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And sorry it's 4 067 620 million tickets sold. My bad.
A $75 million plus opening is more likely.
Also:
1. $1,037,291,060.32 - Thunderball
2. $932,346,267.74 - Goldfinger
3. $843,280,463.96 - Live And Let Die
4. $773,204,227.54 - You Only Live Twice
5. $707,967,950.50 - The Spy Who Loved Me
6. $682,098,608.86 - Casino Royale
7. $670,341,133.13 - Moonraker
8. $662,795,358.02 - Diamonds Are Forever
9. $629,928,504.77 - Quantum Of Solace
10. $596,667,068.63 - From Russia With Love
11. $555,648,360.42 - Die Another Day
12. $534,777,984.42 - GoldenEye
13. $517,040,163.49 - On Her Majesty's Secret Service
14. $502,584,334.85 - The World Is Not Enough
15. $497,181,376.24 - For Your Eyes Only
16. $480,131,415.66 - Tomorrow Never Dies
17. $458,120,146.04 - The Man With The Golden Gun
18. $456,431,419.48 - Dr. No
19. $435,630,647.59 - Octopussy
20. $389,480,795.77 - The Living Daylights
21. $339,368,258.36 - A View To A Kill
22. $321,000,000.00 - Skyfall
23. $291,436,616.45 - Licence To Kill
It won't beat Avatar. I remember that was still selling out screenings in February (2 months after release). Plus you have the advantage of the crazy 3D prices, especially back then.
Skyfall has already become Britain’s biggest film of 2012. In just 12 days, the new Bond movie has taken a whopping £57 million at the UK box office – more than The Dark Knight Rises (£56.2 million since July) and The Avengers (£51.6 million since April).
That total is enough to make Skyfall the most successful Bond movie ever in the UK, overtaking the £55.6 million earned by 2006′s Casino Royale.
http://www.filmnav.co.uk/2012/11/09/sky ... m-of-2012/
Also the audience for 0007 looks to have expanded: Fandango tells me that 26% of online ticket-buyers for Bond #23 said they only see a “handful (2 or 3)” of films each year so Skyfall isn’t just reaching frequent moviegoers. Going into today, Skyfall was accounting for 58.79% (41.74% for standard screens and 17.05% for IMAX) of all online ticket sales on MovieTickets, and 65% on Fandango.
Fandango surveyed more than 1,000 Skyfall ticket-buyers and found that male moviegoers for the 007 film outnumber female 52%/48%, 54% said Adele’s new theme song increased their awareness of the movie, 78% said the grittier action increased their interest in seeing the movie, 39% (the majority) picked Daniel Craig as their favorite Bond while only 35% picked Sean Connery, 47% said it’s important for them to see the film in IMAX, 29% picked Goldfinger as their favorite Bond villain/henchman followed by Blofeld (14%) and Jaws (13%). When asked for their favorite elements of the Bond series, 77% of respondents picked the action and stunts, 64% the exotic destinations, 56% picked the cool cars, 54% picked the gadgetry, 52% picked the villains, and 37% picked ‘the Bond girls’.
It'd be amazing if we could break $80 million this weekend. Hoping for the best.
http://insidemovies.ew.com/2012/11/09/the-hobbit-tops-skyfall/
I think it's crazy putting the tickets on sale so early. I'm certainly going to see The Hobbit, I'm a fan of the book, but I don't intend to buy the tickets until a week of two before it is released.
Like I did with SF I call on the day itself for seats but then again I like to go on days where the cinema is filled with more adults than kids, sunday, monday or tueasday night.
Generally that is where I tend to find free seats with new movies and a nicer audience.
http://www.hitfix.com/news/box-office-skyfall-on-track-for-100-million-opening
Not IMPOSSIBLE, but I feel unlikely. Like the guy put in the comments, Inception made about $4m in IMAX midnight sales, but only made $60m. And that was in the middle of the summer, with Nolan's first film after the uber-successful Dark Knight.
FRIDAY 7:15 PM, 4TH UPDATE: Stay tuned right here for my continuous updates today and all weekend with domestic box office numbers. MGM/Sony Pictures is saying Skyfall is looking to open in North America with a $75M first weekend after doing record-setting business overseas of $321M through Wednesday. But rival studios think Sony is low-balling – and that today’s domestic debut for James Bond #23 is looking to open somewhere over $37M (including $4.6M from Thursday’s IMAX screenings and Friday midnights) and the weekend at around $88M.
http://www.deadline.com/2012/11/skyfall-opens-with-imax-midnights-as-321m-bond-movie-abroad-arrives-in-u-s-canada-spielbergs-lincoln-platforms/
I for one am glad with these numbers. I feel like they 'confirm' my own sentiments towards the film. Had it not been like this, it wouldn't have bothered me in the least though. I love SF, I find a lot of things in it that appeal to the type of Bond fan I am (for there are, indeed, many types). Whatever the numbers at the BO, it would have been the same to me. But I guess the numbers, as they are now, are a bonus. ;-)
Some folks prefer the plastic Bond of DAD, others prefer the action Bond of TND, others still would like to return to the 60s and then some hope each and every successive Bond film to be a carbon copy of CR. I don't mind any of those (except the latter) - I merely like each Bond film to be slightly different than the one before it and the one that comes after it. That way I have a Bond film to fit any mood and mindset I may bring to an evening of film watching. For me, SF fills yet another gap and I have no trouble accepting that it isn't CR 2.0 - with Royale being one of my top Bonds of all times - because even CR 2.0 wouldn't be CR and might feel bland since we've already walked that path. Keep the elements of the mystical Bond formula there, but please shift and shake and move them around so that every new Bond film provides us with a fresh permutation instead of a rigid and thus annoyingly predictable self-parody.
Look two posts above. Its coming from deadline and they always do the maths in advane.
Its just a guess, based on the numbers, they already have...
http://www.deadline.com/2012/11/skyfall-opens-with-imax-midnights-as-321m-bond-movie-abroad-arrives-in-u-s-canada-spielbergs-lincoln-platforms/
I've decided I'm dragging my girlfriend to see it for a second time today; she loved it, and is itching to get into the rest of the series, so I'm happy! Add another $16 to the pot.
That would be very good. Anyway. Here in France SKYFALL has sold more tickets than any other Bond film since YOLT in 1967....
http://collider.com/friday-box-office-skyfall-takes-off-with-30-8-million-debut-spielbergs-lincoln-also-big-in-only-eleven-locations/210176/
MI6's article is a bit off. There's no way this 007 adventure will give Batman a run for his money, in any area bar the UK.