Latest James Bond film Skyfall enjoys a stratospheric opening weekend, with largest ever Saturday attendance figure.
Skyfall, the new James Bond film, which has received a rapturous response from critics, smashed opening records at the UK box office this weekend. Sam Mendes's film, which stars Daniel Craig opposite villain Javier Bardem, regular "M" Judi Dench and newcomers Naomie Harris, Ralph Fiennes and Ben Whishaw, took £20.1m – the biggest opening of the year so far and the largest gross ever after last year's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2. It broke records for the biggest opening for a 2D film and the largest ever Saturday attendance figure, according to Deadline.
The film was also No 1 in another 24 overseas markets and is still due to open in the US, where it arrives on 9 November. Skyfall is the biggest ever Bond opening (ahead of Quantum of Solace with £14.4m), and is on course to easily outpace 2006's Casino Royale (with $586m) as the most successful Bond film of all time at the box office.
Meanwhile, it has been revealed that Bond's next outing will be based on a two-part original story from the screenwriter of Hugo, John Logan. Logan, who co-wrote Skyfall with retiring series regulars Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, has been hired to oversee the scripts for Bond films 24 and 25 by production company Eon after pitching his idea to series producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson. As with the vast majority of recent efforts – the exception being debut Daniel Craig outing Casino Royale – the two films are not based on any particular book by Ian Fleming, the creator of the suave British spy; Casino Royale and its successor, 2008's Quantum of Solace, form the only previous two-part story in the long-running series.
As well as Hugo, Martin Scorsese's Oscar-winning tribute to the earliest days of film, Logan's credits include Ridley Scott's Gladiator, Scorsese's The Aviator and the Oscar-winning animated movie Rango. Reports suggest Craig has already signed on to play Bond at least twice more, implying that he will appear in both of Logan's films.
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