From www.screenrant.com:
"Die Hard was a highly successful film. Released wide on July 22, 1988, and despite competing with the likes of Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Coming to America, it managed to spend ten weeks inside the box office top five. It became the tenth-highest grossing film of 1988 worldwide, grossing approximately $140 million (about $315 million today).
Its success spawned an entire subgenre of action films, typically referred to as "Die Hard on a...". These were mostly terrible affairs, as studios rushed together subpar films to make a quick buck. But some of them were actually very good, offering the Die Hard formula in various unique places. These are ten Die Hard ripoffs (that are actually pretty good)."
