Daniel Craig in Quantum of Solace
Quantum of Solace left the box office shaken and stirred this weekend with a $70.4 million haul to open at No. 1.
The gigantic intake easily set a new franchise record for the biggest domestic bow, topping 2002's Die Another Day, which snagged $47.1 million its opening weekend, The Hollywood Reporter reports. In addition, Quantum pulled in $30 million more than ...
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Prince Harry, Daniel Craig
Prince Harry is a big Bond fan, just not for the current Bond.
The Brit, along with heir apparent big bro Prince William, made the London world premiere of Quantum of Solace a royal affair Wednesday night, but would've much rather have had someone else star in the flick than Daniel Craig.
"There's only one Bond ...
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James Bond Blu-ray Volumes 1 & 2
Tuesday, October 21, was an amazing day if you're a fan of the James Bond movies; MGM, through their distributor Fox, released 6 of the 20 "true" Bond movies in their catalog on Blu-ray for the first time. The discs feature stunning high definition transfers of the movies alongside great bonus material. All the bonus material from the Special Edition DVDs, released 5 or 6 years ago, appear on these "Ultimate Editions," along with new bonus material.
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Daniel Craig courtesy MGM/Columbia Pictures
The latest James Bond flick has a new release date in its sight After the recent announcement that Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince would be postponed until next July Sony moved in for the kill bumping the release date for Quantum of Solace back a week to Nov 14 According to Variety 007 movies have traditionally opened the weekend before Thanksgiving but producers originally chose to release Solace on Nov 7 to avoid competing too heavily with the gang from Hogwarts this holiday season With Harry and co out of the picture however it looks like the Daniel Craig-fronted Casino Royale sequel will get what it wanted all alongWe believe Nov 14 is a great date that allows us to play straight through Thanksgiving and right into Christmas Sony exec Jeff Blake said We believe this decision will give the public a wider opportunity to see the film over the holidaySolace isnt the film to shift its release date following the announcement that Half-Blood Prince would be
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It may only the first of July but that isnt stopping the 007 fans from clamoring about the new trailer for Quantum of Solace that doesnt premiere until November The video released on the Web yesterday continues to follow Daniel Craigs adventures as James Bond on his new mission filled with high octane chase scenes murder deceit and the usual 007 chaos This teaser is set to be attached to the premiere of Hancock later this week but as luck would have it we have it right now for your viewing pleasure Gina DiNunno
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All you Bond fans are in for quite the treat Myspacetvcom went behind the scenes of the latest 007 installment Quantum of Solace to give users an exclusive look at the set and chat with the star Daniel Craig director Marc Forster and even the new Bond girl Olga Kurylenko Hopefully this will hold all you die-hard fans over until the movie is released on November 7th Gina DiNunno
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Per Variety, Ocean's Thirteen will make its international premiere at this year's Cannes Film Festival.... Don Cheadle will produce, star in and make his feature-directing debut with a Miles Davis biopic.... Per the Hollywood Reporter — as Kristen Bell shared with TVGuide.com two weeks ago — the Veronica Mars star will topline Forgetting Sarah Marshall, a "romantic disaster movie" penned by and costarring How I Met Your Mother's Jason Segel.... Daniel Craig is in talks to join Julianne Moore in Blindness, based on Jose Saramago's acclaimed novel.... Rider Strong will reprise his role of Paul in Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever. 30 Rock's Judah Friedlander is also on board.
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Send your movie questions to FlickChickSee Maitland McDonagh and Ken Fox review this weeks new flicks in Movie TalkThis DVD Tuesday is Casino Royale which features the sixth official James Bond suave Pierce Brosnans refreshingly rough-edged replacement Though Im often perceived as contrarian Im 100 percent on board with the opinion that Daniel Craig is the best James Bond since Sean Connery retired his license to kill all those years ago I dont think Casino Royale is the best Bond film ever I find Eva Green a thoroughly forgettable presence albeit a relief from the prefabricated anonymous likes of Denise Richards Teri Hatcher and Tanya Roberts and I could have done without having to sit through two large-scale action sequences before the start of the story proper Though to be fair the parkour sequence is pretty spectacular I just wish it hadnt been stuck at the beginning as some kind of sop to people who cant imagine a James Bond movie without a mess of
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Send your movie questions to FlickChickQuestion This is an obvious question but Ive neard a lot of contradictory answers Who was the voice of Mrs Bates in Psycho DanFlickChick It appears that three people provided the voice of Normans mother in Psycho 1960 Actresses Virginia Gregg Jeanette Nolan whose husband actor John McIntire played Sheriff Chambers and an aspiring actor named Paul Jasmin who did the voice-over dialogue at the end after Norman is arrested the I woudnt hurt a fly speechJasmin went on to become a photographer and did a lot of on-set work Ive heard that Gregg who had an uncredited bit part in Alfred Hitchcocks Notorious 1946 and died in 1986 voiced Mrs Bates less strident dialogue and that Nolan who died in 1998 did the harsher linesSend your movie questions to FlickChickQuestion When I was a kid in the mid-1960s I saw a horror story where an old woman was readying a corpse closing the eyes arranging the face
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Is Daniel Craig's 007 on target, or a misfire? The first reviews from H.M.S.S., or at least the London papers, are in, and thus far Casino Royale, in theaters Nov. 17, is being declared a winner. The Daily Telegraph hails Craig's debut as the licensed-to-kill secret agent "terrific," adding that the actor "steps with full assuredness into Sean Connery's old, handmade shoes," while the Times says Craig's "main asset quickly becomes evident: He can act." Hey, don't be talking smack about Lazenby.
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