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Netflix’s New Global Sensation Officially Makes Box Office History
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Netflix’s Spanish-language drama *La Bola Negra* has become the third highest-grossing Spanish film at Spain’s domestic box office, with €36.7 million in ticket sales. The result marks a major theatrical success for Netflix as the film builds an international profile and attracts awards-season attention.
The film trails only *Ocho Apellidos Vascos* and *Lo Imposible* in Spain’s all-time rankings, and its reported gross is about $41 million. Directed by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, it stars Penélope Cruz, Glenn Close, Milo Quifes, Álvaro Lafuente Calvo and Miguel Bernardeau, and has received strong critical praise.
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In short
- *La Bola Negra* has earned €36.7 million in Spain.
- It ranks third among Spanish films at the domestic box office.
- The film is also drawing awards-season attention.
How this story developed
- 4 hours ago Netflix’s Spanish-language drama *La Bola Negra* has become the third highest-grossing Spanish film at Spain’s domestic box office, with €36.7 million in ticket sales. The result marks a major theatrical success for Netflix as the film builds an international profile and attracts awards-season attention.
Full account
The two supplied reports describe different Netflix titles, making it impossible to establish which story the headline refers to. The first concerns the film La Bola Negra and a reported milestone at Spain’s box office. The second concerns Dead-End Job, a television series whose reported success is measured by streaming rankings. Neither report establishes that a title has made box office history worldwide.
According to the first report, La Bola Negra, directed by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, has earned €36.7 million in Spanish cinemas. That figure would make it the third highest-grossing Spanish film at Spain’s domestic box office, behind Ocho Apellidos Vascos and Lo Imposible. The report says the film has attracted critical praise and awards speculation, including discussion of a possible Best Picture nomination. It also names Penélope Cruz and Glenn Close among the cast. These are claims made by the supplied report; no box office figures or awards forecasts were independently verified for this account.
The second report describes Dead-End Job as an eight-episode series about a man who accepts unusually well-paid work through the Spider Staffing Agency and discovers the danger attached to it. It says the show entered Netflix’s Global Top 10 chart for non-English-language programmes at number four in its first week and later reached number two overall on the platform. It also reports a 100% critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes and says Netflix has not announced a second season. Those streaming figures do not support a claim about cinema takings.
Taken together, the reports support a narrower account than the headline suggests. If the intended story is La Bola Negra, the reported record is a ranking for Spanish films in Spain, rather than a global box office record. If the intended story is Dead-End Job, its achievement concerns viewing on Netflix, where there is no box office. The unrelated quiz material and recommendations embedded in the supplied excerpts add no evidence about either title’s performance.
Where outlets differ
From the full account, which is AI-written from the sources:
The first report focuses on La Bola Negra’s reported cinema earnings in Spain and its awards prospects; the second focuses on Dead-End Job’s Netflix rankings and possible continuation. They cover different productions and do not corroborate one another.
The first report calls the film third among Spanish films at Spain’s domestic box office. The headline’s suggestion of a global box office record goes beyond that claim.