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007 Skyfall smashes through $800 million and James Bond must now beat $1 billion at the global box office.
Jonathan Stuart-Brown for Save The British Film Industry.
No matter how you look at it, SKYFALL is a massive success financially.
Sam Mendes has a billion dollar movie on his cv.
Daniel Craig has risen from $12 million global box office for Layer Cake to a billion dollar movie.
The only word to use is CONGRATULATIONS !
China, Australia and Japan will push the franchise over the line.
It is certainly not the best 007 ever, and not necessarily a 007 movie at all , but it has proved a big hit with people prepared to pay money to see an action movie. It has proved especially successful in the UK.
Indeed in the UK it shows that $200 million dollar movies can recoup their entire budget from its own domestic market with all exports being the bonus. The cinema take with DVD, online and TV can give the producers over $200 million. If only UK investors in a UK product could guarantee access to UK shops (i.e.cinemas), which even a $200 million movie can not.
Jonathan Gems and Jon Williams are the leading authority on how the UK is the only nation which does not have automatic entry to its own cinema market. It is lamentable that The Prime Minister, Culture Minister and Chancellor do not heed either of them.
http://www.pleasedsheep.com/forums/topic/9080-jonathan-gems-on-the-abolition-of-the-ukfc/
http://www.pleasedsheep.com/forums/index.php?/blog/8/entry-122-jons-submission-to-the-dcms-film-policy-review/
PLEASE NOTE THAT JONATHAN WILLIAMS IS ALWAYS WORTH READING AND STUDYING.
Please please please pray for the peace, protection and prosperity of Jerusalem and all of Israel.
http://www.peaceandprosperityforjerusalem.com
Psalm 83
Psalm 83
A song. A psalm of Asaph.
1 O God, do not remain silent;
do not turn a deaf ear,
do not stand aloof, O God.
2 See how your enemies growl,
how your foes rear their heads.
3 With cunning they conspire against your people;
they plot against those you cherish.
4 “Come,” they say, “let us destroy them as a nation,
so that Israel’s name is remembered no more.”
5 With one mind they plot together;
they form an alliance against you—
6 the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,
of Moab and the Hagrites,
7 Byblos, Ammon and Amalek,
Philistia, with the people of Tyre.
8 Even Assyria has joined them
to reinforce Lot’s descendants.
9 Do to them as you did to Midian,
as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,
10 who perished at Endor
and became like dung on the ground.
11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,
all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
12 who said, “Let us take possession
of the pasturelands of God.”
13 Make them like tumbleweed, my God,
like chaff before the wind.
14 As fire consumes the forest
or a flame sets the mountains ablaze,
15 so pursue them with your tempest
and terrify them with your storm.
16 Cover their faces with shame, LORD,
so that they will seek your name.
17 May they ever be ashamed and dismayed;
may they perish in disgrace.
18 Let them know that you, whose name is the LORD—
that you alone are the Most High over all the earth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlmwW2hkItw
http://www.peaceandprosperityforjerusalem.com/hello-world/
http://www.peaceandprosperityforjerusalem.com/sample-page/
http://www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com/please-pray-for-the-peace-and-prosperity-of-jerusalem/
http://www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com/please-pray-for-the-peace-and-prosperity-of-jerusalem/
Jonathan Stuart-Brown
http://www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlmwW2hkItw/
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You forget to mention the power of marketing, in particular the 50th anniversary. This is lacking in 2014. The valuation of Skyfall will then be visible. But all distributors will put
more money into marketing a movie, I think. They have learned a valuable lesson.
Excellent point. The 4 year gap between the films, the 2012 marketing spend around 50 years, the fact that 2014 will lack these. Marketing matters in the film business.
The Sky is the limit!
Even the title “Sky Fall” is poorly chosen
After Quantum of Solace, we all thought the titles could only get better. Incredibly it did not !
Even the Adele song is by far her weakest ever.
In two years and in ten years time people in her audience will not be insisting she sings it in concert compared to Rolling In The Deep/We could have had it all.
Incredibly 47 years after Goldfinger and 40 years after Diamonds Are Forever, these are the two songs Shirley Bassey has to sing before the Queen, Presidents and to close every show.
In time Adele will probably quietly drop the song from her shows as her normal standard work increases in volume.
My own theory is that having had to wait ten years since a real 007 movie and 6 years since Casino Royale, the appetite from lifelong 007 fans was at a huge peak to have their addiction fixed. The failure of Quantum of Solace increased the need for a real fix. The four year wait put it at fever pitch. The marketing and 50 year Anniversary pushed it to perfect marketing conditions. The reviews were wildly over the top. A good film but not a film people are talking about a week after they have seen it. Where is the iconic scene as in the laser scene in Goldfinger ? ‘Do you expect me to talk ?’ ‘No Mr Bond I expect you….etc etc’
Nonetheless the financial success of Skyfall has kept 007 in the game. The director and star will get lots of work on the back of this success but I suspect that the investors will be surprised that they will not deliver. The truer figures are based on their work in the last four years. This box office success was off the scale compared to the results they were producing.
Anyway God bless them and their families. God Bless them for trying.
You explanation is as sharp as a laser can be. So both the collateral and the uncertainty keeps the film industry turning.