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MGM chief Gary Barber presented the forecast to his company’s investors today, saying that the film will become “the highest-grossing Bond film of all time.” He adds that Skyfall is performing “substantially above our expectations.” Barber also confirmed that the film’s screenwriter John Logan “has begun developing the scripts for the next two Bond films”, which we scooped last month. He provided no details about the plans, though. Privately held MGM, which is considering going public, went all out to generate interest in the Bond franchise ahead of Skyfall. The company’s Blu-ray package, Bond 50: The Complete 22 Film Collection, was “a tremendous success at retail,” Barber says. MGM also created a temporary channel in the UK, Sky Movies 007 HD, that showed off the studio’s Bond library.
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Barber and Co very smart and will reap a fortune from their Bond strategy. Add The Hobbit films to the mix and voila!
How much was MGM available for just a few years ago? No one, not even Sony, wanted to buy it outright, regardless of the profitable 007 rights they hold with Eon — not to mention Tolkien rights, a massive catalog, and other intellectual property. And now you have Disney buying Lucasfilm for $4 billion while SKYFALL rakes in a fortune. I know the James Bond and Star Wars franchises are not exactly the same. But you’d think a major studio would want to outright own a piece of a reliably profitable, endlessly rebootable film series just as Disney coveted the Star Wars franchise.
“John Logan ‘has begun developing the scripts for the next two Bond films.’”
Oh, lord. Does EVERYTHING have to be over-written to fill some three-film arc? For God’s sake just write ONE decent Bond movie and then, assuming it does well and anyone asks, write another.
What counts is total revenue from all sources adjusted for general inflation. The older films had minimal home market revenues.
minimal home market reveues…
absolute bollocks. TV rights were much more lucrative in those days and with time the old ones hae genererated MASSIVE home market revenues. Also % revenue to the studio from theaters has decreased after the big theater shakedown of early 2000s
@auric. true indeed. Thunder made over a Bil and Gold over 900M (no other makes 800 though, YOLT got the closest)
However where I personally believe Mr. Barber is most wrong (or pessimistic) is in only predicting 800M. It will easily make 900 and very likely make a Bil.
Sure hope Daniel Craig has a point or so of the film. He’s lost his two front teeth and a piece of a finger for Eon Productions.This was Sean Connery’s gripe when he was making Bond films. Saltzman ad Broccoli kept making new and bigger deals with MGM/UA but Sean couldn’t make a new deal. Money was being made hand over fist both from films and merchanizing and Sean got screwed. Is it small wonder he wanted out after You Only Live Twice.