history.

Since the advent of Alfred Hitchcock, thriller and suspense films have become the most important part of the genre in North American film history, and countless classics have been born, although the audience is relatively narrow, but it has endured and has always had a large number of loyal audiences.

But unfortunately, historical thriller and suspense movies have never been able to really play a piece of the country, among all the thriller, horror, suspense works, the real epoch-making is the 1984 production of "Ghost Chasing Squad", this film swept the box office of 234 million US dollars that year, completely changed the historical status of thriller and suspense films. But it's a pity that "Ghost Chase Death Squad" is more often considered a fantasy adventure comedy movie, and the fear element is just one of the gimmicks, so it still hasn't been able to open up the situation.

Among the top 20 box office in film history, there is no real suspense movie at all. This is undoubtedly a huge regret for the North American film market.

Once the "Seven Deadly Sins" were pinned on high hopes, but unfortunately the last moment was one step behind; Now, "L.A. Confidential" has finally completed this feat, although the movie is more suspenseful and plot than thriller and horror, but it still fills the gap of genre films, and even the movie is one step closer, ranking among the top ten in film history, so that the pattern of fantasy and science fiction movies dominating the world is truly subverted.

This is a sensation for the entire film industry.

What's more, as a drama film, "Los Angeles Confidential" also teamed up with "Forrest Gump", which once again proved that a truly excellent art film can still attract enough box office. In particular, "L.A. Confidential" can be said to be a perfect textbook for drama films, which has completely changed the entire Hollywood to drama art films, and the importance of screenwriting has once again reached a new high.

260 million US dollars, this is not only a result of breaking the box office of 200 million, nor is it not only an outstanding work that ranks tenth in film history, but also the driving force that made "L.A. Confidential" change the course of film history. Hugo once again wrote the road of miracles with a surprise attitude.

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

After achieving incredible box office results in North America, "L.A. Confidential" came to overseas markets and still won the hearts of audiences. Although this is a film set in Los Angeles in the fifties, the intricate story, the uncoherent narrative, and the lifelike characters are all stories that people can empathize with in any corner of the world - and more than "vulgar", "L.A. Confidential" reveals the black inside story behind Hollywood, and it has sparked a movie-watching frenzy for audiences around the world.

"L.A. Confidential" was screened in 45 countries and regions overseas, among which the most outstanding performance was tantamount to the United Kingdom, which was full of praise for many black humors in "L.A. Confidential", and for the film's meticulous script setting and rigorous character setting, they absolutely raised their hands and feet to approve of such a work, and finally the film exploded at the box office of $57 million in the British Isles, not only the "Seven Deadly Sins" achieved in the British market that year, And it has also temporarily become the annual box office champion in the United Kingdom.

In addition to the United Kingdom, the film performance in Japan, France and Italy is also very good, especially Japan, the largest film market in Asia has been completely crazy for Hugo - just as they are crazy for Tom Cruise, "L.A. Confidential" here won 53 million US dollars, becoming the only market in the world outside the United Kingdom and the United States to finally exceed 50 million at the box office, and the performance was so terrifying that even Warner Bros. was stunned.

The box office in France and Italy both exceeded $40 million, and both exceeded 45 million, easily surpassing the previous box office data of the "Seven Deadly Sins" here, setting off a movie-watching frenzy.

These four overseas markets alone have jointly contributed $200.7 million to the box office, which not only means that the overseas box office of "Los Angeles Confidential" has surpassed the North American box office, but also means that the overseas box office of the film will hopefully break through the 300 million threshold, becoming the third work among Hugo's solo film works to reach such a high overseas box office after "Schindler's List" and "Independence Day".

"L.A. Confidential" didn't disappoint Warner Bros. and the expectant audience either.

Germany is one of the few places in the global box office market that falls below the "Seven Deadly Sins", where "L.A. Confidential" grossed $38 million – still an absolutely outstanding result, temporarily topping the annual box office charts in Germany, but this figure did not surpass the "Seven Deadly Sins". It can be seen that Germany, a grim and serious country, prefers cold and damp New York to sunny Los Angeles - just a joke, of course.

Nevertheless, including Germany, Australia, Brazil, Argentina, Spain, Sweden, China. Country. Fragrant. The box office of seven countries and regions, including Hong Kong, has exceeded 10 million US dollars, and the box office of Australia and Brazil has exceeded 20 million yuan one after another.

In the end, "L.A. Confidential" easily crossed the 300 million threshold in 45 markets around the world, and swept the box office of 350 million US dollars, surpassing "Schindler's List" and becoming Hugo's second highest-grossing overseas box office work, comprehensively refreshing Hugo's personal box office record.

In the North American market plus overseas markets, "L.A. Confidential" actually appallingly grabbed $610 million at the box office, a box office figure that even Warner Bros. himself did not dare to expect, this work with an investment of only $40 million undoubtedly created a mythical story again, even better than the original "speed of life and death", "vulgar" with a small and broad story is not inferior, so that everyone once again witnessed the birth of Hollywood, the land of miracles, can always bring a steady stream of surprises.

What's even more terrifying is that "L.A. Confidential" relied on strong box office results, and on the list of the 1997 annual box office list, it actually surpassed a number of popular summer works, and temporarily topped the annual box office list in North America - defeating "Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World", "Men in Black", "King of Words", "Air Force One" and other wonderful masterpieces; And on the global annual box office list, it is only temporarily behind "Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World", and hangs high in the runner-up position.

When this provisional list came out, almost the whole of the United States was in an uproar.

It's not news that summer movies haven't been able to win the year-end box office championship, and many works released during the holidays can often burst out with more box office energy; But the problem is that the autumn movie actually temporarily holds the year-end championship in his hands, which is simply a shocking and chaotic commotion in the world, and the most neglected, underestimated, and excluded schedule of the whole year has achieved a Jedi counterattack, which is simply ...... Great Rebellion!

And it's hard to imagine that it is a thriller and suspense drama movie that has created this achievement? The world no longer seems to be what people are familiar with, and "L.A. Confidential" has single-handedly added another fire to the reform of the North American film market, blazing brightly, and completely changing the rules of the entire industry.

Two years ago, it was almost impossible to happen, and even if the "Seven Deadly Sins" came out of nowhere to change some of the circumstances, it was still hard for people to imagine such a situation: as if no one could have imagined that people could fly in the air before the birth of airplanes. But now, "L.A. Confidential" has appeared like this, and in this way, history has been reopened with the strongest performance in an indisputable manner!