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"Final" figures for France still not released.
Skyfall had 6.80 M viewers for 2012 (last estimates by the tracking companies that feed all the web sites : "6.82M" for 2012) - Ice Age 4 had 6.63 M viewers total (last estimates were "under 6.59M" for 2012 = total)
So only about up to 1% of discrepancy this time it seems (overestimation for Skyfall, underestimation for Ice Age 4).
But that's still something like 0.5M$ for all of you who write world box office up to 1 dollar accuracy :)
I don't know if we'll have Skyfall final figure from the CNC though, as 2013's last 200.000 viewers or so won't be mentioned (the report list only > 1M movies). We'll have to wait for some professional book out.. next year !
Although some people may consider this 7M symbolic bar is important, what will be forgotten is that it is yet another proof week-to-week box office tracking is really not accurate at all, there are inaccuracies and fudging all over the place :) Here the difference between the above 7M figure and the last "official" (ah !) figure is less than 1% actually, but enough to make this bar a very virtual concept.
http://www.nu.nl/film/2999070/best-bezochte-bioscoopfilms-2012.html
More than 2.00 million viewers in The Netherlands for 'Skyfall'. And that was on January 8th of this year. 'Skyfall' is the most succesful movie in Dutch film history, attendance-wise ánd money-wise.
To compare: 'The Dark Knight Rises' had 0.76 million viewers.
and
(ah I misread, this one is 1.9 M viewers)
and
(2.2M).
at least ? I don't expect re-releases to exceed 200.000 frankly.
Before that, Lion King seems to have broken records too, etc.
For France, Skyfall is around #85 of "all-time", but with re-releases it's hard to be sure, it may be closer to #70 who knows.
Well you said, 'Skyfall' is the most succesful movie in Dutch film history, attendance-wise ánd money-wise. As it was quite surprising, I looked at some recent attendance figures, and found it was not the case at all. I'm not sure how your cinema was in the past, but I think in your country also in the past attendance figures for movies were generally higher anyway. Finding a few that had more attendances is enough to prove it's not #1 though.
As for the money it made, then the problem is that you'll surely say it's once again "boring" to adjust figures from the past to compare Euros from today, Euros from the past, and Gulden before that. So ok let's compare without any adjustment whatsoever (but then keep in mind we're talking about a way of thinking that says that "Scary Movie 2" was more successful than "Goldfinger" because it earned "more" :) ).
So let's look at the usual #1 Avatar and Skyfall on InsideKino :
Avatar
2010 : 18.83 MEuros in NL
Skyfall
2013 : 18.78 MEuros in NL
with the various errors of accountancy, hard to say which one is first with certainty, even if the figures say it is Avatar.
(but with adjustment the margin is far wider in favor of Avatar obviously).
So, not #1 for attendance for sure, and not #1 for money too it seems !
Oh, and as I strongly suspect you're going to give me some BoxOfficeMojo links to "prove" that Skyfall did more than Avatar there, I urge you to look at the week by week NL box office of Skyfall and Avatar according to BoxOfficeMojo : you'll see that on its last week Skyfall's box office was... diminished by half a million dollars, while Avatar's box office was diminished by two millions dollars in four weeks ! Surely something's wrong with their methods, but I already explained that many times...
Dear Parachute. Your facts are always perfect. I admire you for that. But you mistake 'importance' with 'fun' and 'proudness'. I am just sheer happy for all this success. Damn, 'Skyfall' enhanced my 'nerdiness' as a Bond fan. For that I am proud....and it makes things like forums and discussions also more fun.
I don't find it important to prove something to you....or to 'defend' 'Skyfall' at any cost. What I do however, is discussing. With all the knowledge I have and 'eye for movie trends' I have. BUT, if I make a mistake, I let you be the 'evil queen of numbers' (damn, that's from 'GoldenEye' no? When Tanner calls 'M' that hehe ;) ) in case I am wrong ok? Just correct me in a nice way and don't put me in front of a soviet tribunal. Ok :-)?
Because in the end we all are a bunch of happy, cheerful fans......and we don't earn our money writing on these forums ;-).
But wanting Bond to become the next Christopher Nolan - Hans Zimmer - Henry Cavil l- Christopher Waltz - David Goyer - whoever else is "#1", "dream team machinery" may be actually missing the point of what makes it unique and lasting.
Give me another franchise which has a signature as strong as the gunbarrel opening ? (The Star Wars text titles opening maybe ?) Ok, now, how can a fan call it a "daft moment" and don't feel it's part of what makes Bond different ? ;)
http://www.jeanmarcmorandini.com/article-307981-la-chine-doit-des-plusieurs-dizaines-de-millions-de-dollars-aux-studios-hollywoodiens.html
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Skyfall was on Friday knocked from its spot as biggest film of all time in the U.K., with Star Wars: The Force Awakens passing its record of £103 million in the local box office, according to figures released by Disney.
The historic milestone was reached in just 22 days in the U.K., where it already broke several records in its opening week.
Despite launching Dec. 17, The Force Awakens managed to earn the number two film of the year as of the end of 2015, just short of Spectre, the 24th 007.
The latest Star Wars did, however, manage to top Bond in the BAFTA nominations, announced Friday, coming home with four noms in the technical categories. Spectre emerged without a single nomination.