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Sjee, you are really picky huh :-)? I checked the figures on BoxOfficeMojo.
http://www.flickeringmyth.com/2012/12/skyfall-overtakes-avatar-to-become.html
So Impressive considering Avatar was in 3d as well!
And somebody said that the UK didn't have the best Bond fans :-w
Brilliant. Bond is on top on his home country. That's all I need to be honest, I really now don't care about getting a billion or getting Oscars. This has made me very happy.
Yup, as a proud British Bond fan, this is lovely news. Lovely, indeed... :)
I think it's really proved itself and the fact it's nearly at the same adjusted take of TB which was released at a time when there were no where the amount of distractions and competition that modern films have to deal with today and without 3D to bolster it's profits makes Skyfall's achievement that more impressive.
Bond mania has well and truly returned, the expectation for Bond 24 for will be at Dark Knight proportions.
To me it seems that more and more movies do steam up to the billion marker, that perhaps SF will be the first of the 007 series that will do. And perhaps of the DC 007 movies the one is that deserves it.
Still amazing that the Non-US audiences make more and more the BO for movies than the so-called domestic market. But we see that as well that more and more the market for big movies lies outside of the US.
You could ask yourself why James Bond is doing much better than the last Mission Impossible, Die Hard, Taken and Jason Bourne films. I find your remark a tiny bit....simplistic.
More movies hitting the 1 billion? Yes. Movies from the same kind of spy/action genre? Definately no.
Moreover, would you have posted this if 'Skyfall' only brought in $ 650 million? Less than Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol? Off course not. Then people would start saying "The Bond franchise is indeed slowly dying".
'We' Bond fans seem to never be fully satisfied.....
Some of us don't mind either way if we get a decent film. B.O. is great but it's no barometer of quality. I think the general consensus between Bond fans is that TB is nowhere close to being the best Bond film and I would argue many would watch LTK over it. Cue TB lovers.
I think it says allot when Skyfall can achieve this without this cosmetic advantage.
In as much as I 100% agree with you on this, still, BO takings can't and shouldn't be completely ignored. Bond will always make money, we all know this but I think in this day and age, it'll be worrisome if a Bond film makes less than $500million WW.
Absolutely. It's worth monitoring.
James Bond had a few things in its favor this year: the 50th anniversary, the incredible Olympic stunt with the Queen and perhaps the titlesong by Adele.
Also the movie does major business outside of the US, which most Bonds have performed well, which becomes in recent years the place to drive up your BO. Something even the US industry seems to notice.
And simplistic enough for you as ticketprices rise so do does the BO. So undoubtely we will see more and more movies do very well at the BO. WHen talking about the spy genre I think that 007 has one unique advantage over the US based spies, he always did well even in areas where US spies are generally considered not done. But that last reason is perhaps a thought by me. As James Bond was always more about style and class mixed with fantasy and great actionstunts, less about politics.
So, if the dollar looses another 30% in the next 5 years, even with a little inflation only, you may have 10 billionnaire movies per year, and the true event will be 2$bn. If the dollar inverts the trend and go back to 2002 levels, and with little inflation, we may have only one 1$bn per year. And then I think all the PR in the worlds will start to explain a lot why it doesn't mean it is a failure :)
"3D" and "advantage" in the same sentence. Hahahahahaha! :))
But I agree man, need more quality directors. They're coming through though, Rian Johnson being one of them (directed Looper). Hopefully the bigger studios will start to take notice of them, I'm also excited to think about what a younger director (in their 30s perhaps) might do with Bond.
I agree. Contemporary directors like Nolan and Tarantino make me feel that not all hope is lost.
Almost. $869,712,819 so far.