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Emotional resonance. Same with TDK. Americans love a bit of credible emotional drama. I don't think the Olympics had anything to do with SF's success in the US. That was more a British thing. It was all about connection at an emotional level. Also, Bardem's villain was just right for many (exaggerated without being camp and yet credibly hurt). The revenge plot just connected.
None of that has occurred with SP, and the action, moreover, is not 'best in class' for 2015. So it's 'just there' as a spy film. MI-RN did the action better and the plots are too close together and too close on release dates, so I think that hurts a little too (but not that much)....SP not doing so well is more on account of SP than because of anything else.
Keep in mind that SF was the outlier, like TDK. SP is doing as well as other Bond films from the past in the US (maybe better).
Hunger Games in UK, is virtually a non-entity.......well with adults it is.
Also read today that the latest Hunger Games film had a mediocre BO take in its previews on its opening in China.......that should help SP out this weekend!
HG will be big in NA so gearing up for Bond to make umm "Peanuts"
It's only a dozen of posters here (but very vocal indeed !) and notice they're the kind who simply can't write "I don't know why" :)
Back in 2012 "Twilight" destroyed "Skyfall"s opening weekend (€140 Million against SF's €88 Million I believe). But like many young adult movies they don't have the longevity, legs, holdover that Bond films have.
The Twilight film opened up on SF's 2nd weekend in 2012 in the US.
That's one reason why SF had such a high opening, and despite dropping heavily in its 2nd weekend, SF still managed over $40 mil............eventually SF re-overtook the Twilight film.
I keep reading that Hunger Games is huge but I'd never even heard of it until this thread. Let alone they did three previous films!
Wed:- $2,383,058 ............ running total $137,042,589
An acquired taste .. if the films had been British then the Brits would most likely be claiming its the best thing ever.
NA doesn't really thing in those terms hence the success of SP and Bond. And yes despite the drop SP is successful here especially given the mixed reviews.
Unlikely because we're not prone to proclaiming anything as the best thing ever. Worst ever, maybe.
Perhaps. I have to jab back now and then. :).
Why not, keeps things lively ;)
I'm just not in the right age group to have heard of Hunger Games, whereas I couldn't escape Twilight as so many women I worked with liked their fix of 'dark romance' lol!
I've escaped Twilight thank goodness. I stumbled on HG on DVD by chance and liked it. I would not have seen it otherwise.
I've only watched the HG movies on DVD/Blu-Ray ..never in the cinema.
........Twilight films.........awful........i believe that franchise is finished?
Hope so, from what i've read from Chinese people on film forums, is that the HG films, are not a big deal in China, so hopefully SP should have a good 2nd weekend.
I guess this weekend's box office performance for SP is going to be interesting and quite telling for all territories.
It's funny to think it hasn't even been out a month and yet feels like it's been at the cinema a long time already.
worldwide ?............hopefully.
I believe film opens in India this weekend.
Being a fan of the German machines (Mercedes-Benz, BMW) and knowing the inferiority of the Jag from a technological perspective, I had a chuckle.
I get your point though. Modesty is an English virtue.
I would say 660-670 million by the end of the weekend. 700 million may be too much.
.............i did say hopefully...........which was aimed at the $700 mil figure :)
One thing no one has mentioned, is that the Thanksgiving holiday next week in North America will give SP a bit of a boost, and hence maybe film will have a similar weekend BO, as to the one we are just coming upto.
Nice. 15 mil prediction for this weekend. So after tonight and this weekend SP should be around 155 domestic. Pretty solid after only 17 days in release here.
Mi6 board member multiple admissions may push it over the top.
I actually liked the sequels more. They had less of a teen vibe. The acting seemed to improve.
My comment @bondjames and @Cowley or really my jab was not appropriate. I was taking too much offence at the blame being hurled at NA for the lower BO performance. Lashed back at cousins :(..
I apologize.
Somewhat hypocritical for a Texan to complain about anybody being boastful.