James Bond had a license to kill at the box office and executed with a $73 million tally, according to studio estimates.
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This weekend it followed up its record-breaking opening in the United Kingdom last week by outperforming Skyfall’s opening in Mexico ($4.5m), Brazil ($2.9m), Russian Federation ($5.8m), Belgium ($2.4m), Austria ($2.6m), Hong Kong ($2.4m), Malaysia ($2.3m), Poland ($3.1m) and more.
Across 78 territories the 24th 007 action film has brought in $117.8 million, placing Spectre at the top of the global box office chart.
But perhaps he might change his mind when he sees the box office receipts, after Spectre opened with a whopping $73million weekend in North America.
The 2012 film won wide critical acclaim, an Academy Award for Adele’s hit title song (the first time a Bond song has ever earned an Oscar), and the highest raw box office grosses for any Bond film ever. Its home complete is now at $197.1 million, surpassing Mission: Inconceivable – Rogue Nation to change into the seventh greatest film of the yr. The household-pleasant Goosebumps earned an estimated $7 million in its fourth weekend for a home complete of $sixty six. It is reported to have cost $250 million to produce the movie.
James Bond blew up the box office – again. Skyfall grossed $1.1-B all in.
“The Peanuts Movie”, 20th Century Fox’s animated film about the beloved characters created by Charles M. Schulz, had the weekend’s second-biggest US opening with $45 million. Industry analysts project the film could eventually reach the $1-billion mark globally, following in “Skyfall’s” footsteps, whose $200-million price tag pales in comparison to the $1.1-billion it has raked in to date worldwide. Skyfall faced similar competition three years ago when the final Twilight movie opened against it; Bond fell to No. 2 on a 13 percent drop. Spotlight, director Tom McCarthy’s film about the Boston Globe’s Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church, was the strongest of the pack, opening to US$302,276 from only five cinemas.
That strong result should pick up a few of the slack from “Spectre’s” domestic numbers.
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The Martian had to finally settle for third place after more than a month in the top spot, pulling in $9.3 million this weekend (for a total gross of almost $200 million!).
