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Like I said, I think it'll be successful and I'm happy as long as it keeps the series going but 900 million is wishful thinking. If it does make that much, brilliant, proved me wrong, but I honestly don't think it will.
You keep talking about these world wide celebrations but aren't mentioning what they are, so I'll tell you. A Bond day where next to nothing is happening, a documentary that's only in limited Odeon cinemas here in the UK, an auction nobody can afford to go to, yep, world wide celebrations!
You are right about Adele, that is good publicity, but I doubt she would push it over 900 million. People won't go and see the film just because of the song, they can get that anyway, if they're intested in Adele but not the film they won't go and see it, they'll just get the song of Itunes.
My guess is 700 to 800 million.
It will appeal to a large audience but it won't be a popcorn flick in the way something like Avengers is - to use a very successful comparison. Skyfall will undoubtedly have some emotional weight to it, something redundant from the Avengers. I think the consensus is that while incorporating some classic traits it won't be a comic book movie.
All that aside, it doesn't really matter, it still won't gross 900m.
Totally agree. This is what I tried to imply in a previous post but it was misconstrued.
With all due respect, I think you are being a little too serious over this matter.
Personally, I don't think Moonraker would be such a big hit today. That movie was of its time. It was arguably the most jokey Bond flick, never taking itself seriously. I really don't think that will work as well with the current audiences.
With all due respect, The Avengers made over one and a half BILLION dollars. It is the highest grossing movie outside Titanic and Avatar (unadjusted for inflation). Probably not a fair comparison to make the point that Skyfall isn't a popcorn movie.
Thank you Bondsum for making that point. I salute you for making that point, because if the argument is that this is not a popcorn movie and it will lack mass appeal, we could be looking at a flop that could spell the end of the series! Let's hope that this will not be the case!
I think that can be applied to a lot of movies and is as such not much of a reasoning when talking old 007 movies.
I always have blast when people complain about Titanic & Avatar, it might not be their taste but loads of people have a different taste and they went and saw the movies in large crowds. Cameron must know something about making movies for the masses that a lot of folks want to know. ;)
This isn't the argument. The argument is over how much money it will make. Or it was until you realised you'd wildly overestimated it's potential.
Yeah I'd put my money on it earning about that.
You can't say I overestimated its potential until we start seeing the figures, unless you are saying it is already a fact you are right about this. And I haven"t realized I"d wildly overestimated its potential. I think the potential is there, all my above points considered, if the movie itself also delivers.
SF looks great and will make money but I think some people are really getting ahead of themselves.
Oh God here we go again. People please, stop comparing Bond and Bourne! It only causes trouble and they're not even really in competition with eachother.
Yes, I agree. Personally, I loved Moonraker, but blockbuster movies generally seem to have got darker. Moonraker was a movie kids could enjoy, not so sure about the violence and darkness of the recent Bonds as family films.
That combination does it: The Golden Jubilee and the actual performance of HMS The Queen as the oldest Bond girl in history during the Great Brittain Olympics. Add the 5th of October as Official James Bond Day and Adele's roaring title theme hitting the charts and indeed we could reach the 900 million Dollar gross worldwide.
That'd be pretty awesome.
But as a previous poster mentioned you never can really predict it until the film opens. Who would've thought Fast Five would make over 600 mil last year. Or that Alice in Wonderland would've grossed a billion dollars with an April release in 2010. A lot of it has to do with positive word of mouth which I believe Skyfall will have. Plus it's IMAX showings will rake in extra dollars. 900 mil is a stretch but stranger things have happened with box office numbers.
This is what I think. It'll probably be the highest grossing Bond film, but it won't make 900 million.
I think you have these two mixed up.
Bourne Legacy was barely mediocre and has underperformed extraordinarily. Taken 2 will make just about or slightly less than the first one, assuming the film's bad word of mouth does the rounds. Honestly, as long as SF is a strong and entertaining flick, it'll make around the high 60million mark.