Box office

007 box office: the top-grossing James Bond movies

September 9th, 2022 by

A deep dive to establish the highest James Bond box office gross in real terms.  Skyfall notched up an impressive box office as the first billion dollar Bond film and was widely reported as the top grossing James Bond movie of all time. Despite expectations, the two subsequent films have failed to beat it. Perhaps […]

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No Time to Die becomes Hollywood’s biggest pandemic earner

November 21st, 2021 by

The 25th James Bond film has overtaken the latest instalment in the Fast & Furious franchise. This weekend saw No Time to Die overtake F9: The Fast Saga at the box office to make it the biggest Hollywood film of the pandemic era. As of Sunday evening the 25th instalment in Eon’s Bond series has […]

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No Time to Die grosses $56M in North America on opening weekend

October 11th, 2021 by

The 25th James Bond film falls short at the domestic box office. No Time to Die opened in the United States and Canada on Friday, with a preview screenings on Wednesday and Thursday. While box office forecasts were generally in excess of $65 million, MGM was touting $50 million for the weekend. In the end the […]

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No Time to Die takes £21M in UK on opening weekend

October 4th, 2021 by

Latest Bond beats Skyfall and SPECTRE opening weekends. Pent up demand for a new James Bond film saw No Time to Die earn £21 million over the weekend, putting it on £26 million for the four days since opening on Thursday. So far it has opened in 54 geographical markets where it has taken $119 […]

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No Time to Die takes at least £4.5M on first day in UK

October 1st, 2021 by

All eyes on new Bond’s box office after 18 months of misery for cinema. No Time to Die has earned £4.5 to £5 million at the UK box office on its first day of release, according a statement issued by Eon Productions, MGM, Universal Pictures International and United Artists Releasing. The opening figure beats SPECTRE […]

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No Time to Die set for $500 million box office

August 25th, 2021 by

Takings for other films released during pandemic show the difficulties the 25th Bond film will have at the box office.

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SPECTRE breaks $200M in US

March 22nd, 2016 by

This last weekend SPECTRE finally broke the $200 million barrier in North America. While that is well behind Skyfall’s $305 million box office an article in the Wall Street Journal looks at Sony’s decision to keep on playing the latest Bond film to finally break through the physiologically important $200 million ceiling. The opinions expressed in the article […]

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SPECTRE at $872M worldwide

January 11th, 2016 by

The latest box office figures for SPECTRE put its worldwide takings at $872 million, up from $864 million at end of the first weekend of 2016. Adding just $400,000 domestically, the film added another $3.2 million internationally over the weekend. That puts its cumulative take at $198 million in the US and Canada and $673 million internationally. […]

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Update on SPECTRE box office

January 4th, 2016 by

In December the big news was the latest Star Wars movie and its colossal box office take. While SPECTRE finished its North American run, it continues to play internationally.  While I didn’t provide an update last week due to taking some time off over Christmas and New Year, here are the figures for the last fortnight. For […]

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SPECTRE box office update as Star Wars exceeds $500M within days of release

December 21st, 2015 by

SPECTRE added another $7.8 million to its worldwide take this weekend to put it on a total of $836 million globally. That puts it well behind Skyfall’s $1.1 billion take, but as mentioned before, that benefited from exception circumstances. The big box office news of the week though was the new Star Wars film, The Force Awakens, […]

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