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  • Skyfall 007 performs shockingly well, tops $1 billion

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Your favorite band sucks, and you have terrible taste in movies.
 #159313  by Julius Seeker
 Mon Dec 31, 2012 12:44 pm
And a well deserved 1 billion I might add. This is a surprisingly high amount considering it grossed several hundred million more than its closest competitor in the 5 decades old film franchise (Casino Royale at 596 million). The film still has yet to launch in China, which is going to be a serious market for this film meaning that the film has a clear shot at becoming one of the top 5 highest grossing films of all time Worldwide. In the UK it is already the highest grossing film of all time, toppling James Cameron's Titanic and Avatar.
Box Office Mojo wrote: Skyfall
Distributor: Columbia
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Genre: Action Runtime: 2 hrs. 23 min.

Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $289,600,000 29.0%
+ Foreign: $710,600,000 71.0%
= Worldwide: $1,000,200,000
It had a lot of great things going for it:
1. American Beauty director Sam Mendes - everything in Skyfall glows all that much brighter with his direction.

2. Great acting: Both Daniel Craig and Judi Dench have never been so great... Add in one of the most talented and diverse actors of all time in Ralph Fiennes and Javier Bardem who absolutely nailed the traditional Bond villain role for the 21st century.

3. Scenes - There is a huge diversity of locations for this Bond film, perhaps more than any of the previous films. The sequences taking place in China are my favourites. Bond had recently been in China in Tomorrow Never dies, and that too was one of the better sequences of the Brosnan series, but this sequence definitely tops it in my opinion.

4. Character Development - the film actually deals with the possibility that an aging Bond with alcoholic tendencies, perhaps isn't a good fit for the future of the organization. It also digs a little more into the back story of the characters than any Bond movie has ever done before.

5. A legacy of now 23 films (25 including the original Casino Royale and Never Say Never Again) and 50 years to the day of the release of Skyfall. Not to mention literature and a popular videogame franchise. This means multiple generations of fans who are still coming back for more.
 #159596  by Julius Seeker
 Sun Feb 10, 2013 7:37 pm
Just to give an idea of where the film ranks currently, and it is still trending upward. It opened a week ago in China and has recorded nearly 60 million USD in sales, so chances are that it'll hit the #5 position, which is VERY impressive for this franchise.


5 Transformers: Dark of the Moon P/DW $1,123.7 - 2011
6 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King NL $1,119.9 - 2003
7 Skyfall Sony $1,094.3 - 2012
8 The Dark Knight Rises WB $1,081.0 - 2012
9 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest BV $1,066.2 - 2006

It's amazing how after 23 films in the franchise that people can still be so incredibly interested in the character of James Bond. Skyfall, the Hobbit, and Tintin are the three recent films I've seen recently where there is a fairly even fan-base across multiple generations. Most other films I see aredominated by the 18-35 age range, except The Hunger games, that was mostly teenagers - I had no idea what I was getting into with that one =P