Skyfall at the US box office.

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Skyfall at the US box office.

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Saw that Sweeney reported UK box office news, so here's one for the US.

It just broke the $300 million barrier: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?pa ... bond23.htm

And for adjusted in the US, that places SF at #3 behind GF and TB: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises ... esbond.htm

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stockslivevan wrote:Saw that Sweeney reported UK box office news, so here's one for the US.

It just broke the $300 million barrier: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?pa ... bond23.htm

And for adjusted in the US, that places SF at #3 behind GF and TB: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises ... esbond.htm

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That was as of Friday. The site will have an update today with estimated U.S. ticket sales for the Jan. 18-20 weekend. I'm wondering if today's update might also have the China opening factored in.
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So Craig is now officially the most popular Bond in the US since Connery. Who would have thought it.
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bjmdds wrote::roll:
This must be hard news to swallow, BJ.

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Send in ethnic actors as Bond for all I care. The classic tall and dark-haired Bond is no longer relevant, not at this current state of the franchise.

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bjmdds wrote::roll:
Send in ethnic actors as Bond for all I care. The classic tall and dark-haired Bond is no longer relevant, not at this current state of the franchise.
Now all we need are a couple of Oscar wins and your misery will be complete, right FBF?
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Napoleon Solo wrote:
stockslivevan wrote:Saw that Sweeney reported UK box office news, so here's one for the US.

It just broke the $300 million barrier: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?pa ... bond23.htm

And for adjusted in the US, that places SF at #3 behind GF and TB: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises ... esbond.htm

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That was as of Friday. The site will have an update today with estimated U.S. ticket sales for the Jan. 18-20 weekend. I'm wondering if today's update might also have the China opening factored in.
Maybe. I was sort of surprised when it got stuck just shy.

Curious what china will do.


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The Sweeney wrote:So Craig is now officially the most popular Bond in the US since Connery. Who would have thought it.
I'm not sure BO reflects popularity of a whole population.

Every Bond except for Dalton and Lazenby had success comparable to Connery's at some point.
But what Connery did in the 60s has never been equaled, Connery did the equivalent of $600 million in the US alone that is bigger than most of the us blockbusters ever get. So he is half as popular as Connery, yippie ! ;)

Brosnan got something like 28 million in the US, not $300 million adjusted but not that far off and given the IMAX and other factor it's probably not a record breaker for attendance either.


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The Sweeney wrote:
FormerBondFan wrote:
bjmdds wrote::roll:
Send in ethnic actors as Bond for all I care. The classic tall and dark-haired Bond is no longer relevant, not at this current state of the franchise.
Now all we need are a couple of Oscar wins and your misery will be complete, right FBF?
You might as well have a porn film get nominated by the Oscars.
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We are all agreed that Skyfall was awful ( :wink: ), so I wonder why it has done well? Is it because it is the first Bond for four years? Or that everyone loves the new type of "Bond"? Or would any Bond film released have done well?
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carl stromberg wrote:We are all agreed that Skyfall was awful ( :wink: ), so I wonder why it has done well? Is it because it is the first Bond for four years? Or that everyone loves the new type of "Bond"? Or would any Bond film released have done well?
Sadly, the trend in Hollywood movies these days is towards pretentiousness and a desire to psychoanayse their heroes. It makes people who have never set foot in an arthouse cinema feel intelligent for watching it.
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carl stromberg wrote:We are all agreed that Skyfall was awful ( :wink: )
No kidding. :lol:
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carl stromberg wrote:We are all agreed that Skyfall was awful ( :wink: ), so I wonder why it has done well? Is it because it is the first Bond for four years? Or that everyone loves the new type of "Bond"? Or would any Bond film released have done well?
Sadly, the trend in Hollywood movies these days is towards pretentiousness and a desire to psychoanayse their heroes. It makes people who have never set foot in an arthouse cinema feel intelligent for watching it.
Or it could be the simple case of people finding SFYFALL very entertaining.
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Gawd knows why everyone went to see that tripe Skyfall. One for bleedin Arthur C Clarke.
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Because the movie-going public at large has always been very, very stupid.
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Barry Niven wrote:Because the movie-going public at large has always been very, very stupid.
Were they stupid in the 60's too, flocking in their droves to see TB?
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Barry Niven wrote:Because the movie-going public at large has always been very, very stupid.
Were they stupid in the 60's too, flocking in their droves to see TB?
TB has a real James Bond (which was Sean) so the audience weren't stupid in the 60s. But if the audience are still sane today and DC is a real Bond, then a real Bond can be black (no, I'm not being racist) also........or have an eye-patch or a prosthetic arm.

I don't know why, but I actually like the idea of a black Bond as long as he is tall and handsome (but not Will Smith handsome).
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It's probably true that audiences were less stupid then, since the 60s Bonds were actually good movies and therefore more deserving of being the massive world-beating hits they were.. And sometimes, when the Box Office is anemic like it was for The Man with the Golden Gun, it actually shows that the audience is finally sharp enough to recognize a dud when they see it and react accordingly (which wasn't the case with Diamonds Are Forever, that only got as far as it did because of Connery's Return). But with how these Craig-"Bond" movies are somehow making more (or at least, as much) than the combined take of better, more REAL James Bond movies nowadays, I find it hard to take any of that BO $#!+ seriously.
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Barry Niven wrote:It's probably true that audiences were less stupid then, since the 60s Bonds were actually good movies and therefore more deserving of being the massive world-beating hits they were.. And sometimes, when the Box Office is anemic like it was for The Man with the Golden Gun, it actually shows that the audience is finally sharp enough to recognize a dud when they see it and react accordingly (which wasn't the case with Diamonds Are Forever, that only got as far as it did because of Connery's Return). But with how these Craig-"Bond" movies are somehow making more (or at least, as much) than the combined take of better, more REAL James Bond movies nowadays, I find it hard to take any of that BO $#!+ seriously.
But audiences aren't that daft, as the worst of Craig's films (QoS) also performed worse at the BO.

And as I am a huge fan of both CR and SF, I don't think audiences are as stupid as you are making out. Had DAD received such a huge global amount, then I would agree with you.
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