Skyfall opens with sky-high box office

James Bond rules the box office even though he has failed to dethrone Harry Potter. The latest james Bond franchise Skyfall has had the second-biggest opening weekend in British movie history.

Producers say the new Bond adventure has raked in 20.1 million pounds ($32 million) at the UK box office.

Skyfall opened this weekend in 25 global markets, taking in a total of $77.7 million between Friday and Sunday.

The film, which stars Daniel Craig as agent 007 and Javier Bardem as a villain bent on revenge, is also running in theatres in India. It opens in the United States on November 9.

In the latest movie, Bond's loyalty to M is tested as her past comes back to haunt her. As MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.

Skyfall has seen the biggest opening weekend for any of the 23 Bond films, and ranks just behind last year's final Potter movie, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows - Part 2, which took 23 million pounds at the box office in its first weekend in Britain.

With inputs from Associated Press