Editing The Fifth Element (section)

===Box office===
The film debuted at [[List of 1997 box office number-one films in France|number one in France]], grossing 55 million Francs ($10 million) in its opening week from 527 screens and 1.81 million admissions, setting a record opening for a French film and the second-biggest opening in the country after ''[[Independence Day (1996 film)|Independence Day]]''.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=France Top 15|magazine=[[Screen International]]|date=23 May 1997|page=26}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|title=Element of control|magazine=[[Screen International]]|date=23 May 1997|page=27}}</ref> It remained at number one for seven weeks.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=France Top 15|magazine=[[Screen International]]|date=4 July 1997|page=26}}</ref> It also opened at [[List of 1997 box office number-one films in the United States|number one in the United States]], grossing $17{{spaces}}million on its opening weekend and remained there the following weekend.<ref name=faber/> It was a box-office success, grossing over $263{{spaces}}million, almost three times its budget of $90{{spaces}}million.<ref name=mojo/> About 75% of the receipts for ''The Fifth Element'' were from markets outside the United States,<ref name=mojo/> and it was the ninth-highest-grossing film of the year worldwide.<ref name=mojo/> It was the highest-grossing film at the box office in France,{{sfn|Mazdon|2000|page=110}} from 7.7 million admissions,{{sfn|Hayward|2009|page=91}} <ref name=alice/><ref name=palmer>{{cite book |last=Palmer |first=Tim |title=Brutal Intimacy: Analyzing Contemporary French Cinema |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=neyI_geiqksC&q=%22fifth+element%22&pg=PA116 |year=2011 |publisher=Wesleyan University Press |isbn=978-0-8195-6827-4 |page=116 |access-date=20 October 2020 |archive-date=22 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240322183146/https://books.google.com/books?id=neyI_geiqksC&q=%22fifth+element%22&pg=PA116#v=snippet&q=%22fifth%20element%22&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> a record it held for 16 years until the release of ''The Intouchables'' in 2011.<ref name=intouchable>{{cite web |url=http://www.ozap.com/actu/-intouchables-plus-gros-succes-de-l-histoire-pour-un-film-non-anglophone/440005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006092854/http://www.ozap.com/actu/-intouchables-plus-gros-succes-de-l-histoire-pour-un-film-non-anglophone/440005 |archive-date=6 October 2014 |title='Intouchables': plus gros succès de l'histoire pour un film non-anglophone |trans-title=Untouchable: biggest success in history for a non-English speaking film |language=fr |date=21 March 2012 |work=PureMédias |access-date=30 January 2015}}</ref> In Germany, the film was awarded the [[Goldene Leinwand]], a sales certification award for selling more than three million tickets at the box office.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.goldene-leinwand.de/filme/das-fuenfte-element/?articles%5Bsearchvalue%5D=Element |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141105211353/https://www.goldene-leinwand.de/filme/das-fuenfte-element/?articles%5Bsearchvalue%5D=Element |archive-date=5 November 2014 |title=Das fünfte Element |trans-title =The Fifth Element |work=[[Goldene Leinwand]] |language=de |access-date=30 January 2015}}</ref>