EON Films | ||||||||||
No. | Title | Year | Bond actor | Director | Synopsis | Actual (Millions) | Adjusted (Millions) | |||
Box office | Budget | |||||||||
1 | Dr. No | 1962 | Sean Connery | Terence Young | James Bond traces a mysterious murder to a Chinese scientist living on a small Jamaican island who, working for SPECTRE, plans to disrupt American rocket launches. | 59.6 | 1 | 436.8 | 7.3 | |
2 | From Russia with Love | 1963 | SPECTRE hires a seductive young female Russian agent to act as a fake defector in a plot to assassinate James Bond; Bond in turn uses her to get a Soviet decoding machine. | 78.9 | 2 | 570.6 | 14.5 | |||
3 | Goldfinger | 1964 | Guy Hamilton | Bond battles gold magnate Auric Goldfinger, who plans to irradiate the gold supply of Fort Knox, making it worthless, increasing the value of his own supply. | 124.9 | 3 | 891.7 | 21.4 | ||
4 | 1965 | Terence Young | Bond is sent to the Bahamas in a bid to stop Emilio Largo, playboy billionaire and deputy head of SPECTRE, from using hijacked nuclear weapons to devastate the North American coastline. | 141.2 | 9 | 992 | 63.2 | |||
5 | 1967 | After faking his own death, Bond investigates the hijacking of American and Russian manned spacecraft from orbit. Bond's cover includes a fake marriage to Kissy Suzuki. Eventually, Bond meets his greatest enemy: Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the megalomaniacal head of SPECTRE . | 111.6 | 9.5 | 739.5 | 63 | ||||
6 | 1969 | Removed from hunting Blofeld, Bond almost resigns, but Moneypenny alters his letter to a request for leave. He pursues Blofeld on his own. Incognito as Blofeld's hired genealogy expert, Bond discovers SPECTRE's plan for biochemical terror. Meanwhile, Bond falls in love with and marries a crime lord's suicidal daughter. | 87.4 | 8 | 527 | 48.2 | ||||
7 | 1971 | Sean Connery | Guy Hamilton | Bond traces a diamond smuggling operation first to Holland and Las Vegas and then to a SPECTRE plot to build a satellite with laser beams capable of destroying weapons on the ground. | 116 | 7.2 | 633.9 | 39.3 | ||
8 | 1973 | Bond fights voodoo priests, heroin smugglers and a ruthless dictator in New York, New Orleans and San Monique in a film imitating the conventions of "blaxploitation" movies of the era. | 161.8 | 7 | 806.5 | 34.9 | ||||
9 | 1974 | While trying to locate a missing solar expert, Bond is led to believe the world's top assassin, Francisco Scaramanga, may be behind the expert's disappearance. Bond's investigations lead him to powerful Hong Kong energy magnate Hai Fat and an intense game of cat and mouse with Scaramanga, culminating in a deadly duel for his life. | 97.6 | 7 | 438.1 | 31.4 | ||||
10 | 1977 | Lewis Gilbert | Bond teams up with a female Russian agent to locate two missing nuclear submarines; he winds up dealing with a man whose dream is an undersea empire. | 185.4 | 14 | 677.1 | 51.1 | |||
11 | 1979 | Bond investigates the mid-air hijacking of one of the Moonraker space shuttles. The shuttle's maker, Hugo Drax, is using his shuttle fleet to help in wiping out every human on Earth and re-populating it with a hand-picked racial rainbow of superior human pairs. | 210.3 | 31 | 641.1 | 94.5 | ||||
12 | 1981 | Bond's investigation of the murder of a marine archaeologist working for the British Secret Service leads him to a race against the Soviets for a submarine attack computer in a sunken ship. | 195.3 | 28 | 475.5 | 68.2 | ||||
13 | 1983 | The murder of Agent 009 and a forgery of a Fabergé egg lead Bond to Kamal Khan, a playboy Afghan prince, and Octopussy, the leader of an all-female 'octopus cult'. Khan has betrayed Octopussy, who also owes Bond a favour for having helped her father long ago. They ally against Khan, who with Russian General Orlov is plotting to "accidentally" detonate a nuclear device on a US air base in Germany, hoping NATO will disarm and the Soviets can take over Europe in record time. | 187.5 | 27.5 | 416.6 | 61.1 | ||||
14 | 1985 | Bond investigates a high-tech firm, Zorin Industries, headed up by former Nazi and German industrialist Max Zorin, and uncovers a plot to corner the market on microchips by manufacturing an earthquake that would drown Silicon Valley (and all of Zorin's competition). | 152.6 | 30 | 313.9 | 61.7 | ||||
15 | 1987 | Bond deliberately misses when the Russian sniper he must shoot turns out to be a civilian (and an attractive female cellist) who was asked to impersonate a (fictitious) spy. They investigate the fake defector for whom she was allegedly working, General Georgi Koskov, leading them to a weapons-for-drugs smuggling scheme headed up by powerful arms dealer Brad Whitaker. | 191.2 | 40 | 372.5 | 77.9 | ||||
16 | 1989 | Bond resigns from the secret service to avenge the attempted murder of his CIA friend, Felix Leiter. His pursuit of the assailants leads him to powerful Colombian drug lord Franz Sanchez and a mysterious woman, Pam Bouvier, who has an agenda of her own in bringing down Sanchez and his empire. | 156.2 | 32 | 278.8 | 57.1 | ||||
17 | 1995 | Bond fights to prevent a syndicate of techno-terrorists, including corrupt Russian General Arkady Ourumov, lust-murderer and sadomasochist Xenia Onatopp, techno-whiz kid Boris Grishenko, and a mysterious face from his past, using the GoldenEye satellite weapon against London to cause a global financial meltdown. | 356.4 | 60 | 517.6 | 87.1 | ||||
18 | 1997 | Bond investigates media mogul Elliot Carver, who aims to start a war between the UK and China so he can be guaranteed exclusive coverage for his new cable news channel. | 339.5 | 110 | 468.1 | 151.7 | ||||
19 | 1999 | Bond is asked to play bodyguard to oil heiress Elektra King whose father was murdered in MI6 headquarters. The heiress was once a captive of terrorist Renard, who is slowly dying and cannot feel pain, but Bond soon learns the two still have a connection ... and a plan. | 361.7 | 135 | 480.5 | 179.3 | ||||
20 | 2002 | Bond is captured by North Koreans after he kills Colonel Moon. When released, his 00 status is revoked. Bond goes out on his own to discover who betrayed him, teaming up with a female American agent. Moon's henchmen have ties to a mysterious diamond dealer, Gustav Graves. | 431.9 | 142 | 531.3 | 174.7 | ||||
21 | 2006 | Martin Campbell | Bond, in his first assignment as a '00' agent, attempts to frustrate the schemes of terrorist financier Le Chiffre by defeating him at a high-stakes game ofTexas hold 'em poker at Casino Royale inMontenegro. | 594.2 | 102 | 652.3 | 112 | |||
22 | 2008 | Bond pursues Quantum, the organisation he believes responsible for the death of Vesper Lynd while his superiors believe he has gone rogue and is seeking revenge. Bond finds an ally in Camille Montes, a young woman seeking revenge for the death of her family at the hands of corrupt Bolivian General Medrano. Together, they discover a joint plan by Quantum and Medrano to stage a military coup in Bolivia and hijack the country's supply of fresh water. | 586.1 | 230 | 602.5 | 236.4 | ||||
23 | Bond 23 | 2012 | ||||||||
Totals | Films 1–23 | $5.02B | $1.04B | $12.65B | $1.74B | |||||
Non-EON Films | ||||||||||
- | 1954 | William H. Brown, Jr. | American spy Jimmy Bond attempts to frustrate the schemes of Soviet agent Le Chiffre by defeating him at a high-stakes game of baccarat at an expensive French casino. | Not applicable | ||||||
- | 1967 | Ken Hughes and others | Sir James Bond 007 comes out of retirement to investigate the deaths of international spies. With the aid of Bond impersonators he battles the mysterious Dr. Noah and SMERSH. | $44.4 | $12 | $294.2 | $79.5 | |||
- | 1983 | Remake of Thunderball, with added element of Bond coming out of retirement. | $160 | $36 | $355.5 | $80 | ||||
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
TABLE OF JAMES BOND 007 FILMS
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