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That does it then - I'll buy them all on blu ray and then take in the new one at the cinema either this week or next (along with Spotlight, which I really want to see as well).
Days gross = $2,751,500 ............ running total $68,227,900
Film down to 4th place, though only fractionally behind the 2nd and 3rd films.
Latest HG film top.........but nothing special about its opening.
SP does appear to of lost quite a lot of screens..........looks like film now, will be lucky to get to $100 mil......but we will see!
"The Hunger Games 4: Mockingjay Part 2" disappoints on Friday in China. It entered the Chinese charts at no#1, but with a rather lacklustre $4,473,200 / $4.5 Million. In comparison: "SPECTRE" opened with $14.2 Million last Friday.
"James Bond 24: SPECTRE" did fall to 4th place, but the difference between no# 2 and no# 3, both of which are Chinese productions, is negligible. Actually, amount-wise it follows "Hunger Games 4" very closely with a gross of $2,751,500 / $2.8 Million. Which for Chinese standards is a pretty good holdover.
Total Chinese gross for "SPECTRE" now stands at: $68,227,900 / $68.2 Million. If the movie holds better than "Mission: Impossible 5 - Rogue Nation" did, then "SPECTRE" is on course to gross around $120 Million in China. By comparison: "Kingsman: The Secret Service" had an opening weekend of $22.5 Million in China and went on to gross $74.7 Million.
It's 7 hours later there. It's 11:05 PM now in China. And like boxoffice.com and boxofficemojo.com they are rather accurate estimates.
So all the best is behind you?
Current total North America: $139,102,879
25,2% of the total gross and have in mind that the numbers from the rest of the world hasn't been updated since sunday
For China, I think about $100m to $105m or thereabouts is possible based on the recent data, which is in line with expectations.
Spectre $139,102,879
Skyfall $185,641,149
Fri....................HG gross $4 mil, SP gross $1.5 mil
HG just ain't that cool in the UK
Obviously huge sums of money is welcomed but Bond movies don't need to be making and exceeding a billion and to be perfectly honest imo SF really didn't deserve to generate that much revenue; CR did if ever there was a Bond movie that deserved to kill it at the BO.
After all these years, I'm a bit worried that EoN don't know how to handle having a huge budget. 25 million on building and destroying cars and not even in such a spectacular fashion is beyond wasteful. Then, allegedky needing to bank 650 million just to break even is crazy.
The first thing EoN need to address is their creative process. The need for a new, excellent scripwriter has reached the territory of desperation and throwing money in this area should be priority number one. Mine the source material, the novels offer so much untapped excellent material that are screaming to be pasted up on screen. Let's do this!
CR would never have grossed that much it was a gamble that paid off which led to SF's gross I'm proud of it's achievements as a fan.
I agree SP budget is ridiculous considering the way they rushed the ending of the film, at least I can see SF budget on the screen. The Scotland climax blows literally both the desert and the MI6 ending to SP away.
My post outlined that it is indeed my opinion, something I firmly stand by. Dont get me wrong as a Bond fan I'll take success where ever I can as long as it keeps the series alive and popular but compared to films like CR I feel the praise and BO were overstatements. For me, SF was good but it wasn't THAT good.
You are right that CR would never have made a billion dollars back in '06 but neither would have SF had it been released back then, even moreso many film today crossing the billion dollar mark wouldn't have done so. This is all a moot point but tangentially I think ordinarily Bond films today at least shouldn't be exceeding budgets of 250million and should be banking around 750 to 800 million. Reasonable and realistic.
I'd say there were plenty enough moments in which we saw the budget on screen but then again I don't think any Bond climax will match the cinematography of the Skyfall Lodge ablaze.
That said other than the PTS in SF they didn't really go anywhere - Macao in the studio - so it all looked a little homely.
Against all expectation for the 50th anniversary film we ended up with something a little low key and introspective so it was nice to have some spectacle back again for SP.
Sat gross:- $4,905,600 .............. running total $73,377,300
SP's 2nd weekend has dropped a lot in China, but so has the competition. SP only a fraction behind 2nd place film, and the new Hunger Games film on its opening, barely made a little more than $1mil over SP, yet is playing at some 11,000 screens more.
1. car chase blows SP's out of the water. Just destroys it. Visceral delight
2. Sienna Mitchell rooftop chase is as good as SP pretitles - we just can't follow it
3. boat chase is as good as it gets....pity we can't make any thing out without slow motion
4. they used real planes for the plane chase (until it disintegrates)
5. parts of the hotel explosion and hotel in the finale were real
Good news from India.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2015/11/21/friday-box-office-spectre-tops-140m-spotlight-and-brooklyn-expand/
That is $4m (50%) less than QoS on the comparable day and $10m (approx 72%) less than SF, before adjusting for inflation. Loss of the best theatres due to HG seems to have taken a toll on Friday. I hope it holds up well over Sat/Sun. The release schedule was always going to be a problem around this time.
I'm really disappointed. Miss the Bond high we all had in 2012.
And it's doing less than QS ...but don't shoot me but I have a greater appreciation now for QS. I always liked the film though.
The ending of QS didn't falter like SP ...and best sequence wasn't in the PTS.
I'm bummed. I don't want to lose my Bond.
You need to understand one very important thing. Holdover of non-Chinese productions is usually not that good as in home country USA. And that's because of so many Chinese productions. They always eat off a lot of gross from the imported US/European productions.
Having said all this, I am very impressed by the $73,377,300 figure "SPECTRE" has grossed so far. I'm way more certain now that "SPECTRE" will soar past the $120 Million during the end of its run in China. Also, "Hunger Games 4" did disappoint in China, like I predicted. So as "SPECTRE" now easily fought off "The Peanuts" and "Hunger Games 4" in China, it has basically a nice run in China right until "Star Wars 7" premieres there.
I must agree however that $250 Million for "SPECTRE" would be a bit too much to ask for a total gross in the USA. But it will soar past the $200 Million. Possibly $225 Million.
Conclusion so far: We love you China :-P!