<P> Spectre was filmed from December 2014 to July 2015 in Austria, the United Kingdom, Italy, Morocco and Mexico . The action scenes prioritised practical effects and stunts, while employing computer - generated imagery made by five different companies . Spectre was estimated to have cost around $245 million, making it the most expensive Bond film and one of the most expensive films ever made . </P> <P> Spectre was released on 26 October 2015 in the United Kingdom--fifty years after the release of Thunderball, thirty after A View to a Kill, and twenty after GoldenEye--on the night of the world premiere at the London Royal Albert Hall . It was followed by a worldwide release, including IMAX screenings . It was released in the United States on 6 November . Spectre received mixed to positive reviews . The theme song "Writing's on the Wall", performed and co-written by Sam Smith, won an Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Original Song . Spectre grossed over $880 million worldwide, making it the sixth - highest - grossing film of 2015, the second - largest unadjusted total for the series after Skyfall . </P> <P> A posthumous message from the previous M leads Bond to carry out an unauthorised mission in Mexico City on Day of the Dead, where he stops a terrorist bombing plot . Confronting the criminals' leader, Marco Sciarra, Bond grabs his ring, emblazoned with a stylised octopus, and kills him by kicking him out of his helicopter . Returning to London, Bond is suspended from field duty by the new M, who is in the midst of a power struggle with Max Denbigh (whom Bond dubs "C"), the head of a privately backed agency, the Joint Intelligence Service . C campaigns for Britain to form "Nine Eyes", a global surveillance and intelligence initiative, and uses his influence to close down the' 00' field agent section, which he believes is outdated . </P> <P> Bond disobeys M's order and travels to Rome to attend Sciarra's funeral . He seduces Sciarra's widow, Lucia, who tells him Marco belonged to an organisation of businessmen with criminal and terrorist connections . Bond uses Sciarra's ring to infiltrate a meeting to select Sciarra's replacement, where he identifies the leader, Franz Oberhauser . After hearing Oberhauser give the order for the "Pale King" to be assassinated, Bond is pursued across the city by the organisation's assassin, Mr. Hinx . Moneypenny informs Bond that the Pale King is Mr. White, a former member of the organisation's subsidiary Quantum who had fallen afoul of Oberhauser . Bond asks her to investigate Oberhauser, who was presumed dead years earlier . </P>

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