YEAH! THE BOYCOTT IS A SUCCESS .... AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! THEY TOLD US AND WE DIDN'T WANNA LISTEN... AHHHHHHH!!!!!!:#
What the ****?
I think he was being sarcastic.
"He’s a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back—that’s an earthquake. and then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat, and you’re finished. Nobody dast blame this man. A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory." Death of a Salesman
According to Screen International.
Happy Feet £2.77 million
Casino Royale £2.74 million - Overall UK Total approx £42 million ($80 million US).
That's a really low number for Happy Feet - I'm quite surprised. Only £300,000 more than a film that's been out for a month. I'd also be surprised if it stayed at number one over the whole week - as with the US, a kids film is going to make its money on a weekend, while people will be going to CR screenings in the evenings.
Lets just be honest: the Penguins have made a lot of money fo what they really represent: Pretty much nothing.
I was wondering in toy stores and i haven't seen the first Daniel Craig Doll, or a Defibrillator... no Casino Royale Cellphones with M or Craig sounds... not even a Happy meal with Casino Royale, but go and look for penguins, they are everywhere!
Ok. is a movie for kids (even when grown up can enjoy it as well) and CR is for grown ups (ditto), but they have not only a different target but a different objective as well:
EON finally used the only book (the first one) that they haven' make a movie, exploit the 9/11 stuff... new Bond... you get my point.
Happy Feet came for the Computer Animated BOOM, use a lot of technology and brings a story that teach us a story and a lesson as well (we are rich because we are different) but besides that, nothing. We aren't in front a Toy Story kind of movie... dead the boom, dead the movie as well, perhaps we heard again when the DVD is released or when the studio makes a new movie (from the producers of "Happy Feet" kinda stuff)
So, CR might lost a Battle, but it surely has won (or will) the war.
P.S. thanks to MI6 info: it seems that Casino Royale in Colombia has made $320,589 (beats me if that number is in pesos -national currency equivalent: $2.400 pesos makes one dollar-) but it is everywhere
Casino Royale grossed $736,891 at the US box office on Wednesday for an overall total of $131,155,964, according to BoxOfficeMojo.
It's looking like those penguins are permanently out of reach. The pattern from previous weeks was that CR outgrossed Happy Feet Monday through Friday, but HF grossed very strongly at the weekends to take the overall lead. This week HF has been outgrossing CR, admittedly only by a few thousand every day, but it's still significant. HF has now passed $140 million, an overall lead of $9 million.
Casino Royale grossed $736,891 at the US box office on Wednesday for an overall total of $131,155,964, according to BoxOfficeMojo.
It's looking like those penguins are permanently out of reach. The pattern from previous weeks was that CR outgrossed Happy Feet Monday through Friday, but HF grossed very strongly at the weekends to take the overall lead. This week HF has been outgrossing CR, admittedly only by a few thousand every day, but it's still significant. HF has now passed $140 million, an overall lead of $9 million.
But, in the world, Casino Royale 377 milion dollars, Happy Feet only 181 million dollars!!!
Casino Royale grossed $736,891 at the US box office on Wednesday for an overall total of $131,155,964, according to BoxOfficeMojo.
It's looking like those penguins are permanently out of reach. The pattern from previous weeks was that CR outgrossed Happy Feet Monday through Friday, but HF grossed very strongly at the weekends to take the overall lead. This week HF has been outgrossing CR, admittedly only by a few thousand every day, but it's still significant. HF has now passed $140 million, an overall lead of $9 million.
But, in the world, Casino Royale 377 milion dollars, Happy Feet only 181 million dollars!!!
Very true. But the media have made quite a deal about the penguins beating Bond every week. Mainly because the US is the numero uno marketplace. And then there's CnB putting their own spin on it.
For me, it would have been very satisfying to see Casino Royale beat Happy Feet overall in the US. And trust me, it's not because I have anything against penguins or HF. I care about Bond, I don't care much for the media. I don't care at all for CnB.
Fish, unfortunately, the U.S. is kind of held up as the "standard" for a Bond film's performance. Look at Licence to Kill--it did relatively disappointing business in the U.S., but was a big hit around the world. But how is LTK usually perceived? As a flop. (The fact the Bond series went dark for six years after its release didn't help.)
Now, in no way, shape, or form could CR be considered a box office disappointment in America or anywhere else. . .EXCEPT that in the minds of some media analysts a movie's success is measured only by opening #1 and keeping the spot for a while. Then there's that abominable anti-Craig site, that is trying to promote CR's #2 position as proof that their "boycott" of the movie is working and that CR is tanking as a result; and we even had the pleasure of listening to that Zolly kid screaming that opening #2 is a sign of failure. I'm afraid that, as guardians of the truth (how's that for a motto? ), we have to discredit a lot of propaganda and misinformation.
Feh--I read that article before, and it's a crock. The doctor bases his "diagnosis" on a simple-minded reading of Hardy's poetry. And my avatar isn't hiding his face--thanks to the good work of Mr. Predator, he's enjoying the holiday season!
According to BoxOfficeMojo, Casino Royale grossed $717,776 at the US box office on Thursday for an overall total of $131,873,740.
OK, so CR is clearly not number one in terms of box office anymore, but it is number one in terms of the total movie pages viewed by visitors to BOM. Not bad for a film that's been out almost a month.
In the last 7 days. Percentage of total movie pages viewed.
1. Casino Royale 7.6%
2. Apocalypto 6.4%
3. Happy Feet 2.4%
Hmmm. . .I wonder if I'm the one who's responsible for all those viewings? B-) At any rate, CR has never been out of the top 5 in the U.S. since it opened, and that's very good--no matter what certain people may think!
Well, here's the bad news--according to BOM's Friday estimates, CR has slipped to #8 in America; but, still, it took in about $1,575,000--better than it's done in the last few days.
Still, the overall numbers remain impressive. In the U.S., CR has made about $133,449,000, which puts it at #12 for the year, just barely behind Mission: Impossible III. It's also some $27 million away from matching DAD's domestic take, which was $160,942,139.
Worldwide, CR has taken in $379,959,827, nipping on the heels of DAD's $431,971,116.
Casino Royale drops 724 theatres in fifth week in USA, out performing 'Die Another Day'
"Casino Royale" will go in to its fifth week of release in North America across 2,437 theaters in the USA & Canada - a drop of 724 venues.
This reduction is not unexpected, and is less that 007's previous outing "Die Another Day" which lost 1,302 theaters on its fifth weekend - playing at only 2,075 venues and grossing $4,030,346 for the week.
"Casino Royale" has out-performed the previous Bond box-office record set by "Die Another Day" during it's thrid and fourth weeks.
Daniel Craig's debut 007 outing is expected to enter the top 10 highest grossing movies of 2006 in the USA this weekend.
BoxOfficeMojo's weekend estimates have The Pursuit of Happyness as the top grossing film in the US totalling $27 million.
Casino Royale is eigth with an estimated gross of $5,700,000, a 36.1% drop from last weekend. Pretty impressive considering it is now playing in 724 fewer theatres than last weekend. Overall, CR's US gross is now approx $137,574,000.
The Hollywood Reporter reports that Casino Royale has broken the international box office record for a James Bond film. CR's international gross now stands at $280.3 million which eclipses DAD's total international gross of $271 million.
CR's overall gross now stands at $417.8 million, just $13.4 million from overtaking DAD and becoming the highest grossing Bond film of all. However, I should point out that adjustments for inflation have not been included.
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It would sure be nice if CR could beat the inflation point-spread, and put a cherry on top for the boycott crowd
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"I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
Something to bear in mind--DAD didn't reach $432 million until it had been in release for about five and a half months. CR has nearly matched that after only one month--so we'll have to wait another four and a half months until we can really compare the two.
That said, it's interesting to see how the two films have performed after their fifth weekend in the U.S. Again, according to good ol' BoxOfficeMojo, here's how they stack up:
DAD, playing on 2,075 screens, made $138,494,620, finishing the week at #10.
CR, playing on 2,437 screens, made $137,501,384, finishing the week at #8.
Whether this is good or bad is for someone with better math skills than I have!
And something else--CR just passed both Adam Sandler's Click and Mission: Impossible III to become the tenth highest-grossing film of 2006 in America. Not too shabby!
And something else--CR just passed both Adam Sandler's Click and Mission: Impossible III to become the tenth highest-grossing film of 2006 in America. Not too shabby!
That's good news...but it almost seems like taking candy from a baby!
According to BoxOfficeMojo, Casino Royale's overall gross in the UK stood at $85,161,834 US (approx £44 million) on Sunday 17th. This means that CR needs to gross approx $13 million by Sunday 31st to become the highest grossing film of the year in the UK. The forthcoming holiday season may encourage more people to visit the cinema, so I think CR still has a chance to overhaul Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.
Even if CR does not become the highest grossing film of the year it will still likely have a final total gross over $100 million in the UK. Truly remarkable.
CR is now $14 million from equalling DAD's worldwide total. Alas, there's no way CR can even approach Dead Man's Chest's U.S. numbers--it did $400 million here all by itself!
According to BoxOfficeMojo, Casino Royale's overall gross in the UK stood at $85,161,834 US (approx £44 million) on Sunday 17th. This means that CR needs to gross approx $13 million by Sunday 31st to become the highest grossing film of the year in the UK. The forthcoming holiday season may encourage more people to visit the cinema, so I think CR still has a chance to overhaul Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.
Even if CR does not become the highest grossing film of the year it will still likely have a final total gross over $100 million in the UK. Truly remarkable.
I just thought I would give you a bit more detail regarding Casino Royale's success in comparison to the other top films of the year in the UK. Below is a list of the top ten grossing films as of Sunday 17th. For example, look how CR compares very favourably with 'Mission: Impossible III' and 'Superman Returns'.
Top Ten Grossing Films of 2006 in UK. Source: Screen International
1. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest £52 million
2. Casino Royale £44.6 million
3. The Da Vinci Code £30.4 million
4. Ice Age 2: The Meltdown £29.5 million
5. Borat £23.7 million
6. X-Men: The Last Stand £19.1 million
7. Cars £16.3 million
8. Superman Returns £16.1 million
9. Mission: Impossible III £15.5 million
10. The Devil Wears Prada £13.9 million
Sight & Sound make some interesting points in their article this month. They point out that 10 pictures opened against Bond in the UK, but their collective gross was £49,072 - in other words, CR took 99.63% of the box office for new releases that weekend.
Furthermore they point out an interesting phenomenon. They say there is a "healthy trend" of art house fare co-existing with blockbusters, so that an acclaimed indie film is counter-programmed against a Star Wars or Batman and the two audiences go their seperate ways. With Bond, however, S&S says that (snobbery alert!) "upscale" audiences wanted to see the film - that CR was stealing audiences who wouldn't be seen dead in an average Hollywood blockbuster. The result is that many indie cinemas simply showed the Bond film - I saw CR for the first time in the FACT, my local arthouse cinema in Liverpool.
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"Better make that two."
That's a really low number for Happy Feet - I'm quite surprised. Only £300,000 more than a film that's been out for a month. I'd also be surprised if it stayed at number one over the whole week - as with the US, a kids film is going to make its money on a weekend, while people will be going to CR screenings in the evenings.
@merseytart
I was wondering in toy stores and i haven't seen the first Daniel Craig Doll, or a Defibrillator... no Casino Royale Cellphones with M or Craig sounds... not even a Happy meal with Casino Royale, but go and look for penguins, they are everywhere!
Ok. is a movie for kids (even when grown up can enjoy it as well) and CR is for grown ups (ditto), but they have not only a different target but a different objective as well:
EON finally used the only book (the first one) that they haven' make a movie, exploit the 9/11 stuff... new Bond... you get my point.
Happy Feet came for the Computer Animated BOOM, use a lot of technology and brings a story that teach us a story and a lesson as well (we are rich because we are different) but besides that, nothing. We aren't in front a Toy Story kind of movie... dead the boom, dead the movie as well, perhaps we heard again when the DVD is released or when the studio makes a new movie (from the producers of "Happy Feet" kinda stuff)
So, CR might lost a Battle, but it surely has won (or will) the war.
P.S. thanks to MI6 info: it seems that Casino Royale in Colombia has made $320,589 (beats me if that number is in pesos -national currency equivalent: $2.400 pesos makes one dollar-) but it is everywhere
It's looking like those penguins are permanently out of reach. The pattern from previous weeks was that CR outgrossed Happy Feet Monday through Friday, but HF grossed very strongly at the weekends to take the overall lead. This week HF has been outgrossing CR, admittedly only by a few thousand every day, but it's still significant. HF has now passed $140 million, an overall lead of $9 million.
But, in the world, Casino Royale 377 milion dollars, Happy Feet only 181 million dollars!!!
Very true. But the media have made quite a deal about the penguins beating Bond every week. Mainly because the US is the numero uno marketplace. And then there's CnB putting their own spin on it.
For me, it would have been very satisfying to see Casino Royale beat Happy Feet overall in the US. And trust me, it's not because I have anything against penguins or HF. I care about Bond, I don't care much for the media. I don't care at all for CnB.
Now, in no way, shape, or form could CR be considered a box office disappointment in America or anywhere else. . .EXCEPT that in the minds of some media analysts a movie's success is measured only by opening #1 and keeping the spot for a while. Then there's that abominable anti-Craig site, that is trying to promote CR's #2 position as proof that their "boycott" of the movie is working and that CR is tanking as a result; and we even had the pleasure of listening to that Zolly kid screaming that opening #2 is a sign of failure. I'm afraid that, as guardians of the truth (how's that for a motto?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8122-2492940,00.html
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Feh--I read that article before, and it's a crock. The doctor bases his "diagnosis" on a simple-minded reading of Hardy's poetry. And my avatar isn't hiding his face--thanks to the good work of Mr. Predator, he's enjoying the holiday season!
OK, back on topic. Box office people, box office!
OK, so CR is clearly not number one in terms of box office anymore, but it is number one in terms of the total movie pages viewed by visitors to BOM. Not bad for a film that's been out almost a month.
In the last 7 days. Percentage of total movie pages viewed.
1. Casino Royale 7.6%
2. Apocalypto 6.4%
3. Happy Feet 2.4%
Still, the overall numbers remain impressive. In the U.S., CR has made about $133,449,000, which puts it at #12 for the year, just barely behind Mission: Impossible III. It's also some $27 million away from matching DAD's domestic take, which was $160,942,139.
Worldwide, CR has taken in $379,959,827, nipping on the heels of DAD's $431,971,116.
Whew! Too many numbers for me!
http://www.mi6.co.uk/news/index.php?itemid=4547&catid=2
Casino Royale drops 724 theatres in fifth week in USA, out performing 'Die Another Day'
"Casino Royale" will go in to its fifth week of release in North America across 2,437 theaters in the USA & Canada - a drop of 724 venues.
This reduction is not unexpected, and is less that 007's previous outing "Die Another Day" which lost 1,302 theaters on its fifth weekend - playing at only 2,075 venues and grossing $4,030,346 for the week.
"Casino Royale" has out-performed the previous Bond box-office record set by "Die Another Day" during it's thrid and fourth weeks.
Daniel Craig's debut 007 outing is expected to enter the top 10 highest grossing movies of 2006 in the USA this weekend.
Casino Royale is eigth with an estimated gross of $5,700,000, a 36.1% drop from last weekend. Pretty impressive considering it is now playing in 724 fewer theatres than last weekend. Overall, CR's US gross is now approx $137,574,000.
CR's overall gross now stands at $417.8 million, just $13.4 million from overtaking DAD and becoming the highest grossing Bond film of all. However, I should point out that adjustments for inflation have not been included.
"I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
That said, it's interesting to see how the two films have performed after their fifth weekend in the U.S. Again, according to good ol' BoxOfficeMojo, here's how they stack up:
DAD, playing on 2,075 screens, made $138,494,620, finishing the week at #10.
CR, playing on 2,437 screens, made $137,501,384, finishing the week at #8.
Whether this is good or bad is for someone with better math skills than I have!
Bond movies make lots of money.
That's good.
That's good news...but it almost seems like taking candy from a baby!
Even if CR does not become the highest grossing film of the year it will still likely have a final total gross over $100 million in the UK. Truly remarkable.
U.S.: $138,191,393
World: $417,916,051
CR is now $14 million from equalling DAD's worldwide total. Alas, there's no way CR can even approach Dead Man's Chest's U.S. numbers--it did $400 million here all by itself!
"Better make that two."
Think I'd better head to the cinema again then eh to help the effort {:)!!
I just thought I would give you a bit more detail regarding Casino Royale's success in comparison to the other top films of the year in the UK. Below is a list of the top ten grossing films as of Sunday 17th. For example, look how CR compares very favourably with 'Mission: Impossible III' and 'Superman Returns'.
Top Ten Grossing Films of 2006 in UK. Source: Screen International
1. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest £52 million
2. Casino Royale £44.6 million
3. The Da Vinci Code £30.4 million
4. Ice Age 2: The Meltdown £29.5 million
5. Borat £23.7 million
6. X-Men: The Last Stand £19.1 million
7. Cars £16.3 million
8. Superman Returns £16.1 million
9. Mission: Impossible III £15.5 million
10. The Devil Wears Prada £13.9 million
Furthermore they point out an interesting phenomenon. They say there is a "healthy trend" of art house fare co-existing with blockbusters, so that an acclaimed indie film is counter-programmed against a Star Wars or Batman and the two audiences go their seperate ways. With Bond, however, S&S says that (snobbery alert!) "upscale" audiences wanted to see the film - that CR was stealing audiences who wouldn't be seen dead in an average Hollywood blockbuster. The result is that many indie cinemas simply showed the Bond film - I saw CR for the first time in the FACT, my local arthouse cinema in Liverpool.
@merseytart