Despite some hubbub over Chinese censorship behind the country’s release of Skyfall, the film is a hit in the region following a terrific $5.1 million Monday opening. Currently standing at $1.04 billion worldwide, the film should bolster its total over the next month thanks to a respondent country who prefers British spies over Batman. While an estimate is yet to be suggested, one could imagine that a performance like this on a typically dry day of the week could result into a hefty box office draw capable of bringing the film another $55 million minimum. Continue Reading
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That said, we are looking at a top three that is very similar to three weekends’ ago. The mix has changed, but the trio of Skyfall, Twilight, and Lincoln remains dominant. Bond 23 was the only one of that lot capable of eight-figures for the three-day thus why it has usurped Breaking Dawn 2 for the top spot. Some are surprised, but I would argue that those people probably were not paying attention to the scale of regression for Breaking Dawn 2. This says less about Skyfall’s persistence than it does the ability of its younger-skewing competition to bring in receipts after launch. Here is the top ten for December 7-9, 2012. 1. Skyfall - $3.1 M Friday, $11.0 M Weekend
Here is your top ten for November 30-December 2, 2012:
The top ten for November 23rd-25th are as follows: 1. Breaking Dawn 2 - $43.1 M
1. Breaking Dawn 2 – $12.8 M
As of Tuesday’s receipts, Skyfall is now the top performing Bond film ever on the domestic level with $170.6 million through 13 days. The Sam Mendes-directed feature is expected to do well these next few days which means that the latest 007-starrer will be opening up a sizable lead in the franchise record books. This news follows Sunday’s reveal that the movie already grossed over $600 million globally which is also a high-water mark. In regards to Breaking Dawn 2, the film set a series record for a Tuesday with $11.8 million. The previous leader was 2009′s New Moon which found $11.3 million during its first Tuesday. While this may be viewed as a consolation prize by many, it is still a very impressive five-day start for the last Twilight movie of this generation. Breaking Dawn 2 is now at $162.9 million on the domestic level with $362.5 million worldwide. Stay tuned for numbers tomorrow afternoon concerning the new arrivals.
In other words, overall quality was not up to snuff and that resulted in some abandoning ship over the series’ theatrical life. The plus side to all this is that if the franchise gets an early reboot, there is somewhere to go even though these movies played out over the course of four years. Continue Reading
To achieve such a feat, it would have to best New Moon’s $72.7 million opening day record set three years prior. That did not happen as Breaking Dawn 2 only managed $71.2 million even with the benefit of 10 p.m. Thursday showings which is still unbelievably good. The problem with that is various metrics suggest Friday will clearly be the best day by a mile for this movie, possibly more so than previous outings which suggests doing something on par with Breaking Dawn 1 might result in a meager $135 million. This would be a bit short of the $150 million Hollywood anticipated; however, we also want to note today that these big numbers often lend themselves to larger than average corrections, so there is always a shot that Saturday could make a world of difference. Continue Reading |
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After Friday’s $260,000 take, Skyfall has finally ventured to where no other Bond film before it has come close, passing $300 million at the domestic box office. A while back, the Sam Mendes-directed feature made headlines for 
This weekend’s box office performance is every bit as disappointing as the week prior. The lone national release was the Gerard Butler-Jessica Biel romantic comedy Playing for Keeps which we expected to perform ‘okay’ if it was not for the film’s critical reception. The movie about a sports star turned little league coach on a path to redemption failed to impress as the feature currently wears a 2% score on the aggregate review site Rotten Tomatoes, classifying it as possibly the worst film of the entire year.
This weekend is the calm before the holiday storm in the world of box office tracking. Nothing of note is going on, and Brad Pitt’s Killing Them Softly is certainly making sure of that by bombing as we anticipated. As Deadline put it, no film has opened past $10 million for this week-after-Thanksgiving since 2005′s Aeon Flux, so you have to wonder if this was just a dump off from TWC.
There is a new top dog atop the spy genre at the North American box office as James Bond’s Skyfall has just passed The Bourne Ultimatum this week in box office receipts. The line now stands at $233.9 million versus $227.5 million which technically means two swapped positions on Thursday considering Friday’s total for Bond was under $5 million. Forgive the internet for being late to the party on this one because we did not realize spy films were so weak and therefore were not anticipating such a record. 
The box office is about to take off for Thanksgiving Weekend with three nationwide arrivals in the form of Red Dawn, Life of Pi, and Rise of the Guardians, but we already have our first bit of box office news for the holiday as holdovers Skyfall and Twilight are still rewriting the record books.
Today has given us a little more Bond news despite the fact that the next one will not be out for at least two years. While we were not expecting information on the directorial side of things anytime soon, we might already have some as Sam Mendes could conceivably follow-up Skyfall with another MI6-centered production. How do we know this? Exiting franchise scribes Neal Purvis and Robert Wade have released the following statement: “We’re very happy to have done five Bond movies, I think we’ve gotten it to a good place. I know that John Logan and Sam Mendes have come up with a plot for another one, which takes the pressure off because these films take up a lot of time.” 
The weekend studio estimates are now out, and the data shows that Twilight: Breaking Dawn 2 did fall short of a franchise best. Many will be wondering what the problem was, but all-in-all $141.3 million, only $1.5 million short of the record, is not at all bad for the month. Of course, New Moon had the luxury of attracting new audiences that were unfamiliar with the brand whereas now we know exactly what to expect from the series, so that could be another factor.
Everything remains very much in flux for the weekend figures at the moment, so for today’s Friday box office report we will provide a little interpretation on what is going on with the three-day totals. Under that assumption, we take a look at the rock star-like beginning for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2. The movie is said to be the last in the series for at least a long while, causing the industry to salivate at the notion of a finale bump.