Spectre is set for UK release on 26 October.
With an official debut of £41.3m, Spectre has set the bar by which future blockbusters will be measured.
Since Spectre is set to land next Monday, distributors are running scared, and the coming weekend offers fairly lean pickings.
Spectre is set for global release on 6 November.
On Saturday night, stood on the grounds of an airport watching Onur Ozer DJ, we saw the spectre that's set to crawl around in our subconscious night after night.
Mexico's $20m investment in the film clearly paid off Spectre's opening sequence, set during Mexico's 'Day of the Dead' Mexico is reported to have offered $20m to Spectre producers to portray the country in a positive light in the film, and by the looks of things the money has been well spent.
The sets of SPECTRE's volcano base were constructed at a lot inside Pinewood Studios, with a cost of $1 million and including operative heliport and monorail.
Meanwhile, studios MGM and Sony have released a new behind-the-scenes set video for Spectre which confirms that the new film's opening sequence takes place at the Day of the Dead festival in Mexico City.
Ben Whishaw, who is currently juggling shooting this five-part BBC2 series with his role as Q in Spectre, has just come off set and is adamant that this is the least spy thriller spy thriller you can imagine, a far cry from Bond.
But the staggering success of new 007 movie Spectre – Bond has bested Harry Potter, setting a new record of £40m for UK first week takings – demonstrates three things.
For now, victory will provide a kind of exorcism, assorted spectres and shadows and traumas set aside in the moment of shared joy; the deeper, systemic problems with Brazil's wonderfully fecund footballing culture hopefully sharpened rather than camouflaged by the glories on show here.
