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619 200 admissions on Wednesday for STAR WARS (also less admissions than EP III 641 799 in 2005)
850 297 admissions for SPECTRE (on its opening day)
well done SPECTRE!
Yes, $2 bill + is more likely. I can see SW7 beating Titanic, (due to increase ticket prices since 1998), but to reach Avatar's total will require some amazing holdover business.
No doubt, SW7 will (and has) accumulate a massive gross very quickly, but the exchange rates are going to hurt this film as well overseas.
For SW7 to even have a chance of reaching Avatar its going to need China to come aboard, and give this film a massive boost, but SW is an unknown quantity in China, so no one knows how the Chinese public will take to this film, though i'am sure it will do very well anyway, as by January the Chinese would of heard a lot about this film, and would probably go along to see the film out of curiosity's sake at the least.
Obviously SW7 is gonna be massive in the USA & UK, as well as other English speaking regions, and also Japan. But how big the film will be in other regions needs to be seen.
Historically, it has to be noted that the SW franchise hasn't had the massive International grosses that some other film franchises have.
Very, very few films have sustained length at the BO where the weekly BO remains consistent for several weeks, as per Titanic and Avatar in recent times.
SW7 will have monstrous size initial grosses, but they will decline from week to week, and not stay level, as per the 2 above mentioned films IMO.
After the NY holiday, how will SW7 still be doing business wise against the newer releases, and everyone back to either school, or work?
I agree, as a 3D special effects project, the film was fantastic, but as a story, i found Avatar totally unremarkable, and i don't remember much about the film.
Avatar was quite good, but it´s like a remake of Pocahontas.
Yes, Friday figure was low, but then that's more likely down to the fact that it was SW7 first full opening day, and the film would attract a lot of young males who would normally go and see an action film.
'Deadline' did state that they still expected Bond to cross the $200 mil mark, over the holidays.
Only then Spectre again. The only Bond film I saw twice in the cinema was so far Skyfall, but there wasn t much competition back then, for me personally.
I was hoping it would beat Goldeneye's 203 or TWINE's 207 but...ehh...might nudge 203, we'll know for sure in the new year.
SP should at least pass QOS's adjusted total, which it is getting very close to now.
Maybe match GE, though TWINE figure seems out of reach.
As you have said $200 mil looks so much better in the books than $199.9 mil, and the fact that the film enters the 200 mil club from a records point of view.
Sadly, though in reality SP looks like being behind probably all of the Pierce Brosnan Bond films, admissions wise and a staggering 14,000,000 less attendance wise from SF.
That is a truly massive loss of business in North America.
1. SF Craig
2. DAD Broz
3. TND Broz
4. CR Craig
5. TWINE Broz
6. GE Broz
7. QOS Craig
I wonder if its a coincidence that Brosnan's 3 highest grossing films in America all featured an American Bond girl.
EoN need to address the real issues that are the problem. It's not about getting a new lead actor and nor is it about not casting and American Bond girl. It's simply down to the writing being shit and the directing not being upto par. SP has made over 800 million, imagine how much more it could have made if the film was managed properly.
Very true,
The film makers have just got to put more effort into getting the script right.
Look at the new Star Wars film, they cut out all the political shit, and waffle, that the 2nd trilogy was hampered by, and are now seeing the rewards at the boxoffice.
The 3 most important things in a film are
1. Script
2. Script
3. Script
once this is sorted, then the rest of the film falls into place.
But EONS idea of making a film is to think of a few big action scenes, and then join them together with a flimsy plot.
Film-making 101.
This isn't really a complain about SPECTRE thread. SP received a rapturous acclaim compared to TND and (especially) DAD, yet both of those made $30 mil more than SP at the North American box office. The question is why.
I believe the more America-pandering Brosnan movies performed better because they starred a Malibu residing actor who was known from an American TV series, and thus had better 'middle America' appeal than the at the time unknown Daniel Craig, and they put American Bond girls into 3 out of the 4 films.
And similarly, you could also say the more UK-centric Craig films, with big action scenes taking place in London, have resulted in a huge boost to their popularity in Britain.
Good observations you have made.
Its true that the Craig Bond era has really clicked with the UK public, and the grosses have all been very high, including even the poorly received QOS.
They do seem to have a more British feel to them, particularly the last 2 Bonds, where a large part of the filming has been in the UK (mainly London), and with the connection to the MI6 staff.
Regarding Brosnan, even though he's Irish, i think a lot of people unaware of his history probably perceived him as being an American, based on the fact they had seen him on American films and TV.