Casino Royale may have dropped out of the North American top ten this past weekend, but Variety reports that it’s still doing boffo business overseas, enough so that it even set a new record:
“Casino Royale” has shot past the worldwide record for a James Bond movie, thanks mostly to strong international performance over the Christmas holiday weekend.
Sony’s “Casino” cashed in overseas with $14.5 million at 6,300 during the weekend through Sunday, lifting the foreign total to $304.4 million — the 41st biggest international gross of all time. It’s only the fourth 2006 pic to clear $300 million, joining “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest,” “The Da Vinci Code” and “Ice Age: The Meltdown.”
With domestic gross near $144 million, “Casino” has a worldwide total of $448 million — $17 million better than “Die Another Day,” the previous best Bond performer. . . .
Casino Royale is still about $17 million behind Die Another Day in North America, but who knows, it might break that record too. Certainly we Canadians are doing our part to boost the North American totals — the film is still at #4 here.
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