Christ,didn’t know he was 44.
What age was Craig when he took on the role?

36 when he took the role. 38 when Casino Royale hit screens.

It's great to read that James Bond, a British hero, a British movie, is getting people back into cinemas. Not Marvel, or Disney or DC, but Bond, James Bond.

It's taken £5m on it's opening Thursday night in the UK and is being touted as the film that will save cinema. Selling 1.6m advance tickets for it's first weekend.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58758854

No Time to Die opened with $119.1 million at the international box office.

It opens in the US on October 8th and China later.

In the UK it is expected to also achieve the third-biggest weekend of the Bond film franchise with $34.8 million, and the sixth-biggest for any film.

Those are impressive numbers, especially if some people are, because of Covid-19, hesitant to go to a cinema and are waiting until they can watch it at home.

No Time to Die: James Bond film smashes box office records

Daniel Craig’s final outing as 007 has made £88m in the 54 countries worldwide in which it has launched

Daniel Craig’s final outing as 007 has smashed UK box office records, grossing more on its opening weekend than any other film in the history of the James Bond franchise, and has become the biggest movie of the year after only four days in cinemas.

No Time to Die, which received its world public premiere in the UK at midnight on Wednesday, has also broken international pandemic box office records, making $119m (£88m) in the 54 markets where the film has launched to date.

This makes it the first title from a Hollywood studio to crack $100m without opening in China, the world’s second-biggest movie market, since the pandemic began more than 18 months ago.

In the UK and Ireland, Bondmania fuelled almost £26m in ticket sales over its first four days as fans awaiting the thrice-delayed film – No Time to Die was originally scheduled to premiere in April last year – headed to cinemas in record numbers. The film’s three-day opening weekend, from Friday through to Sunday night, hit a record £21m, according to the UK Cinema Association.

This makes it more successful than Skyfall and Spectre, the two biggest films in the history of the 59-year-old franchise, which each managed £20m at the UK box office on their three-day opening weekends. No Time To Die is also already the biggest film of the year, passing Peter Rabbit 2 which made £20.2m at the UK and Ireland box office.

No Time to Die, which also holds the record as the longest Bond film, clocking in at two hours and 45 minutes, has enjoyed the widest theatrical release of any film in UK history, launching in 772 cinemas with more than 9,000 shows daily.

Universal Pictures, which is releasing the film alongside MGM, said that so far internationally No Time to Die is performing in line with Skyfall, the most successful Bond film of all time which grossed $1.1bn globally. However, it is tracking 17% below Spectre, which went on to make $880m globally.

The next box office test for No Time to Die will be its launch on 8 October in the US, film, the world’s biggest market, followed by China on 29 October.

The pandemic could hinder the ability of the film to ultimately match Skyfall’s record, as analysts estimate that one in five cinemas globally are still shut.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/202...niel-craig-007

Simply put it was a mess of a movie,way tooo long pre credit sequence (but was great though) it was so long I thought they were saving them for the end.:lol:

The middle of the film was a right muddle (which accounts for the running time ) stops the film in it's tracks and then goes all sloppy and the ending was simply a damp squid.

Due to covid the production showed in this movie stop n start and numerous reshoots change of ideas as they went along and a Director that got the boot,No wonder this was such a mess.

Paloma (Ana De Armas) should have been in this much more she gets like 10 minutes of screen time and completely crushes it, then she just disappears. **** that. She should have been Bond's sidekick from the beginning.

I could say more but I would smash the monitor in front of me.

4/10 and that was being generous.

No Time To Die is officially the biggest movie of the year (That isn't Chinese propaganda).

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/w...ef_=bo_hm_yrww

I rewatched Spectre on Saturday night in my build up to No Time to Die at Christmas and enjoyed it more third time around.

It's not as good as Skyfall or Casino Royale but i thought it okay. It's still loaded with overlong scenes and goes flat for a good twenty minutes when Bond teams up with Madeleine on the train and at Blofeld's desert hideout but certainly picks up for it's finale.

The fact that M, Q, Tanner and Moneypenny are now a sort of team adds a lot in my opinion rather than simply behind desks in an office as with the classic films.

6 / 10 (Up from 4 / 10)

I expect i'll probably quite like No Time to Die by my fourth watch in ten years time. :lol:

It looked like No Time to Die took 10 years to make.:lol: