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The new Bond pic Quantum Of Solace was down 59% from its franchise record opening a week ago for a $27.4M weekend. Its new North American cume passed $100M Saturday in just 6 days time to finish with $109.4M through Sunday. Going into Friday, Daniel Craig’s 2nd turn as 007 had made $335M worldwide. Then the actioner opened in Australia and Spain to the biggest Bond openings ever. So MGM/Sony had an overseas weekend of $40.6M which will put international at $309M for a staggering $418.5M worldwide through Sunday. There are four territories left to open — New Zealand, Venezuela, Uruguay, and Japan.
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Big second-weekend tailoff in the US, and I don’t think you can blame “Twilight” and “Bolt” for it. The movie is an esthetic and storytelling disappoinment, to both critics and the Bond fan base, and I believe it’s getting hurt by bad buzz. In market after market it seems to open red-hot, then after the first three days there’s a tidal wave of “Meh…” and things cool off.
Daniel Craig can drink my milkshake anyday!
I don’t know how you can’t place any blame on competition. Obviously that’s what accounted for the big dropoff the most, more so that any bad buzz. In any case, the buzz isn’t that bad anyway, and it’s still a good second weekend.
I think the Bond audience and the “Twilight” / “Bolt” crowds are almost mutually exclusive. On another note, the buzz on “Twilight” from first-weekenders is terrific — the core audience will compete among themselves to rack up repeat screenings, “Titanic”-style. That’s not exactly what’s happening with QoS. With the latter, you’ve got Bond fans turning up at work Monday morning warning co-workers not to waste their money.