News tidbits

Cyanaurora · Post by **Cyanaurora** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 7:30 pm

advicky wrote:http://67.59.172.92/calendarEvent.cfm?EventID=448

Is there any hope DC will be there? It says that he was invited.

advicky · Post by **advicky** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 1:47 pm

'Blank' Bond Daniel Craig

'Quantum of Solace' star Daniel Craig says he has a "blank page" playing James Bond in the next film.

Daniel Craig says he has a "blank page" as James Bond. The UK-born actor believes the next instalment of the spy film franchise could go in a completely new direction. Daniel said: "I genuinely think we've got a blank page now. We started something with 'Casino Royale' and wrapped it up with 'Quantum of Solace' - we're ready to begin again and do what we want." Daniel also admits he was surprised by the success of 'Casino Royale' - his debut performance as James Bond. The 40-year-old actor added to Britain's Daily Express newspaper: "Everyone thought it was going to be s**t. So when it wasn't, they were all just completely surprised. I think that 'Quantum of Solace' is as good a movie as 'Casino Royale' The difference is that last time people were surprised by the fact they enjoyed it." He also revealed portraying the British spy allows him to act out a mid-life crisis, rather than actually having one. Daniel explained: "I'm having a mid-life crisis as they go, I'm driving around in an Aston Martin and wearing sharp suits and sort of going around with beautiful girls. I'm acting my mid-life crisis out on movies."

http://www.pr-inside.com/blank-bond-dan ... 987054.htm

advicky · Post by **advicky** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 3:47 pm

Top Ten Money-Making Stars of 2008: 1. Will Smith 2. Robert Downey, Jr. 3. Christian Bale 4. Shia LaBeouf 5. Harrison Ford 6. Adam Sandler 7. Reese Witherspoon 8. George Clooney 9. Angelina Jolie 10. Daniel Craig

http://www.redorbit.com/news/entertainm ... r_of_2008/

bumblebee · Post by **bumblebee** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 4:23 pm

advicky wrote:Top Ten Money-Making Stars of 2008: 1. Will Smith 2. Robert Downey, Jr. 3. Christian Bale 4. Shia LaBeouf 5. Harrison Ford 6. Adam Sandler 7. Reese Witherspoon 8. George Clooney 9. Angelina Jolie 10. Daniel Craig

http://www.redorbit.com/news/entertainm ... r_of_2008/

Will Smith, Robert Downey Jr, Shia LaBeouf - how bizarre!

Germangirl · Post by **Germangirl** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 4:49 pm

bumblebee wrote:
advicky wrote:Top Ten Money-Making Stars of 2008: 1. Will Smith 2. Robert Downey, Jr. 3. Christian Bale 4. Shia LaBeouf 5. Harrison Ford 6. Adam Sandler 7. Reese Witherspoon 8. George Clooney 9. Angelina Jolie 10. Daniel Craig

http://www.redorbit.com/news/entertainm ... r_of_2008/

Will Smith, Robert Downey Jr, Shia LaBeouf - how bizarre!

Wasn´t Shia LaBoeuf only in Indie and should therefore be in front of Harrison Ford? But then again - Will Smith has two movies as has Robert D. Jr, Adam Sandler. GG and Angelina.

Laredo · Post by **Laredo** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 4:53 pm

Will Smith has been in more 4th of july hits then any star including Harrison Ford who has been in the most top grossing films ever ... Star Wars , Indy Jones, the spy flicks .

advicky · Post by **advicky** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 4:55 pm

Daniel Craig: I’d disappear up my own a*** without friends

Actor reckons it's easy to become conceited

Daniel Craig admits that he relies on his mates to keep him grounded.

The actor, who plays James Bond in Quantum Of Solace, reckons it's easy to become arrogant in the film industry.

'Fortunately I've got a great family and really close friends and they really give me a hard time,’ he tells the Telegraph Magazine.

‘And I encourage them to do so, because otherwise I will disappear up my own arse.

'I mean, 6 months a year, 6 days a week, all you’re doing is Bond, all you’re talking about is Bond. By doing Bond I've lost touch with reality quite a lot.'

Daniel, 40, is dating Satsuki Mitchell.

http://www.nowmagazine.co.uk/celebrity- ... friends/1/

JAMES BOND - CRAIG REVEALS CREDIT CRUNCH WORRIES

JAMES BOND star DANIEL CRAIG is worried about the global credit crunch crisis - insisting even Hollywood superstars are not immune from its effects.
The Quantum of Solace actor is reportedly the highest paid screen star in Britain, and recently (Oct08) splashed out $5.8 million (GBP4 million) on an apartment in Regent's Park, London.
But Craig believes the film industry will soon face a money shortage as a result of the global financial problems, and is adamant it will affect everyone in the business, including himself.
He says, "Everybody's in trouble. There's going to be a cash shortage soon, because the whole point is that the movie industry, like every industry, is built upon how much money they can borrow. So if people stop sending them money, it's going to dry up.
"I don't know what the answer is. I know there's going to be a lot of job losses and it's going to be really tricky."

http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/ar ... es_1090651

Thelma · Post by **Thelma** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 4:55 pm

Germangirl wrote:
bumblebee wrote:
advicky wrote:Top Ten Money-Making Stars of 2008: 1. Will Smith 2. Robert Downey, Jr. 3. Christian Bale 4. Shia LaBeouf 5. Harrison Ford 6. Adam Sandler 7. Reese Witherspoon 8. George Clooney 9. Angelina Jolie 10. Daniel Craig

http://www.redorbit.com/news/entertainm ... r_of_2008/

Will Smith, Robert Downey Jr, Shia LaBeouf - how bizarre!
Wasn´t Shia LaBoeuf only in Indie and should therefore be in front of Harrison Ford? But then again - Will Smith has two movies as has Robert D. Jr, Adam Sandler. GG and Angelina.

Shia was also in Eagle Eye,no? It must be the reason he's just above Harrison Ford.

Post by **Dunda** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 4:56 pm

in 2008 Shia was in Eagle Eye, too.

I have only seen the Indy

Germangirl · Post by **Germangirl** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 4:59 pm

advicky wrote: "I don't know what the answer is. I know there's going to be a lot of job losses and it's going to be really tricky."

http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/ar ... es_1090651

Wouldn´t that be a good opportunity to do a play, Daniel?

Daskedusken · Post by **Daskedusken** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 5:02 pm

Germangirl wrote:
advicky wrote: "I don't know what the answer is. I know there's going to be a lot of job losses and it's going to be really tricky."

http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/ar ... es_1090651
Wouldn´t that be a good opportunity to do a play, Daniel?

That's what i thought too.

Germangirl · Post by **Germangirl** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 5:03 pm

Aragorn wrote:
Germangirl wrote:
advicky wrote: "I don't know what the answer is. I know there's going to be a lot of job losses and it's going to be really tricky."

http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/ar ... es_1090651
Wouldn´t that be a good opportunity to do a play, Daniel?
That's what i thought too.

THE opportunity for a huge meeting up and seing our man - would be nice, no wouldn´t it?

Daskedusken · Post by **Daskedusken** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 5:04 pm

Germangirl wrote:
Aragorn wrote:
Germangirl wrote: Wouldn´t that be a good opportunity to do a play, Daniel?
That's what i thought too.

THE opportunity for a huge meeting up and seing our man - would be nice, no wouldn´t it?

That would be amazing. I would love to meet him again....

advicky · Post by **advicky** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 5:22 pm

Playing James Bond helps hold off my mid-life crisis, says Daniel Craig

BOND star Daniel Craig hopes he will stave off a mid-life crisis by acting out his fantasies playing the famous 007 spy.

While many turning 40, like the Brit actor did last year, try to stem their fading youth with fast cars, young, pretty girls or new threads, Daniel's acting it all out rather than going through it for real.

Before jetting off to enjoy a New Year break with his fiancee Satsuki Mitchell, 29, in the Caribbean island of St Barts, he told the Razz the "big four-oh" birthday in March passed in a blur - because he was hungover.

Flashing those ice blue eyes, he grinned: "I hope I'm not going to have a mid-life crisis.

"I mean I'm having a mid-life crisis as they go, I'm driving around in an Aston Martin and wearing sharp suits and sort of going around with beautiful girls.

"I'm acting my mid-life crisis out on movies."

Daniel, who came second to Hugh Jackman as People magazine's sexiest Man Alive list of 2008, added: "Turning 40 meant less to me than I thought it would.

"I had a good party and enjoyed it. I woke up on my 40th birthday with a hangover. It wasn't a pretty sight."

Being Bond has certainly given him a lifestyle and career that the never thought he'd achieve when he began working as an actor professionally at 21.

If he'd been looking ahead to his 40-yearold self, he claims all he'd have been hoping for would be having regular work.

He said: "I just wanted to make a living out of it. You know, pay the rent, and enjoy it.

"But the idea of making lots of money and being this successful didn't cross my mind."

Luckily he is now a millionaire and can have breaks in the Caribbean rather than a caravan. His well-earned rest comes after four years of back-to-back work.

But the break wasn't planned, he was actually told he had to take four months off to recover from a shoulder injury.

As recent pictures of him on the beach and dancing in a club have shown, he's also out of the sling which marred the premiere in October of Quantum Of Solace - Bond in a sling just didn't seem right.

Daniel admits the enforced time off has left him feeling down.

He said: "Eventually when I'm not working I get miserable, very miserable.

"But I haven't stopped really, there was the first James Bond film then I did two other movies, then Defiance and then this James Bond. The last four years have been fairly full on.

"I've been forced to do it this time, I injured my shoulder on the last movie and had some surgery, so I can't work till later this month. I'm kind of out of the game."

The lay-off has allowed him to catch up with friends and family, although he won't talk about his teenage daughter Ella by former wife Scots actress Fiona Loudon.

It's because of London-based Ella that he refuses to move to Los Angeles.

All he will say about being a dad is he hopes he's a "good one", adding: "I don't really want to talk about it. I want to protect her."

The notoriously private star also struggles to come up with a New Year's resolution, finally saying: "Well, just try and get it right, that's all."

While 2008 saw Bond's Quantum of Solace rank as the seventh highest grossing film of the year, Daniel starts 2009 with another of his non-007 movies.

He is determined he won't be typecast like previous Bonds Pierce Brosnan, Sean Connery or Roger Moore, who struggled to do work outside Bond while in the role.

SINCE 2005,when he was confirmed as the sixth actor to play the superspy,he's made sure of doing other projects.

He played a Jewish assassin in Steve Spielberg's Munich, starred alongside Nicole Kidmanin sci-fi thriller The Invasion and in fantasy epic The Golden Compass before becoming star and producer in Flashbacks Of A Fool, playing a faded Hollywood star.

Next week the Chester-born actor is back in another non-Bond movie, Defiance - based on a true World War II story about Jewishanti-Nazi resistance.

He is also set to play the Devil in I, Lucifer later in the year.

Making non-Bond movies is hugely important for him and he certainly won't be sitting back waiting for the next 007 movie to be announced.

He said: "It's very important for me to get involved with projects that excite me, keep me excited and inspire me. But I'm not trying to plan it out in any way. There's no conscious decision to go, 'OK, I've got Bond now, I must do this'. It's like 'I'm doing Bond, and oh, this is happening'. I'm trying to keep it as open as possible.

"I've been given this huge opportunity with James Bond to make movies, which not many people get the chance to do and I'm getting a huge kick out of that.

"Because there's nothing quite like them, they're rare movies to make."

Bond won't be back this year, however, and while Daniel's signed up to do at least five Bonds in total - his third won't be a rumoured trilogy of films following on from Casino Royale and the revenge of his love Vesper's death in Quantum Of Solace.

Of the supposed trilogy he laughs: "I'm done with that story.

"I want to lie on a beach for the first half hour of the next movie, drinking a cocktail. I don't know what we're going to do with the next one.

"I know we've finished this story as far as I'm concerned and we've got a great set of bad guys.

"There's an organisation that we can use whenever we want to use it. The relationship between Bond and M is secure and Felix is secure.

"We can try to find out where Moneypenny came from and where Qcomes from. Let's do all that and have some fun with it."

Fun isn't exactly a word you could use to describe his latest film Defiance, which is out next Friday.

He plays Tuvia, one of three Russian Jewish brothers who escape from the Nazis' persecution in 1941 and decide to fight back.

Liev Schreiber and Jamie Bell star as the other two brothers, Zus and Asael.

The Bond star admits he found having to speak Russian the hardest part of making the film.

He said: "I left school at 16 and I can't conjugate a verb in any language, even English. So Russian, I just did it phonetically.

"But it was very difficult."

He also doesn't see Defiance as any relation to his previous film Munich - about a Jewish assassination group avenging the deaths of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.

Laughing, he said: "I don't put my work into a sort of DVD collection, my blue period here or my Jewish period here.

"Genuinely, and I know this might sound kind of naive, but when I read this script, the last thing on my mind was Munich."

And with that Daniel was off, knowing he had a Hogmanay trip to the Caribbean but, like so many of us, worried about what 2009 could bring.

He is concerned that the economic woes won't only hit cinema pockets as we stay at home for our entertainment, but the movie making process.

He added: "Everybody's in trouble.

"There's going to be a cash shortage soon, because the whole point is that the movie industry, like every industry, is built upon how much money they can borrow.

"So if people stop sending them money, it's going to dry up.

"I don't know what the answer is. I know there's going to be a lot of job losses and it's going to be really tricky."

It seems even Bond may feel the credit crunch.

Defiance is out on Friday, January 9.

'When I'm not working I get miserable, very miserable. But I haven't stopped really, the last four years have been fairly full on...'

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainm ... -21009597/

Daskedusken · Post by **Daskedusken** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 5:27 pm

Thanks advicky. Very nice interview.