The BJMDDS General Discussion Thread......

[Omega]

Quick question will Imax one day early have any affect on the 3day total?

Skyfall is one week away its not everywhere like if feels like it is in the UK. Twilight actors are hitting all the major shows, forget major show I think'll they appear in from of my smartphone if the youtube video would get enough hits.

[English Agent]

Doing a quick comparison Germany and France are the two stars of this weeks round up. The UK of course, but they are their own little island. those three make up the bulk of the take (139m)

The rest of the opening numbers are about average, in other words about what could be expected.

...but the smaller nations BO grosses were significantly higher for SF than CR's and QOS's figures.

Bond is very popular in Central Europe (Austria and Switzerland), and in North Western European nations and Scandinavia.

Italy and Spain despite their large populations, never provide really big BO grosses for Bond unlike the big 3 (UK, Germany and France)

The UK has gone incredibly insane over Skyfall. It's their Avatar.
Italy and Spain well they got no need for movies with all those pretty woemn, no reason to go to anywhere but a restaurant for romantic dinner after a romantic lunch with senoritas with the darkest eyes, sweetest bust and legs that will not quit.. That's how I imagine it anyway

Nice one 'Omega' ....................anyway Italians and Spanish, have no money to spend at the moment..............meanwhile in Northern Europe the weather is so miserable, people like to stay indoors and watch TV or go to a cinema.

[Napoleon Solo]

Deadline Hollywood and Box Office Mojo say ticket sales were $156 million this weekend and $287 million after 10 days.

EDIT: Link to Deadline Hollywood:

http://www.deadline.com/2012/11/skyfall ... 7-million/

[Dr. No]

Nice one 'Omega' ....................anyway Italians and Spanish, have no money to spend at the moment..............meanwhile in Northern Europe the weather is so miserable, people like to stay indoors and watch TV or go to a cinema.

How do the Brits have any money to spend? Wait a minute did they just send $100 million to the United States

[Mazer Rackham]

Deadline Hollywood and Box Office Mojo say ticket sales were $156 million this weekend and $287 million after 10 days.

EDIT: Link to Deadline Hollywood:

http://www.deadline.com/2012/11/skyfall ... 7-million/

Hasn't stop either from posting erroneous numbers in the past. Looper China comes to mine.
Not that I'm doubting them, The German opening is very good, and France's week seems incredible.

The rest of the markets are about average for a Bond.

[Napoleon Solo]

Deadline Hollywood and Box Office Mojo say ticket sales were $156 million this weekend and $287 million after 10 days.

EDIT: Link to Deadline Hollywood:

http://www.deadline.com/2012/11/skyfall ... 7-million/

Hasn't stop either from posting erroneous numbers in the past. Looper China comes to mine.
Not that I'm doubting them, The German opening is very good, and France's week seems incredible.

The rest of the markets are about average for a Bond.

Intriguing line in the Deadline story is that Skyfall supposedly cost a lot less than Quantum *or* Casino. But the story provides no figure. Eon has steadfastly said Skyfall cost "about the same" as Quantum, also without providing figures.

[Mazer Rackham]

Deadline Hollywood and Box Office Mojo say ticket sales were $156 million this weekend and $287 million after 10 days.

EDIT: Link to Deadline Hollywood:

http://www.deadline.com/2012/11/skyfall ... 7-million/

Hasn't stop either from posting erroneous numbers in the past. Looper China comes to mind.
Not that I'm doubting them, The German opening is very good, and France's week seems incredible.

The rest of the markets are about average for a Bond.

Intriguing line in the Deadline story is that Skyfall supposedly cost a lot less than Quantum *or* Casino. But the story provides no figure. Eon has steadfastly said Skyfall cost "about the same" as Quantum, also without providing figures.

Costing less than CR would be a neat trick. This is what I was saying about the cost being confusing, three schools of thoughts on this with no firm confirmation. It is almost as if EON (or the studio) were paying attention to the analysis we were doing.

[bjmdds]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rjozh5i ... re=related ONE day to go If you live in the USA I hope you do the correct thing. The future is in our hands. Which destiny you choose determines our collective fates

[Blowfeld]

The UK has gone incredibly insane over Skyfall. It's their Avatar.

Oh! laugh while you can! Wait until the Stasi stop you on the street demanding to see your papers! By papers they mean 'Skyfall' ticket stub. Thankfully a resistance moment has started up first order of business printing out forged 'papers' by the bushel.

[English Agent]

The UK has gone incredibly insane over Skyfall. It's their Avatar.

Oh! laugh while you can! Wait until the Stasi stop you on the street demanding to see your papers! By papers they mean 'Skyfall' ticket stub. Thankfully a resistance moment has started up first order of business printing out forged 'papers' by the bushel.

True....if you dont go to see a Bond film in the UK your considered a traitor to the empire!

[English Agent]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rjozh5i ... re=related ONE day to go If you live in the USA I hope you do the correct thing. The future is in our hands. Which destiny you choose determines our collective fates

Well....'BJ' whoever gets to be the next President...all i can say as a foreigner to your land, is i hope he doesnt F**K up the world!

EA

[FormerBondFan]

UK is the patient zero of the DC Virus (or the T-virus or UROBOROS as shaken would call it).

[Napoleon Solo]

Deadline Hollywood and Box Office Mojo say ticket sales were $156 million this weekend and $287 million after 10 days.

EDIT: Link to Deadline Hollywood:

http://www.deadline.com/2012/11/skyfall ... 7-million/

Hasn't stop either from posting erroneous numbers in the past. Looper China comes to mind.
Not that I'm doubting them, The German opening is very good, and France's week seems incredible.

The rest of the markets are about average for a Bond.

Intriguing line in the Deadline story is that Skyfall supposedly cost a lot less than Quantum *or* Casino. But the story provides no figure. Eon has steadfastly said Skyfall cost "about the same" as Quantum, also without providing figures.

Costing less than CR would be a neat trick. This is what I was saying about the cost being confusing, three schools of thoughts on this with no firm confirmation. It is almost as if EON (or the studio) were paying attention to the analysis we were doing.

My personal suspicion (and this is pure guesswork): is that Skyfall's production budget was in the $150 million to $200 million range. The first unit only when to Turkey while a second unit went to China. On the official Web site, there was a display on the side, "Where is Bond?" It was either pointing to the U.K. or to Turkey.

[Dr. No]

Just because a movie can make money, or people will buy a ticket for it doesn't mean it is good.

I was disappointed in CR, yet it did well. Phantom Menace, Indiana Jones and the Chrystal skull, Amazing spider-man are lesser movies and poor continuations of the franchises but they made money or enough of it for the people who make the decision to be comfortable in making more of the same.

I certainly don't buy the hype this is the greatest Bond movie ever made, and I certainly don't consider Craig's spy to posses the character traits and qualities that make Bond so enduring in the first place. Easy to step in to somebody else's shoes and say you are the greatest, far harder to be the guy who creates the path for the shoes to walk on. There is only one JFK, one Lincoln everyone who has come a long to claim the greatness of those men as their own were certainly lacking of the mettle to create their own path to greatness.

[FormerBondFan]

Phantom Menace, Indiana Jones and the Chrystal skull, Amazing spider-man are lesser movies and poor continuations of the franchises but they made money or enough of it for the people who make the decision to be comfortable in making more of the same.

Hopefully, the Star Wars sequels and Indy 5 will be redemptions of their respective franchises. Spidey...I don't care much.

[Kristatos]

One of my jobs as Wessex Society secretary is to monitor the various media across Wessex looking for stories we can respond to in the form of press releases and/or letters to the editor. Whilst these don't fit that description, I'm noticing an awful lot of stories about charity screenings of Skyfall across Wessex, and no doubt in other parts of the country too. Makes me wonder who's really benefitting from this "charity".

[Napoleon Solo]

I'm not going to claim this significance beyond just one theater. But the multiplex I go to has Skyfall on one screen. The following week, on Nov. 16, Twilight will be on three screens. Both The Avengers and The Dark Knight Returns were on at least three when they opened.

This theater is not Imax but it starts to play Skyfall on [s]Thursday[/s] Wednesday anyway, with a [s]12:01[/s] 12:07 a.m. (0:07 in military time) showing and then regular showing starting at 10:05 a.m. daily on Thursday.

EDIT: Based on the Web site, my theater will have only four showings a day. I presume this is because of its running time.

[Omega]

One of my jobs as Wessex Society secretary is to monitor the various media across Wessex looking for stories we can respond to in the form of press releases and/or letters to the editor. Whilst these don't fit that description, I'm noticing an awful lot of stories about charity screenings of Skyfall across Wessex, and no doubt in other parts of the country too. Makes me wonder who's really benefitting from this "charity".

Say the word charity and first thing I think is it all goes to a cause. But then I remember $6 million was added to QOS Japan opening weekend from a "Charity" showing. WTF?
Is it a deal where Sony matches the money raised, or do they get to claim credit for it on the books while the money goes to charity?

[Omega]

I'm not going to claim this significance beyond just one theater. But the multiplex I go to has Skyfall on one screen. The following week, on Nov. 16, Twilight will be on three screens. Both The Avengers and The Dark Knight Returns were on at least three when they opened.

This theater is not Imax but it starts to play Skyfall on [s]Thursday[/s] Wednesday anyway, with a [s]12:01[/s] 12:07 a.m. (0:07 in military time) showing and then regular showing starting at 10:05 a.m. daily on Thursday.

EDIT: Based on the Web site, my theater will have only four showings a day. I presume this is because of its running time.

This is what BO mojo has today

IMAX contributed $4.3 million this weekend for an early total of $10 million; Skyfall opens exclusively in that format on Thursday in the U.S. before expanding in to around 3,500 total locations on Friday.

[Mazer Rackham]

Bloody frogs! It looks like this will be the first time in ten years France will break the DAD attendance, I knew where Germany was trending but wasn't expecting such a high ticket price. As for the rest they are more or less where they normally go. So Germany, France and UK will have unusually high attendance, although it may be the new normal for any Bond film in those markets. Still a long way to go but these movies are front loaded and if you're front loading them this as good a place as any to be.
Around 50 to 70m higher because of those 3 countries, I was counting on the UK to do at least 80m to 100m, I had thought Germans und French would be slightly more reserved. But historically those two tend to be big on Bond as well.

I don't expect the US market to change much but we'll know Friday afternoon where it's trending.

Re: Charity Screenings
Studios either get a predetermined fee or a percentage of each charity ticket sold. Charity sales can be counted in the official box office numbers since tickets are being sold. However a lot of money will be generated for good causes despite being put on the books.