This best line of all time in a Bond film remains: "Do you expect me to talk?" "No Mr Bond. I expect you to die!"
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A spy-tacular success
Aaron Taylor-Johnson? Barry Keoghan? Henry Cavill? Speculation continues to swirl over who will step into Daniel Craig's shoes to become the next James Bond. Now that creative control of the long-running spy franchise has been handed to Amazon MGM Studios, the chances are we won't have to wait much longer to find out.
It's been over 60 years since the first James Bond movie, Dr. No, hit the silver screen. In the years since, the franchise has seen seven actors take on the leading role of 007 across 27 films, collectively pulling in billions of dollars. But which Bond movie made the most money?
Read on as we countdown the highest-grossing 007 outings in terms of worldwide box office revenues. The figures have been adjusted for inflation to give you an idea of how much they earned in today's money and where they rank overall.
All dollar values are in US dollars.
Danielle McAdam
21 February 2025
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A pity that the Timothy Dalton movies fared so poorly at the box office, because his Bond was probably the closest match to the character portrayed in the books. He almost spat the line "Bon appetit" with venom when a villain fell in the the piranha tank, whereas Roger Moore delivered the same line as a joke when Richard Kiel's "Jaws" fell in with a shark. (The shark lost the fight by the way.) I also feel a bit sorry for OHMSS. Maybe Lazenby was a bit wooden compared to his predecessor, but the movie itself was extremely solid. No Time To Die reused the haunting "We Have All The Time In The World" from OHMSS to tear-jerking effect. And how can you even mention Goldfinger without so much as a nod to Shirley Bassey's epic vocal?
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22 April 2022