New Bond Film ‘No Time To Die’ Leads Chinese Box Office

The latest James Bond film “No Time to Die” continued to lead the Chinese mainland box office on Wednesday, data from the China Movie Data Information Network showed on Thursday.

The 25th installment in the Bond franchise, also Daniel Craig’s fifth and final in the role of British spy James Bond, finished the day with an earning of 6.68 million yuan (about 1.04 million U.S. dollars).

War epic film “The Battle at Lake Changjin” came in second, generating 4.86 million yuan in revenue on Wednesday.

It was followed by the romantic drama “The Curious Tale of Mr Guo,” which raked in about 2.12 million yuan on its sixth day of screening

 GreenWhiteGreen GWG reports that the film “No Time To Die,” was originally set for release in 2020 but was delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“No Time to Die,” from MGM and Comcast Corp’s Universal Pictures, originally was set to hit the big screen in April 2020 before being delayed until November.

The movie studios and producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli said the Bond film was delayed “in order to be seen by a worldwide theatrical audience.”

“We understand the delay will be disappointing to our fans but we now look forward to sharing ‘No Time To Die’ next year,” they said on the official James Bond Twitter account.

The decision followed disappointing efforts to get Americans back into multiplexes after the pandemic shuttered cinemas worldwide in March, 2020.

Some movies have skipped theatres and headed straight to streaming services.

The Bond franchise is one of the movie world’s most lucrative, with 2015’s “Spectre” raking in $880 million at the box office worldwide, while “Skyfall” in 2012 grossed more than $1 billion globally.

“No Time to Die,” which cost an estimated $200 million to produce, marks actor Daniel Craig’s last outing as agent 007.(Reuters/NAN)

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