Sight & Sound make some interesting points in their article this month. They point out that 10 pictures opened against Bond in the UK, but their collective gross was £49,072 - in other words, CR took 99.63% of the box office for new releases that weekend.
Furthermore they point out an interesting phenomenon. They say there is a "healthy trend" of art house fare co-existing with blockbusters, so that an acclaimed indie film is counter-programmed against a Star Wars or Batman and the two audiences go their seperate ways. With Bond, however, S&S says that (snobbery alert!) "upscale" audiences wanted to see the film - that CR was stealing audiences who wouldn't be seen dead in an average Hollywood blockbuster. The result is that many indie cinemas simply showed the Bond film - I saw CR for the first time in the FACT, my local arthouse cinema in Liverpool.
If I had one wish for Craig/CR, it was for Bond and the film to be more adult and just better made. EON et al did that in big heaping bucketfuls. Not suprised by this news at all. Kudos to Bond. {[]
Sight & Sound make some interesting points in their article this month. They point out that 10 pictures opened against Bond in the UK, but their collective gross was £49,072 - in other words, CR took 99.63% of the box office for new releases that weekend.
Furthermore they point out an interesting phenomenon. They say there is a "healthy trend" of art house fare co-existing with blockbusters, so that an acclaimed indie film is counter-programmed against a Star Wars or Batman and the two audiences go their seperate ways. With Bond, however, S&S says that (snobbery alert!) "upscale" audiences wanted to see the film - that CR was stealing audiences who wouldn't be seen dead in an average Hollywood blockbuster. The result is that many indie cinemas simply showed the Bond film - I saw CR for the first time in the FACT, my local arthouse cinema in Liverpool.
If I had one wish for Craig/CR, it was for Bond and the film to be more adult and just better made. EON et al did that in big heaping bucketfuls. Not suprised by this news at all. Kudos to Bond. {[]
I'm not surprised either. A lot of the more highbrow critics in highbrow magazines gave it good reviews. I think because Eon managed to break the formula and produce a classic Bond film.
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A real high-point in the series, as far as I'm concerned. Perfect? Of course not...but IMRO it sure feels right---like an historic milestone.
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"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
Top Ten Grossing Films of 2006 in UK. Source: Screen International
1. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest £52 million
2. Casino Royale £44.6 million
3. The Da Vinci Code £30.4 million
4. Ice Age 2: The Meltdown £29.5 million
5. Borat £23.7 million
6. X-Men: The Last Stand £19.1 million
7. Cars £16.3 million
8. Superman Returns £16.1 million
9. Mission: Impossible III £15.5 million
10. The Devil Wears Prada £13.9 million
Here's a chance to compare the Top Ten Grossing films of the year in the UK and US. It's interesting to note that seven films appear in both list's.
Top Ten Grossing Films of 2006 in US. Source: BoxOfficeMojo
1. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest $423,315,812
2. Cars $244,082,982
3. X-Men: The Last Stand $234,362,462
4. The Da Vinci Code $217,536,138
5. Superman Returns $200,081,192
6. Ice Age 2: The Meltdown $195,330,621
7. Over The Hedge $155,019,340
8. Happy Feet $152,410,947
9. Talladega Nights $148,213,377
10. Casino Royale $139,704,875
It's interesting to note some of the differences there - how Over The Hedge doesn't show up in the UK, but The Devil Wears Prada does.
And there's a hell of a drop off between 2 & 3 in the UK, while in the US it's more of a gradual drift. CR still has the legs to catch up with Pirates (eventually) but Da Vinci Code is left in the dust...
Interesting how, CR and Borat aside (though American money is involved in CR at least), the top ten films in Britain are American movies! I thought the British film industry had been reborn!
Also interesting is that there are four animated movies in the American top ten. Funny: I thought Happy Feet's success was owing solely to people not wanting to see Bond!
Last, CR has now cracked $140 million in the US, and is at $420 million worldwide.
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...Now let's try to pad a bit more on, to cover the inflation point-spread :v ...
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"I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
Interesting how, CR and Borat aside (though American money is involved in CR at least), the top ten films in Britain are American movies! I thought the British film industry had been reborn!
Don't get me started X-(
Thanks to the quite ludicrous taxation, many films are starting to leave the UK. As for "British films" most of them have some form of US financing/support.
BoxOfficeMojo's estimates place Night at the Museum as the highest grossing film in the US this weekend with a total of $30,800,000.
Casino Royale is eleventh with an estimate of $3,100,000. This is a drop of 44.9% from last weekend, but still impressive considering it is now playing in 849 fewer theatre's (1,588 total). CR's total US gross is now approx $143,669,000.
This topic has become sort of moot since we all know CR is the highest-grossing Bond film ever. Still, I think it's interesting to note that, as of now, BoxOfficeMojo puts CR's U.S. take at $147,649,817. It's still the tenth-highest grossing film of 2006 in America, but it's less than $1 million from beating out Talledega Nights for the #9 spot. Since CR has been making at least a million a day for the past three days, it looks as though it will end up as #9 for the year. And the total gross is now $453,057,120. How soon before it reaches half a billion?
This topic has become sort of moot since we all know CR is the highest-grossing Bond film ever.
This topic has actually been moot since CR's opening weekend. )
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This topic has become sort of moot since we all know CR is the highest-grossing Bond film ever.
This topic has actually been moot since CR's opening weekend. )
Yes, but after over a year of being told that the general public won't enjoy the approach of CR by various people on this forum and on other certain websites, I think those of us who were optimistic are entitled a little fun!
For whatever reason, BOM has posted only an estimate for CR's performance on 28 December. They figure the film made $1,275,000 on Thursday, bringing its totals in the U.S. to $148,925,000, and making it indeed the #9 film of 2006 in America.
How's it doing in Japan - does anyone know? I know that DAD was a disappointment compared with previous Bond films. Since the Land of the Rising Sun has always been one of the most loyal countries for Bond, I wondered if that was a one-off, or is it a trend?
According to BoxOfficeMojo, Casino Royale grossed $3.2 million from 443 screens during it's opening weekend in Japan. This figure is below DAD's opening, but I think it's too early to tell if it is a trend or not.
Updating the box office in Japan. At the end of last weekend (24 days after it's release) Casino Royale had grossed a total of $11,257,360, according to BoxOfficeMojo. DAD's total Japanese gross was $18,441,255. So, it looks like DAD's disappointment was not a one-off.
Wonderful quote from Craig about watching the box office takings coming in in the new Guardian interview http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,1980463,00.html : ''Watching the numbers coming in, and it steadily going up, I thought, "It's OK, we've got away with it." It was like the ****ing Blue Peter appeals.'
Wonderful quote from Craig about watching the box office takings coming in in the new Guardian interview http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,1980463,00.html : ''Watching the numbers coming in, and it steadily going up, I thought, "It's OK, we've got away with it." It was like the ****ing Blue Peter appeals.'
Great interview. Thanks for sharing it, Emtiem. After a few clunkers, Craig is very engaging in this one and you can practically feel the relief he must be feeling. You ought to give it its own thread.
BoxOfficeMojo's Friday estimate of $1,585,000 means that Casino Royale has now grossed approx $150,510,000 overall in the US. It is now looking likely that CR will outgross DAD's $160 million US total, but in terms of "inflation adjusted" DAD looks very likely to end up ahead.
British to American translation, please: what are "the Blue Peter appeals" (****ing or not)?
Blue Peter is a popular and long running (since 1958) BBC TV children's show. Around this time every year Blue Peter holds it's annual appeal for nominated charities/causes. Viewers are usually encouraged to collect items that can be recycled or sold and then send them in. They are also encouraged to raise money by holding events like Blue Peter Bring And Buy Sales.
BoxOfficeMojo's estimates place Night at the Museum as the highest grossing film of the weekend in the US totalling $37,800,000.
Casino Royale is 12th with an estimated gross of $4,500,000. An impressive rise of 43% from last weekend, no doubt due to the increased attendances over the Christmas period. CR's overall US gross is now approx $153,425,000.
British to American translation, please: what are "the Blue Peter appeals" (****ing or not)?
Blue Peter is a popular and long running (since 1958) BBC TV children's show. Around this time every year Blue Peter holds it's annual appeal for nominated charities/causes. Viewers are usually encouraged to collect items that can be recycled or sold and then send them in. They are also encouraged to raise money by holding events like Blue Peter Bring And Buy Sales.
Yeah- and usually they have a sort of big thermometer in the studio which keeps tabs on how much the appeal has raised- it becomes a part of the show over the many weeks the appeal's on for to see how far up the thermometer has risen. Just like CR's progress!
Once again, these are estimates, but BOM puts Casino Royale's American take on the last day of the year at $1,314,000. This brings the total to $155,415,000 for 2006, and so CR edges out Over the Hedge for the #8 spot. All things being equal, Happy Feet has finished the year at #7. (You don't suppose anyone will make something out of that, do you?) The worldwide grosses continue to head toward half a billion bucks: they now stand at $460,822,303.
Once again, these are estimates, but BOM puts Casino Royale's American take on the last day of the year at $1,314,000. This brings the total to $155,415,000 for 2006, and so CR edges out Over the Hedge for the #8 spot.
I'm slightly confused. Casino Royale's weekend estimate of $4.5 million gave it an overall US gross of $153,425,000. This would place CR number #9 at year end. Has BOM included Monday's (Jan 1 2007) estimate in that figure of $155,415,000?
I'm slightly confused. Casino Royale's weekend estimate of $4.5 million gave it an overall US gross of $153,425,000. This would place CR number #9 at year end. Has BOM included Monday's (Jan 1 2007) estimate in that figure of $155,415,000?
No--BOM always reports on the previous day's takings. The $153 m figure must represent the total as of Saturday the 30th, not Sunday the 31st. BOM's webpage currently has CR listed as #8, but, again, that's an estimate--so if, when the real numbers come in, CR winds up at #9 for the year, don't be too surprised.
According to BoxOfficeMojo, Casino Royale's overall gross in the UK stood at $85,161,834 US (approx £44 million) on Sunday 17th. This means that CR needs to gross approx $13 million by Sunday 31st to become the highest grossing film of the year in the UK.
Alas, Casino Royale did not become the highest grossing film of 2006 in the UK, according to BoxOfficeMojo.
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If I had one wish for Craig/CR, it was for Bond and the film to be more adult and just better made. EON et al did that in big heaping bucketfuls. Not suprised by this news at all. Kudos to Bond. {[]
I'm not surprised either. A lot of the more highbrow critics in highbrow magazines gave it good reviews. I think because Eon managed to break the formula and produce a classic Bond film.
"I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
Here's a chance to compare the Top Ten Grossing films of the year in the UK and US. It's interesting to note that seven films appear in both list's.
Top Ten Grossing Films of 2006 in US. Source: BoxOfficeMojo
1. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest $423,315,812
2. Cars $244,082,982
3. X-Men: The Last Stand $234,362,462
4. The Da Vinci Code $217,536,138
5. Superman Returns $200,081,192
6. Ice Age 2: The Meltdown $195,330,621
7. Over The Hedge $155,019,340
8. Happy Feet $152,410,947
9. Talladega Nights $148,213,377
10. Casino Royale $139,704,875
And there's a hell of a drop off between 2 & 3 in the UK, while in the US it's more of a gradual drift. CR still has the legs to catch up with Pirates (eventually) but Da Vinci Code is left in the dust...
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Also interesting is that there are four animated movies in the American top ten. Funny: I thought Happy Feet's success was owing solely to people not wanting to see Bond!
Last, CR has now cracked $140 million in the US, and is at $420 million worldwide.
"I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
Don't get me started X-(
Thanks to the quite ludicrous taxation, many films are starting to leave the UK. As for "British films" most of them have some form of US financing/support.
Casino Royale is eleventh with an estimate of $3,100,000. This is a drop of 44.9% from last weekend, but still impressive considering it is now playing in 849 fewer theatre's (1,588 total). CR's total US gross is now approx $143,669,000.
Yes, but after over a year of being told that the general public won't enjoy the approach of CR by various people on this forum and on other certain websites, I think those of us who were optimistic are entitled a little fun!
Updating the box office in Japan. At the end of last weekend (24 days after it's release) Casino Royale had grossed a total of $11,257,360, according to BoxOfficeMojo. DAD's total Japanese gross was $18,441,255. So, it looks like DAD's disappointment was not a one-off.
''Watching the numbers coming in, and it steadily going up, I thought, "It's OK, we've got away with it." It was like the ****ing Blue Peter appeals.'
Blue Peter is a popular and long running (since 1958) BBC TV children's show. Around this time every year Blue Peter holds it's annual appeal for nominated charities/causes. Viewers are usually encouraged to collect items that can be recycled or sold and then send them in. They are also encouraged to raise money by holding events like Blue Peter Bring And Buy Sales.
Casino Royale is 12th with an estimated gross of $4,500,000. An impressive rise of 43% from last weekend, no doubt due to the increased attendances over the Christmas period. CR's overall US gross is now approx $153,425,000.
Yeah- and usually they have a sort of big thermometer in the studio which keeps tabs on how much the appeal has raised- it becomes a part of the show over the many weeks the appeal's on for to see how far up the thermometer has risen. Just like CR's progress!
I'm slightly confused. Casino Royale's weekend estimate of $4.5 million gave it an overall US gross of $153,425,000. This would place CR number #9 at year end. Has BOM included Monday's (Jan 1 2007) estimate in that figure of $155,415,000?
No--BOM always reports on the previous day's takings. The $153 m figure must represent the total as of Saturday the 30th, not Sunday the 31st. BOM's webpage currently has CR listed as #8, but, again, that's an estimate--so if, when the real numbers come in, CR winds up at #9 for the year, don't be too surprised.
Casino Royale Sony worldwide $491.9
USA $154.9 31.5%
worldwide except Usa $337.0 68.5%
Alas, Casino Royale did not become the highest grossing film of 2006 in the UK, according to BoxOfficeMojo.
1. POTC: Dead Man's Chest $98,668,102 (Approx £51 million)
2. Casino Royale $94,743,904 (Approx £49 million)
If only Casino Royale had been released on the 9th November instead of the 16th.
BOM places CR as the 9th highest grossing film of 2006 in the US totalling $154,944,794.