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Skyfall Soars to HUGE Box Office Win with Biggest James Bond Opening Ever

8:31 am, November 11th, 2012

BOX OFFICE

(MGM)

Bond is back in a BIG way.

Skyfall, the 23rd movie in the James Bond franchise, has easily won the weekend box office with a staggering $87.8 million haul, giving it the biggest opening in the spy series’ long history.

The movie marks Daniel Craig’s third outing as Agent 007.

Last weekend’s top earner, the animated Wreck-It Ralph, finished  in second with $33.1 million.

Denzel Washington’s airline pilot drama Flight nabbed third place with $15.1 million in ticket sales.

The thrillers Argo and Taken 2 came in fourth and fifth places with $6.7 million and $4.2 million, respectively.

Rounding out the Top 10 were Cloud Atlas ($2.5 million), The Man with the Iron Fists ($2.4 million), Pitch Perfect ($2.4 million), Here Comes The Boom ($2.3 million), Hotel Transylvania ($2.1 million).

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  • veronica

    I love Daniel Craig! I hope he makes The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo part 2 soon.

  • http://www.facebook.com/RTCastleberry R.T. Castleberry

    Get back to me next weekend when the box office drops 50% because of bad word-of-mouth. I saw it early, on Thursday. It’s boring–and too long to be as boring as it is.

  • http://www.facebook.com/courtney.puzzo Courtney Puzzo

    @RTCastleberry shut up the box office won’t neccessarily drop 50% on the 2nd weekend and ticket prices have gone up about 12% since Quantum of Solace 4 years ago and this is actually the 24th film Casino Royal was done twice once for television. and since Dr No in 1963 the price of a movie ticket has gone up more than 840%. roughly 11 million people saw the film on its opening weekend to have it make that amount of money while on Rachel Rachel’s opening weekend in 1968 it made 3.775 million or 2,881,679 people saw it while if it were released for it’s 45th anniversary next summer and ticket prices increased by 4% the opening weekend would make 24 million dollars or 5.2 million more than it’s entire original run did. though Bond films aren’t often award winners while Rachel Rachel was nominated for and won a bunch of awards including a national board of review award as one of the top ten grossing films of the year and two NYFCC awards and a special award from the queen of England.

  • http://www.facebook.com/RTCastleberry R.T. Castleberry

    Courtney–no, you shut up! LOL. I thought the movie was a bore and word-of-mouth should kill it. Arnold’s Last Action Hero started well, too. But by the 3rd weekend it had dropped out of the top 10 and proved a big failure. I predict the same for Skyfall. It’s boring, brooding, has a weak script and most of the Bond features of gimmicks, humor and great women are absent. Go see Argo or Flight. THOSE are great movies.

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