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Given these reasons, I'm onboard with the $1 billion prediction. I also think it's got a fighting chance to top Skyfall in North America... especially if it opens with $100 million.
SF made $59.3 million in China. If you remove that from its world-wide total, it still made over $1 billion.
One franchise that Universal WILL be most concerned over is FAST & FURIOUS 9, as the last three entries have been even bigger hits in China than in the US.
Sonic is very popular and was a good film families weren't desperate.
Speaking purely about movies, this really will impact Disney’s Mulan. Bond was always primed to be a modest success in the Middle Kingdom, but Mulan was all prepared to be a box office juggernaut. I’m curious if Disney pulls its China release……..I can’t see the coronavirus outbreak being any less dire in a months’ time.
I doubt it, that would mean no China release until 2021, and Chinese are very big on piracy. The film would be on Blu-Ray in North America and Europe months before a China release, so piracy would be rampant by then. Disney's only hope to gross money in China is to release it as normally planned, hoping people manage to show up.
This is it. Very much a rock and a hard place situation.
Universal probably blew their load early, since advanced ticket sales for Fast 9 started when they released the trailer in January, when the coronavirus was ongoing for a month already.
EON and the studio will be lucky, because the advertising has been the worst ever for a Bond film, especially those hideous posters.
As for the film itself, expect mediocrity.
Billie Eilish song has been well received particularly with a demographic that skews younger than the average bond cinema goer
There is no bad press handing around like a millstone (unlike the Sony leaks)
Daniel Craig and the cast and crew seem genuinely excited. (He won’t make another mistake like THAT quite this time)
It’s been a long time since the last one
Extreme goodwill to the franchise and Craig’s last film
Cinema tickets are more expensive than 2012.
I disagree with most of this. It’s more than a month before release, and there’s already been significant buzz generated by advertising during the Super Bowl, Oscars and NBA All-Star game. Marketing partners range from Heineken to the Royal Mail, and the hottest singer on the planet is doing press for the movie. People are already hailing this film as one of the best, if not the best, looking Bond film ever. The film is already projected to make upwards of $100m opening weekend. Let us know how you feel about the marketing on March 31st.
You are forgetting that this isn't 2012, we have so many YouTubers now who are promoting the film for EON. We will have more younger fans this time in theatres as well.
So as long as the cast and crew continue to spread some good karma and the initial reviews are decent, then I see no reason why this film won't surpass $1 billion. I think Billie Eilish's fanbase could do it alone!
I mean seriously how much bitterness.
I hope the next guy and era annoys you as much or even more.
I hope actually that Craigs leaves the franchise with a bang and decent movie, he deserves it, and frankly the BO doesn't interest me so much. It will be hurt by the current scare of the Corona virus . It will hurt quite a lot of releases but in the end it does not say anything about the quality of the movie.
When people come on here and say " as for the film expect mediocrity, well I just look at that as baiting and yes anti Craig. There are other ways to express yourself yet we are starting to get some very bitter and not very subtle comments arriving.
I make no secret of hating the last film so I don't think the era is perfect but you aren't exactly much of a fan of it yourself and you make no secret of the fact which is your prerogative.
QOB etc. etc.
This production is showing nothing but swagger. They are releasing trailers and spots with confidence and have been rewarded with Buzz. The theme song drops and they planned for the artists to be on the Brit awards a week later. Bond has shown up on the Super Bowl (with rave feedback), as well as the NBA All Star Game. I wouldn’t be surprised if we don’t get a second trailer because we don’t need one. The marketing has got the word out and the appropriate reaction has followed: this is a highly anticipated film.
Creatively, this may be one of the strongest productions to stand in front of and behind the camera: Craig, Ana, Lea, Waltz, Malek, Wright, Fiennes, Ben, Billy...... Sandgren and Fukunaga, Billie and Zimmer....
Why would anyone expect mediocrity???
Pretty much like this blogger: http://n007.thegoldeneye.com/index.html
He sounds like a right......
Not really Murdock, but when I’m told to expect mediocrity, I’d just like to know what this is based on, coz right now this team is walking with swagger. They know they have a monster hit on their hands.
So it’s interesting when I’m told to expect something quite a bit less. Where does this idea of expecting mediocrity come from? More likely a dislike of this era and not coming to terms that Daniel Craig is still James Bond all these years later, would be my guess.
Right @peter
@Murdock there's a difference between criticizing long established films by Moore and Brosnan and doing the same to a film you haven’t even seen yet.
Besides, SPECTRE gets a ton of flack here, so this notion that you can’t bash Craig’s films without being branded a troll is quite unfounded.
Quite right @MakeshiftPython ! Spectre is in my bottom three films (whereas Craig's other films sit comfortably in my top 8).
@Shardlake is passionate about this Era, but he is also passionate with his dislike, displeasure, and all round loathing for Spectre... We know the era hasn't been perfect. But one film doesn't mar the entire series for the likes of us-- nor this Era, which has given us much happiness with their other efforts.
And from what we've seen by the creative forces behind this film (as mentioned above, but also including CJF as writer with PWB, and Scott Burns), it looks like the effort to give Craig's final film the same kick his first film had seems quite evident.
But that will still not be enough for some who expect, at best, mediocrity.