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True but I think Sony may still get part of that. I don't know but I'm sure MGM gets their lion share of the profits :P
Yes they are contracts between theaters and studios, and some pretty nasty you would not believe when the theater is a little one, but there's no general rules. I talk about France's theaters having to deal with US movies but I'm sure it's the same elsewhere...
The Box Office Mojo figure is not the industry's figure, it's a sum of errors. Even if it stops below 200M$ on the site, in three months you may learn the official final figure is above 200M$, and Box Office Mojo will update it with this new figure without having the daily figures to reach it. It happened in the past.
I've never seen a source that gives all that info.
However, the box office site www.the-numbers.com does give DVD and Blu-Ray sales figures for the North American market, as well as the usual cinema box office figures.
Well imagine you're an actor who has negotiated a share of the profits :)
Hollywood accounting : Return of the Jedi officially never made a profit.
For SPECTRE though, well, we have the leaks to have the insider info about how much profit they thought they would have. IIRC(and I probably don't remember correctly!) with the 220M$ budget, and with the same share of BO for the US as for SF, $650M was the start of the profit for Sony. But well, the document is just a rule-of-three Excel sheet probably done in less than a hour ! Then it probably jumped with the budget going up and after that the two-weeks interruption of the shooting...
The Worldwide numbers are dubious anyway (and the "inflation adjusted ones" totally false, to make it brief). France's most accurate figures for movies released in 2015 will only be known at the end of 2016 (SF did more than 7M only with the figures one year after IIRC), so how can you have a WW figure instantly ? :) Multiply this by the number of countries...
About the $200M US or not debate, I think the best recent example is Tangled. It ended at a few millions less than $200M. And, well, a few months later, it was in the $200M+ category.
But at least here the "creativity" is only a few % in the end. With the "opening day" records and so on, here we're talking about some creativity that adds 50% to the figures or more ! I heard it through the grapevine that some people at Rentrak are tempted to make their own barometer, because they think it would be an instant success (imagine Box Office Mojo by people with access to the accuracy of the industry).
The estimated gross for the last 7 days from Xmas Day has been $1,72 mil (est), for a running total of $197.1 mil (est). After the NY holidays film should be close to $198 mil, then it really is gonna be tough for SP to get that last $2 mil before the film ends its run.
Here's a random column on the subject :
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/09/how-hollywood-accounting-can-make-a-450-million-movie-unprofitable/245134/
I've read today that SP will reach £94 mil on Sunday, which is the total attained by Avatar.
Though it does seem that SP will remain in third place, as SWTFA is expected on the same day to pass both SP and Avatar.
And that's ok. SW appeals to a broader audience and I'm ok with that too.
As long as Bond maintains his audience and recruits enough each generation I'm happy.
I'm not ready for SP to be a finale :(
Yes, of course its good for Bond, when you think about it, having the 2nd and 3rd spots on the all-time list, is bleedin good, and we have only been denied positions 1&2, from a film from the biggest franchise of all.
:)
True ..and in America Bond beat MI in domestic gross so that's some conselation too.
A well reviewed MI couldn't beat a poorly reviewed Bond on MI's own turf.
But Daniel Craig also has the No.1 spot :)
Interesting, so SP is counted as good.
197m is more than I expected. Way to go SP.
Yes, i'd be very surprised if it doesn't.
Yes, that's possible, at best i.e. $880 mil WW, and $200 mil N.America.
Now for the painfully slow crawl to 200 in North America. Hopefully SP can pull in at least 200K daily starting Monday, although that may be unlikely since it couldn't manage 150K today.
200m still possible but it's going to be a painful 2-3 weeks. Hopefully The Revenant doesn't push it out of too many theaters.
SP is still doing reasonable business in N.America.
As long as the film manages not to lose too many theaters during January, then it has a chance of reaching $200 mil.
It should do. It's still getting a higher per screen average than movies that opened after it like In the heart of the sea, The Night Before, and Krampus, so it'll probably stick around another week or two.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films
On the worldwide all time chart, it looks like there's still a little gas in the tank, I thought it was pretty much over but it could get to No.40, maybe.