Editing Rambo: First Blood Part II (section)

=== Box office ===
''Rambo: First Blood Part II'' opened in the United States on May 22, 1985, in a then-record 2,074 theaters, becoming the first film to be released to over 2,000 theaters in the United States, and was the number one film that weekend, grossing $20.2 million. Overall, the film grossed $150.4 million in the US and Canada, and $150 million internationally, for a worldwide total of $300.4 million.<ref name="mojo">[https://web.archive.org/web/20200215070326/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl3697968641/ Box Office Information for Rambo: First Blood Part II] [[Box Office Mojo]] via [[Internet Archive]]. Retrieved February 8, 2023.</ref> The film broke various international box office records.<ref>{{cite book|title=Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre and the Action Cinema|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QnftZTghGU0C&q=rambo+international+box+office&pg=PA7|isbn = 9781134873005|author-link1=Yvonne Tasker|last1 = Tasker|first1 = Yvonne|date = October 2, 2012| publisher=Routledge }}</ref> It set an opening weekend record in the United Kingdom with a gross of £1.1 million from 322 screens, surpassing the record set by ''[[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial]]'' (1982).<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Screen International]]|date=September 3, 1988|page=24|title=No shellshock as Rambo III bursts in at the top}}</ref> In France, the film had a record opening day with 269,564 admissions and a record week with 2,075,238 admissions.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=November 1, 1993|page=14|last=Groves|first=Don|title=French B.O. warms up to 'Jurassic'}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Daily Variety]]|page=30|title='Jurassic' passes $450 mil o'seas|last=Groves|first=Don|date=October 28, 1993}}</ref>