Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Fist of Fury" in English language version.
Like the previous film, Fist of Fury was made for $100,000.
Fist of Fury (1972) estimated worldwide gross $100,000,000
1970 (...) U.S. + Canadian rentals % of BO (...) 28.6
Lee first found success in The Big Boss and followed that with Fist of Fury and Enter the Dragon which grossed an outstanding 100,000,000 dollars and firmly established itself as one of the world's all-time top films in commercial terms. Lee went on to top this with The Way of the Dragon and the cameras had barely stopped rolling when he began what was to be his final film Game of Death. (...) Now director Robert Clouse has completed Game of Death.
They're made in Hong Kong and the biggest hero of them all at the moment, surely the biggest box-office attraction there, is a face pretty familiar to American television audiences. Remember Bruce Lee, the swift, agile oriental chauffeur in "The Green Hornet"? (...) Lee already has starred in three Chinese boxer (another label) pictures and there are several dozen others available to the international market. They reportedly are sweeping the European market and have just started to infiltrate the American scene. (...) The first two pictures grossed more than $5 million in Southeast Asia alone, according to Weintraub.
The Big Boss grossed over $15 million, an Asian box office record. Fists of Fury raked in $15 million, another record.
