LOL! Exactly. I don't see why people would take the 50th anniversary into account. Also, I don't think the advertising will cost less than it did for QoS. Impossible, not with a 50th anniversary movie PLUS inflation. And if they need £300 mln to break even (I can't even remember where that figure came from) that would mean a budget of £100 mln which is to say $160 mln.. a tad too distant from "same range as QoS" which costed $230 mln. I'd think their budget is $180 mln at the very least IF what Wilson said is to be believed. Which, as Mazer pointed out, is a BIG if, but I can't see why he'd shoot himself in the foot like that giving out a much higher figure for budget? That will make people do the math and require MUCH higher box office revenue in order to write that the film broke even or made money. In short, the film may be called a failure much more easily with such a higher budget compared to what was revealed at first, and while Wilson and Babs are idiots, I can't believe Wilson especially would be SO stupid. It's figures, people ARE GOING to know the real ones pretty soon regardless, so I seriously don't understand why he'd lie about something like that. There again I don't understand ANYTHING of what EON's rotted minds conceive, so that may be the problemKristatos wrote:I seriously can't imagine many people thinking "Well, I wasn't going to see the new Bond movie, but this is the 50th anniversary of Dr No. That changes everything".FormerBondFan wrote: If it grosses lower than QOS' US opening, I'm good, but with next year being an anniversary, this I have a VERY bad feeling about.
I don't think it will have a sensational opening week, and bear in mind there's still time for other movies to line up that same weekend. Regardless, won't the Disney one be released the week before? So all depends on how THAT fares in week 2 to see if Skyfail gets no.1 spot, not just on the Bond movie itself. I checked and I was right, Wreck-It Ralph is released the previous weekend, together with a BIG comedy from Paramount directed by Anne Fletcher, "My Mother's Curse" that stars Seth Rogen, Yvonne Strahovski (GOOD Bond girl material there!) and Barbara Streisand. Successful comedies can definitely have two top weekends in a row. So it depends on how that one does, too. And in any case, there's no way in hell Bond 23 gets top spot for more than a week since the following week the last Twilight movie is released and that's going to hit all the other movies, not just Bond, really hard. So I seriously wouldn't worry about it too much.
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