Now third instalment Dude, Where's My Donkey?! begins with a slightly better £1.80m from 453 locations.
The sequence was traditionally placed at the start of each film until the 2006 instalment Casino Royale, where it appears after the cold open and is incorporated into the plot; in the 2008 film, Quantum of Solace, the sequence was placed at the end of the film and incorporates the film's title in its design.
It's much more commercial than you might imagine, and the vocal is so stage-school-ishly enunicated it's like an instalment of X Factor where they go all Ibiza Dance Party.
They were passed round, with increasing levels of furious anticipation for the next instalment, to the point where BB actually stole the fourth book from his oldest son before the little tyke had a chance to so much as look at the dust jacket.
Read the first instalment in this series, where Tim Maughan and the Unknown Fields group visits the Chinese city of Yiwu, the real home of Christmas.
It remains unclear where the next instalment in the blockbuster series will pick up.
In the first instalment, a jobsworth cat dictated where animals were allowed to sit, from frogs on logs to pumas on satsumas.
Welcome to our first British instalment of VICE Talks Film, the series where we sit down with the most talented minds in the movie world to discuss their work and how they're looking to push the boundaries of cinema.
The Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry learned the ways of the force when they toured the studios where the latest instalments of the Star Wars movies are being brought to life.
In total Leiter appears in nine Eon Bond films: four out of the six Connery films, one film with Moore, both Dalton instalments and none with Brosnan (where Bond's CIA contact is Jack Wade), but returned for Craig's; he is also not in George Lazenby's sole Bond film.
