Daniel Craig, ready for a black James Bond
Daniel Craig, an outspoken Barack Obama supporter (despite not being a U.S. citizen) thinks it’s time not just for a black president, but a black James Bond.
Craig, the first blond Bond, told the British press, “After Barack Obama’s victory, I think we might have reached the moment for a coloured 007.
“I think the role could easily be played by a black actor, because the character created by Ian Fleming in the ’50s has undergone a great deal of evolution and continues to be updated,” he said. “I’ve always been a fan of Obama. The political ideas that have emerged from his speeches seem to me to be genuine.”
Craig is signed on for a third Bond film, but has dropped hints that he might not be onboard for that installment. Reasons he cited in the past included everything from the ink on the contract not being dry to the bad economy.
- from MSNBC
James Bond Opens Huge in UK! Quantum of Solace Grabs Record $8M on Opening Day!
The 22nd installment of the James Bond franchise, Quantum of Solace (Sony), has grabbed a record-shattering £4.94M on its opening day in the UK, which is about $8M in US dollars. That is approximately 42% higher than the first day of Casino Royale, the first 007 adventure to feature Daniel Craig as Bond, and it represents an all-time single day record for the UK. Although Quantum will not open in the US for 2 weeks, the film opened yesterday (10/31) in Mr. Bond’s home country, and it has out-performed the all-time best UK opening day for 2005’s Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire, which grabbed £4.02M. The all-time opening weekend record for the UK is $33.5M held by last year’s Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix. The top 9 openings in UK box office history are all family-geared films, but Quantum of Solace has a chance to deliver the all-time best 3-day start in history.
- from /Film
QUANTUM Of Solace, the 22nd James Bond adventure, has made Box Office history on its opening day in the UK, taking a staggering £4.94m and making it the biggest Friday opening of all time. The figure’s shatter the previous record held by Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire, which took £4.025m.
Quantum Of Solace, the latest installment from the longest running franchise in film history, has also beaten the opening day figure for the last Bond movie, Casino Royale, which took £2.9m on its opening day.
Quantum of Solace opened in 542 cinemas in the UK and Ireland on Friday, October 31 and will release in the US on November 14.
Produced for EON Productions by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, the film is directed by Marc Forster and stars Daniel Craig as the legendary secret agent, James Bond.
- from london
Bond box office seen critic and recession-proof
At times fictional superspy 007 seems to be bullet-proof.
The new James Bond film “Quantum of Solace” may prove critic-and recession-proof too when it hits British cinemas this week and U.S. theatres on November 14, box office trackers predict. The second Bond movie with Daniel Craig as the suave secret agent is expected to build on the success of 2006’s “Casino Royale,” despite economic pressures on movie-goers and agreement among critics that the earlier film was comfortably the better.
“Quantum of Solace is one of the few event pictures left in the year,” said Brandon Gray, president of Box Office Mojo.
“People responded very well to Casino Royale, and I think people’s affinity for Casino Royale will drive Quantum of Solace to a terrific opening,” he told Reuters.
Jack Warner, who covers the box office for Screen International, agreed.
“Bond is a very strong brand to build on,” he said. “No one expects a sequel to do less well than the one before it. Casino Royale went down well critically and with audiences, and they will be looking to break that figure.”
In Britain, Casino Royale made $107 million, a sizeable percentage of global revenues and a high figure for the country.
Globally it went on to sell tickets worth $594 million, according to www.boxofficemojo.com, the ninth biggest film in the United States in 2006 and fourth biggest worldwide.
“Quantum of Solace stands an excellent chance of outgunning Casino Royale because Casino Royale built up an audience base,” said Gray, who saw parallels with Batman, which had a similar makeover when Christian Bale was cast in the lead in 2005.
- from Yahoo
Alicia Keys & Jack White – Another Way To Die [Official Video]
Watch the music video for Alicia Keys’ and Jack White’s “Another Way To Die” written for the new James Bond film, Quantum of Solice.
James Bond star Daniel Craig’s licence to thrill in stunt scenes
As Quantum of Solace opens, Bond and M are interrogating Mr White, who reveals that the organisation that ‘turned’ Vesper is called Quantum, with agents in both the CIA and the British Government.
After interrogating White in the underground safe house in Sienna, there is a confrontation in which Bond chases rogue MI6 agent Mitchell across the rooftops.
Gary Powell, stunt co-ordinator: ‘We use wires as safely when we’re doing jumps; we don’t use them to exaggerate the shot. If Danel can only jump 15ft, that’s how far you see him jump. He falls 50ft off scaffholding during this sequence, for real.
- from Dailymail
Exclusive picture shows Gemma Arterton coming to a sticky end in new James Bond film
It’s not unusual for Bond Girls to be bumped off in bizarre ways…but none has met a stickier end than this.
In the new 007 movie Quantum Of Solace, Gemma Arterton’s character is drowned in crude oil and her lifeless body is left draped over a bed in a scene deliberately reminiscent of the 1964 Bond classic Goldfinger.
Arterton, who plays an MI6 spy ordered to keep an eye on a renegade Bond, was covered from head to toe in sticky black liquid for the dramatic sequence.
- from Dailymail
Blame Daniel Craig: Bond film name Quantum of Solace was my idea
The 007 star rejected more conventional titles during a brainstorming session with the producers.
Quantum of Solace is the name of a little-known short story by Ian Fleming, and its announcement last year as the title of the 22nd Bond adventure had fans scratching their heads
However, according to Craig, all Bond titles are essentially nonsense.
Asked if he agreed with fans who have laughed at the new name, Craig told GQ: “No, because I was involved in making the decision. Names were coming out, some ludicrous stuff was going back and forth – I can’t remember exactly, but you know the sort of thing: ‘The Blood On Your Face’. I knew I didn’t want ‘death’, ‘die’, ‘bleed’ or any of those things in the title.
“We had it written down on boards and we’d literally go and sit in rooms and stare at this title. If you look at ‘Q’s, they’re really weird in a title.
“As soon as it came out, people were saying, ‘Ooh, it sounds like Harry Potter.’ No, it’s Quantum of Solace. I was saying, ‘It’s a Bond title! The name of a Bond film is not about anything. Live And Let Die? Octopussy? What does it mean? It means very little. We’ve got nothing to worry about.”
Quantum of Solace was included in Fleming’s 1960 collection of short stories, For Your Eyes Only. The film’s makers have dispensed with the author’s original plot and retained only the name, which refers to “the smallest unit of compassion that two people can have”.- from england
Listen To Jack White’s New James Bond Song
Want to hear the new Jack White/Alicia Keys Bond theme song, Another Way To Die? You’ll have to wait a while longer – but if you want to hear a one-minute long instrumental version of the song White wrote for Quantum Of Solace, then today’s your lucky day.
For the song – in a Bond first – has cropped up as the backing for a new Coke Zero ad, shot in the mysterious and imaginative style of a Bond credit sequence. And needless to say, that advert has quickly found its way online.
‘Quantum’ of soda for Bond film
James Bond is known for liking his martinis. But now 007 also likes Coke.
The Coca-Cola Co. has inked a deal with Sony Pictures to roll out a worldwide promotion tied to “Quantum of Solace,” the 22nd installment of the Bond series set to unspool Nov. 14 in the U.S. and in the U.K. on Oct. 31.It’s the first time that Coke has promoted a Bond film, and the Bond deal marks the first major movie tie-in for the soft drink giant since the first “Harry Potter” pic in 2001.
“Quantum of Solace” will be backed by several promotional partners — Ford Motor Co., Heineken, Bollinger, Smirnoff, Omega, Virgin Atlantic, Sony Ericsson and Sony Electronics — that have pushed the British spy’s outings in the past and will pony up nearly $100 million in marketing support to push the pic around the world.
Coca-Cola will spend tens of millions of dollars on its own around the pic to hype its Coke Zero product, launching the biggest campaign for the brand since its introduction three years ago.
- from Variety
