As a result Spectre will end up being the second-highest James Bond film of all time behind the aforementioned Skyfall which earned $88.4 million during its debut. The family-friendly Goosebumps earned an estimated $7 million in its fourth weekend for a domestic total of $66.5 million, and Bridge of Spies made $6.1 million, also in its fourth weekend, for a $55 million domestic total. A respectable 62 percent of reviews were positive and 71 percent of moviegoers like “Spectre”, according to movie review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, which wrote the film “nudges Daniel Craig’s rebooted Bond closer to the glorious, action-driven spectacle of earlier entries, although it’s admittedly reliant on established 007 formula”. If so, is it better than Skyfall?
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The big tell will not necessarily be in Spectre’s second weekend, but more in its third and fourth. Spectre has been well received by Bond fans and many would think that the film would go on to break records right away. “When you look at the global piece, it’s absolutely extraordinary”. When Skyfall opened in November 2012, it did so unopposed. “Peanuts’ is projected to end its theatrical run in the mid $100 million range”. Cooking drama Burnt slipped one place to seventh with $3 million, while The Last Witch Hunter dropped to eighth with $2.6 million, ahead of The Intern at ninth and $1.8 million and Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension freefalling to 10th for $1.6 million. China could be the deal maker or breaker for Spectre. Overseas, however, the sky is the limit.
That is especially true internationally, where Skyfall nearly doubled the foreign grosses of 2008’s Quantum of Solace.
The film is doing great worldwide, with $300 million in less than two weeks. The picture, also from 20th Century Fox, has led the box office four out of the last five weekends. It grossed almost $64 million in Britain in its first week of release, shattering the country’s record for the biggest opening.
Worldwide, Spectre has grossed £200 million.
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Audiences, 70 per cent of whom were families, gave The Peanuts Movie a strong A CinemaScore, suggesting that word of mouth will be strong for the animated film. $40 million, maybe; not less than $25 million. That figure, however, adjusts to $52.8 million in 2015 ticket prices and Happy Feet didn’t have a new Pixar release to contend with only two weeks after its initial release.
