Bond 22 Admissions

[Skywalker]

It's so hard to predict what the figure might be. I think your $650 million would be about right, as the curiousity factor should still be there and DC has gained new fans to the franchise.

He's almost certainly lost some, too. The pro-Craigers like to assume that we're the only people in the world who weren't happy with the new direction, but they base their assumption on a couple of false premises:

1) That critical and fan opinion necessarily reflects opinion among the wider moviegoing community. LTK disproves that assumption.

2) That everyone who went to see CR liked it ("if people weren't happy with it, it wouldn't have made $600 million").

The curiosity of a new Bond undoubtedly drew some people in, but by the law of averages, there will be some people who were turned off by the new approach (and I'm not talking about hardcore fans like us, who would probably go to see a new Bond film if they cast Michael Jackson in the role, I'm talking about Joe Q. Multiplex). EON's gamble is that the new fans equal or outnumber the people who won't be back for Bond 22. Only time will tell if the gamble pays off.

Good post.

[Capt. Sir Dominic Flandry]

I believe that whoever was playing James Bond would have done really well.

It was the first new Bond movie for four years. And there was a new Bond actor.