{"id":368,"date":"2006-11-19T20:45:10","date_gmt":"2006-11-19T20:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2006\/11\/19\/happy-feet-vs-casino-royale\/"},"modified":"2006-11-19T23:45:39","modified_gmt":"2006-11-19T23:45:39","slug":"happy-feet-vs-casino-royale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2006\/11\/19\/happy-feet-vs-casino-royale\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Feet vs Casino Royale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the penguins will just beat Bond at the US Box Office this weekend. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/index.asp?layout=dept_main&#038;dept=Film\">Variety reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The first big battle of the holiday season ended with a cadre of penguins beating out James Bond. Warner Bros.&#8217; CG-animated &#8220;Happy Feet&#8221; landed at No. 1 with $42.3 million off 3,804, while Sony\/MGM&#8217;s latest Bond pic, &#8220;Casino Royale,&#8221; nabbed just over $40 million.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Feet&#8221; was playing on over 3,800 screens, while Bond occupied about 370 less.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boxofficemojo.com\/weekend\/chart\/\">Box Office Mojo<\/a> has <strong>Happy Feet<\/strong> just ahead of <strong>Casino Royale <\/strong>even though <a href=\"http:\/\/hollywood-elsewhere.com\/archives\/2006\/11\/squeaker_finish.php\">Hollywood Elsewhere thinks that it could be much closer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>*** UPDATE at 23.45 GMT: Leonard Klady at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviecitynews.com\/\">Movie City News<\/a> is suggesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviecitynews.com\/columnists\/klady\/2006\/061119.html\">some kind of dead heat<\/a> in his weekend box office report. Let&#8217;s see how Sony and Warner Bros spin this out&#8230; ***<br \/>\n> <a href=\"http:\/\/boxofficemojo.com\/weekend\/chart\/\">The weekend predictions by Box Office Mojo<\/a><br \/>\n> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boxofficeguru.com\/weekend.htm\">Box Office Guru also weighs in with some analysis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the penguins will just beat Bond at the US Box Office this weekend. Variety reports: The first big battle of the holiday season ended with a cadre of penguins beating out James Bond. Warner Bros.&#8217; CG-animated &#8220;Happy Feet&#8221; landed at No. 1 with $42.3 million off 3,804, while Sony\/MGM&#8217;s latest Bond pic, [&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\/368"}],"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=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}