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On the cusp of its U.S. opening, Skyfall just keeps blasting ahead at the box office. The 23rd James Bond film today passed The Dark Knight Rises to become the UK’s highest-grossing film of the year. With a local take of £57M ($91.07M), the Eon Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and Sony Pictures Entertainment movie is now also the biggest Bond picture of all time in Britain, outplaying Casino Royale‘s £55.6M ($88.8M) haul in 2006. The Sam Mendes-directed Skyfall opened in 587 cinemas in the UK and Ireland on Friday October 26, beginning its overseas rollout at the same time. As of Sunday, it had taken $287M internationally and was breaking records in most territories. It starts IMAX showings in North America today and opens wide tomorrow.
Related: ‘Skyfall’ Selling Ahead Of Last Bond Pic On Fandango
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It’s amazing what a good script and director will get you…
Don’t believe the hype. This is a serviceable enough Bond outing but nowhere near as good as Casino Royale. Craig is still great as Bond but doesn’t have a whole lot to work with. Those dark secrets hinted at in the trailer never really come to fruition. The lack of exotic locations make this come off as more budget Bond with a lot of the action centred in London (and this coming from a Brit!). Better than Quantum of Solace (this at least has cleanly shot action scenes courtesy of the brilliant Roger Deakins) but a far cry from the hype the media has heaped upon it in the UK.
+2, Frostie. No, +3.
‘Solace’ was absolute gibberish on screen… the only thing I remember was how thankful I was when the credits started rolling.
Lack of exotic locations? Between Turkey, Shanghai and Macau half of the film takes place outside of Britain! Anyway the Brosnan bonds are proof that an exotic location isn’t any promise of a memorable film.
As I said this is budget Bond. The film may visit these locations but alot of scenes, aside from clearly the credit sequence in Turkey, are set bound and as good as the cinematography is in making something out of nothing (particularly in Shanghai) we rarely get the visual grandeur and sweeping shots and overall scale associated with this franchise. The only time it is quite clear that Mendes had free reign to shoot externally is in good old GB. I think you are clutching at straws here! My criticism of the film went a little further than wanting to check out where I could go on holiday!!
If all the 22 prior Bond films had their grosses adjusted to reflect current value it would be interesting to see how they all line up. SKYFALL may remain on top (and still counting) but some of the earliest ones may be surprisingly strong.
Are Bond films truly UK films?
never been!
us money all along
so if an American record company gives Adele money to record an Album, does that make her music, American Music?