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If you say that, you do it again! Comparing 'Skyfall' with the 1960's. I specifically said times have changed and considering these changed circumstances you could say we were facing a unique Bond mania, that is not comparable to the Thunderball-mania. By the way....what IS mania. The word is commonly used to describe an individual's psychological situation and not those of large groups. So by saying that the Thunderball-mania wasn't a mania in its strictest sence either.
Sorry, I'm comparing it with something like Batman of current times. I'm just saying that it doesn't constitute mania in the sense we use it as Bond fans. Bond-mania is popular terminology used to describe a period between about 1964-67. Skyfall is not a phenomenon, it's just a really successful film. Alice in Wonderland grossed over a billion but that wasn't a phenomenon. Like someone said it doesn't really matter, I'm just stating the fact that in the Bond universe this does not constitute 'mania' in case people are unaware of their Bond history. I'd prefer to say Skyfall seems to have captured the Zeigeist.
Yes billion dollar films aren't the rarity they used to be but SF along with Nolan's films have achieved this without the cosmetic enhancement Avatar, Alice In Wonderland and the Avengers has, the anticipation for Bond 24 will be huge.
Same reason as Avatar: 3D and pretty visuals/special effects.
That will change by the end of its run!
Well, you Dutch people have excellent taste, then. :D
And about mania at a personal level, well we'll see if we hear one day that Daniel Craig made a boy cry because he signed an autograph "Daniel Craig" instead of "James Bond". It happened to the other fellow :)
Also, remember that neither GF nor TB were "above the rest" success in the US box office for instance (GF was never #1 of the week there, TB was only one week), the Bondmania was really more than just business.
Well Skyfall is still close to them in this country :
:)
Where does that claim comes from ?
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A movie-spinoff of a TV series that was very popular in the Netherlands, and never broadcast in the US I think (it was on the main French channel though). It was also near The Return of the King mega-success zone in Netherlands !
Highest grossing film ever here in the UK. We win :P
Spot the odd one out!
My girlfriend and I are planning on seeing 'Django Unchained,' 'Jack Reacher,' and SF (this one for the sixth time) in a few days, and when I checked the times, they had one showtime for SF, so it looks like its theater run - at least where I'm from - is about to end.
Odeons in London twice a day now.
Not sure about better because it might not get all the raving reviews and everything like this one had.
It should do really well though, probably around the same if it's good. I could see definetly getting 900 million.
I'm sorry but in this day and age, a film like Bond making a $billion isn't solely down to how great the movie is; marketing and public awareness were a major driving factor and EoN would be fools to trivialize such a strategy. Bond 24 shouldn't be about audiences wanting to see it, it's a film that should be marketed as a movie we need to see.
I didn't see that many SF posters or adverts where I live (other than the Heineken ad, which was always on TV).
Yeah, and I'm not sure why. Most of us have been waiting for the Christmas Eve/Christmas Day numbers to come in, but it has yet to do so. Haven't all the other films received their numbers for those days already?
I know it's dead boring but.. worldwide exchange rate variations over 2 years may account for +/-20% at "worst/best" IMO. So today's 700 M$ worldwide can become tomorrow 840M$ or 560M$, oops there's a 280M$ change out of the blue; I'll let you judge then how hard it is to discuss when one such factor is unknown and totally unrelated to anything the producers can do. It may be 0% change too !
For instance with China :
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