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Quantum of Solace ruled the North American box office this weekend with $70.4 million dollars in ticket sales. This is a record opening for a James Bond film which was previously held by “Die Another Day” which starred, Pierce Brosnan that earned $47.1 million during it’s first weekend. Quantum also beat it’s predecessor,Casino Royale’s opening weekend which did $40.8 million. It also did another 56.1 million internationally this weekend bringing it’s worlwide total to $322 million so far and is rapidly approaching the $594 million total that Casino Royale brought in. “Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa” fell to number 2 with $36.1 million . Read the rest of this entry »

Quantum of Solace kicks off with a high action car chase in Sienna,Italy as James Bond(Daniel Craig) has just captured Mr. White(Jesper Christensen) to try and find out who is responsible for Vesper’s death. After questioning Mr. White the action intensifies yet again with high action foot chases,fight scenes,and bullets being exchanged. Then Bond runs into Camile(Olga Kurylenko), a girl with her own vendetta. She, thinking he’s someone else tells him to get in the car she’s driving which leads Bond to Dominic Greene(Mathieu Amalric) a ruthless businessman who’s trying to get control of the South American water supply from exiled General Medrano(Joaquín Cosio) in exchange for control of the country,Bolivia. Read the rest of this entry »

According to Daily Variety the new James Bond film, “Quantum of Solace” is topping the charts overseas with 106.5 million this weekend alone and 160.3 million in the past 10 days. This weekend’s gross for Quantum of Solace is the second largest in 2008 since the opening of” Indiana Jones and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”. Quantum of Solace opened bigger than it’s 2006 original,”Casino Royale” by more than double and it still has 4 major markets to open up in. Read the rest of this entry »