James Bond
“No time to die” is not only breaking records for us
Daniel Craig as James Bond in No Time To Die.
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Daniel Craig’s last Bond appearance is already breaking records. “No time to die” washed millions into the coffers on the opening weekend.
The last Bond film with Daniel Craig (53), altogether the 25th part in the series about the legendary agent with the license to kill, looks like a sure candidate for the biggest hit of the year (at least) on paper. And “No Time to Die” actually seems to deliver. On its launch weekend, the new 007 broke records in Great Britain and Germany. Craig’s farewell performance is already a hit. And that although it has not even started in the largest sales markets of the USA and China.
Again “Guardian” calculates, “No Time To Die” broke multiple records on its opening weekend in the UK and Ireland. In Bond’s homeland, the film was released with 9,000 daily screenings in 772 cinemas. No film in the United Kingdom had started so widely before.
The 25th Bond grossed 21 million pounds (about 24.5 million euros) in Great Britain and Ireland alone on the opening weekend. This means that after just three days it is replacing “Peter Rabbit 2” as the most successful film of 2021 in the UK. The animation hit grossed a total of £ 20.2 million.
“No Time to Die” is also the UK’s most successful bond launch of all time. Its two direct predecessors “Skyfall” and “Specter” each brought in £ 20 million (around EUR 23.3 million) on their first three days.
Most successful start worldwide since the pandemic
If you add up the box office results of the 54 cinema markets around the world in which the film has already been released, you get a total of 119 million dollars (around 102.6 million euros). This makes “No Time to Die” internationally the film with the best opening weekend since the beginning of the corona pandemic in spring 2020.
Overall, according to calculations by the production studio Universal Pictures, “No Time to Die” has so far been in a league with “Skyfall”. Its predecessor grossed 1.1 billion dollars worldwide in 2012 – albeit without restrictions on the occupancy of the cinemas, which are still prevalent in many countries. “Skyfalls” record as the most successful bond of all time is within reach despite Corona.
On October 8th, Bond 25 launches in the USA, in the world’s most important cinema market. Number two is China, where the film will start on October 29th.
Record in Germany too
In German cinemas, “No Time to Die” made a loud noise on the weekend “Focus: Film” for two thirds of total sales. According to the cinema industry magazine, 1.17 million Germans saw the film. This makes Craig’s Schwanengesang the most successful start in this country since the beginning of the corona restrictions. Most recently, “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” was more successful on the first weekend and attracted 1.4 million viewers in December 2019.