It all depended on my getting to the box office in time to get tickets, which I had vowed to purchase if I could finish a certain project in time to leave my office by 5 00 p.m.
Still, you have to wonder if his increasingly out-there opinions, and the growing issue of miso-gyny in comic-book culture, will affect the box office this time.
And there seems little doubt it will eclipse the three year-old total of £102.9m of the previous Bond film, Skyfall, which is the current British box office all time champion.
The casting of Scarlett Johansson added fuel for the box office this time, but had Mr. Mosher come to him with Liev Schreiber on board several years closer to the previous revival, in 1997, "I might have thought for a second, but now I didn't even have to think about it," Mr. Thompson said.
Box office opening times vary so check in advance, tickets start at £5 All the big musical tours stop off here; Scotland's biggest theatre – with 3,000 seats.
Despite placing in the Top Ten box office three times during the 1940s, making more than $100 million for the studio, and being considered the studio's greatest asset, Garland was granted an early release from her MGM contract in September 1950, following completion of Summer Stock (1950).
The film went on to make $11 million at the box office, 440 times its budget.
The film topped the weekend box office two times, in its first and second weekends.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens has overtaken the Batman, Transformers and Lord of the Rings sagas to enter the all-time top 10 at the global box office in record time.
Movies geared to children have won box office honors six times since 1990 and ten times since 1976.
