SPECTRE slips to No. 2 in U.S.-Canada

SPECTRE came in No. 2 in the U.S. and Canada in its third weekend of release with an estimated $14.6 million, according to BOX OFFICE MOJO.

The 24th James Bond film finished behind The Hunger Games: Mokingjay Part 2 at $101 million. That movie had been projected for a weekend opening of more than $120 million, according to Variety. The Peanuts Movie, which opened the same weekend as SPECTRE, was No. 3 at $12.8 million.

SPECTRE’s estimate for this weekend was down 57 percent from last weekend’s $33.7 million. Final weekend figures will be released Monday.

SPECTRE was the top movie at the U.S.-Canada box office the past two weekends. The movie has generated an estimated $153.7 million in box office in the region since its Nov. 6 release.

Separately, Exhibitor Relations, which tracks movie box office, said IN A TWEET that SPECTRE’s worldwide box office is “over $670M.”

Variety HAS ESTIMATED SPECTRE needed to generate global ticket sales of $650 million to break even. The movie’s 007 predecessor, 2012’s Skyfall, had worldwide box office of $1.11 billion.

Here’s the Exhibitor Relations tweet:

Worldwide, SPECTRE has tracked down over $670M.

— Exhibitor Relations (@ERCboxoffice) November 22, 2015

UPDATE: The Hollywood Reporter puts SPECTRE’s worldwide box office at $677.8 million.

UPDATE II: We went back into the Box Office Mojo archives to look at the first three weekends in the U.S. and Canada for Skyfall and SPECTRE.

Skyfall: $88.4 million, $41.1 million, $35.5 million. The third weekend dropped only 14 percent from the second weekend. A drop of 50 percent is considered average.

SPECTRE: $70.4 million, $33.7 million, $14.6 million (estimate).

Happy 83rd birthday, Robert Vaughn

Today, Nov. 22, is actor Robert Vaughn’s 83rd birthday. The original Man from U.N.C.L.E. is still keeping busy with acting projects.

To note the occasion, here’s a scene from To Trap a Spy, the movie version of the U.N.C.L.E. pilot. This was part of additional footage shot after the pilot was filmed for the movie version. release. In turn, some of the To Trap a Spy additional footage (though not this specific scene) were edited into an episode of the series called The Four-Steps Affair.

Luciana Paluzzi and Robert Vaughn in To Trap a Spy