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Bohemian Rhapsody | Production Budget: $52 million |Release Date: November 2, 2018
A mid-level budget drama earns $673.4 million from overseas boxoffice. That is unprecedented for that kind of film. Glancing through the list is all fantasies and mostly movies with massive budgets.
Before Bohemian Rhapsody it seemed the best way to earn massive overseas box office revenue with a production budget under $100 million was with an animated film aimed at children.
Overseas Revenue
$2,027.50 Avatar 2009^
$1,528.10 Titanic 1997^
$1,369.50 Avengers: Infinity War 2018
$1,163.00 Furious 7 2015
$1,131.60 Star Wars: The Force Awakens 2015
$1,019.40 Jurassic World 2015
$1,010.00 The Fate of the Furious 2017
$960.50 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 2011^
$946.40 Avengers: Age of Ultron 2015
$895.50 Marvel's The Avengers 2012
$891.80 Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom 2018
$875.70 Frozen 2013
$867.60 Wolf Warrior 2 2017 ----------- Chinese (production budget $30.1 million)
Looking at that list of box office numbers, meaning the number of people who actually paid money to watch those movies, I can't help but come to the conclusion that George Carlin was right:
Choose a proper celebrity for a biopic and you will get similar box office numbers
That is my point. The musical biopic is usually considered a niche product and production budgets are never very big. Edith Piaf's biography made $76 million overseas, and it was almost entirely in French. Johnny Cash made $76 million, and Ray Charles' film made $67 million.
Freddie Mercury's biopic didn't just edge out the competition, it blew it to smithereens.
Overseas Box office Revenue
$673,359,446 Bohemian Rhapsody (Freddie Mercury)
$75,973,087 La Vie en Rose (Edith Piaf) 88% of total revenue was foreign
$66,919,481 Walk the Line (Johnny Cash)
$49,399,934 Ray (Ray Charles)
$40,437,206 Straight Outta Compton ( Eazy-E, Ice Cube, and Dr. Dre.)
$20,622,000 Jersey Boys ( The Four Seasons. Frankie Valli and Bob Gaudio)
$7,528,069 Notorious (2009) ("The Notorious B.I.G.")
$6,612,836 The Soloist (Nathaniel Ayers)
$5,155,318 De-Lovely (Cole Porter)
$2,745,871 Get On Up (James Brown)
Look at that list again. There are WAY worse movies in the Top 20 than CAPTAIN MARVEL.
Repeating the list and including the % of total revenue that was from overseas.
Overseas and %Overseas Revenue
$2,027.5 72.7% Avatar 2009^
$1,528.1 69.9% Titanic 1997^
$1,369.5 66.9% Avengers: Infinity War 2018
$1,163.0 76.7% Furious 7 2015
$1,131.6 54.7% Star Wars: The Force Awakens 2015
$1,019.4 61.0% Jurassic World 2015
$1,010.0 81.7% The Fate of the Furious 2017
$960.5 71.6% Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 2011^
$946.4 67.3% Avengers: Age of Ultron 2015
$895.5 59.0% Marvel's The Avengers 2012
$891.8 68.1% Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom 2018
$875.7 68.6% Frozen 2013
$867.6 99.7% Wolf Warrior 2 2017
$858.6 77.8% Transformers: Age of Extinction 2014
$823.4 71.0% Minions 2015
$812.1 70.8% Aquaman 2018
$805.8 66.3% Iron Man 3 2013
$804.6 76.9% Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides 2011
$804.2 72.5% Skyfall 2012
$771.4 68.6% Transformers: Dark of the Moon 2011
$770.2 74.4% Despicable Me 3 2017
$759.5 60.1% Beauty and the Beast (2017) 2017
$745.2 64.6% Captain America: Civil War 2016
$742.1 66.3% The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003^
$718.1 70.3% The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 2012
$715.9 81.6% Ice Age: Continental Drift 2012
$712.4 53.5% Star Wars: The Last Jedi 2017
$700.9 73.3% The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies 2014
$700.0 73.0% The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 2013
$691.5 99.2% The Wandering Earth 2019
$691.3 67.4% Alice in Wonderland (2010) 2010
$690.1 77.8% Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs 2009
$682.5 66.7% Zootopia 2016
$680.6 77.3% Spectre 2015
$673.4 75.7% Bohemian Rhapsody 2018
I don't understand the reference to Captain Marvel since that movie is not even on the original list. It is true that the percentage of box office revenue for a Marvel Cinematic Universe film from overseas market is going up since the original Iron Man in 2008, but that is true for almost every cinematic franchise. The overseas cinema market (particularly China) is growing at exponential rates, and many people don't speak perfect English.
Look at that list again. There are WAY worse movies in the Top 20 than CAPTAIN MARVEL.
I don't watch the Transformers or Disney animations so I can't/won't comment on those.
Furious 7 isn't "way worse" than Captain Marvel, either.
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Choose a proper celebrity
