Its UK launch set a new record for movies released on a Monday - as opposed to a Friday - taking more than £41m in its first week.

It beat previous Monday release record holder, 2004's Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, which took £23.8m.

Records were also set in the Norway, the Netherlands, Finland and Denmark.
Spectre took $80.4m (£52.1m) in all six released territories.

"We're so grateful to all our James Bond fans," producers Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli said.

Skyfall, the previous Bond movie, was the highest-grossing 007 film in the franchise's history, taking £700m ($1.1 bn) worldwide.