No Time To Die Opens Lower Than Daniel Craig's 3 Previous Bond Movies

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Daniel Craig's latest James Bond film, No Time To Die, is set to open lower than three previous Craig Bond movies. After months of delay, No Time To Die has finally opened in theaters too much fanfare as the final James Bond film for Daniel Craig, who has been playing the part for 15 years and surpassed Roger Moore as the actor to play 007 the longest. Unlike previous Bond entries, the Craig films have told a serialized story with No Time To Die set to wrap up a fifteen-year story that audiences have been following since Casino Royale.

Early tracking for No Time To Die suggested a strong opening weekend buzz. The film opened in 54 countries a week prior to the domestic opening to $119.1 million and was the highest-grossing film for a Bond film in the UK. The films early tracking had pre-sales for the film outpacing Venom: Let There Be Carnage suggesting the film could take the title for the biggest opening weekend of 2021. The Thursday night screenings of the film brought in $6.3 million in the U.S. and Canada to become the best for the Bond franchise. All indicators led it to be that No Time To Die would be Craig's biggest Bond film.

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According to Deadline, No Time To Die is expected to open to $60 million in its opening weekend. It earned $23.3 million on its Friday, including the $6.3 million on the preview screenings. The film is set to open lower than Craig's previous three Bond films Spectre, Skyfall, and Quantum of Solace. It will make No Time To Die the fifth highest-grossing opening weekend of 2021 behind Venom: Let There Be Carnage, Black Widow, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and F9.

Skyfall holds the record for the biggest opening weekend for the Bond franchise with $88.4 million and would later go on to become the first Bond film to gross $1 billion worldwide. Spectre opened to $70.4 million in 2015, and Quantum of Solace opened to $67 million in 2008. No Time To Die will top Casino Royale which not only opened with $40 million in 2006 but came in number 2 at the box office behind Happy Feet. Daniel Craig's final outing as James Bond is expected to outperform Pierce Brosnan's final Bond film Die Another Day which opened to $47 million.

There are a number of reasons for the lower than expected opening for No Time To Die. The COVID-19 situation being the most obvious, and the fact that older movie-going audiences, which make up a large percentage of the James Bond audiences, are the group less likely to return to the theaters. The other could be the release date, as all four of the previous James Bond movies opened in November close to the Thanksgiving weekend, while No Time To Die is opening in October in a crowded field. No Time To Die carries a production budget of $250 million without marketing cost as well as the cost of the many delays, so it will take a lot to turn a profit.

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