24th James Bond film “007: Spectrum” has become a leader rental United States and Canada – BBC

Secret agent with license to kill, James Bond remains surprisingly popular despite its relatively advanced age. Ian Flemming Invented in the early 60s and recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of its re-kinovoploscheniya character appears on the screen – in the 24th film franchise “007: Spectrum”. And once again aroused the interest to the person. Major publications seriously discussing who deserves to be the next Bond – Jude Law, Idris Elba, or black, for example, any actress. “Spectrum”, meanwhile, has rolled records in native agent in the service of Her Majesty in Britain ($ 80.4 million over the week). And, of course, led the box office in the long-privatized franchise US.

During the weekend from 6 to 8 November “Spectrum” earned in US theaters $ 73 million and became the leader of hire .

For the record this is not James Bond. Previous, the 23rd film in the series (“007: Coordinates” Skayfoll “) earned at the start of even more – $ 88.3 million in 2012, and second place in this case, honorable. Such a beginning means that the talk about replacing Daniel Craig on someone’s new, likely will remain talk. Craig has played Bond in four films series (starting with “Casino” Royale “in 2006), and they have brought the producers more than $ 2 billion – of course, taking into account the grown up in recent years the price of tickets.

« Skayfoll “recall, was the first billionaire among Bond film (Fees – $ 1.108 billion), the” Spectrum “has all the chances, if not to repeat this achievement, it is close to him to approach. However, the 24th James Bond film was worth, according to some estimates, about $ 300 million, so that it will still have to try to recoup these investments. And if we can, it seems, will be the fifth film with Craig Bond and Sam Mendes as director.

runner animated feature “Snoopy and a trifle paunchy in Movie “is also part of a large and popular franchise, but designed for a completely different audience.

Out of it based on the comic« Peanuts »artist Charles M. Schulz, coming out to daily half a century – from 1950 to 2000 (about 18 thousand. issues). His characters – Charlie Brown and his friends, as well as dog Snoopy, which reads, “War and Peace” by the word a day – also appeared in the animated series, various TV shows and four full-length animated films. However, the last great film about Charlie Brown and Snoopy came already in 1980, so that a new appeal to almost cult (rapper Snoop Dogg, for example, took the pseudonym in honor of the dog) characters aroused natural interest.

The starting weekend cartoon “Snoopy and a trifle paunchy in the movie” earned $ 45 million.

He was, of course, prevented the “Spectrum” – as spy thriller for Adults generally could prevent children’s films. But in the category of children’s playground was the fact cleared. “Hotel Transylvania 2″ after seven weeks finally left the top 5, but before the release of the new Pixar film “The Good Dinosaur” a lot of time. So the “Snoopy …” has a chance to earn all that is possible in such a situation, working at a children’s audience, which does not interfere with the audience Bond.

According to the aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film 86% positive reviews, which, incidentally, is much more than the “Spectrum” (62%). Critics noted that “Snoopy …” opens the door to a world of familiar heroes and evokes a sense of nostalgia for those adults who grew up on these comics. In Russia, the “Snoopy …” will be released in late December.

Movies previous weeks humbly stepped aside before such an ambitious innovations. The third was “Martian” Ridley Scott – the film is in the top five for six weeks, during this time earned $ 458.4 million, and finally became leaders on charges including film director (from “Gladiator” $ 457.6 million) .

Over the past weekend, “Martian” earned $ 9.3 million.

Children’s horror “Horror” was fourth with $ 7 million collected over the weekend, but with the total revenue from this painting is not so – only $ 92.2 million worldwide, with 58 million budget. The last in the top 5 “Spy Bridge” by Steven Spielberg, who also is not all right with the finances: Removal of the $ 40 million film about the time of the “cold war” and the confrontation of the USSR and the US intelligence services is earned only $ 71.9 million, of of which $ 6 million was spent on the last weekend.