James Bond 25 - No Time To Die

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I feel like I've seen this film already. It's all so SLICK yet SO HOLLOW. Also all that Blofeld stuff.. who's watching these films for NONSENSICAL CONTINUITY?

Just send him to ANGOLA in the search of some BLOOD DIAMONDS or something.
 
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I feel like I've seen this film already. It's all so SLICK yet SO HOLLOW. Also all that Blofeld stuff.. who's watching these films for NONSENSICAL CONTINUITY?

Just send him to ANGOLA in the search of some BLOOD DIAMONDS or something.

i don’t agree with this

send him to KAZAKHSTAN with SPACE LASERS or something :disco

(I understand that’s basically Goldeneye and sort of Die another day but SO WHAT)
 
Rehashing Goldeneye could only be a good thing. I am looking forward to this, but it has become a bit po-faced.
 
How is that even possible? The multiple cancelled marketing campaigns?
it's quite normal for a film with a 200m+ budget plus marketing. they usually need to make about 3.5x their production budget to break into profit. on average cinemas keep about 60% of ticket revenue and the rest goes back to the studio.
 
I thought I read it was the studio which got 60%. But I dare say there must be many different arrangements and distribution deals going on at any time.
 
I thought I read it was the studio which got 60%. But I dare say there must be many different arrangements and distribution deals going on at any time.
In the US the studio gets about 50%. internationally they get about 40%. and from Chinese box office they (Western studios) get just 25% which is why a film being huge in China isn't often actually great news
 
Don't Disney famously get back something like 90% of the first few weeks, and the cinemas only make money (from the film itself) if a film hangs around for weeks? I think the whole world of it is incredibly murky.
 
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Everything about how big movies do or don't make profit (and the 'creative accounting' surrounding the industry in general) is REALLY dodgy.
 
Rehashing Goldeneye could only be a good thing. I am looking forward to this, but it has become a bit po-faced.

see that’s how I felt about Casino Royale, and Quantum of Solace was sort of an oversteer into generic action. Skyfall was where it all came together for me, and to a lesser extent Spectre. I can’t believe that was what, 6 years ago now?

even the gap between Die another day and Casino Royale, a total reboot, was 4 years!
 
this is finally out on Thursday, with the premiere happening tomorrow. I believe the review embargo will lift in 24 hours.

the press has been absolutely wall to wall and relentless for weeks (months) at this point, I think it has to have a huge shot at becoming the first proper box office smash of the post-covid era. I'm really excited to FINALLY see it.
 
I really don’t see it. I’m sure it’ll do well but there’s nothing terribly special about another James Bond movie and the last one was awful.
 
I really don’t see it. I’m sure it’ll do well but there’s nothing terribly special about another James Bond movie and the last one was awful.
They do tend to go by the pattern of every other one being great.

Have booked for Saturday with the VIP leather recliners and unlimited snacks. Might as well since it’s a long film.
 
They do tend to go by the pattern of every other one being great.

Have booked for Saturday with the VIP leather recliners and unlimited snacks. Might as well since it’s a long film.
I hope that pattern sticks. Casino Royale and Skyfall were both varying degrees of great. Quantum of Solace was hamstrung by the writers strike and I don't know what went wrong with Spectre.

I watched the 4 of them in sequence during lockdown and they work very well as a group.
 
the action sequences in Casino Royale are proper amazing. that chase on top of the crane in the opening sequence still puts me RIGHT ON EDGE.

everything about that film felt like a stunning, much needed reinvention. it's almost perfect, except for Bond driving a rented Ford Mondeo. but I still prefer Skyfall for the emotional heft, the visuals and how well Daniel owned the role at that point.
 
I forget which is which as soon as I've seen them but the ones with Christoph Waltz in are my favourites :)
 
weekend box office projections from Deadline

Industry projections on No Time to Die are in the $90 million neighborhood this session — a number that we are likely to revise as more becomes clear over the coming days.

That $90M would be a big win. By way of comparison, and in like-for-like markets at today’s exchange rates, 2015’s Spectre did $123.5M; 2012’s Skyfall came in at $109.2M; and more recently, Universal’s latest Fast & Furious franchise entry F9 did $69.5M.
No Time to Die begins UK screenings at midnight on Wednesday night and anticipation in Bond’s home market is sky-high. The Odeon cinema chain on Monday reported more than 175,000 tickets have been pre-sold. The exhibitor estimates this sets September 2021 attendance tracking 10% above the same month in 2019, and puts Bond in line for the biggest opening at its cinemas since summer of that pre-pandemic year.

looking good! this is without France / US / Australia. curious to see how it develops - it's really the biggest test so far of whether cinemas can attract big pre-pandemic audiences any time soon.

premiere happening now

daniel-craig-no-time-to-die-premiere-co-stars.jpg

:disco:
 
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I do like the narrative that Shang Chi and Fast 9 didn’t happen and were not hits
 
What's all this crap with mainstream media selling this as 'magnificent'? I know the sector is dead because of Covid but surely in woke 2021 era Bond is the worst?!
 
weekend box office projections from Deadline




looking good! this is without France / US / Australia. curious to see how it develops - it's really the biggest test so far of whether cinemas can attract big pre-pandemic audiences any time soon.

premiere happening now

daniel-craig-no-time-to-die-premiere-co-stars.jpg

:disco:
WTF is she wearing on the left? That's definitely a BOOT.
 
I believe Piers Morgan aside, Daniel's raspberry tuxedo was regarded as quite the sensation, wasn't it?
 
What's all this crap with mainstream media selling this as 'magnificent'? I know the sector is dead because of Covid but surely in woke 2021 era Bond is the worst?!

Sorry hun, but no!

Daniel Craig Bond is :disco:
 
I believe Piers Morgan aside, Daniel's raspberry tuxedo was regarded as quite the sensation, wasn't it?
I can’t believe I’m giving him oxygen by asking but what on earth has he said about it?
 
I'm fine for one last Daniel Craig Bond but I want the next one Roger Moore levels CAMP CAMP CAMP. I'm SICK of introspection. Give me fun! Give me EYEROLLING DAD JOKES! Give me SMASHING CHEEKS IN SPACE!

I've specifically read reports that say the humour is on point and frequent in the new movie, with lots of bants and they ramp up the camp.

It's probably only in comparison to the previous 4 films, but still.
 

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