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CloneCommander

Posted: March 27th 2010 7:21 pm

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Stunning Slumdog Millionaire star Freida Pinto has landed a multi-million pound deal to be the next Bond girl.

As she prepares to join the ranks of screen beauties Ursula Andress, Diana Rigg and Britt Ekland, Freida is looking forward to her biggest payday yet with the 007 assignment.

The Mumbai beauty, who was a key member of the Slumdog cast which won 10 Oscars last year, is set to sign the money-spinning deal thought to be worth £3million. Freida, dating her Slumdog co-star Brit Dev Patel, is said to be "ecstatic" after she was approached to star in 007's next movie mission, to be directed by Sam Mendes.

And US actress Olivia Wilde, star of TV's House, is in negotiations to play the other lead female role in the 23rd Bond flick, set in Afghanistan.

A source said: "Sam has been talking about Bond for months now and is so excited about it.

"The project has been in the pipeline for months and Freida was always the dream Bond girl, but initially she was nervous about accepting it. This is going to be the most ambitious 007 yet. Sam plans to reinvent the genre.

"Peter Morgan, who wrote The Queen, has penned the first draft of the script and it promises to be visually stunning.

"It will be a typically glamorous and raunchy role and Dev has been joking to friends he is cool with seeing Freida rolling around with 007."

Olivia, 25, has been approached to play a double-crossing UN worker based in Afghanistan. She is best known for playing Dr Hadley in Howuse but recently finished filming on new movie Tron Legacy, starring opposite Michael Sheen and Oscar-winner Jeff Bridges.

The new Bond movie, due to begin production later this summer, will be shot in Buckinghamshire's Pinewood studios and on location in the Afghan capital Kabul.

Signing Freida to star beside Daniel Craig's 007 will come as a great boost to British director Mendes, who this week announced his split from Oscar-winner Kate Winslet.

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So, from this article we know:

• Bond 23 will be released on November 9, 2012
• Freida Pinto is possibly the main Bond Girl (blah)
• Olivia Wilde will be another Bond girl (Oh yes, see below)

• Will be set in Afghanistan
• Sam Mendes is directing and plans to reinvent the series just after it was successfully rebooted :armshead:

• Sony is now running the show

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bearvomit

Posted: April 19th 2010 5:34 pm

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Rachel Weisz is said to play the head of Quantum, the secret organization responsible for all the bad guy activity in the last two films.

BOND 23 ON HOLD INDEFINITELY! No smoking hot legs and pussy of Rachel Weisz to drool over :wowowow:

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James Bond overlords Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli issued a joint statement today saying the following:

"Due to the continuing uncertainty surrounding the future of MGM and the failure to close a sale of the studio, we have suspended development on BOND 23 indefinitely. We do not know when development will resume and do not have a date for the release of BOND 23"

No word on how this will affect the supposed involvement of AMERICAN BEAUTY director Sam Mendes, although presumably the script by Peter Morgan, Neal Purvis, and Robert Wade will be retained when the project is once again underway.

Is this the end of Bond? This could take years to settle. Would Daniel Craig wait that long? So many questions.

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CloneCommander

Posted: July 11th 2010 11:54 pm

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MGM is taking the Bond franchise down with the ship:

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The new James Bond film, due for release by 2012, has been canned due to a cash crisis.

Production crew were told in April the £132million blockbuster, starring Daniel Craig, had been postponed amid “financial problems” at debt-ridden movie studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which co-funded the film.

But now it has confirmed the movie has been axed – and it could be years before the secret agent with a licence to kill is back on the big screen.

A glum insider said: “Members of the production crew have been told the Bond film has been canned.

“There is a lot of bad feeling as a lot of time, money and hard work has already gone into this.”

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American Beauty director Sam Mendes had been lined up to direct the 23rd flick in the franchise, which started with Dr No in 1962.

But production company EON confirmed in a statement yesterday: “We do not know when development will resume and cannot comment further at this stage.”

MGM is drowning under a reported £2.4billion of debt as it desperately searches for a buyer. A string of box office flops have meant big losses.American TV company Spyglass Entertainment is the front-runner to take over but Summit Entertainment – which makes the smash-hit Twilight vampire films starring Robert Pattinson – is also understood to be in talks with creditors.

Craig, 42, won an army of fans for his debut as Bond in Casino Royale – famously walking out of the sea in a tiny pair of white trunks.

That 2006 blockbuster took £385million at the global box office, while sequel Quantum of Solace raked in £392million – the largest takings for a 007 film ever.

But film buffs said there is little doubt Bond will be back. Mark Adams of trade mag Screen International offered some cheer to fans, saying: “The last two films did phenomenally well and the series is a very reliable performer. EON will want to keep it in the family, it’s an iconic brand.

“This doesn’t mean the end of the Bond films. The question is how long it will take to make another one.”

Six years is the biggest gap between films. The 16th, Licence to Kill, starring Timothy Dalton, was released in 1989. GoldenEye, starring Pierce Brosnan, didn’t come out until 1995.

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ETandElliott

Posted: July 12th 2010 8:30 pm

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Casino Royale is fantastic.

Quantum is entertaining, but flawed.

I liked Craig more than any of the other guys to portray Bond.

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CloneCommander

Posted: July 13th 2010 4:53 pm

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What pisses me off most about this whole situation, is MGM's "If I can't have it, no one can!" mentality. FFS, they're $5bil in debt, I can't think of any movie studio that daring or dumb to take such a huge hit, so it makes no sense to get a deathgrip on the franchise if you're not going to recover.

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CloneCommander

Posted: April 14th 2011 5:58 pm

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Wow. . .MGM apparently came to their senses, and has now handed it over to Sony for the next two Bond movies (23 & 24):

Sony, MGM finalize distribution, co-financing deal of 2 James Bond Films

Sony and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer confirm in a statement that the studios have finalized the deal to distribute and co-finance high profile projects including the next two James Bonds films.

In the agreement announced Wednesday, Sony will distribute and co-finance the next spy movie under the working title, Bond 23, scheduled for release on November 9, 2012.

The new deal also indicated that the 24th James Bond movie, with the working title, Bond 24 , may have the same terms and conditions as they are on the 2012 saga.

The studios said that the deal - - declared by MGM’s Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum and Sony’s Michael Lynton and Amy Pascal - - provides room for both the MGM and Sony to explore co-financing deals on other big projects each may enter into in the next five years.

The Bonds films are the first two projects MGM had got its hands on since it declared bankruptcy in December, allowing the studio to secure a $500-million credit facility.

“Sony Pictures is the ideal studio partner for us as MGM re-enters the filmmaking business. We have longstanding relationships with Michael and Amy and look forward to what promises to be a prosperous future together,” Barber and Birnbaum said in a statement, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

“In addition to working together on Bond, this deal expands our relationship with MGM as we explore co-financing opportunities on other high-profile projects,” Lynton, representing Sony, was quoted as saying in a statement by The Hollywood Reporter.

Sony also co-financed and distributed the last two Bond movies featuring Daniel Craig: "Casino Royale" (2006) and "Quantum of Solace” (2008). The films have earned a total of $1.2 billion in the box office worldwide. The next two films will also feature Craig to play the role of James Bond

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501ST

Posted: April 15th 2011 11:37 pm

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Frieda,Olivia and Rachel would make Bond23 VERY interesting.

Daniel Craig is doing a good job of keeping JB relevant to the times now without losing the classic notions that are required to make it 007.

Looking forward to seeing the 23rd installment.

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Thundercracker

Posted: November 5th 2011 10:20 pm

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This sort of slipped under the radar, the title for Bond 23 is officially "SKYFALL"

[spoil][flash width=640 height=390]http://www.youtube.com/v/Mi724khLAfE?version=3&hl=en_US&rel=0[/flash][/spoil]

Apparently this installment is its own story and is not connected to the previous two films. So I guess Quantum will be taking a break from this one? :browcool:

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darthpsychotic

Posted: May 25th 2012 3:37 pm

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Newish trailer:

[flash width=645 height=385]http://www.youtube.com/v/24mTIE4D9JM?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0&hd=1[/flash]

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Thundercracker

Posted: July 31st 2012 2:54 pm

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Trailer II:

[flash width=645 height=385]http://www.youtube.com/v/vgr2syY_OU4?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0&hd=1[/flash]

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Topeka

Posted: October 4th 2012 6:42 pm

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Trailers look great so far. Hopefully on the same level of Casino Royale. Adele's theme song is out and online:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HKoqNJtMTQ

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Joe1138

Posted: October 22nd 2012 2:54 pm

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Adele's song has really grown on me since it was released. I can't wait for Skyfall. Q... M... A sadistic, central villain... This is the first Bond film in 10 years to have nearly all of the classic Bond elements back in place (any word on Moneypenny making an appearance?).

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CloneCommander

Posted: October 29th 2012 12:41 am

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I think it's safe to say Bond is here to stay:

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‘Skyfall’ Opens #1 In 25 Overseas Markets; Grosses $77.7M And Smashes UK Records

Sony Pictures’ and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s Skyfall, the 23rd film in the James Bond series, opened overseas in 25 markets grossing a staggering $77.7 million, #1 everywhere. Setting the pace was of course the UK, which opened to an enormous estimated $32.4 million (£20.1M). Smashing the all-time Saturday attendance record, this is the biggest opening of 2012 and the biggest 2D Friday-to-Sunday opening weekend in history there, and the 2nd biggest all-time Friday-to-Sunday opening weekend, behind just the 3D Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2. This launch was 76% bigger than Daniel Craig’s first turn as 007, Casino Royale, and 30% bigger than Quantum Of Solace. Of the $77.7M on Skyfall, IMAX is estimating a weekend gross of $3.5M in 79 locations in 15 territories which include the UK, France, Russia, Korea, Bulgaria, Middle East, Kazakhstan and Brazil.

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Topeka

Posted: October 29th 2012 2:27 am

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Yeah, definitely a shame it took this long for him to come back. I'll be seeing this in IMAX on the 7th.

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CloneCommander

Posted: October 30th 2012 10:55 pm

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Topeka wrote:

Yeah, definitely a shame it took this long for him to come back. I'll be seeing this in IMAX on the 7th.

Agreed. I also read an article where someone was lamenting about Heineken and Coke Zero being featured in it, to which I say so what. Honestly, if that's all it took to revive the franchise without compromising the story, so be it. Obviously it can't be too bad considering how much press it's garnering.

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Joe1138

Posted: November 9th 2012 10:36 pm

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Just got back from a screening. Goddamn does this film work. It gets a little cute with the references to previous Bond flicks and Bardem's villain clearly owes more than a little to Ledger's Joker but those nitpicks aside Skyfall was easily the most entertaining film I've seen all year so far.

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CoGro

Posted: November 10th 2012 2:19 am

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Just got back from Skyfall and very much enjoyed it.

I think Casino Royale is the more enduring film, but Skyfall has a lot of good things going on and could easily have been the "relaunch" movie for Bond. Between Royale and Skyfall, Bond's "backstory" has really been well established and the series has received a well-needed kick in the pants.

Royale has a tighter narrative, is better paced, has wittier dialogue, a better score and its action/stunts are more organic and iconic. Skyfall has a better villain (first gay supervillain?) and a stronger climax. I quite liked how M became the "Bond girl" of the movie and I think it was a great way to send off Judie Dench.

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