--- title: 'Spectre' Midnight Screenings Rake in $5.3 Million description: The latest Bond flick is already ahead of 'Skyfall,' which nabbed $4.6 million from its early showings canonical: https://time.com/4103419/james-bond-spectre-5-3-million/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-06T21:06:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T12:25:26.804Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Midnight 'Spectre' Screenings Rake in $5.3 Million og:description: The latest Bond flick is already ahead of 'Skyfall' in early showings revenue og:url: https://time.com/4103419/james-bond-spectre-5-3-million/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6a1dbda211340859/69886ff75f570f5b33b1e351/screen-shot-2015-11-06-at-3-39-27-pm.png?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2015-11-06 at 3.39.27 PM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Midnight 'Spectre' Screenings Rake in $5.3 Million twitter:description: The latest Bond flick is already ahead of 'Skyfall' in early showings revenue twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6a1dbda211340859/69886ff75f570f5b33b1e351/screen-shot-2015-11-06-at-3-39-27-pm.png?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Midnight _Spectre_ Screenings Rake in $5.3 Million by [Christian Holub / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Christian Holub / Entertainment Weekly Nov 6, 2015 9:06 PM UTC  Daniel Craig and Léa Seydoux in Spectre. Daniel Craig and Léa Seydoux in Spectre.Sony Pictures by [Christian Holub / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Christian Holub / Entertainment Weekly Nov 6, 2015 9:06 PM UTC October may have been a bummer month at the U.S. box office, but James Bond looks set to stir things up. Early screenings of _Spectre_ on Thursday reportedly brought in $5.3 million, according to Sony, so Daniel Craig’s latest Bond outing is already ahead of _Skyfall_, which nabbed $4.6 million from its early shows back in November 2012. Sony is cautiously predicting an opening weekend of $60-65 million for _Spectre_, but _Skyfall_ went on to pull in $88.4 million. _Spectre_ already debuted in the U.K. to the tune of $68 million in its first week (the [biggest seven-day U.K. opening ever](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/11/01/spectre-earned-biggest-seven-day-uk-box-office-opening-ever)), and Sony expects a similar debut stateside. _Skyfall_ went on to make more than $1.1 billion worldwide, so the bar is high. _Spectre_ hasn’t received the same stellar reviews as _Skyfall_, but that won’t necessarilty diminish fan enthusiasm for the 24th Bond adventure. Read EW’s cover story on _Spectre_ [here](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/10/22/ew-cover-spectre-james-bond-daniel-craig). _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/11/06/spectre-thursday-grosses) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4103419/james-bond-spectre-5-3-million/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4103419/james-bond-spectre-5-3-million/"},"headline":"Midnight Spectre Screenings Rake in $5.3 Million","datePublished":"2015-11-06T21:06:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T12:25:26.804Z","description":"The latest Bond flick is already ahead of Skyfall, which nabbed $4.6 million from its early showings","url":"https://time.com/4103419/james-bond-spectre-5-3-million/","keywords":["movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6a1dbda211340859/69886ff75f570f5b33b1e351/screen-shot-2015-11-06-at-3-39-27-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Christian Holub / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6a1dbda211340859/69886ff75f570f5b33b1e351/screen-shot-2015-11-06-at-3-39-27-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2015-11-06 at 3.39.27 PM","caption":"Daniel Craig and Léa Seydoux in Spectre.","creditText":"Sony Pictures","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4103419/james-bond-spectre-5-3-million/","name":"Midnight Spectre Screenings Rake in $5.3 Million"}}]}] ```