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In The Netherlands "SPECTRE" will now almost certainly surpass the previous box office gross of "Skyfall". And not by small numbers.
Total box office gross "SKYFALL" 2012:
--> $25,100,238
Total box office gross "SPECTRE" 2015 (after 18 days in cinema's):
--> $11,792,000
This is a whopping 9,3% more (!!!) than the total earnings of "SKYFALL" after 18 days =P~ .
Moreover, Scott Mendelsohn from Forbes.....I actually like reading his latest article now :-P:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2015/11/15/spectre-box-office-bond-plays-like-bourne-in-us-nears-550m-worldwide/
http://deadline.com/2015/11/spectre-second-weekend-by-the-sea-bombing-angelina-jolie-brad-pitt-1201622151/
Of course it applies to all movies this year but it is only relevant once you compare SF to SP. That's my point.
That is insane.
Ehhh, yes. This is a bit...ehmmm.....scary? Blofeld's marketing tentacles clearly worked ;-).
The current exchange rates are hurting the film quite a bit, in comparison to SF, but the film is still besting even that film in many markets.
I have seen figures, where people have done exchange rate calculations on the current list of worldwide BO champs, and when SF's converted total is put into 2015 figures, it has been estimated that SF wouldn't of reached $1.1 bil today, in fact not even $1 bil, but somewhere around $980 mil.
Of course it is all subjective, but it does show that overall SP is performing very well indeed. Shame about North America though.......but that's another story!
I have a feeling SPECTRE will have decent legs in NA. It will probably end up around 200 million, IMO.
I'm still waiting to see how this film does outside N.A. in week 3. That to me is a big test of its 'legs'. It was expected that it would blow the doors off SF in the opening weeks, given it was the successor to the most successful Bond film. The anticipation was huge.
SPECTRE just made 5M dollars in China on a monday. For a 2D film, that's phenomenal. SPECTRE will fly past the Skyfall total gross in the next couple of days, so I'd say 1 billion is (let's say) still on the cards for now. Anything can change in the coming days...
$1bn is possible, but as mentioned, it will depend on the 'legs' starting in week 3. That is where SF really shone.....it just kept going and going and going in a lot of markets......
I'm not the one that said that. :(
There's not a lot of "test" anymore. Yes, upcoming week "Hunger Games 4" premieres. But for the rest of 2015 there is no 2D, normal action blockbuster in cinema anymore. Off course "Hunger Games 4" will hurt the holdover a bit.
Again, my previous point about exchange rates and stuff...it's comparing apples and pears really. Other movies this year have the same disadvantage. And a strong Dollar well influence all businesses of movie companies: Both investments (production budgets) as well as turnovers and profits.
You need to see "SPECTRE" in the light of this year's blockbusters, and perhaps less with "Skyfall".
"Rogue Nation" had the same 'strong dollar' as compared to "SPECTRE". Still, it did good stuff at the box office, and it cashed a lot of money, despite the exchange rate. Same with "Avengers 2" as compared with "Avengers 1".
And like I mentioned before, the China box office is heavily compensating against the strong Dollar. If within three yours your country's number of cinema's have doubled or tripled the number of 2012, then 'exchange rates' and 'strong Dollar' become a rather fluidic means of comparison.
So we can't really say yet how SP is going to behave (traditionally, or more like SF/CR). We're not there yet.
Let's see. But I think at this stage certain doomsday scenario's on IMDB, where people predict a global box office gross of $700 Million to max $850 Million, are out of the question now. $900 Million, like you mentioned a couple of times is more or less the minimum "SPECTRE" will gross globally.
I seem to remember SF was still playing in cinemas in February of 2013.
The opposite of conservative is: Indeed, progressive ;-).
It sure was.........SF's run in the UK extended into early March 2013.
We have a long way to go yet!
Actual $33,681,104...........total $128,981,285...........a little bit disappointing again, as it is quite a bit off the estimated $35.4 mil.
Obviously the coming weeks with their big releases will be telling about how it will fair until the rest of the year and well into the new one. Forget Hunger Games, Star Wars is going to be the real decider of SP's overall performance. Star Wars will absolutely destroy every single box office record going now. Just pre-sale ticket purchases for the movie broke the internet.
I never spend any time looking at box office numbers or caring at all about what a film makes, but there are two times where there is an exception: any Batman related movies and James Bond. I've made a habit of checking Box Office Mojo like a shaky addict these couple of weeks just seeing how SP is doing in comparison to SF. I'll be doing much the same thing early next year when Batman v. Superman comes out. I can't help it, really. Do I have a problem?
Umm......doesn't look like SP will end up with similar total to SF, for a few reasons.
It looks likely now that SP will gross some $200 mil in the US............and thats a deficit of some $100 mil to start off with.
The grosses in Europe and most other parts of the world will have similar grosses to SF, or slightly more at best, but despite higher admissions for SP overseas, the exchange rate is killing the film a bit..........so we wont have such high grosses in Germany, France and Australia as examples. The exchange rate has really battered the takings at the Russian and Brazilian box offices.
The UK as usual, being the home of Bond............is anchoring the film overseas, and will end up with a gross, very close to SF.
So, really for the film SP to challenge SF, the film would have to rely on a huge Chinese BO take, and i can't see the films BO takings there compensating for the losses elsewhere. $100+ mil looks a good bet for Chinese BO.
Regarding, checking BO statistics, no you don't have a problem, as many people like to check out figures for their favourite films.........and if it was a problem, then that would mean many of us are in that category as well! :)
Yeah they've overestimated the Sunday take twice in a row now. Probably didn't account for the male demo being busy with NFL games
The studios keep doing this though, it happens to most films for the Sunday estimates.
You would of thought by now, the studios would of learnt, to take at least a percentage off the Sunday estimated take. Its quite obvious that as in the States people would be watching the Sunday Sports games instead...............but then maybe, the studios do this deliberately, as it looks good in the media reports in the headlines of the BO reports for the weekend, if the figures quoted are slightly optimistic!