It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
^ Back to Top
The MI6 Community is unofficial and in no way associated or linked with EON Productions, MGM, Sony Pictures, Activision or Ian Fleming Publications. Any views expressed on this website are of the individual members and do not necessarily reflect those of the Community owners. Any video or images displayed in topics on MI6 Community are embedded by users from third party sites and as such MI6 Community and its owners take no responsibility for this material.
James Bond News • James Bond Articles • James Bond Magazine
Comments
Brilliant.
Yeah to be fair @RC7 said lets move on and then @Germanlady said something else to him about art.
It is and at the same time maybe not LOTR: Fellowship Ring came out 11 years ago when tickets prices where a lot lower and many OS markets where tiny compared to what they are today e.g India and China. LOTR:Fellowship was a hugely popular film and would easily passed a billion at modern prices. Still to pass any of the LOTR is an achievement.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/skyfall-opens-top-box-office-396685
@royale, I was typing my answer to RC7, while he was posting his "lets move on".
Yh Asian is not as keen on Skyfall as America and northern europe as i have heard that they claim there is not enough action. It also underachieved in Singapore and Hong kong. One of the reason it was a bit low in Japan was a movie about the most popular manga series ever was released in Japan fairly recently i believe and Manga is huge in Japan. Still $30 mil at least should come from Japan.
Why not? If MI:GP made 100m then why can't SF beat that?
Although they'll probably get the hump with the fact that it was the Chinese who tortured Silva.
Yh we have to remember Asia has a much different Cinema going culture to Europe and America. Re-releases and 3d sequels are not that popular in europe and America but in Asia there huge for example Transformers 3 was a mega hit in most of Asia.
MI:4 was a hit because Tom Cruise is a huge star in China so i have heard and Chinese reviews raved on about the action scenes so that help. Apparently Chinese reviews are not impressed by Skyfall calling it overrated or so i read on Boxoffice forums. Also TH is out around the same time that will effect Skyfall as TH is in 3d and is fantasy film two elements the chinese love much more then Europeans and Americans.
Also piracy might take its toll. IMO China will cost the film the Billion mark.
Good point, i needed that to clear things up; Thank you Theliving. :)
I didn't see MI:GP at the theatre, just on HD download on the xbox. My mate, who incidentally doesn't rate Bond that highly (he thinks GE is the worst film he's ever seen) sent me a text after he'd seen MI:GP saying 'Have you seen MI, this is basically how Bond should be'. I'm not sure I completely agreed with him but I did think it had a lot of redeeming qualities. As it happens SF is so completely different I don't think it's easy to compare.
But it indeed made 2 billion yens. The author of Hollywood reporter you quote based his computations on today's JP/US exchange. But this one is even more dynamic than the Euro/US. In ten years, the $ lost half its value in Japan. So the same moviegoer spending the same amount of yens now counts as twice more in the worldwide box office than when he went to see DAD. Quite impressive, isn't it ? So the "69% more than CR" that he gives is actually almost exclusively exchange rate variation. A quick computation I did tells me it did about 10% more "only" in Yen (and if the number of Friday premieres, if any, is not the same, the comparison maybe pointless).
So he's right to claim from his analysis that SF should not, in his opinion, break records like in other countries. But in a few years, all that will be left in the lists is that "CR made 18M$, SF did 30M$ (for instance), it was an incredible success in Japan too !". At least this time you're experiencing it live !
Is that what happened this year with Batman and Spider-Man?
Bond never had a US director. It had mostly UK directors ovbiously. It had a Canadian once, that didn't leave a good impression, a Swiss one, and two New Zealanders, one best "forgotten" but also one who "saved" the franchise twice (Campbell).
Somehow I think not having ever been directed by a US director helped a lot the franchise to be what it is now.
Also, call it dubious snobbery or even xenophobia, but I know people whose only action movie they'll consider seeing is Bond, because it's not "from the USA" (the exception may be Spielberg)
Yh Batman and Spiderman had a release during the same week as each other. Spiderman grossed more i think during its opening week. So both where effect as you would think Nolans Batman would be a big hit in China. i mean Batman only made $52 million in China according to box office mojo.
It was quiet before that (Ice Age 4 weeks before only), but the week after there was also Expendables and Prometheus, and then it became quiet again for a few weeks...
Box office Mojo data about TDKR is outdated (look at the date), it will end with a few M$ more (55 in mid November already).
Great points @Baltimore, but it isn't just about the money it makes and nothing else. By how financially well off the film is, the greater hopes for future films are, and EON may take more risks or go further with any ideas they may have now that they have seen the majority reaction to Skyfall.