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I agree, doesnt feel like 23 weeks have passed since Dr No!
Note: Weekend takings only (Fri-Sun), films are screening in the week.
Source: https://www.bfi.org.uk/industry-data-insights/weekend-box-office-figures
Dr No
Position: 29th
Total: £8,349
Screens: 89
Average: £94
From Russia With Love
Position: 26th
Total: £8,806
Screens: 104
Average: £85
Goldfinger
Position: 22nd
Total: £13,960
Screens: 118
Average: £118
Thunderball
Position: 23rd
Total: £7,909
Screens: 98
Average: £81
You Only Live Twice
Position: 30th
Total: £8,030
Screens: 96
Average: £84
On Her Majestys Secret Service
Position: 29th
Total: £11,114
Screens: 110
Average: £101
Diamonds Are Forever
Position: 34th
Total: £6,638
Screens: 99
Average: £67
Live and Let Die
Position: 28th
Total: £10,767
Screens: 114
Average: £94
The Man with the Golden Gun
Position: 23rd
Total: £8,001
Screens: 102
Average: £78
The Spy Who Loved Me
Position: 14th
Total: £12,845
Screens: 101
Average: £127
Moonraker
Position: 18th
Total: £8,494
Screens: 102
Average: £83
For Your Eyes Only
Position: 24th
Total: £7,631
Screens: 104
Average: £73
Octopussy
Position: 20th
Total: £6,449
Screens: 99
Average: £66
A View to a Kill
Position: 21st
Total: £8,065
Screens: 98
Average: £82
The Living Daylights
Position: 24th
Total: £10,707
Screens: 100
Average: £107
Licence to Kill
Position: 27th
Total: £9,667
Screens: 99
Average: £98
Goldeneye
Position: 22nd
Total: £16,800 (£17,864 culm)
Screens: 137
Average: £123
Tomorrow Never Dies
Position: 31st
Total: £7,825
Screens: 99
Average: £79
The World is Not Enough
Position: 35th
Total: £6,993
Screens: 99
Average: £70
Die Another Day
Position: 43rd
Total: £6,225
Screens: 99
Average: £63
Casino Royale
Position: 30th
Total: £21,441
Screens: 122
Average: £176
Quantum of Solace
Position: 41st
Total: £9,404
Screens: 121
Average: 78
Skyfall
Position: 34th
Total: £20,361
Screens: 162
Average: £126
Skyfall stands tall, and faces it all, with a second best total of £20,361, not including performances in the following week. My hunch, based on the Tuesday booking at my local cinema, is that it will be very popular, most putting off their viewing from Sunday due to the extended bank holiday.
Still, a very strong performance from what is considered one of the series' best.
Helped by the largest screen count to date.
And so to Craigs penultimate Bond movie! Disappointed to see it on a slightly smaller screen, but the sound was fantastic! Better turnout audience wise than last week. I still find this much maligned film entertaining and I think the whole section on the train from Bond lecturing
Madeleine on how to use a gun, to their old style setting dining car meet, through that bruising fight sequence, and equally bruising love scene, and those gorgeous shots of them waiting on the Rolls Royce, as my highlight! I even enjoyed the final section this time out! So shoot me! 🤣 The score made more of an impact on me this time too, or maybe it was just the more distinctive sound! All in all a really great Bond night at the flicks!
CR - £21,888
SF - £20,416
GE - £17,864
GF - £13,960
TSWLM - £12,843
OHMSS - £11,114
LALD - £10,916
TLD - £10,839
LTK - £9,795
QOS - £9,442
SP - £9,010
FRWL - £8,806
MR - £8,494
DN - £8,349
AVTAK - £8,065
YOLT - £8,030
TMWTGG - £8,001
TB - £7,907
TND - £7,879
FYEO - £7,631
TWINE - £6,933
DAF - £6,638
OP - £6,542
DAD - £6,268
Got my ticket for NTTD next week, switched to Wednesday!
I noticed my cinema had switched to Weds, maybe because it is Global JB day?
Note: Weekend takings only (Fri-Sun), films are screening in the week.
Source: https://www.bfi.org.uk/industry-data-insights/weekend-box-office-figures
Dr No
Position: 29th
Total: £8,349
Screens: 89
Average: £94
From Russia With Love
Position: 26th
Total: £8,806
Screens: 104
Average: £85
Goldfinger
Position: 22nd
Total: £13,960
Screens: 118
Average: £118
Thunderball
Position: 23rd
Total: £7,909
Screens: 98
Average: £81
You Only Live Twice
Position: 30th
Total: £8,030
Screens: 96
Average: £84
On Her Majestys Secret Service
Position: 29th
Total: £11,114
Screens: 110
Average: £101
Diamonds Are Forever
Position: 34th
Total: £6,638
Screens: 99
Average: £67
Live and Let Die
Position: 28th
Total: £10,767
Screens: 114
Average: £94
The Man with the Golden Gun
Position: 23rd
Total: £8,001
Screens: 102
Average: £78
The Spy Who Loved Me
Position: 14th
Total: £12,845
Screens: 101
Average: £127
Moonraker
Position: 18th
Total: £8,494
Screens: 102
Average: £83
For Your Eyes Only
Position: 24th
Total: £7,631
Screens: 104
Average: £73
Octopussy
Position: 20th
Total: £6,449
Screens: 99
Average: £66
A View to a Kill
Position: 21st
Total: £8,065
Screens: 98
Average: £82
The Living Daylights
Position: 24th
Total: £10,707
Screens: 100
Average: £107
Licence to Kill
Position: 27th
Total: £9,667
Screens: 99
Average: £98
Goldeneye
Position: 22nd
Total: £16,800 (£17,864 culm)
Screens: 137
Average: £123
Tomorrow Never Dies
Position: 31st
Total: £7,825
Screens: 99
Average: £79
The World is Not Enough
Position: 35th
Total: £6,993
Screens: 99
Average: £70
Die Another Day
Position: 43rd
Total: £6,225
Screens: 99
Average: £63
Casino Royale
Position: 30th
Total: £21,441
Screens: 122
Average: £176
Quantum of Solace
Position: 41st
Total: £9,404
Screens: 121
Average: 78
Skyfall
Position: 34th
Total: £20,361
Screens: 162
Average: £126
Spectre
Position: 36th
Total: £8,992
Screens: 120
Average: £75
No Time to Die
Position: 25th
Total: £17, 780
Screens: 119
Average: £145
No Time To Die finishes the 60th Anniversary run with a very respectable £17,780, even though it only left cinemas at the beginning of this year and is the most recent release.
Also reported this weekend (30th - 2nd October):
- Skyfall (45th, £6,038)
- Dr No (59th, £3,358)
- The Living Daylights (60th, £3,170)
- The Spy Who Loved Me (63rd, £2,957)
All likely from the BFI Anniversary screenings over the weekend.
Its been a fun time tracking all of the weekly stats for the films. I even managed to go and see them all!
And so it ends, man, that few months flew in! The usual bunch at this screening last night, and I am STILL in two minds about NTTD, was underwhelmed at my first viewing in the cinema, but loved it on 4k bluray!! Entertained and not so much at this viewing, if that makes sense?
Anyway, still lots to enjoy, the first hour + absolutely zips by, then it slows before ratcheting up for the finale ( which, I admit, did get a lump in my throat!) This time I did find the Cuba sequence jarringly out of place, though I love it, it doesn't sit well with the rest of the movie, ( particularly the moment Bond falls from the balcony behind the bar and then jumps up in a very silly way!) though I am head over heels in lust with Ana!
One thing is certain from going to these screenings is that Bond absolutely belongs on the Big Screen!
CR - £21,888
SF - £20,416
GE - £17,864
NTTD - £17,780
GF - £13,960
TSWLM - £12,843
OHMSS - £11,114
LALD - £10,916
TLD - £10,839
LTK - £9,795
QOS - £9,442
SP - £9,010
FRWL - £8,806
MR - £8,494
DN - £8,349
AVTAK - £8,065
YOLT - £8,030
TMWTGG - £8,001
TB - £7,907
TND - £7,879
FYEO - £7,631
TWINE - £6,933
DAF - £6,638
OP - £6,542
DAD - £6,268
Other films they're screening include The Hill, The Molly Maguires, Marnie, The Untouchables, Outland, The Man Who Would Be King, The Hunt for Red October, The Name of the Rose and The Wind and the Lion. Out of those, the only ones I haven't seen are The Molly Maguires, The Name of the Rose and The Wind and the Lion. I can't make the Molly Maguires screening, but I can catch the screenings of the latter two. Finally, I will reach 30 Connery films watched, and in fact I'll get to 31.
This is the first and maybe the last time in my life in which I'll watch so many movies in a theater in close succession. I'll probably be vomiting by the end. No matter.
Of the 3 Connery movies you haven’t seen, 'The Wind and The Lion' is most certainly the best of them, a rousing action/adventure movie directed by John Milius, 'The Name of the Rose' is good too, with Our man Sean plsying a Sherlock Holmes type, solving a mystery in a monastery of grotesque characters!
Like I always say, the only good movie-watching month is one where you vomit at the end. I wish you luck in your Seanathon, @mattjoes!
Truer words were never spoken. Thank you, @Some_Kind_Of_Hero.
Anyone in Southern California heading to Casino Royale in concert??
Thanks for the heads up but San Diego is a bit out of the way.
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Other films in the series include WARGAMES and THE LAST STARFIGHTER.
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Also, for those of you in the Chicago (US) area, on May 17th, Raymond Benson will be introducing a 60th Anniversary screening of “FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE” at the Pickwick Theater.
https://ticketing.useast.veezi.com/purchase/22953?siteToken=nkjzf31nyb5bbbtbg06g01pq2g
OHMSS (May 12th)
DN (May 13th)
FRWL (May 13)
GF (May 13)
TB (May 14th)
YOLT (May 14th)
https://www.barrymorefilmcenter.com/
If I go I fear it will put me to sleep!
Dir. Peter R. Hunt. U.K. 1969, 142 mins. 4K DCP. With George Lazenby, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, Bernard Lee, Gabriele Ferzetti, Ilse Steppat, Lois Maxwell, Desmond Llewelyn. For the sixth installment of its peaking Bond franchise, Eon Productions selected new face Lazenby, a model with no previous acting experience, to fill Sean Connery’s already iconic shoes. The resulting film, highly criticized at the time for the unseasoned Lazenby’s more reticent and vulnerable approach to the character, remains perhaps the most cinematically accomplished of the franchise, directed by series editor Hunt and lensed by the great Hammer Films cinematographer Michael Reed (The Gorgon, Dracula: Prince of Darkness) with an almost Hitchcockian sense of pace and visual poetry, while taking full advantage of the vertiginous curves of the Swiss Alps.
https://movingimage.org/event/on-her-majestys-secret-service/2025-01-17/