{"id":370,"date":"2006-11-20T19:21:25","date_gmt":"2006-11-20T19:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2006\/11\/20\/happy-feet\/"},"modified":"2006-11-20T19:22:35","modified_gmt":"2006-11-20T19:22:35","slug":"happy-feet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2006\/11\/20\/happy-feet\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Feet tops US Box Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Happy Feet <\/strong>just wins the battle against <strong>Casino Royale<\/strong> at the US box office\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1117954221.html?categoryid=13&#038;cs=1\">according to Variety<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A cadre of singing and dancing penguins beat out the monkey-suited international superspy James Bond at the B.O. this weekend, as Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow&#8217;s CG-animated &#8220;Happy Feet&#8221; skipped to No. 1 with $42.3 million thanks to a particularly strong Saturday run.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile the trade paper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1117954255.html?categoryid=13&#038;cs=1\">also\u00a0reports<\/a> that <strong>Casino Royale <\/strong>is doing very good business around the world:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>James Bond returned with a bang at the international box office as &#8220;Casino Royale&#8221; dominated the weekend with $42.2 million at 3,063 playdates in 27 markets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Casino&#8221; hit the jackpot in its U.K. launch with $25.6 million at 988, including $3.7 million in previews. Its Friday-Sunday take tied &#8220;Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man&#8217;s Chest&#8221; as the second-highest weekend launch in Brit history, trailing only &#8220;Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With Daniel Craig in his first turn as Bond, the Blighty opening handily topped the previous Bond pic, &#8220;Die Another Day,&#8221; by 46%.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Casino Royale&#8221; took in more than the combined foreign grosses of the next four pics &#8212; &#8220;Borat,&#8221; &#8220;The Devil Wears Prada&#8221; and &#8220;Open Season.&#8221; Combined with its second-place domestic take, &#8220;Casino&#8221; totaled $82.8 million worldwide for the weekend.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Bond film also scored <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/6157066.stm\">a record opening in the UK<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Feet just wins the battle against Casino Royale at the US box office\u00a0according to Variety: A cadre of singing and dancing penguins beat out the monkey-suited international superspy James Bond at the B.O. this weekend, as Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow&#8217;s CG-animated &#8220;Happy Feet&#8221; skipped to No. 1 with $42.3 million thanks to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}