| Bond Girl Barbies |
New "Bond Girls Barbie"
Barbie has been a childhood favorite for over 50 years, but next month, she will finally come in bikini form, as Mattel plans on releasing three James Bond Girls Barbie Dolls based on the classic film series.
Appropriately, Honey Ryder, the femme fatale played by Ursula Andress in the original 1962 Bond movie 'Dr. No,' is the first up to be released, clad in the white bikini that made Andress the target of every guys' crush. Subsequent Bond girls include Halle Berry's Jinx from 'Die Another Day' and, arguably the least subtle-name ever for a Bond girl, Pussy Galore, as played by Honor Blackman in 'Goldfinger' (in other words: these ladies may not be suitable for kids).
According to the doll's sellers, "What better way to celebrate the long-running film franchise than with this series of dolls depicting the legendary "Bond Girls"!"
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The Bond Girl Barbie Dolls can be found here:
Dr. No Barbie Doll
Goldfinger Barbie Doll
Die Another Day Barbie Doll[/quote]
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| 28 Jan 2010 - 23:55 by Odd Job |
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| Brosnan has never watched Daniel Craig as 007 |
Brosnan also revealed that he has never watched Daniel Craig as 007.
"I haven't seen Daniel in the role. I tried watching it on an airplane," he says. "I thought 37,000 feet was a good distance to watch it from and it broke down right at the beginning. The attendant came and changed it and it broke down a second time, so I figured 'OK. The Gods must be saying something . . .' ]
"So I never went near it! I just thought, 'let sleeping dogs lie.' I got the Academy screener for the last one and I turned it on for my boys and I left them to it. I didn't go near it."
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| 27 Jan 2010 - 18:49 by Sirius Black |
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| Auction Alone Unlikely to Resolve MGM Woes |
The first round of bids for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer turned out a shade better than expected, but the offers aren't close to covering the $3.7 billion that is owed to lenders.
Bids ranged between $1.5 billion and $2.5 billion, according to people with knowledge of the situation, and MGM has begun to explore how it could stage a streamlined "prepackaged" bankruptcy as part of the auction.
In all, MGM received interest from more than 10 suitors. Some made actual bids while others expressed interest but haven't submitted offers.
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| 22 Jan 2010 - 00:12 by Odd Job |
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| 007 could get Bollywood-style makeover |
London, Jan 17 (ANI): Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the studio behind the James Bond franchise, could end up getting a Bollywood makeover if a billion-dollar movie deal goes through.
MGM is in a financial crunch right now, and is set to be bailed out by Indian movie giants Reliance Big Pictures, which is owned by tycoon Anil Ambani, 60.
Ambani wants to snap up MGM for a knockdown price of about 1.5 billion dollars, and a source close to him has revealed he wants buy the studio to help his bid to become the world's most powerful movie mogul.
If the deal goes through, Ambani will gain the rights to the Bond movies.
Ambani already owns a stake in Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks studio and has struck deals with Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Jim Carrey and Julia Roberts to develop their films.
"Anil is desperate to become the biggest mover and shaker in world movies and buying MGM is central to that plan," the Daily Star quoted a source as saying.
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| 17 Jan 2010 - 23:33 by Sirius Black |
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| Archer FX's animated James Bond parody |
"Archer": The spy who shoved me
FX's animated James Bond parody injects cheap sex and hand-to-hand combat into the workplace comedy
Sterling Archer is a square-jawed international spy who's also a bit of a tool. He hates his bossy mother (who is also his boss). He hates his bossy ex-girlfriend (who is also his co-worker and a fellow spy). He wants his mom to listen to him, and he wants his ex to dump her wimpy boyfriend and take him back. Occasionally, he kills people by accident. ("I'll fetch the rug," offers his butler, Woodhouse [George Coe], in a matter-of-fact tone, as if he's merely fetching the morning paper.)
In other words, Archer is just like James Bond, only he's self-centered, ineffectual, hopelessly arrogant and prone to firing his weapons in the middle of a crowded office. In turn, FX's animated comedy "Archer" (premieres 10 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 14) is just like a James Bond movie, only it's faster-paced, less realistic, more depraved, more mean-spirited, more violent, and it includes lots of potty humor, dirty jokes and cheap shots at Dane Cook.
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| 17 Jan 2010 - 23:31 by Sirius Black |
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| Matt Damon as Bond? |
Matt Damon has starred as Jason Bourne in two movies but was among the actors considered to be the next 007.
Matt Damon as Bond? First choices for roles intriguing
Matt Damon as James Bond? Will Smith as Captain America? Sean Connery as Obi-Wan Kenobi? Or Gandalf? Nicolas Cage as Superman? Leonardo DiCaprio as Spider-Man? Or Heath Ledger?
They all could have happened if things had gone as originally planned.
For example, Damon was among the actors under consideration to be the next 007 when producers and the studio were unsure whether they were going to radically re-imagine the concept.
Some thought went into an American Bond, and Damon's performance in "The Bourne Identity" (2002) was enough to garner him some consideration for the role.
This was, of course, before Universal Pictures decided to turn the Bourne character and concepts into a franchise.
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| 17 Jan 2010 - 23:25 by Sirius Black |
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| Mr. Kate Winslet MIGHT Be The Next 007 Director or "CONSULTANT" on James Bond 23 |
With MGM currently having financial problems and facing a possible sale, all of the studio's projects are in a state of flux, and are proceeding either very carefully or in some cases, not at all. The biggest of them all is definitely James Bond 23, which is controlled by EON Productions and the Broccoli family estate. Because of the situation with MGM, EON is making a cautious move; they're not hiring a director yet (which would move the project into the next stage of finances), but are instead in talks with Sam Mendes (Away We Go, I) to come aboard as a "consultant." That's a sort of wink-wink-nudge-nudge way of saying they want him to be the director, but can't call him that just yet. Sam Mendes is one of the most critically acclaimed directors working today, and he's already worked with Daniel Craig before, on 2002's Road to Perdition. If Mendes does eventually sign on to direct James Bond 23, he will be one of the most high-profile directors to ever direct a Bond movie.
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| 17 Jan 2010 - 23:19 by Sirius Black |
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| Bond 23 pre-production put on hold |
Sunday January 3,2010
www.express.co.uk
Pre-production has been halted and filming postponed while the future of the Bond franchise hangs in the balance.
The 23rd Bond film was to have been bankrolled by MGM but the Hollywood studio is up for sale in a bid to clear mounting debts.
The 007 blockbusters are a lucrative franchise and could be sold off. "In the words of another great British hero, Antarctic explorer Captain Oates, the next James Bond movie may be some time," said Terence Doyle, editor of British Film Magazine.
Michael G Wilson, who produces the Bond films with Barbara Broccoli, admitted: "We just don't know enough about the situation to comment but we know it's uncertain."
The earliest a new film is likely to go into production is at the end of this year...
Thanks to James for the original post.
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| 4 Jan 2010 - 10:09 by Odd Job |
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