Empire UK

020 NOVEMBER^2015

MOVIE MONEY

MOVIE INFLATION

THE TOP 10 BOND MOVIES

(adjusted for inflation)

DR. NO

FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE

GOLDFINGER

THUNDERBALL

YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE

DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER

ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE

LIVE AND LET DIE

THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN

THE SPY WHO LOVED ME

MOONRAKER

FOR YOUR EYES ONLY

OCTOPUSSY

A VIEW TO A KILL

THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS

LICENCE TO KILL

GOLDENEYE

TOMORROW NEVER DIES

THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH

DIE ANOTHER DAY

CASINO ROYALE

QUANTUM OF SOLACE

SKYFALL

THUNDERBALL (1965)

GOLDFINGER (1964)

SKYFALL (2012)

YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE (1967)

MOONRAKER (1979)

DIE ANOTHER DAY (2002)

TOMORROW NEVER DIES (1997)

FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (1963)

DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER (1971)

CASINO ROYALE (2006)

$627.6 MILLION

$556.2 MILLION

$317.2 MILLION

$301.2 MILLION

$235.0 MILLION

$231.4 MILLION

$225.8 MILLION

$223.7 MILLION

$222.8 MILLION

$213.3 MILLION

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$115 MILLION — THE AMOUNT BOND WINS FROM

LE CHIFFRE IN CASINO ROYALE (2006) IS NOW...

$136.14 MILLION

$25MILLION

$51MILLION

$64MILLION

$44ION

$21MILLION

$47MILLION

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ALL THE BONDS

(US DOMESTIC BOX OFFICE ONLY)

$35MILLION

$55MILLION

$68MILLION

ILLION^51

$43MILLION

$23MILLION

$106MILLION

$35MILLION

$127ILLION

$125MILLION

(^167) IONION^8
$161MILLION
$304MILLION
$50MILLION
Sean Connery
George Lazenby
Roger Moore
Timothy Dalton
Pierce Brosnan
$16 MILLION Daniel Craig

ON WATTS’

current status update:

pinching himself.

“In-between doing

Cop Car press and

prepping Spider-Man

it’s been crazy” he

smiles. “It’s kinda hard to believe.”

A year ago Watts might have

struggled to pick himself out of a line-

up. With just one feature — the

underrated horror fl ick Clown — under

his belt he wasn’t making huge waves in

the industry. Now the 34-year-old is

directing the latest Spider-Man reboot.

Cop Car is the movie that brought

him onto Marvel’s radar. A clinical

B movie about two kids who fi nd a police

cruiser and take it for a joyride invoking

the wrath of the corrupt sheriff to whom

it belongs it was a hit at Sundance.

Watts and his writing

partner Christopher

D. Ford wrote the

script in two weeks.

“We never thought it

would get made” he

says but things jumped

up a gear when Kevin

Bacon (above) became

interested in playing the

deranged Sheriff Kretzer.

“There was nothing in

the script about what he

looked like” says Watts. “Kevin sent

me a Photoshop mock-up of himself

and he had composited on a couple of

moustache ideas.” So Kevin Bacon is

a dab hand at Photoshop? Watts laughs.

“I like to think he was doing it himself...”

Now Watts is focused on Spider-

Man which this time has Kevin Feige

and Marvel Studios on board. He

confi rms that it won’t be an origin

story (“There are only so many times

you can kill Uncle Ben”) and reiterates

Feige’s previous claims that it will have

a touch of the John Hughes about it.

“I love the idea making a coming-of-

age high-school movie. We’re really

going to see Peter Parker in high school

and get deeper into that side of it” he

says. “He’s just 15 now.”

Watts was announced as director on

the same day that British

actor Tom Holland was cast

as Peter Parker. But he had

input into the decision.

“Tom was pretty perfect.

He’s very athletic. He can

actually do a backfl ip. If he

didn’t already capture the

spirit of the character

with that on top the

kid is Spider-Man.” CH

COP CAR IS OUT ON

OCTOBER 16.

JOY

RIDE

HOW COP CAR DROVE JON
WATTS TO SPIDER-MAN

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