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I heard somewhere, that foreign films are not allowed to run for more than 4 weeks in China.
Don't know if it's true. But most foreign films are gone after 3 or 4 weeks.
If so, that means that NTTD actually has a big advantage over almost every other movie this year since that's not going to detract from their overall ROI from the box office gross.
Hell, QOS cost the same amount as NTTD ($250 million) grossed less than it ($591 million) and was still considered a success due to this financial structure.
Hopefully, this will convince Amazon to let the next one keep the tradition of a full theatrical run along with the tons of on-location shooting with practical stunts, as well.
I know that's why these movies all cost so much money, but those aspects are also what keep the Bond films as a unique draw and a prestige product. imo
Even the Mission Impossible films don't do as much location filming.
Speculating...
+ On location filming is very expensive, and Bond does a lot of it.
+ Practical effects and sequences.
+ Daniel Craig ain’t cheap.
+ An expanded cast made up of more ‘know’ actors. Malek, Fiennes, Wright, Harris etc arent cheap, and then there is the rest.
+ Scrapping millions of pounds due to dropping Boyle (building large sets that werent used)
+ Bringing in PWB at the last minute, at the height of her popularity.
Dune released 14 days earlier and deliever after 6 weaks almoost 5,3 million, Fast 9 did 5,6 million in 4 weaks and 6,8 in 6 weaks.
From 6 November the mouthcap will return to Dutch cinema's. And next year for moost people you can get / need 3th vacination.
Yeah, that's basically it in nutshell.
Obviously, the next film will likely cost much less than NTTD by virtue of not having Craig and (hopefully) dropping the director and script right as sets are being built.
The main cost factor really is the location filming, the stunts, and especially all the stunts/special set builds that they do on location.
Doing things like blowing up cars on the streets of Matera and constructing hotel rooms where no buildings exist to get the most scenic view doesn't come cheaply.
One of the reasons why Skyfall was so relatively cheap (in the Mission Impossible range of $170-ish million) was because there weren't really a lot of huge stunts done on location and most of the film was shot in the UK doubling for the other countries.
The main costs come from the amount of shooting days.
So when you film over 6 to 7 months, you have to pay a huge crew every day.
If you only film for 3 to 4 months as many other movies do, that's a lot cheaper.
For example, you direct a short film, and your unique location cost 15 000 $ a day. You need 5 days = 75 000 bucks. You deal with the owner, and they give it to you for free in exchange of their logo in the end credits.
You haven't paid a penny, but your budget is 75 000 $ spent already.
Now, imagine this done on the Bond, for everything: cars, clothes, planes, locations, armory etc.
So when they say it's 250 millions to do a Bond, they probably forked out half that money in reality.
Product placement deals are HUGE.......
I wonder how much they got from smirnoff in 1962 ?
I’ve been hearing it’s a boring mess of a film and if so, the second week estimates should tank the film considerably
Last Night in Soho and The French Dispatch are great.
http://www.jpbox-office.com/fichfilm.php?view=2&id=18174#cible1
Of course, it must be due to the current school vacations, but it's still impressive, in spite of the mask and health pass mandate.
https://adnews.com.au/news/no-time-to-die-presales-smash-expectations
No Time To Die is already topping pre-sale forecasts ahead of its Australian release on November 11.
Daniel Craig’s fifth, and final, outing as 007 is lightyears ahead of the pre-sale figures of previous Bond titles Bond: Spectre, and Bond: Skyfall.
Bond: No Time To Die is already sitting 3x ahead of total Bond: Spectre pre-sales after just 10 days and 1.8x ahead of Bond: Skyfall pre-sales over a comparable time frame.
Pre-sales are also well exceeding other comparable blockbusters, attracting over double the cumulative first four day pre-sale box office figures of Wonder Woman 1984 which released on Boxing Day last year.
To meet projected demand, standard screenings of Bond: No Time To Die are already scheduled at all-time highs with extra screenings planned to be added to cinema programs.
Private bookings and premium cinema experiences are also hot property, with many opening week sessions booked out well ahead of release.
Guy Burbidge, Managing Director of Val Morgan: “The solid pre-sale numbers we’ve seen across the nations’ cinemas are a clear indication of the demand for Bond: No Time To Die, and for cinema experiences as we enter these key summer months.
"Confidence has officially been restored in the highly engaging and unparalleled advertising environment that cinema offers, and we already have a range of premium clients within key advertising groups across Bond: No Time To Die.”
Meanwhile in China Bond will enter its 2nd weekend with a cume of $37.8 million, since it grossed $9.6 million over the last four days. Hopefully it won’t suffer a Dune kind of drop off (Dune dropped a whooping 77% last week) and it would be able to get scary close to hit $50 million by Sunday. That would lead to a good ~$60 million total.
This, 100% this.
None of us here knows what costs to make a James Bond film.
We know what someone else tells us that it cost, but that’s just the reported cost.
And they can report any made-up number they want, because they do not have to show us their account books.
So they told us, for example, that QOS cost a quarter of a billion dollars to make. But I doubt it cost even half that. Because the production cost figure is part of the hype.
And they do everything to get the highest production cost figure possible, so that they will have to pay less taxes on the winning gross.
It's been also calculated that Bond will lose a 20% only because of the recent COVID restrictions that lead to a lot of theaters being shut down (like in Western Beijing).
I still believe it will hit the $60 million mark by the end of its run. Without those umpredictable restrictions it would've top SP gross, without any promotional tour.
So, it's doing fine.