Bond makes it a month at top of box office

[The Sweeney]

http://uk.reuters.com/article/entertain ... II20081125

LONDON (Reuters) - The latest James Bond film "Quantum of Solace" has notched up a month at the top of the box office, blowing away the competition for a fourth straight weekend according to Screen International.

The 22nd official Bond film, with Daniel Craig in his second outing as 007, earned another 2.8 million pounds for a total of 45.1 million pounds so far.

Its nearest rival, director Ridley Scott's espionage drama "Body of Lies" which came in at No. 2, could only manage 991,979 pounds, despite boasting stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe.

New at three was "My Best Friend's Girl," with Kate Hudson, Jason Biggs and Dane Cook in a sex-and-swearing, love-triangle comedy.

"High School Musical 3: Senior Year," with Zac Efron, Vanessa Anne Hudgens and Ashley Tisdale was down one place at four while "Zack and Miri Make a Porno" slipped a place to five with its tale of two friends going triple-XXX to pay their rent.

Down four places at six was "Max Payne," a video game spin-off with Mark Wahlberg as a lone avenger in New York.

Ricky Gervais was down two at seven as the cantankerous dentist in "Ghost Town."

Horror thriller "Quarantine" made its debut at No. 8 with a documentary-style tale of madness, death and zombies in a locked tenement building.

The animated evil scientists of "Igor" were unchanged at nine while Bollywood movie "Dostana" was down from six to 10.

[Mazer Rackham]

A bit premature. It hasn't been out a month yet.

[HeavenBoy]

Japan is really the only major market left for QOS to open in, and it will not add much more than $18 million to to the box office. That will leave the running total at about $330 million for the foreign box office with nearly $100 million left to match CR, and that would only be in 2006 dollars. In order to match CR, QOS would have to hit $458,490,000, which is never going to happen.

Considering that TSWLM and MR both grossed over $550 million in 2006 dollars in a very similar economy, you really can't give much of the blame to economic conditions.

[bjmdds]

This is a ridiculous comparison Sweeney. It would correlate to Michael Jordan playing one on one basketball with a 10 year old child, or a teenager having a sprint race 100 yard dash with a senior citizen, or a pie eating contest between Twiggy and a sumo wrestler, or a beauty contest between Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig . When there is no competition, how can you have a comparison? TBM is being compared to actual data of CR and the other 20 properly produced Bond films by Eon(NSNA does not count).