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That's not entirely accurate. Holiday time has always been seen as a big movie season, before the summer madness sparked by Jaws and Star Wars. What has happened is it keeps pushing outward, testing the limits of early November for blockbusters.
Moreover, "dead" seasons like the fall and spring are hosting blockbusters of their own, especially around extended weekends. Which leads to a strange phenomenon of releasing major tentpoles in unusual spots and using the summer and holiday cache to try and boost the grosses of weaker films.
Some people here were very unfair saying American people hate Bond, British or simply non-American movies.
http://deadline.com/2015/11/thanksgiving-box-office-hunger-games-mockingjay-creed-the-good-dinosaur-1201639941/
SP will soon be down to grossing under a $1 mil a day, during the weekdays, and with the continual drop each week, of the number of theatres the film will be playing in.......its gonna take a long time for SP to reach $200 mil (even if that is possible).
Cinema was less than 10% full!
Yes beyond just this movie everyone is quick to damn America about anything and everything.
What's wrong and shortsighted is that even if they disagree with our government (we often do too) they transcend that to the American people too.
But like I suspected and hoped SP is hanging in there.
By the way, almost 1 million more coming from China today, not greate, but SP is sitll 5# and it has the 3rd best people per screen average of the Top 10.
What are you talking about? It's at 168 right now before the full weekend hits... like ChampionAlonso's post said, 175 or so by Monday. 25 million more in its entire US run is hard/tough? Getting to 200 will happen. Period. It might be a slog but it's gonna do it.
That's exactly what i said.........its gonna be a slog to get there.
With SP it's sightly different. Still a huge success globally. And even with inflation correction it will probably pass YOLT (something no Brosnan film was able to do). But most importantly, I'm looking forward to the limited edition steelbook release for "SPECTRE" ;-). Way more fun to look forward too.
I have no idea.
I don't live in a main city and don't watch much to here so don't know about promotion.
It's a very successful movie but not up to the box office level of Skyfall. 007 fans got a little spoiled, both for the box office and the positive reviews. Overall, it's a positive picture.
A combination of studio leaks, a negative US reception, and comparisons to SKYFALL. Modern day expectations are 1 billion or bust.
On the flip side, the widely praised and largely successful MAD MAX: FURY ROAD made a third of SPECTRE's gross worldwide and nobody's groveling at it's performance.
Mad max didn't cost anywhere near as much as SP did and no one was expecting it to make ridiculous sums of money at the BO. It accomplished what it set out to do and that was to be a bloody great action movie that was critically acclaimed and made a tidy profit.
Yes. I'm a huge Bond fan and what is truly disappointing for me is that I don't want to enjoy Mad Max more or MI more either but this time I did.
Oh yes and quick to mention US reception as negative as a cause but don't leave out that it's not that great of a film.
Ok some love it and that's great but most of critics whether American or British have complained about the same faults.
Again don't blame America for less enthusiasm when the Brits made a mediocre film.
Eh? I didn't say anything about blaming America for being less receptive to SP.
Some people are very exagerated when there are not (near) universal acclaim!!! My God, CR or SF were exceptions in the Bond saga, Bond movies had had MIXED reviews for decades and we could live with them.
Of course Bond is British and much more European than almost any other important Hollywood franchise, but it is still Top 10 material in USA, even in a difficult year like 2015.
It is annoying to hear it called a disappointment in some places because it hasn't reached $800 million plus dollars yet, though people also seem to forget that it's not tracking that far behind SF either for what has been termed a subpar effort. Yawn. (:|
Basically the film lacked, a soul.........and didn't have that magic feeling too it, and whilst the film was good enough, to pull in the worldwide Bond fan base, it is evident that the film hasn't done a lot to bring in non-bond fans, as per CR and SF managed to do so.
Just one other point, we in the UK do not go in droves to see a Bond film, if its a very bad film.
Remember, that even after a very strong start in the UK........the Box Office for QOS dropped very steeply indeed, with the film grossing some $25 mil less than CR.
Just, thought i mention that to our North American members here, who feel somewhat agrieved at being singled out, for their countryman's less than ecstatic reception to SP.
In fact, if it wasn't for the MI6 UK member here @quantumofsolace, who saw the film QOS 24 times. then the UK take would of been, even significantly lower. :-O