No Time to Die debuts to $56 million
Box office experts predicted Bond was going to bust open the box office with the long awaited No Time to Die.
Conservative estimates were $60 million and the high was closer to $70 million.
Instead, the final installment of the Daniel Craig era earned $56 million. That’s not bad, but not the pandemic proof opening predicted. Craig’s previous films, the 2015 Spectre, debuted to $70 million while Skyfall set the Bond franchise mark in 2012 with $88 million.
No Time to Die has a pretty hefty $250 million and a $100 million marketing budget. Worldwide, the film has already brought in $313 million.
In second place, was last week’s winner, Venom: Let There be Carnage with a solid $32 million follow-up. That takes its domestic total to $141 million and $185 million worldwide.
The Addams Family 2 earned another $10 million to take its total to $31.1 million. Its total is likely being affected by the premium on-demand release strategy.
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings brought in $4.2 million to add to its pandemic best $212 million domestic haul. Worldwide it’s now grossed $400 million.