A spectre is haunting the Earth – the Spectre of James Bond. In its second week in theatres Sony’s latest Bond film added a hefty $117.8 million from 71 overseas territories, including new openings in Brazil, Mexico, and Germany. While surely impressive, this launch is still 25.5% off of Skyfall’s $156 million second frame international take in 2012, though at this point in its release Sam Mendes’s first Bond effort, which went on to earn $1.1 billion global, had already opened in several more major territories than Spectre including France and South Korea. In the UK it fell just 29% from last week’s record-breaking release for a second frame take of $21.3 million in the picture’s home market, bringing its local cume to $100.2 million. In Mexico, Spectre capitalized on its many scenes shot in the nation’s capital as well as the Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) holiday to earn an estimated $10 million, while in Germany the film enjoyed a spectacular $20.1 million debut, taking the biggest Saturday of all time in the country along the way. Hong Kong was good for a solid $2.4 million, while the steadily growing Malaysian market netted $2.3 million. The flagging Ruble skewed the numbers in its Russian debut. It earned $5.8 million versus Skyfall’s $8.6 million, while in local currency it made 42% more than the previous title.

And then there was the domestic market. Spectre made its U.S. launch this week, taking in $73 million from 3,972 theatres in its North American debut. It fell short of its Skyfall’s $88.5 million U.S. launch, though it handily beat the opening figures for Casino Royale ($40.8 million) and Quantum of Solace ($67.5 million.) Overall the picture has earned a domestic and international cumulative of $300 million. Some sources place Spectre, with its $250-300 million budget, as the third most expensive film production of all time. So, in spite of its already impressive earnings, it’ll have to keep this momentum going and have a strong run in China to turn a strong profit.

Second on the international chart was Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, which opened to a respectable $19.8 million in China, with Chinese romantic comedy Ex Files 2: The Backup Strikes Back coming in third thanks to a $17.1 million opening in its home market. Ireland enjoyed a local record with the opening of Brooklyn, an Irish-American production from Lionsgate about a young Irish immigrant torn between two nations in the early 1950s. It earned $652,000 in its home debut, overtaking the 1996 hit Michael Collins to claim the biggest opening in the Emerald Isle’s history. The Peanuts Movie, which came in second on the domestic chart, had a slow start to its international run as it picked up just $4.6 million in 11 foreign markets, including a worryingly meager $2.8 million in China amid stiff competition from Maze Runner and Ex-Files 2.

Back to the domestic front, The Peanuts Movie made its home debut and came in second with a $45 million take over the past weekend. This latest big screen appearance for Charlie Brown and his gang comes from Ice Age and Rio authors Blue Sky Studios, with distribution being handled by 20^th Century Fox Animation. The two studios are hoping to launch a Peanuts franchise if this picture shapes up to be a hit in the coming weeks.

Next week we’ll see how Spectre fares in China, while in the U.S. The 33, a film about the ordeal of the trapped Chilean miners in 2010 will make its launch, along with college football drama My All-American and Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s By the Sea.

Lorenzo Soria