Month: January 2012

Beacons location film bites dust

Continuing the Broke Bond story, er, IĀ meanĀ the Budget Cut story from last week thisĀ itemĀ from the BBC seems to addĀ credenceĀ to the earlierĀ story. It appears Team EON onceĀ againĀ were flirtingĀ withĀ local leaders to getĀ favorsĀ andĀ permission grantedĀ only to walk away at theĀ lastĀ moment. This has happening often enough in Spyfall toĀ raiseĀ more than fewĀ questionsĀ aboutĀ theĀ production.     A movie production firm has pulled out…

Burt Reynolds on his shot at Bond & Criag

Movie icon Burt Reynolds weights in on James Bond. Once considered by the studio & Guy Hamilton as a replacement for Sean Connery. Burt talks to GQ about Cubby Broccoli approaching him for the role, his refusal and later regret. In Bond lore there is another legend about Cubby resisting the studio’s pressure to hire…

50th Anniversary Bond Blu-ray Set Coming October 2012

  As reported earlier MGM/FOX will be release an anniversary set containing all 22 of the EON Bond series. So far only the complete set has come up for pre-order on Amazon.com ($199) and Amazon.co.uk (Ā£89.99 ) The UK release data according to Amazon.UK is October 1st. Presumably information about the single movies release will…

Thomas Newman Might Score The Next Bond Movie

New Rumour is that David Arnold is out for Bond 23 composer (AKA Spyfail šŸ˜‰ ) , Thomas Newman is rumoured to be Arnold’s replacement. We had wondered how Arnold would balance his duties at the 2012 Olympics with his previous commitment to Bond, apparently he can not, or was not asked back. Discuss this…

Fiennes to be New “M” ?

Perhaps the second worstĀ  kept secret of Bond 23 since the title is Ralph Fiennes role allegedly as the new “M”.Ā  Suspected by fans since he was cast, apparently confirm by MovieWeb. No secret Judi Dench (who we do love) has been keen to leave the series for quite some time now, and Bond 23…