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Exactly that's an issue they have to make everyone happy now to just make it an success let alone above the break even point.
Can you elaborate on this, please?
Are you kidding? The American market is incredibly important. Just look at EON and MGM/UA's reaction to the U.S. box office returns for LTK, or the fact that Brosnan was initially hired (for TLD) based on his success in an American television program.
That all changed with CR becoming a bigger hit internationally with a very modest US take.
I don't think he said it wasn't important. It's just not AS important as international, these days.
Doesn't look modest to me:
https://www.mi6-hq.com/news/index.php?itemid=4653
No I'm not going to.
I see.
Lets be honest, all films to be released in China are going to suffer because of this virus.
Exactly, and Bond is not a China-dependent franchise like Marvel or The Fast and Furious. Mulan will probably take the biggest hit this Spring. Hopefully, Chinese theaters will open back up by the time NTTD premiers. Worst case scenario is that $60 to $100 million is left on the table. The middle ground would be NTTD doing Skyfall numbers. With recent box office successes like Bad Boys 3 and Sonic, my gut tells me that NTTD could over perform in the US. Skyfall did $300m in 2012. So, it's doable. Also, Joker was rated R and didn't show in China yet it hit $1billion.
He's been awfully quiet with predictions of late @DaltonCraig007
They wouldn't have had that problem if they did things right the first time. Remember a qoute from Bond "You forgot the first rule of mass media, Elliot: give the people what they want."
And surely it's frustrating that while, say, in the UK and Europe you could call Bond on par with the likes of MCU and Star Wars...in the US you almost certainly can't.
I also don't understand this need to emphasise "UK and Europe", it's like saying: "Brazil and South America."
That is always easier said than done. Disney's methodology with Star Wars could have just as easily worked out and, given the box office (aside from Solo), there's an argument that it has.
Plus, redesigning a CGI character, while expensive, is much less of a heavy lift than reshooting scenes. Changing a CGI character is comparatively superficial. We really have no idea whether or not NTTD works, even if it features things in the trailer that you don't like.
I think EON have been very responsive to criticisms. When fans complained about GE's musical score they got David Arnold. When fans disliked the excesses of DAD they paired things down with CR. EON listens even if they don't make a big show of it like Paramount did with Sonic or Disney did with Star Wars.
Spot on and very important to note amidst all the worry and outrage. Eon have a track record for changing things that didn't work in a previous era (or discarding them altogether) when they are starting a new one. This will undoubtedly still apply when we get a new Bond.
You’d have a point if the backlash to what EON has presented with NTTD was as massive as Sonic’s f/x character design, except it’s never been the case. The most controversial thing that EON did that got massive fan backlash was Daniel Craig’s casting. If EON were as cowardly as Paramount and Disney then Craig would have never shot footage as Bond. Thankfully, Barbara Broccoli seems to have more brass balls than most of Hollywood and it paid off big time.
Thankfully EON never took to that quote and instead did something more interesting that got both fans and broad audiences more excited for Bond. Otherwise the box office for Craig’s run would by abysmal. And we ARE talking about box office right? Given your Sonic link is related to that.
"Spectre earned $83 million in China when it opened in late 2015, and there was every expectation that No Time to Die (which Universal is distributing overseas) would earn at least that much in April. Spectre grossed $881 million worldwide, so even an equal performance sans China still gets the $250 million-budgeted 007 adventure to $798 million (above Mission: Impossible – Fallout’s $792 million cume which included $136 million from China)."
Yeah I want no time to die to do the best at the box office.
I think NTTD is going to open big in the US: $92 - $110 million over the Easter weekend.
I predict NTTD could very well be the second billion dollar Bond……..emphasis on the could
That's not a prediction then.