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http://deadline.com/2015/10/spectre-uk-box-office-opening-1201595185/
It's possible but we have to make sure we are comparing apples to apples. They have made that quite difficult by releasing SP on a Monday in the UK. MI-RN did the same thing in the US with its release date (i.e. a different day vs. MI-GP, to make the direct comparisons difficult).
Exactly....i did realize that!
;)
http://www.nu.nl/film/4153287/al-70000-kaarten-verkocht-spectre.html
The article with Google Translate:
The news is especially important, since the theater count in The Netherlands has been tremendously enlarged:
"SPECTRE" opens in a record 136 theaters in The Netherlands this midnight (327 screens)!! "SkyFall" opened in 119 theaters across the country (211 screens). So that's massive!
Sony Benelux and distributor Universal Pictures Benelux are obviously aiming at breaking the previous "highest grossing movie in Holland", which is the phenomenon "Skyfall". That movie grossed $25,100,238 (I know, it's a little *beep* country :-P. But still, "Skyfall" stunned the Dutch box office back in 2012 and did much better than Mexico, Russia, South-Korea, Spain, Italy and Brazil).
No wonder The Netherlands is the 3rd country after Ireland and UK were "SPECTRE" will premiere. Sony/Universal sees Netherlands as a pivotal market among the 'small countries' :-).
Time will tell!
70.000 tickets pre-ordered is quite impressive as up today.
I think it's very simple:
"SP" will do to "SF" what "The Dark Knight Rises" did to "The Dark Knight" :-).
It will be more cr@p, I do hope not.
We are talking about box office :-P.
I know but I do not like the comparison between the Batman movies as I want SP to be better than SF, which does not require a great deal. As for BO I could not care less unless SP is an actual improvement. Looking forward seeing it this week/weekend at such time as the daughters are available to come along.
SP is better than SF imo.
:-O
Damn....you make me horny now.
Great analysis @bondjames ... I believe that SP has the (1) nostalgia factor (gun barrel, car chase, classic henchman, DB5, and of course Spectre and the villain's lair. Plus, we can argue that since this could be DC last bond the (3) 'emotional resonance'. Maybe, they know this and that is why DC is being so cagey. Finally, could there be a (4) 'mania' effect due the sony hacks (bad controversy?
Thanks @mnhettia. I haven't seen it yet (have to hold out until the 6th) so can't comment beyond a general hypothetical analysis.
It's possible that SP has all the necessary elements (I agree with your comments noting examples of how it could in fact all be there....).
I think we'll only know as we go into the 2nd and 3rd weeks.....to determine whether it's really getting repeat viewings from beyond the 'hardcore base' (who seem to love it for the most part, with only a few feeling it's a little cookie cutter).
What I'm not getting from reading the fanbase reviews though is a sense of real hysterical enthusiasm.....beyond what one would typically expect from us (all of us hardcore fans....) for a new Bond film...especially one that has been 3 yrs in the making.
Uneducated guess, like everything else here.
The 24th Bond film took in $9.2 million on its first full day, the biggest Tuesday box-office haul of all time in the U.K.
After a stunning $6.4 million opening night in the U.K. on Monday night, Spectre is now outpacing its record-breaking predecessor Skyfall and breaking records at the U.K. box office.
On Wednesday, it was revealed that the 24th Bond film had amassed $9.2 million on its first full day, the biggest Tuesday gross of all time in the U.K. and bigger than Skyfall's first-day gross three years ago.
I was hoping you had already seen it. I always admire you opinion even if I don't always agree.
You're not "slumming" in the States are you?
0.9 billion
Thanks @mcdonbb. Likewise.
No, I'm residing in Canada presently. I used to watch the Bonds in Leicester Sq in the UK on the day they were in general release so I'm quite ticked off that they have these staggered release schedules these days. We seem to be getting the short end of it in North America.
Looking at the re-emergence of Bond since 1995's Goldeneye, each subsequent Bond film has outperformed its predecessor, well upto 2008's dismal QOS, where poor word of mouth affected the films grosses, after its initial very strong opening weekend.
My view is i don't think SP will not have a bad word of mouth problem............and i could see the film surpassing SF's $160million.
If SP grosses a similar amount of money as it did for Tuesday on Wednesday & Thurday, then by the start of the official opening weekend on Friday.......the film could of grossed around $33-34 million..........then the really big box figures will be attained on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Whether it will be a new UK opening record, not sure, because by then quite a lot of people would of seen the film during these preview days!
TND grossed less than GE too.
Sorry NO it didn't.................TND had a higher UK gross than GE
GE grossed nearly £17.4 million.............TND grossed around £20 million
Though GE did have a higher worldwide gross. :)
What you're indirectly saying then is that SP has a very good chance of becoming the top grossing film in the UK. That's quite a feat if it can pull it off. I don't know how often a successor film from the same franchise has toppled its immediate predecessor at the top of any box office. If it happens, it will be great marketing.