It was announced today that SKYFALL, the 23rd James Bond adventure, has surpassed $1 billion at the worldwide box office. SKYFALL is the most successful Bond film of all time, the highest-grossing film of all time in the UK, the first film to pass £100 million at the UK box office and it is also the most successful film at the worldwide box office in Sony Pictures history.
Skyfall took in $4.6 million this weekend in North America for a cumulative to date of $289.6 million. Overseas, the film grossed $10.3 million for an international total to date of $710.6 million and a worldwide cumulative exceeding $1 billion and growing. Thank you, Bond fans around the world, for making SKYFALL such an incredible success. The 23rd James Bond film "Skyfall" will be released on Blu-Ray and DVD on 18th February 2013, in the USA and Canada. Release dates for other countries are to be confirmed. The initial cover art uses the quad poster design, although this is subject to change.
Coke set out to challenge Bond fans at a train station where unsuspecting people were asked to carry out a 70 second secret mission in order to win exclusive tickets to see Skyfall. Two videos were released by Coke; one of the winners and the other of the people who took part.
It has just been announced that a two-dimensional steel statue of Ian Fleming will be constructed and will appear on Dover's Promenade. Dover, England has been best known in the Bond series as one of the key locations from the novel "Moonraker". Ian Fleming lived in St Margaret's Bay. Fleming has been selected as a local hero and will be the third person to have a statue of himself in the area.
The first was Dame Vera Lynn, English singer-songwriter and actress who sang the wartime classic 'The White Cliffs of Dover'. The second was local hero Jamie Clark, who brought the Olympic Torch into Dover, and was our town's first Torchbearer on 18 July in celebration of London 2012. The third, Ian Fleming, was selected by public vote. 007's creator beat Cuthbert Ottaway, Ian Fleming, Henry II and James I with 45% of the tally. The Broadcast Film Critics Association today announced the nominations for the 18th annual Critics Choice Movie Awards.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM) and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment announced today that BOND 50 is the bestselling Blu-ray box set of 2012 with projected worldwide sales totaling $50 million in consumer spend to date. The unprecedented 23-disc premium collection features all 22 classic films on stunning Blu-ray for the first time and more than 122 hours of bonus features. The highly collectable box set was released on September 24 in the United Kingdom and September 25 in North America; additional international markets followed through October. The BOND 50 box set release was timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary celebration of the Bond franchise in 2012. The year-long campaign launched globally at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, included a first of a kind exhibit of Bond vehicles at San Diego Comic-Con, the re-release of Dr. No in U.S. movie theaters and a Roger Moore International press day before culminating with the “007 Days of Bond: the Blu-relay Tour” throughout the UK. “The Bond franchise is alive and stronger than ever as evidenced by the spectacular sales of the BOND 50 box set, BOND 50 has become an instant collector’s item and a must have for any Bond fan this holiday season.” Debuting just prior to the theatrical premiere of SKYFALL, the BOND 50 box set includes an additional space for that Blu-ray when it is released next year.
Paul Epworth, producer of the song "SKYFALL" by Adele, comments on their work together. [The producers] said they wanted a dramatic ballad basically, with having read the script and trying to set the whole thing up in that context, where it happens in the film, there was really only one thing it could be. It was interesting to want to do something that was simultaneously dark and final, like a funeral, and to try and turn it into something that was not final. A sense of death and rebirth.” Pyramid International have just released a Limited Edition Print Box Set containing all 23 of the Bond film British Quad poster designs. The posters are printed on 250gsm art paper in the 30×40 size and the box sets also features a set of foil prints featuring the 50th Anniversary “Golden Girl” Poster and one of all the Bonds. There are only 3007 of the Box Sets available and each is individually numbered in a foil printed box along with a booklet and certificate and has a RRP of £120.00.
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