| WELCOME TO THE NEW DanielCraigisnotBond! |
James Bond didn’t need a reboot, but this website did. Its origins were as a site arguing that Pierce Brosnan should be kept on as Bond and calling for a boycott of Casino Royale. However, the consensus on our forum was that this no longer reflected our aims as an online community. This site has acquired a new function. Casino Royale created a sort of herd mentality on other Bond fansites. Those critical of the current orthodoxy on Craig have been made to feel unwelcome on the traditional James Bond forums and most have either left, had their account deleted, or stopped posting altogether. The Daniel Craig is not Bond forum provides a haven where people are free to debate the current direction of the Bond franchise in a democratic fashion.
THIS IS NOT A DANIEL CRAIG HATE SITE. Daniel Craig is not the devil, merely a talented actor who we feel was miscast as James Bond. For some of us, the issue is the fact that he looks so unlike any of the previous actors to play the role or any general conception of James Bond. Others feel that he appears too uncouth compared to the suave Bond we know and love. This was a widespread view when his name was first linked to the part, even from those who mysteriously fell into line when he was cast in November 2005.
Many of us are also unhappy at the decision to “reboot” the series, ignoring the previous 20 Bond films and starting the series again from scratch. We feel this was an unnecessary and cynical move, aimed at expanding the fanbase by disparaging a series of films that we love. Whilst few of us would object to the series changing to reflect audience tastes, Casino Royale and its attendant publicity seemed to send out the message to long term Bond fans that “the previous films were all rubbish and you were idiots for enjoying them”. Casino Royale set out to be a Bond film for people who don’t like Bond films. Well, that ain’t us! If this is “Bond 2.1”, then we preferred Bond 1.0.
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| 22 Oct 2007 - 20:27 by Ernst |
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| James Bond on Her Majesty's postal service |
No it is not working the title of Bond 22.
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James Bond has kept Britain safe from the world's villains for years. But now the spy has a new role — helping deliver the nation's letters.
Royal Mail unveiled a set of stamps yesterday that feature the covers of Ian Fleming's Bond novels. They will go on sale from Jan 8 to mark the 100th anniversary of the author's birth in 1908.
Fleming wrote 14 Bond novels, which have sold more 100 million across the world.
The six that will be depicted on the stamps, which will feature different editions of the same book, are Casino Royale, Dr No, Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever, For Your Eyes Only and From Russia With Love.
Corinne Turner, of Ian Fleming Publications, said: "It is a privilege for Ian Fleming's novels to be celebrated by the Royal Mail special stamps' programme.
"James Bond once again in the service of his queen and country: the first of many new adventures in 2008."
Julietta Edgar, Head of Royal Mail Special Stamps said: "Fictional heroes don't come much more famous than James Bond, so it's entirely appropriate that we start our 2008 special stamp programme by honouring his creator, Ian Fleming."
Fans can also look forward to a new James Bond novel, Devil May Care, which has been written by Sebastian Faulks.
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| 22 Oct 2007 - 20:25 by Ernst |
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| Sean Connery Named One of The 50 Most Stylish Men |
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All the actors who’ve inhabited the role of James Bond have enjoyed the trappings of style—killing bad guys in Savile Row bespoke—but only one of them can truly be said to have style. (And no, we’re not talking about George Lazenby.) Sean Connery is still the yardstick by which all other Bonds are measured—the arched eyebrow, the dry wolfish smile.
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| 19 Oct 2007 - 21:28 by Odd Job |
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| 007 star pays tribute to Maxwell |
Actress Lois Maxwell, who played Miss Moneypenny in 14 James Bond movies, has died in Australia aged 80. Bond star Sir Roger Moore, who had known her for more than 60 years, spoke to the BBC about his friend and co-star.
I'd known Lois from the beginning of my acting career, we were both drama students at Rada in 1944 and 1945.
We first played opposite each other in Pride and Prejudice. I was Darcy, she was Elizabeth. She was a very fine actress with a great sense of humour.
I think it was a great disappointment to her that she had not been promoted to play M. She would have been a wonderful M.
Lois was wonderful, absolutely perfect casting. It was a great pity that after I moved out of Bond, that they didn't take her on to continue in the Timothy Dalton films.
She had a tremendous sense of humour. She used to sing dirty songs, from the Canadian women's army in which she'd served.
We'd done a number of episodes of The Saint and The Persuaders together, so over the past 60 years I'd seen a great deal of her. But unfortunately, not over the last couple of years.
She had a quite a wide range of parts before she went into the Bond franchise. I'm afraid she got sort of typecast as Miss Moneypenny, that's what producers do, unfortunately, they put people in categories, they don't seem to move people out of them.
At the National Movie Awards, I presented an award to [Bond producers] Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson. It's a pity the timing was so bad, we really could have given her a tribute then.
Sir Roger Moore was talking to BBC News 24 and to Radio 5 Live's Worricker on Sunday programme.
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| 12 Oct 2007 - 23:32 by Gurrier |
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| Lois Maxwell (1927-2007) |
"Lois Maxwell, our belowed Moneypenny, is passed away.
When James Bond's movies was real James Bond's movies she was a costant, a good friend that, like Q, we finded in eve new adventure..." -Necros
Miss Moneypenny actor Lois Maxwell exits stage
Oct 1, 2007
SYDNEY (AFP) — On screen, Lois Maxwell played the woman James Bond never seduced, Miss Moneypenny. In real life, she was more than his match -- an adventurous traveller, an entertainer, and a flirt to the end.
Her death on Saturday at Fremantle Hospital, in Western Australia, from a combination of lung and vascular disease, followed several weeks of treatment there. She was 80.
The Canadian-born actress, a constant in 14 James Bond movies as the starring role changed hands, took on the Miss Moneypenny role in 1962 alongside Sean Connery in "Dr No."
And she continued to play the secretary to spy chief M, constantly flirting with her 007 agent, until 1985's "A View To A Kill" with Roger Moore.
In a 2005 interview, Maxwell said she insisted when she took on the role that she be allowed to give Moneypenny a "background" and that Bond director Terence Young not "put my hair in a bun and horn-rimmed glasses on me."
The "background" was an unexplained sexual tension between Moneypenny and Bond and the chemistry worked.
"She was my lucky token," Moore told the British broadcaster Sky News after her death.
"(People) who remember the Bond films with Moneypenny will remember her with great affection. She certainly will be missed by me and I'm sure by millions of fans around the world."
Born Lois Ruth Hooker on February 14, 1927 in Ontario, Canada, Maxwell ran away from home at 16 to join the Canadian Army Show.
She ended up in London, where she met Roger Moore at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, beginning what was to be a life-long friendship.
She changed her name in Hollywood, won a Golden Globe award and worked with Ronald Reagan on "Bedtime For Bonzo."
When the first Bond movie came along, Maxwell was an experienced actor in need of an income after her husband, British television executive Peter Marriott, developed a heart problem.
"I had a husband who was desperately ill, with two small children and no money, so I called producers I had worked with before and said 'help me,'" she told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 2005.
Maxwell's life was as colourful as that of her screen sweetheart -- she gained her pilot's licence, went on safaris, travelled widely and sailed across the South China Sea on an armed boat in case of pirates.
She was in Fremantle, near the Western Australian capital of Perth, to visit her son and his family five years ago when she collapsed while out shopping as a result of a blood clot on her elbow.
Maxwell required emergency surgery to save her arm and was so relieved at waking up from the operation and finding her limb intact, she became a fundraiser for Fremantle Hospital and a strong supporter of vascular surgeon Professor Paul Norman.
"We used to joke that he became her new leading man. She used to flirt shamelessly with him," former hospital worker and friend to the Maxwell family Penny Young told AFP.
Young said despite failing health, Maxwell had rallied in recent days.
"The thing about Lois for the family, she was such a strong fighter and in the past she would never give up," she said.
"She had that that attitude of, 'Damn, my heart will continue beating until I'm ready for it to stop.'"
"She was just adorable, and cheeky and fun."
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| 12 Oct 2007 - 23:24 by Gurrier |
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| Brioni rep claims 007 will be more casual in Bond 22 |
He may have worn the world's most famous tuxedo for the past 45 years, but James Bond may finally be loosening up, reports the Daily Express.
Daniel Craig will be donning less formal attire in the 22nd film.
According to the report, a spokeswoman for Brioni, who dressed Craig for Casino Royale, said the star would be in more casual attire for the 2008 film. The company has made Bond suits for 13 years, starting with Pierce Brosnan in Goldeneye.
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| 12 Oct 2007 - 23:06 by Gurrier |
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| Craig loses out in sexiest man poll |
CRUISE NAMED WORLD'S 'SEXIEST SMALL MAN'
Hollywood superstar TOM CRUISE has been named the world's sexiest "small man". The 5 foot 7inches (1.7 metres) Mission Impossible actor, who is dwarfed by his wife Katie Holmes and ex Nicole Kidman, beat British TV presenter Richard Hammond and Take That star Mark Owen to take the top spot in the online poll carried out by onepoll.com. Also in the top ten sexiest small males were Formula One racer Lewis Hamilton, jazz star Jamie Cullum, actor James MCAvoy, and English soccer ace Michael Owen. John Sewell, of polling website onepoll.com says, "It gives short guys hope."
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| 12 Oct 2007 - 22:50 by Gurrier |
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| Romain Duris turned down Le Chiffre |
DURIS REJECTED BOND ROLE
French actor ROMAIN DURIS turned down a dream role starring alongside DANIEL CRAIG in CASINO ROYALE - because filmmaker MARTIN CAMPBELL made him take numerous English tests. The 33-year-old auditioned for the part of the villain in the 2006 James Bond movie, but became frustrated when he realised he would have to rapidly improve his bilingual skills. He says, "I'd already done an audition and a test for my English and then they wanted yet another English test. Well, I had other things to do. I was working on Dans Paris and I didn't want to risk spoiling that. I said, 'Do I work like a madman to improve my English or do I say stop?'" But Duris does not regret turning down the role and thinks his replacement, Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen, did an excellent job as bad guy Le Chiffre. He adds, "The guy they cast is very good. I know I could do it too, but I have no regrets."
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| 12 Oct 2007 - 22:46 by Gurrier |
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| New James Bond Encyclopedia flops in UK & US |
mi6.co.uk
Today (6th September 2007), the book ships in the UK and retails for £25.00. The hardcover measures 9.25 x 6.25in and runs for 320 pages.
In the USA, "The James Bond Encylopedia" will be released on 15th October 2007 and will retail for $40.
The title may sound familiar to Bond fans, as there was an unofficial "The Complete James Bond Movie Encyclopedia" published back in 1990, and then later updated and re-issued in 1995 and 2002. Written by Steven J. Rubin, the last edition covered every film up to and including "Die Another Day".
Disappointingly, the new official publication comes up short on content with only 320 pages, whereas the previous unofficial volume weighed in at over 500. The twist this time around is that the new official encyclopedia will include over 2,000 pictures, which although leaves even less room for text, will look glossier than previous publications.
This new official variation seems to have failed to pull in the regular Bond audience though, as the title ranks a lowly #1,888 in the Amazon book rankings on the day of UK release.
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 15,614 in Books -as of 10-12-2007
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #18,393 in Books -as of 10-12-2007
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| 12 Oct 2007 - 22:38 by Gurrier |
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| Bond 22 horse angers animal welfare groups.... |
The Times
August 13, 2007
Bond has activists on his tail over new film's 'brutal' horse race finale
James Bond has battled his way out of many a tight spot in the past but a potent foe awaits him in his latest adventure. Can he survive a campaign by animal rights activists who claim that horses will be killed or maimed in the making of the latest 007 film?
The next Bond film is to reach its climax in a chase against the background of the Palio, the centuries-old and controversial bareback horse race in the historic Tuscan hill town of Siena.
Thanks to "Carl Stromberg"
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| 12 Oct 2007 - 22:31 by Gurrier |
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| Craig: 'I don't want to be typecast as Bond' |
Craig hints he will quit after Bond 22
BY: WENN | Friday, June 29, 2007
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JAMES BOND fans needn't expect Daniel Craig to play 007 for long - the Brit doesn't want to get typecast as the suave superspy.
Like predecessor Pierce Brosnan, Craig plans to play a slew of different characters in other films, during his tenure as Bond - and suggests he won't be a longtime action man on the big screen.
The Casino Royale star, who has signed on for the follow-up movie, says, "I don't want to make just spy films. I've never made movies for money."
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| 12 Oct 2007 - 22:27 by Gurrier |
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| Guardian: Making Bond funny bad idea. |
Making James Bond funnier is a bad idea
Daniel Craig has disclosed that the producers of the next Bond film want it to have more Pussy Galore-style gags, but this is an epic display of wrong-headedness.
Thanks to "Carl Stromberg"
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| 12 Oct 2007 - 22:20 by Gurrier |
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| Craig: 'Next Bond film will be funnier' |
BY: WENN | Friday, July 13, 2007
JAMES BOND star Daniel Craig insists fans will see a different side to him in the next 007 film - he's going to be funnier.
The actor excelled in the dramatic scenes of last year's (06) Bond blockbuster Casino Royale - but admits he is excited at the prospect of trying to add a lighter touch to the next movie.
He says, "They (the producers) just want more gags. The next one's going to a lot funnier. Octupussy and Pussy Galore style gags."
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| 12 Oct 2007 - 22:11 by Gurrier |
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| Craig rules out stage roles |
BY: WENN | Monday, July 16, 2007
British actor Daniel Craig has vowed to stay away from the stage because he's too lazy to learn lines.
Despite a recent trend of Hollywood stars including Orlando Bloom, Daniel Radcliffe and Christian Slater ditching the big screen to try their hand at theatre, the James Bond hunk isn't tempted to follow suit.
He says, "I've been offered plays but don't plan to do more theatre and have no desire to do Shakespeare. It's just too many lines for me."
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| 12 Oct 2007 - 22:04 by Gurrier |
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| Clumsy Craig Injures Cameraman |
During filming of one of Craig's scenes for The Golden Compass, an accident left one poor crew member in hospital with a broken arm and collarbone.
Craig was running through a cobbled street in the pouring rain in Oxford when he veered toward a rickshaw that was carrying the cameraman.
The rickshaw swerved to avoid the actor and the crew member tumbled out and crashed to the ground. He was immediately rushed to hospital, where he was treated for a series of broken bones.
"The poor guy was in agony and Daniel immediately went to help him, he could see he was very hurt indeed. He was scraped up quickly and an ambulance was called.
"Obviously such an incident would hold the making of the film up because it is the producers' priority that their staff are well.”
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| 12 Oct 2007 - 21:59 by Gurrier |
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| Sir Roger gets star on Walk of Fame |
Moore gets star on Walk of Fame
Sir Roger Moore said he was "thrilled" with the accolade
James Bond actor Sir Roger Moore has been honoured with a star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood, Los Angeles.
The plaque is located in front of 7007 Hollywood Boulevard - a nod to the British veteran's most famous role.
"I've had a love affair with Hollywood for many, many years," said Sir Roger, who turns 80 this weekend.
The actor - who appeared in seven James Bond films in 12 years, beginning with Live and Let Die in 1973 - described unveiling his star as "a big thrill".
Thanks to "Carl Stromberg"
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| 12 Oct 2007 - 21:40 by Gurrier |
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| Sir Roger's autobiography |
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SirRoger Moore plans autobiography
Monday, October 8 2007, 09:21 BST
By Dave West
Sir Roger Moore is planning to publish his autobiography.
The former James Bond actor, 79, is in talks with publishers and is said to be asking for a £1 million payment.
Written over the past two years, the book apparently includes details of his love life, early career as a male model and his four marriages. Sir Roger also overcame prostate cancer in 1993.
An announcement on details of the book's release is expected later this week, according to the Sunday Mirror.
A publishing source commented: "There's a lot of excitement about Roger Moore's life story.
"Everyone's waiting to see how much it goes for. This will be one of the great showbiz autobiographies."
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| 12 Oct 2007 - 21:36 by Gurrier |
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| MOORE'S BOND PAY CHEQUE ENVY |
Veteran actor SIR ROGER MOORE envies his JAMES BOND successors PIERCE BROSNAN and DANIEL CRAIG - because they have made more money from the superspy role than he did. Moore, 79, played the action star in seven movies in the Bond franchise during the 1970s and 1980s and would love to have enjoyed the financial benefits of modern-day actors - who typically command six-figure salaries per film. He says, "I made seven Bond films and they were all successful. Maybe I could have done one of Pierce Brosnan's - or rather I could have done with one of Pierce's pay cheques!"
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| 9 Sep 2007 - 03:59 by Ernst |
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| Pierce Brosnan to co-star with Angelina Jolie in Thomas Crown sequel |
Brosnan and Jolie for 'Thomas Crown' Sequel
It’s full speed on the long-gestating “Thomas Crown Affair” follow-up, “The Topkapi Affair” with word in this evening that casting has begun on the Pierce Brosnan starring movie.
In the movie, Brosnan’s Thomas Crown will be after the Kasikci Diamond which is kept in the Topkapi palace in Istanbul.
Also, Angelina Jolie has finally reached a deal to play Pierce Brosnan’s leading lady in the movie.
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| 9 Sep 2007 - 03:49 by Ernst |
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| MOORE DESPERATE TO TEAM UP WITH SEMI-RETIRED CONNERY |
SIR ROGER MOORE is desperate to star alongside fellow 007 actor SIR SEAN CONNERY, and would do anything to bring him out of retirement. The veteran star Moore, 79, took to the big screen as Connery's replacement in the James Bond franchise in 1973 and would love the chance to team up with the 76-year-old Scottish actor and their pal Sir Michael Caine - but only if the script is good enough. Moore says, "Sean, Michael and I are good friends. I'd still like to get together with the guys and drag Sean out of his self-imposed retirement. "We need a damn good script and a talented director." Connery's last big movie role was as Allan Quatermain in 2003's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
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| 9 Sep 2007 - 03:39 by Ernst |
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| James Bond actor attacks gay journalist |
13th February 2007 10:44
PinkNews.co.uk writer
It has emerged that Bond star Daniel Craig verbally abused a leading gay journalist at a BAFTA party on Sunday night.
Johann Hari, best known for his rigorously intellectual comment and investigative writing for The Independent, revealed that Craig called him a "f**king fool" at the event.
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| 9 Sep 2007 - 03:37 by Ernst |
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| CRAIG IS AN A*** |
007's foul-mouthed rant at fan who took snap of his bottom
DANIEL Craig left a star-struck admirer shaken and stirred by a four-letter outburst...
The 39-year-old Casino Royale star launched his astonishing verbal attack at London's posh Harvey Nichols store on Wednesday afternoon.
He even squared up to 24-year-old Craig Evans for having the "cheek" to take a discreet camera-phone snap of his rear as he was about to leave the Knightsbridge department store.
It's not the first time the actor has blown his top. He allegedly told reporter Johann Hari to "F***" off at the Baftas in February, when asked if he was wearing 007's famous swimming trunks under his tux.
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| 28 Apr 2007 - 00:42 by Gurrier |
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| Edward Fox: 'CRAIG IS WRONG FOR BOND' |
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Edward Fox, “M” in the 1983 remake of Thunderball Never Say Never Again, weighs in on the casting of Daniel Craig as James Bond.
British actor EDWARD FOX has blasted casting directors on the latest JAMES BOND movie CASINO ROYALE, because he thinks new 007 DANIEL CRAIG is "utterly wrong" for the part.
THE DAY OF THE JACKAL star, 68, is disgusted by Craig's appearance, and claims a blond spy would never have been approved by Bond creator IAN FLEMING.
He says of Craig, "So ugly! He is utterly wrong for Bond. The opposite of what Fleming intended, and I knew Fleming."
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| 3 Apr 2007 - 23:35 by Gurrier |
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| Ford's Bond advert accused of being out of Focus |
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Thursday March 15, 2007
The car giant Ford has been rapped by the Advertising Standards Agency for falsely implying its Focus model was used in the Bond film Casino Royale. A recent TV advert for the Ford Focus Zetec Climate used footage from Casino Royale, suggesting a link between the product and the film. In fact it was the Ford Mondeo that appeared alongside Bond. In their ruling the ASA said: "Because of the difficulty in differentiating between the two cars, the ad was likely to give the misleading impression that the Ford Focus Zetec Climate was used in the film Casino Royale, which could make it more attractive to some viewers." Ford has been ordered not to screen the commercial again in its current form.
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| 17 Mar 2007 - 05:35 by Gurrier |
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| Qtire named after Q |
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New tire with retractable studs
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March 15, 2007 We’re not sure whether the Qtire is named after Q the gadget guy of James Bond movie fame, but it would be entirely apt – the new qtire uses a patented all-weather tire technology for autos and trucks that enables studs to be extended from the surface of the tire in snow and ice, yet lie below the tread when not required. The retractable-stud tires incorporate an air bladder that pushes the studs out from inside the tire when needed, and deflates so the studs retract into the tire when not needed. The tires are not entirely maintenance free - the bladder needs to be refilled with air after the studs have been deployed around 50 times – not much effort for a significant improvement in safety.
American states Idaho, Washington, Oregon and Montana are expected to pass legislation to enable the tires to be used all year round. Q Tires expects to have the new tires available for next winter.
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| 16 Mar 2007 - 01:39 by Gurrier |
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| 007 has a temporary bout of Blindness |
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Date : March 15, 2007 Posted By : Clint Morris
Determined not to get typecast as a shirtless secret agent, “Casino Royale” star Daniel Craig is set to star in the Fernando Meirelles-helmed drama "Blindness" for Focus Features International, says The Hollywood Reporter.
Craig and Julianne Moore are in talks to play the leads in the pic, which chronicles an epidemic of blindness that sweeps through an unnamed contemporary city and pushes society to the brink of breakdown.
Craig’s doing a good job, so far, of making sure he doesn’t swim in the same waters for every film he does. For instance, he’s next in the family fantasy “The Golden Compass” and the sci-fi blockbuster called “Invasion”.
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| 16 Mar 2007 - 01:34 by Gurrier |
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| Bond 22 to go down Abbie Road? |
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Date : March 15, 2007 Posted By : Clint Morris
I didn’t think her star was shining that bright just yet – amazing what a couple of tabloid reports linking you to the break-up of a high-power celebrity couple, can do for one’s career – but according to New Idea magazine, I’ve underestimated young Abbie Cornish’s climb to the top.
The Australian beauty – best known here for her role in the AFI winning “Sommersault”; best known there for her role in “A Good Year” with Russell Crowe – has been flown to Singapore to talk about a role in the next James Bond movie.
An unnamed source – probably her publicist, these ‘sources’ usually are – tells the magazine that Cornish has made it on the short list to play the female lead in the next 007 movie.
I wouldn’t put too much stock into this one. Yeah, she may have scored an audition, but it’s way too early in the game to be adding her name to the IMDB credit list of ‘Bond 22’ just yet. No offence to Cornish either, I love the girl – she’s down to earth, polite and most importantly, talented. I haven’t talked to her for a spell, but she was always a fair dinkum gal. Good luck to her.
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| 16 Mar 2007 - 01:28 by Gurrier |
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| 007 singing ABBA songs? |
007 singing ABBA songs?
Pierce Brosnan (yep, Pierce Brosnan!) is set to join Meryl Streep in the film version of the Broadway hit, “Mamma Mia!”, says Variety.
The former 007 sang a few Irish standards in the indie drama "Evelyn," and sang onstage early in his career. But this will be a decided departure for an actor best known for playing the steely James Bond.
Brosnan will play Sam, one of three men summoned to a Greek isle by a young woman who believes one of them is her father.
For Brosnan, the opportunity to belt out such ABBA standards as "S.O.S.," which will be a duet with Streep, was irresistible.
"I said yes right away because it meant working with Meryl Streep," Brosnan told Daily Variety. "Secondly, I saw the show with my family in London, and found it just so wonderfully happy and joyful, and so pitched in time forever in the 1970s. What a kick in the pants, to be able to go off and spend time with Meryl on some Greek island, singing ABBA songs."
"Mamma Mia!" is being produced by Littlestar's Judy Craymer and Playtone's Gary Goetzman and Tom Hanks. Rita Wilson will exec produce with Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, latter of whom wrote the tunes when they were the creative catalysts for ABBA.
"Pierce brings a certain smooch factor, and we think he'll have great chemistry with Meryl in a romantic comedy," Craymer said. "He is just the perfect choice."
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| 9 Mar 2007 - 04:17 by Gurrier |
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| Eat your heart out Daniel Craig. The perfect James Bond looks more like Sean Connery |
Psychologists reveal the secret face of Fleming's perfect James Bond
Eat your heart out Daniel Craig. The perfect James Bond looks more like Sean Connery, according to a computer reconstruction published by psychologists today.
To discover exactly how the author, Ian Fleming, envisaged his hero, Prof Rob Jenkins, of the University of Glasgow, and Prof Richard Wiseman, of the University of Hertfordshire, have employed a technique known as prototyping.
"The image shows a clean-cut, classic looking face which is far more Connery than Craig.'' He added: ''Perhaps this is another way of resolving the question of who is the best Bond."
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| 7 Mar 2007 - 00:35 by Gurrier |
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| TIMOTHY DALTON has warned DANIEL CRAIG he faces "all kinds of s**t" |
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BOND VETERAN WARNS CRAIG OF ROLE WOES
Former JAMES BOND star TIMOTHY DALTON has warned current 007 DANIEL CRAIG he faces "all kinds of s**t" playing the world famous secret agent.
Dalton - who played Bond in THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS and LICENCE TO KILL in the late 1980s - was bombarded by obsessive fans during his stint as 007.
The 63-year-old actor says, "I shouldn't laugh. But he's going to get all kinds of s**t.
"The attention with Bond is huge - overwhelming. You can be told what's going to happen, but the only people who can understand it are Daniel Craig, PIERCE BROSNAN, myself, GEORGE LAZENBY, SEAN CONNERY and ROGER MOORE.
"I was still able to walk down the street and go to the pub, but there are awful moments like when you're waiting for a plane and a bunch of people decide to descend on you. They become blathering idiots when they ask you about Bond.
"It's as if you came out of a zoo. You've got to talk about the body, the workout, the Aston Martin, the girls. It's a weird thing. People were cross that I didn't really drive an Aston Martin or a sports car."
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| 7 Mar 2007 - 00:31 by Gurrier |
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| Casino Royale - worst Bond picture ever? |
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I finally got around to watching Casino Royale a few days ago, having read and heard such rave reviews of both it and the 'new Bond' Daniel Craig, who I'd seen and liked in various television programmes. Now, I know how everyone is saying how good this film is, how Craig is the best Bond ever, yada yada yada, but I'm afraid that I have to come out well on the opposite side. I'm almost tempted to say that this is the worst Bond ever, both in terms of lead actor, plot, opening credits, song - just about everything.
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| 6 Mar 2007 - 20:20 by Odd Job |
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| DVD Review: Daniel Craig is miscast as Bond, and Casino Royale is a deeply flawed film. |
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Having spent a considerable amount of time over the years thinking and writing about the Bond legend, I don't mind admitting that I've had a devil of a time since this past November, trying to figure out exactly where Daniel Craig and Casino Royale fit into the almost mythical, iconic James Bond canon. Watching this supposedly radical revamped reboot of the franchise, there are so many instances of back-and-forth "yes, that's right," and "no, that's completely wrong," elements and sequences in the film, that by the end of its exhausting, too-long 144 minute running time, I wasn't exactly entertained as much as I was a nervous wreck. Unfortunately, deep flaws in the conception and execution of Casino Royale keep it from being one of the great works of the Bond filmography.
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The whole movie suffers this way, from a cramped, dark production design that imparts no awe or "gee whiz" appreciation that "Bond look" designer Ken Adam effortlessly achieved (quite a shock here, too, coming from long-time Bond production designer Peter Lamont). Bond is supposed to inhabit a world we will likely never see, a world of luxury that he's not really entitled to enter either, except for the fact that he has a license to kill that grants him entrance to these forbidden pockets of excess. So where is that sense of scope in Casino Royale? It's frankly an ugly film to look at, with little or no sense of style to its lensing or compositions. Again, one gets the feeling that everyone involved didn't want "pretty pictures," that those big sets were somehow artistically "dishonest" in a world that now sees Bond's exploits as outlandish actions that need an apology. What a shame. I'll take the "dishonesty" of Blofeld's volcano lair in You Only Live Twice any day over the depressing, dark, small look of Casino Royale.
Special thanks to "Carl Stromberg"
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| 6 Mar 2007 - 20:13 by Odd Job |
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| Why Michell snubbed 007 |
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Even before “Casino Royale” had been released, news outlets were spruiking the 22nd James Bond movie – the one due out in a couple of years – and speculating who’d be directing.
One name that came up frequently around that time was Roger Michell (“Notting Hill”, “Venus”) whom, considering his back catalogue, would seem a rather odd choice.
Talking to HIT, Michell mentioned that he was offered the Bond film – but despite the fact that he would’ve liked to have worked with his old friend, Daniel Craig – but ultimately passed on it, because he didn’t like the script.
“We couldn’t find a way of making us all happy with the script. It’s been through various drafts, but I just decided to say no before I got too far into it”, Michell says. “As far as I know, it’s absolutely up for grabs at the moment”.
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| 3 Mar 2007 - 18:39 by Gurrier |
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| ClayNation: All that star power, and this is what we get? |
4. If you play James Bond like Daniel Craig does, it ought to be written into your contract that you can't be accompanied to present an award by a woman who's taller than you. Seeing Nicole Kidman towering over James Bond really made me discount Craig's ability to save the world or even defeat any madman taller than 5-feet-4. Hopefully for Craig's sake the next Bond movie is set in North Korea.
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| 2 Mar 2007 - 19:15 by Gurrier |
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| Shaken, but not stirred |
Casino Royale is an exceedingly juvenile film - an unconvincing mish-mash of staples from the thriller genre (I mean, please, an oil tanker fight, a high speed car chase AND a poker game!) with a plot that has the consistency of Swiss cheese, duly seasoned with liberal dollops of mush. For most of the movie, its protagonist lives perilously on the edge of the ridiculous, and for all its tortured soul-searching the film has the emotional depth of a three day old puddle....
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| 2 Mar 2007 - 04:08 by Gurrier |
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| www.TheRealBond.com |
San Jose, CR (PRWEB) February 2, 2007 -- Despite initial criticism for being inelegant, bawdy and blonde, Daniel Craig proved a worthy 007 in blockbuster hit Casino Royal. But according to a survey conducted by VIPLoungeCasino.com (www.VIPLoungeCasino.com) and website The Real Bond (www.TheRealBond.com), Brosnan is still the people's favorite.
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| 21 Feb 2007 - 03:26 by Gurrier |
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| Daniel Craig rather wanting in the humour department. |
All that visceral, muscular acting has, it seems, left Daniel Craig rather wanting in the humour department.
It might have been hoped that Craig would react with James Bond-style nonchalance - or at least magnanimity - at being passed over for a Bafta at Sunday night's awards in London.
Yet it appears that he became so wound-up after being beaten by Forest Whitaker in the best actor category that he shunned the whirl of afterparties and almost got involved in brawl with a journalist.
The evening did not start too comfortably for Craig, who appeared visibly uncomfortable at being praised for his honed looks by show host Jonathan Ross - then bristled with annoyance when Whitaker was announced best actor.
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| 13 Feb 2007 - 22:17 by Gurrier |
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| Brosnan Learned of Bond Snub on First Day of Filming Western |
The director of PIERCE BROSNAN's new western feared he'd have to ban all mention of 007 on the set of his film after the Irish actor received the news he'd been axed as JAMES BOND.
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| 13 Feb 2007 - 22:11 by Gurrier |
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| Beijing Pirates Skimming Bond's Profits |
BEIJING -- "Casino Royale" director Martin Campbell was disappointed Monday to find pirated DVDs of his Bond movie on the streets of Beijing, hours before the film's China premier and called such fakes a huge problem for the industry.
Campbell, who was in Beijing with star Daniel Craig to promote the picture, told reporters he paid a street vendor about $1.30 for a copy of the film, which appeared to be Russian-made.
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| 13 Feb 2007 - 03:07 by Gurrier |
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| Daniel Craig can't park his car. |
JAMES BOND actor Daniel Craig is reported to be the butt of much humour around Hollywood because he can't park his car. He's just bought a Cadillac 4x4 that's nearly 17ft long, and locals say they often see it jutting out at crazy angles or bumped up on the pavements.
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| 13 Feb 2007 - 02:02 by Gurrier |
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