SKYFALL DVD & Bond St

 SKYFALL topped the DVD/Blu-ray charts for 3 weeks, beating competition ARGO to the top spot.

Bond Street Tube station was given a makeover for the DVD relaease:

SKYFALL BOX OFFICE

• First movie to take over £100million at UK box office
• by 10th March had taken over $1.1billion globally (nearly £700million)
• opening weekend UK over £20million (587 screens) 28 Oct 2012
• opening weekend USA over $88million (3,505 screens) 11 Nov 2012

BUDGET is now reported to be $200million, about £130million

Currently (March 2013):

• it is the 7th highest grossing film of all time
• highest grossing film ever in the UK
• highest grossing film worldwide for Sony and MGM

SKATTA TV Awards - Social Networking

This is an important one - SKATTA is an online TV distribution site which had its first Social TV awards ceremony at BAFTA in London on 27th March.  
‘Skyfall’ won the Online Video category which is a prize for driving sales with video content distributed on social networks.  This prize shows the song's huge impact on social networking websites.

The Social Networking analist Trendrr also reported that 14million comments were tweeted or commented on Facebook during the OSCARS - Adele was mentioned over one million times alone on social network sites which shows the huge force of social networking in spreading the word about film related information.

Empire Awards Winner!

Skyfall scooped 3 awards at the Jameson Empire awards 24th March 2013.

• best film
• Best Director: Sam Mendes
• Empire Inspiration Award: Sam Mendes

Adele wins Oscar!

Adele scooped the Oscar for her Skyfall song on 25th February.  The DVD was released a week before this - good timing huh?