Thanks to “John Wick 4”! The FSK-18 franchise hits a huge milestone at the box office

It’s official since this weekend: The “John Wickfranchise has shot into the illustrious circle of multi-billion dollar box office franchises – and not least thanks to the excellent performance of “John Wick 4”, which managed to wash over $ 427.5 million at the international box office.

This is something special for FSK 18 action series, as they usually appeal to a niche genre audience and rarely become major blockbusters. But the brutal Keanu Reeves gun fu actioner is different, as here the series evolved from an insider tip from a connoisseur, which almost didn’t make it to the cinema, but was only intended for home theater evaluation, to a real box office A giant that effortlessly outperforms the competition despite the FSK 18 quality mark.

Here are the bare numbers: while “John Wick” could still be considered a genre tip with a worldwide gross of $86 million, “John Wick: Chapter 2” already doubled this result and managed to gross $171.5 million. take at checkout. The result of “John Wick: Chapter 3” (almost $ 328 million) and, as already described above, the box office success of “John Wick: Chapter 4” were again surpassed.

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Incidentally, the series about the dog-loving pistolero is also a great success in Germany: “John Wick: Kapitel 4”, which can still be seen in cinemas, is currently in second place in the German box office annual figures. More than 1.676 million tickets have already been bought in Germany for the latest part of the trigger-happy action series. Only “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” has been more successful in this country so far.

Even if the story of the ex-privateer with a heart is (probably) over after the last franchise entry, fans of the series can look forward to “John Wick” style entertainment in the future. The spinoff”ballerina” of Ana de Armas is scheduled to hit US theaters on June 7, 2024. Fans of the series can also look forward to a reunion with John Wick, played by action icon Keanu Reeves.

In addition, the seriesThe Continental: From the World of John Wickon Amazon Prime Video. It tells how the hotel of the same name came about. The series also has a well-known cast with Mel Gibson and Colin Woodell as the young version of hotelier Winston. There’s already a first trailer for the three-part prequel series, which you can watch here: