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Good listing. I think I agree with most of your film order. I need to rewatch some of these though because I've forgotten to much stuff about some of them.
Lol thanks.
I'd rather be
that confuses the hell out of me :))
Actually SP is still ahead of SF in the UK by 6% overall. Film only dropped 29% in its 2nd weekend.........tally as of now is just over a whopping $100 mil..............not bad for a little island eh?
Yes........i'am sure many of the Mums and Dads who took their kids to see 'Peanuts' will go eventually to see SP..........in the US & Canada!
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Very impressive :) .. I've seen SP twice I'm trying over here to boost that BO, I'm like a kite..... etc. etc.
I assume its taking rebates and incentives into consideration. Maybe they did literally spend 300 but they got kickbacks. We know they got a few million from Mexico.
All the reports i've seen lately do say that the final budget was $245 mil!
Those are the numbers the "marketing" department of EON probably gave.
The movie has cost way over 300 million according to most sources, but they sure made a lot of Money with product placement.
Also in those numbers the advertising campaign is not included which may easily have cost an additional 100 to 150 million.
http://variety.com/2015/film/box-office/spectre-global-box-office-1201636229/
Correct. The gross budget was in the "mid 300 millions'. However, what the studio actualy spends, was intended to be "under 250 million" the net budget.
245 million is perfectly in line with the plan, according to the leaks.
No, that was not the case, see above.
That's insane really if you think of it!!
EON has to get the cost expenditure under control otherwise there could someday be a financial disaster.
Yes these insane budgets put Bond's profitability at risk.
I don't know what the breakdown was on this budget, but I'd like to be able dissect it and analyze it. Then decide whether the return was up on the screen for each component.
If the car chase and the plane chase were a massive part of the budget, then from my perspective, these were piss poor uses of money, because the tension just wasn't there in either scene.
Mexico was worth at least 15% of the budget, because it delivered at least that much of the palpable tension and excitement of the whole film, despite being just the pretitles.
London, on the other hand, had better not have cost more than 5% imho.
MI-RN was made with $150m production budget so we're talking a $90m difference (net) while using the same locations almost.
An important factor here is Craig and Mendes. Craig is on his fourth film, it costs more each time keep bringing him back.
JW saved money by hiring a no name director. Someone like Mendes will have to trouble finding work without Bond, so he will so get incentives to return.
If with B25 EON recast with an unknown and bring in a new director who is a little more workmanlike and a little less autuer, and if they can keep the film under 2hrs, they could easily produce it for $160 million IMO. :)]
They wasted 24million quid on Cars for THAT chase? 24 million? Wasteful at best, immoral at worst.
This is the key point imho. The planning was obviously terrible. Poor strategic vision at the start results in major problems down the road.
If you want to use an airplane and a few supercars (which obviously costs a lot of money), try to at least up the ante a bit, please.....
Their own back catalogue should have given them several ideas on how to be effective and not wasteful.
But that $24m will be firmly in the gross budget and not the net budget. So great planning.
http://www.oe24.at/kino/Spectre-Bester-007-Start-Oesterreichs/211380618
http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2015/11/09/spectre-box-office-007-reasons-why-the-gossip-failed-to-hurt-the-film/
He is an SJW, you shouldn't expect him to be consistent.