Globalization of the Hollywood Audience
|
Film
|
Domestic Box
Office |
Foreign Box
Office |
Total Box
Office |
Cost of
Production |
| Titanic | $600,788,188 (32.6%) |
$1,244,246,000 (67.4%) |
$1,845,034,188 | $200,000,000 |
| Hitch | $179,495,555 (48.8%) |
$188,604,865 (51.2%) |
$368,100,420 | $70,000,000 |
| Big Momma's House 2 | $70,165,972 (50.9%) |
$67,727,158 (49.1%) |
$137,893,130 | $40,000,000 |
| Blade: Trinity | $52,411,906 (40.7%) |
$76,493,460 (59.3%) |
$128,905,366 | $65,000,000 |
| The Island | $35,818,913 (22.3%) |
$124,466,160 ( 77.7%) |
$160,285,073 | $126,000,000 |
| Kingdom of Heaven | $47,398,413 (22.4%) |
$164,244,745 (77.6%) |
$211,643,158 | $130,000,000 |
| Troy | $133,378,256 ( 26.8%) |
$364,031,596 (73.2%) |
$497,409,852 | $175,000,000 |
| Alexander | $34,297,191 (20.5%) |
$133,001,001 (79.5%) |
$167,298,192 | $155,000,000 |
| Braveheart | $75,609,945 (35.9%) |
$134,800,000 (64.1%) |
$210,409,945 | $72,000,000 |
| The Alamo | $22,414,961 ( 86.8%) |
$3,405,000 ( 13.2%) |
$25,819,961 | $107,000,000 |
| Fever Pitch | $42,071,069 (83.4%) | $8,380,238 (16.6%) | $50,451,307 | $30,000,000 |
| Brokeback Mountain | $83,043,761 (46.6%) |
$95,000,000 (53.4%) |
$178,043,761 | $14,000,000 |
Source: Boxofficemojo.com
Factors for Hollywood Increase Overseas
Globalization of Production
Runaway productions - films and TV shows that for economic reasons are shot wholly or almost wholly outside the U.S.
Reasons for runaway productions:
Examples:
Kill Bill Vol. 1 - Beijing
Kill Bill Vol. 2 - Mexico
X-Files - Canada for seasons 1-5 (of 9)
Influence of Global Film on Hollywood
Why are foreign films not as popular in the US?
|
Film
|
Domestic Box
Office |
Foreign Box
Office |
Total Box
Office |
Cost of
Production |
| Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Taiwan) |
$128,078,872 (60.0%) |
$85,446,864 (40.0%) | $213,525,736 | $17,000,000 |
| Life is Beautiful (Italy) |
$57,563,264 ( 25.1%) |
$171,600,000 ( 74.9%) |
$229,163,264 |
n/a
|
| Hero (China) |
$53,710,019 (30.3%) |
$123,684,413 ( 69.7%) |
$177,394,432 | 31,000,000 |
| Amelie (France) |
$33,225,499 (19.1%) |
$140,696,455 (80.9%) |
$173,921,954 | $10,000,000 |
Source: Boxofficemojo.com
Major International Cinema Influences
Spaghetti Westerns is a nickname for a broad sub-genre of Western film that emerged in the mid-1960s, so named because most of them were produced by Italian studios.
Bollywood is the informal name given to the popular Mumbai-based Hindi language film industry in India. The name is a conflation of Bombay, the old name of Mumbai, and Hollywood, the center of the United States film industry.
Hong Kong action cinema combines elements from the action movie, as codified by Hollywood, with Chinese storytelling and aesthetic traditions, to create a culturally distinctive form that nevertheless has a wide transcultural appeal.