Spectre opened with an estimated $73 million in North America – matched with the $226 million it’s made internationally since opening in the United Kingdom on October 26, the fourth Bond film starring Daniel Craig has already grossed roughly $299 million worldwide.
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You can say that again. And I enjoy the Roger Moore movies!
To highlight this point, multiple clips of vehicle crashes and explosions from past Bond movies were shown to the audience. Quantum was one of the worst entries in the canon, this one is merely a disappointment.
That bounty represents a kind of new normal for the Bond franchise. And, yes, he’s probably done as much as he can do plumbing the emotional depths of cinema’s most famous misogynistic alcoholic. It has a twist that you see coming a mile away, there’s even a twist on the twist which can be guessed from context clues provided throughout the film. The film also broke the record for the best showing during the first week in November domestically, previously held by “The Incredibles”, Bruer said.
The star-studded spy thriller – with Daniel Craig as the dashing secret agent, Italian beauty Monica Bellucci and Oscar-winning Austrian star Christoph Waltz as the villain – was among the most anticipated films of the year. Sony’s deal to distribute the Bond films expires with “Spectre”, and though the studio is expected to make a bid to keep the series, other suitors, such as Warner Bros. and Paramount, will aggressively pursue the rights to the franchise. Throughout these nine years, Craig has faced the challenge of representing a modern, 21 century Bond.
“It’s still a great number”, said Paul Dergarabedian, Rentrak’s senior media analyst.
Prove it he did. Bond has been played by many different men and each one has found a way to bring something new to this well known character. SPECTRE is good, it’s just underwhelming.
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It was a brutality and a nihilism that dovetailed perfectly with the aftermath of 9/11, in which the threat of terrorism was ever present and global powers seemed willing to sacrifice their moral compass in order to safeguard their people. All signs point for this to be the beginning of a new Peanuts franchise. The locations, including Mexico City (during the Day of the Dead festivities), Rome, Morocco, and the Austrian Alps, are not especially well utilized – they could just as well be CGI backdrops.
