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It would have had the gunbarrel at the end.
Oh Heavens no lol... the gunbarrel is exactly where it should be and where it should have been the SF.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-spectre-opens-73m-837618?utm_source=twitter
It will probably just clear $200m if lucky now if that.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-spectre-opens-73m-837618
SF had absolutely no competition in it's opening weekend though where as SP does. Therefore, $73M is still a very strong performance.
The US Box Office is no longer the be all and end all for blockbusters to rake in huge amounts of money. The International markets are stronger now than they have ever been (Terminator Genisys is a prime example of this).
Terminator Genisys is a perfect example of this actually.
Top 5 Domestic 007 Debuts: #1 SKYFALL ($88M) #2 SPECTRE ($73M) #3 QUANTUM OF SOLACE ($67M) #4 DIE ANOTHER DAY ($47M) #5 CASINO ROYALE ($40M)
It's RT score is way higher than TG, it opened way higher at the BO, plus SP is coming off the massive goodwill from SF. I don't see many parallels with the Terminator franchise, which people have hated for a long time.
I'm not referring to RT in this instance, but rather, the comment about US box office not mattering when shaping the overall lasting narrative about a film being remembered as a success or failure. The US box office is still as important as ever in shaping that lasting narrative.
I'm not sure what shaping the narrative means to be honest, but if you look at most of the big BO movies of the last 5 years, many of them still would be on top of the lists when deducting the BO result of the US.
In many cases the BO outside the US is up to 80% of the total.
The US results in 10 years time will be short of peanuts for the studios and not matter anymore.
SPECTRE will make 100 million for certain in China and is breaking records in other markets.
No, nor do I. Not with this result for NA. But remember, SP can make 100 million less than SF and still cross the 1B mark.
btw: Do members here think maybe it would of been better for the film studio if they had opened SP a week earlier in North America, where there was very little competition?
It wasn't until Mid-December when The Hobbit and late December when Jack Reacher, Django, and Les Mis took over.
With SPECTRE, you had Peanuts in week 1 (different market like Wreck It Ralph). SP gets a free week with no new competition; however, in two weeks we have Hunger Games which will have more of a crossover than Twilight. Skyfall still managed an impressive 35m in the US during week 3. If SP can get close to that and stay in the 20's, I think it has a shot at 1b. But if we see it sink into the teens, it could have significantly less staying power than SF.
Exactly..........in terms of BO revenue.......a few decades ago the North American market, would account for between 40-50% of a worlds BO............but not in today's world, where films are playing truly worldwide.
You're 100% right. The US market is less and less important. SF made a huge 800 billion outside of the US. The extra 100 million it made in the US was icing on the cake. But unless China and the other far eastern countries uptick, SP may not get to $1 billion, but hopefully if it does near $900m it will still be viewed as successful. It will have out grossed MI5, the Martian, Kingsman, Mad Max, Spy and of course Uncle which flopped. The budget was, however, allowed to get too big and I am sure Bond 25's budget will be cut back to previous levels. I never expected SP to top SF. SF had too many advantages. No spy film competition, 50th anniv., Adele's big hit, the Queen/Bond Olympic video. SF had none of those advantages.
$291,000,000.............North America $73,000,000..........Int $218,000,000
Should get the actual International breakdown of countries very soon!
I know the owner of two cinema complexes in my region (went to school with him), he told me this morning that both locations made record revenue on Thursday, Friday and Saturday including sales of beverages, food etc. In both complexes Spectre was the only movie showed on all three days except The Martian getting one screening on Saturday and The Last Witch Hunter one screening on Friday at Midnight.
Even the screenings at 11 in the morning were more than half full on Saturday.
At least in Switzerland, it looks, that SP will shatter Skyfall's records.