Box Office: Quantum of Solace Grabs Record $8M in the UK on Opening Day!; Tracking for $50M US

Posted on Saturday, November 1st, 2008 by Steve Mason

The 22nd installment of the James Bond franchise, Quantum of Solace (Sony), has grabbed a record-shattering £4.94M on its opening day in the UK, which is about $8M in US dollars. That is approximately 42% higher than the first day of Casino Royale, the first 007 adventure to feature Daniel Craig as Bond, and it represents an all-time single day record for the UK.

Although Quantum will not open in the US for 2 weeks, the film opened yesterday (10/31) in Mr. Bond’s home country, and it has out-performed the all-time best UK opening day for 2005’s Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire, which grabbed £4.02M. The all-time opening weekend record for the UK is $33.5M held by last year’s Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix. The top 9 openings in UK box office history are all family-geared films, but Quantum of Solace has a chance to deliver the all-time best 3-day start in history.

In the US, Craig’s Bond debut in 2006 is the all-time #1-grossing film in the franchise with $167.4M, and it scored a staggering $40.8M opening weekend 2 years ago. My gut says that, with no other releases November 14, and with only young-skewing Bolt (Disney) and Twilight (Summit) debuting the following week, Quantum of Solace is going to be a box office juggernaut when it comes stateside.

I think it is safe to predict a $50M opening weekend for the Sony release with first week sales (Friday-thru-Thursday) an estimated $66M. The second weekend for the new Bond will likely be in the $29M-$33M range, which would mean a drop of only 35%-40%, and Quantum may be at $135M domestic by the Monday after Thanksgiving.

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  • Christopher Edwards
    I went to the first screening of this on friday, it reminded me of the last 10 minutes of the second bourne film and then majority of the third but as a bond take on it.

    But for bond it was a good middle ground film.


    Glad it is doing okay though
  • Mcgruff
    only 50 million for the 3 day weekend?
  • Eric B.
    How many theaters are in UK? For 8 Million I doubt a lot
  • Christopher Edwards
    @ Eric B.

    Take into consideration
    1, School Holidays when this was open so people went to see high school musical
    2, people are working when half the showings are on
    3, 8 million is around the average a film will do in it average run if it is a good film
    4, just under 61 million divied by 8
  • TJ
    It's in around 500 theaters in the UK.

    With an opening day gross of $8M, that makes the PTA around $16000. that is a great number.
  • "Although Quantum will not open in the US for 2 weeks"

    I thought it was opening on the 7th....
  • Scott: I believe the US doesn't get it until November 14th
  • Captain Awesome
    This will do very well in the States. My girlfriend is more excited about it than I am I think. Craig seems to have great pull with the ladies.

    He's not as hot as me though ;)
  • rockinrors
    Eric B...
    Notice how America always has higher box office than everywhere else?
    I reckon its not just because of the amount of cinemas, but more the amount of people and even more so how many people go to the cinema...


    - R o r y ______
  • Jef Costello
    QoS making 8 million in the UK on it's first day is the equivalent of it making 33 million opening day in the US. It's actually quite a lot.
  • Arch Stanton
    I think it's great that they released it now in the UK, this way it will be online before it opens in the States. Brilliant, absolutely brilliant.
  • Yea Eric take into consideration. United Kingdom - est population 60m - est cinemas 'QoS' opened in 500. Compared to the United States- est population 300m - est cinemas 'QoS' will open in 2,500. And it doesn't look so 'small' now does it. ;)

    Also consider films usually make £1-2m ($2-4m) over one weekend in the UK (over the last few weeks some have failed to gross even £1m in there first week!) and £4m is great for just the opening day, not the opening weekend!

    Oh and there's a economic recession which seems to be hitting people quite hard (on both sides of the Atlantic) which will no doubt hit takings.

    With that said, James Bond is a part of British Heritage over here, and when a new Bond is released everybody has to see it in some form or another. Call it Patriotism if you will... :D
  • elzupasmonkey
    Regardless of box office, it has to be said that this movie is as boring as hell.

    Everything is risibile. From the excess of action sequences. to the lack of character scenes, from the pointless female characters to the effete villains, nothing about this film works. Nothing.

    I can't even imagine watching this movie ever again. The first time I've ever thought that about a Bond movie.
  • www.nathan.com
    good
  • 790
    Kick ass!!!!
  • This film is awesome! I saw it opening day and I think I'll show that I have more class than some people who openly discussed The Dark Knight a week before we in the UK got it without care for spoiler warnings.
  • I went to see this last night, it's well worth a watch, it is slow in parts but Craig really sets himself up for some cracking future Bond films judging by the ending.
  • Joel
    I saw the movie on Friday, here in the UK so I guess I contributed to that figure. However, I was so disappointed with the film, it lost all of the cleverness, subtlety and sophistication even when compared to Casino Royale. Rather than a Bond Movie, it felt like a Bourne movie i.e 90% fighting 10% character development.
  • daniel
    I went to see it on friday, it's a well made film, the locations and art direction are superb and you couldn't ask for more from Daniel Craig's performance.

    However, the story leaves something to be desired. It feels like the second part in a trilogy so I think it will fare better once the next film comes out. I don't think word of mouth will help the film the way it did with Casino Royale.

    If you like the Bourne style of action then this will suit you fine, but if you like to *see* your action (which I do), like the end fight in flashpoint to example, where it's brutal but you can still see whats going on then your going to be dissapointed. But now that I've type that I remember it's Daniel Craig and a stunt man having a scrap, not Donnie Yen and Collin Chou going at it so fair play.

    I'd give it 6.5 out of 10 for now, and the remark when the next one comes out.
  • GBC
    Since I live in the UK, I saw it on the weekend. It has some great action scenes which are well worth watching, but it is definitely let down by the plot which was a letdown.
  • I think it was uplifted by the plot which is uplifting. lol.
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