The Bond and the Birds are not really running neck-and-neck, as Nikki Finke reported/suggested earlier today. Happy Feet tracking is very close to Casino Royale‘s but livewire kid flicks aren’t that accurately trackable (phone surveyors don’t talk to the tykes). The semi-informed speculation is that it’s going to out-earn Casino Royale by a pretty fat chunk of change — perhaps as much as $10 or $15 million. And then, as Finke points out, there’s the shows-per-day factor: Feet runs 98 minutes and is showing in 3,804 situations; Casino is 144 minutes and playing in 3,434 theaters.
