The Box Office Thread

Hooray for The Martian.

Shame. The Walk is very good.

It was a slow weekend at the box office. It was so slow that the movie Doomsday and SnoBorderZero are working on will look like a huge hit by comparison.

Sony Pictures' bullshit Goosebumps movie was #1 with $23.5 million. They're expecting it to have "legs". Yeah right. Steven Spielberg's Bride of Spies opened at #3 with $15.3 million. That's respectable for an Oscar bait movie. And Crimson Peak, made by Dracula 's favorite director, Guillermo Del Toro flopped at #4 with $12.8 million. Has Del Toro ever had a box office hit? Besides Blade II?

... He sucks.

The Martian returned to #1 this weekend.

Spectre opens in two weeks. Be like Doomsday and get your tickets.

SnoBorderZero

Spectre doesn't open in North America until NEXT Friday, but for the sake of discussion, here's the opening weekend numbers for the last 30+ years.

Octopussy - $23.5 million adjusted
Never Say Never Again - $29 million adjusted
A View to a Kill - $31.2 million adjusted
The Living Daylights - $23.5 million adjusted
License to Kill - $18.4 million adjusted
GOLDENEYE - $50.2 million adjusted
TOMORROW NEVER DIES - $45.6 million adjusted / It opened the same weekend as Titanic.
THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH - $58.3 million adjusted
DIE ANOTHER DAY - $67.5 million adjusted
Casino Royale - $51.9 million adjusted / Neck and neck with Happy Feet
Quantum of Solace - $78.4 million adjusted
Skyfall - $90.5 million

Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig are neck and neck. The culture of opening weekends has changed a lot in 20 years. If you look at the total box office numbers, they're very comparable.

1. Thunderball - $623.8 million
2. Goldfinger - $552.9 million
3. Skyfall - $315.6 million
4. You Only Live Twice - $299.4 million
5. Moonraker - $233.6 million
6. Die Another Day - $230 million
7. Tomorrow Never Dies - $224.4 million
8. From Russia With Love - $222.3 million
9. Diamonds are Forever - $221.4 million Jibbs
10. Casino Royale - $212 million
11. The World Is Not Enough - $207.2 million
12. GoldenEye - $203.5 million
13. Quantum of Solace - $195.5 million
14. Octopussy - $179.7 million
15. The Spy Who Loved Me - $175.1 million
16. Live and Let Die - $166.6 million
17. For Your Eyes Only - $164.4 million
18. Dr. No - $157.6 million
19. Never Say Never Again - $146.7 million
20. On Her Majesty's Secret Service - $133.7 million
21. A View to a Kill - $118.2 million
22. The Living Daylights - $109.1 million
23. The Man With The Golden Gun - $93.5 million
24. License to Kill - $72.8 million PhantomKnight

The success rank for the actors would be, as of now,

1. Sean Connery
2. Pierce Brosnan
3. Daniel Craig
4. Roger Moore
5. George Lazenby
6. Timothy Dalton

Craig will probably equal or surpass Brosnan with Spectre, but they'll still be neck and neck.

Timothy Dalton had the opposite experience of Pierce Brosnan. His timing was terrible. Originally, he was offered the role of James Bond in 1968, during pre-production of On Her Majesty's Secret Service. He turned them down because he felt he was too young for the role. Then, they offered him the role again for Live and Let Die but turned it down because, after George Lazenby's failure, he thought no one could replace Sean Connery. Then he had the misfortune of following Roger Moore, which was not a good idea at all. You don't follow one extreme with another. That's why Pierce Brosnan was the perfect choice to replace Roger Moore. He could be WAY more serious than Roger Moore, but he could also be just as silly. He didn't alienate the fans of the time. Timothy Dalton should have maned up and accepted the role in 1968. He was better suited for On Her Majesty's Secret Service than The Living Daylights, which was a script written specifically for Pierce Brosnan and his style. Even if audiences had rejected Timothy Dalton in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, like they did with George Lazenby, it wouldn't have mattered because On Her Majesty's Secret Service is already considered a classic in spite of George Lazenby. Imagine the movie with Timothy Dalton. It would have been the true rival to Goldfinger that some fans want it to be. The Living Daylights and License to Kill are not classics AT ALL. He fucked up. It's that simple.

He played King Philip in The Lion in Winter, which was an Academy Award winning movie. That put him in the radar of the James Bond producers, but he was only like 23 or 24 at the time. He was right. He was WAY too young for the role. But so what? They ultimately hired George Lazenby, an Australian model whose only acting experience was in TV commercials. Dalton was the better option. Then he did Wuthering Heights and Mary Queen of Scots, an Academy Award nominated movie. That got the James Bond producers attention again and they offered him Live and Let Die. He turned them down because he was scared off by George Lazenby's failure. They literally gave him two chances to make a name for himself as James Bond and he blew it. Instead, he waits until 1986, when the timing was awful, to finally accept the role. He should have been James Bond in 1969 or 1973. That was the ideal timing for him. Like I said, it's the opposite of Pierce Brosnan. Brosnan was offered James Bond in 1981 when his then-wife was a major co-star in For Your Eyes Only. Then, he's given the role in 1986 but had to turn it down. And finally, he's given the role again in 1994 and goes on to star in 4 successful movies. His timing was always perfect. 

Spectre made $9.4 million last night in the UK. Two-day total is $15.6 million.

Jibbs PG Cooper SnoBorderZero PhantomKnight




www.rottentomatoes.com/m/spectre_2015/

Critics Consensus: Spectre nudges Daniel Craig's rebooted Bond closer to the glorious, action-driven spectacle of earlier entries, although it's admittedly reliant on established 007 formula.


If there's an opening gun barrel sequence, Dracula is gonna jizz his pants.


[/quote]