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Fri 11 Nov 2008Quantum of Solace storms US box office
Crisis? What crisis? Any doubts about the prospects for cinema attendances during the gloom-and-doom credit crunch were dispelled when last weekend's US box-office figures doubled those of the corresponding weekend last year.
Quantum of Solace opened in the US after two weeks topping box-office charts across Europe. Despite unsurprisingly mixed US reviews, it reaped $67 million in its first three days, compared to $40 million for Casino Royale over the same weekend in 2006.
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