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[Triton]

Fastrac's James Bond Web Site has a listing of the world-wide box office of each James Bond film up to Tomorrow Never Dies adjusted for inflation in 1998 or 1999 US dollars.

Dr. No......................................$324.8m
From Russia with Love.................$422.5m
Goldfinger..................................$661.5m
Thunderball................................$736.6m
You Only Live Twice.....................$579.1m
On Her Majesty's Secret Service.....$300.1m
Diamonds Are Forever...................$483.8m
Live and Let Die...........................$489.3m
The Man with the Golden Gun.........$355.8m
Spy Who Loved Me.......................$527.5m
Moonraker...................................$502.8m
For Your Eyes Only.......................$383.2m
Octopussy..................................$307.7m
A View to a Kill............................$237.1m
The Living Daylights.....................$281.5m
Licence to Kill.............................$213.5m
GoldenEye.................................$382.9m
Tomorrow Never Dies...................$346.1m
The World in Not Enough..............N/A
Die Another Day.........................N/A

Bond Box Office Grosses

Take this information with a few grains of salt since the author doesn't reveal how the box office figures were recalculated for inflation. But it is interesting information nevertheless and allows you to more easily compare the relative box office success of each entry in the James Bond series.

[DLibrasnow]

Did they include Never Say Never Again??

I am surprised that The Man with the Golden Gun made MORE money than Tomorrow Never Dies

[Qwerty]

Ah, Thunderball! Now, if they ever break THAT record.....

[CommanderBond]

im not that surprised. to me TND is one of ther worst bond movies. I thought GF would be on top but its Thunderball. Now that surprised me.

[Qwerty]

Originally posted by CommanderBond
im not that surprised. to me TND is one of ther worst bond movies. I thought GF would be on top but its Thunderball. Now that surprised me.

Really? I have seen that site many times, and there's also some nice information in the appendix of the book by John Cork. I believe Thunderbal was called the "Star Wars" of the 60's.

[Sensualist]

Originally posted by Qwerty

I believe Thunderbal was called the "Star Wars" of the 60's.

Thunderball remains the biggest Bond of all time. I'd also liken it to the "Star Wars of the 60s".

However (I know it's terrible to start a sentence with "however')...However, you will find it interesting that Thunderball was beaten into 2nd place that year (1965) by the "Titanic of the 60's".

Yes, The Sound Of Music was the mega winner that year inspite of Thunderball's massive take.

(*Do. A dear - a female dear...Ray. A drop of golden sun...Me. Is what I call myself....O, forget it!!!*)

The numbers outlined by Triton are World-wide grosses of all the Bonds to 1998.

Look at the next post for All Time US grosses and a comparison of the two most successful Bonds....

[Sensualist]

ALL TIME US DOMESTIC GROSS (Adjusted to the average 2003 ticket price at US theatres)


1...Gone With The Wind.....$ 1.268 Billion
2...Star Wars...................$ 1.118 Billion
3...The Sound Of Music......$ 894 Million
4...E.T............................$ 890 Million
5...The Ten Commandments $ 822 Million
6...Titanic........................$ 811 Million
7...Jaws...........................$ 804 Million
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26...Thunderball...............$ 469 Million
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39...Goldfinger..................$ 416 Million

Interesting, isn't it?

[DLibrasnow]

Originally posted by CommanderBond
im not that surprised. to me TND is one of ther worst bond movies. I thought GF would be on top but its Thunderball. Now that surprised me.

No, I knew that Thunderball was the number one grossing Bond movie....Wow $736 million...thats the type of take that EON cannot even dream off today....even Roger Moore's top movie The Spy Who Loved Me took in $527 million - a good deal more than Brosnan's latest effort.

[Qwerty]

Originally posted by Sensualist
ALL TIME US DOMESTIC GROSS (Adjusted to the average 2003 ticket price at US theatres)


1...Gone With The Wind.....$ 1.268 Billion
2...Star Wars...................$ 1.118 Billion
3...The Sound Of Music......$   894 Million
4...E.T............................$   890 Million
5...The Ten Commandments $  822 Million
6...Titanic........................$   811 Million
7...Jaws...........................$   804 Million
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26...Thunderball...............$   469 Million
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39...Goldfinger..................$   416 Million

Interesting, isn't it?

Very! Sensualist, I'm just curious to see what other films made the list, would you mind telling me where you go that info from? Thanks!

[Loomis]

Originally posted by Triton

Licence to Kill.............................$213.5m

Well, LTK may have grossed less than any of the other Bonds (although its take is roughly comparable to that of A VIEW TO A KILL and THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, which are not normally considered disasters), but $214 million doesn't sound too shabby for a so-called bomb.

[DLibrasnow]

But still the lowest scoring Bond movie in the franchise Loomis. No one has ever claimed that Licence to Kill lost money, but it still didn't do as well as MGM hoped.

[Qwerty]

Quite well said DLibrasnow and Loomis! I agree, that LTK was not up to par, but the one thing I do like about the Bond films, is the monumental expectations they put for them! Well, the series is 40 years old....people come to expect grandness!

[Loomis]

Originally posted by DLibrasnow

No one has ever claimed that Licence to Kill lost money

I think they have. And I've conceded it was the lowest-grossing entry in the series. But to my mind, a film that takes $214 million isn't a bomb, and LTK is often painted as a bomb.

[Sensualist]

Originally posted by Loomis

I've conceded it was the lowest-grossing entry in the series. But to my mind, a film that takes $214 million isn't a bomb, and LTK is often painted as a bomb.

Actually there is a great deal of mis-leading information being thrown around here.

(REMEMBER: Triton said to "take this information with a few grains of salt".)

Inspite of what the numbers say in the first post in this thread the following FACT remains:

LTK was quite successful internationally and made back its budget of $32-34 Million within a couple of months of its release and went on to post a decent profit.

The initial potential loser was OHMSS. It is a 100 percent fact that OHMSS took anywhere from one year to two years to make back its money and show a profit.

OHMSS was WITHOUT A SHADOW OF A DOUBT the one James Bond movie that the producers and distributors (namely United Artists in the US and UIP internationally) worried about the most from a financial point of view AT THE TIME.

And that comes from Sensualist.

IF you want to go by the numbers, the more telling (and fair) story is the HUGE dip suffered by OHMSS in relation to YOLT, i.e. it was nearly HALF of YOLT's gross.

LTK, on the other hand, had a mild dip in relation to AVTAK.

[trs007]

Originally posted by CommanderBond
im not that surprised. to me TND is one of ther worst bond movies. I thought GF would be on top but its Thunderball. Now that surprised me.

Remember, at that time, GF put Bond on the map and b/c of GF, TB was highly anticipated and had such a draw unlike any other. Theatres in NYC were showing the movie 24 hours a day.

[Turn]

I always thought DAF had better box office and LALD did less, the same with MR and TWSLM.

I'd still like to see the figures when you count in video, cable and other television deals and such.