Tomorrow Never Dies

Tomorrow Never Dies
Theatrical release poster by Keith Hamshere and George Whitear
Directed byRoger Spottiswoode
Written byBruce Feirstein
Based onJames Bond
by Ian Fleming
Produced byMichael G. Wilson
Barbara Broccoli
Starring
CinematographyRobert Elswit
Edited byMichel Arcand
Dominique Fortin
Music byDavid Arnold
Production
companies
Distributed byMGM Distribution Co. (United States and Canada)
United International Pictures (International)
Release dates
  • 9 December 1997 (1997-12-09) (London premiere)
  • 12 December 1997 (1997-12-12) (United Kingdom)
  • 19 December 1997 (1997-12-19) (United States)
Running time
119 minutes
CountriesUnited Kingdom
United States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$110 million
Box office$339.5 million

Tomorrow Never Dies is a 1997 spy film, the eighteenth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions and the second to star Pierce Brosnan as fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Directed by Roger Spottiswoode from a screenplay by Bruce Feirstein, it follows Bond as he attempts to prevent Elliot Carver (Jonathan Pryce), a power-mad media mogul, from engineering world events to initiate World War III.

The film was produced by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli. It was the first Bond film made after the death of producer Albert R. Broccoli (to whom it pays tribute in the end credits) and the last released under the United Artists label. Filming locations included France, Thailand, Germany, Mexico and the United Kingdom.

Tomorrow Never Dies performed well at the box office, grossing over $339 million worldwide, becoming the fourth-highest-grossing film of 1997 and earning a Golden Globe nomination despite mixed reviews. While its performance at the U.S. box office surpassed that of its predecessor GoldenEye, it was the only one of Brosnan's Bond films not to open at No. 1 at the box office, as it opened the same day as Titanic, and finished at No. 2 that week. It was followed by The World Is Not Enough in 1999.