In total, the movie has earned a whopping $80.4 million from the six territories it opened in, and it is only going to get bigger as Bond eyes a global release on Thursday, November 6.
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James Bond is back and people all over the world seem to have really missed him.
Gun to my head-I’d have to go with The Spy Who Loved Me, Carly Simon.
Spectre managed to surpass Skyfall, the previous Bond film, in the opening week at the box office.
In Netherlands, the film minted $3.7 million, surpassing the record set by Skyfall.
Spectre, Daniel Craig’s fourth film in the series and director Sam Mendes’ second at the helm, pulled in a few £40 million ($61 million) in the seven days from opening night last Monday.
This is the 24th Bond adventure and continues its reign as the longest running and most successful film franchise in cinema history.
SPECTRE has also set a new IMAX record, recording the highest per-location average in IMAX history as the first film ever to top a $100,000 per-location average, with $105,000 in 47 IMAX locations. Producers denied reports that the script was changed at the request of executives from Sony Pictures and MGM Studios, eager to save money after the government offered $14 million in tax incentives in return for a better image. Elsewhere across Europe major records were broken in Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway, where the movie outperformed its predecessor by roughly 30 percent.
The box office king this week is the new James Bond movie, “Spectre”, which is hardly a surprise because both fans and critics are raving about the movie. Filmed at a cost of $250 million with millions more spent on marketing, Spectre needs to be a box office giant in order to be profitable.
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Directed by Skyfall film-maker Sam Mendes, Spectre – which also stars Christoph Waltz, Naomie Harris, Ben Whishaw, Andrew Scott, Dave Bautista and Lea Seydoux and Monica Bellucci as Bond girls – sees Craig’s MI6 agent alter-ego confront enemies of his past.
