Quantum of Solace
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Pinewood looks to James Bond for solace
Pinewood Shepperton is eagerly awaiting the release of the latest James Bond film, along with legions of fans, after finding just a quantum of solace in its annual results - reports The Telegraph.
Movie revenues at the British film and television studios took a £3m hit from last year's Writers Guild of America strike, which delayed work on the blockbuster prequel to The Da Vinci Code.
Although the latest 007 film began shooting toward the end of last year, it has run into 2008, and Pinewood's turnover will now only benefit in the current financial year.
Due to be released on October 31 and called Quantum of Solace, the film tells the story of Bond's attempt to seek revenge on the villain who murdered his lover at the end of Casino Royale, the last Bond flick.
Overall, pre-tax profits at Pinewood Shpperton fell to £5.28m last year from £7.16m in 2006, as film revenues slipped to £22.5m.
Pinewood said that the continued weakness of the dollar, coupled with the Writers' strike, saw investment in film production fall from £855m to £723m - or from 135 films to 112 films.
Although the settlement of the Writers' strike is being seen as a sign that the potential Screen Actors Guild dispute may be averted, the company pointed out that negotiations have yet to begin.
Michael Grade, chairman of Pinewood, said today: "This volatility in film revenues can only be countered by growing our non film revenues, in particular in television and property."
To that end, the group is continuing with its long-term strategy of diversifying into the television arena - despite losing the bid for BBC Resources.
Put up for sale in August, Pinewood spent months trying to secure a purchase of the BBC division - which comprises an outside broadcast division which sends trucks to film major live events, a few television studios and a post-production unit.
However, early last month the BBC pulled its sale plans leaving Pinewood with costs of almost £1m.
However, the group reported a rise in television revenues, from £11.8m in 2006 to £12.1m. Pinewood, which hosts a number of TV productions including the Weakest Link and My Family, said the level of TV bookings and enquiries in the first few months of this year indicate stronger demand year-on-year.
http://www.mi6.co.uk/news/index.php?itemid=6076
Pinewood Shepperton is eagerly awaiting the release of the latest James Bond film, along with legions of fans, after finding just a quantum of solace in its annual results - reports The Telegraph.
Movie revenues at the British film and television studios took a £3m hit from last year's Writers Guild of America strike, which delayed work on the blockbuster prequel to The Da Vinci Code.
Although the latest 007 film began shooting toward the end of last year, it has run into 2008, and Pinewood's turnover will now only benefit in the current financial year.
Due to be released on October 31 and called Quantum of Solace, the film tells the story of Bond's attempt to seek revenge on the villain who murdered his lover at the end of Casino Royale, the last Bond flick.
Overall, pre-tax profits at Pinewood Shpperton fell to £5.28m last year from £7.16m in 2006, as film revenues slipped to £22.5m.
Pinewood said that the continued weakness of the dollar, coupled with the Writers' strike, saw investment in film production fall from £855m to £723m - or from 135 films to 112 films.
Although the settlement of the Writers' strike is being seen as a sign that the potential Screen Actors Guild dispute may be averted, the company pointed out that negotiations have yet to begin.
Michael Grade, chairman of Pinewood, said today: "This volatility in film revenues can only be countered by growing our non film revenues, in particular in television and property."
To that end, the group is continuing with its long-term strategy of diversifying into the television arena - despite losing the bid for BBC Resources.
Put up for sale in August, Pinewood spent months trying to secure a purchase of the BBC division - which comprises an outside broadcast division which sends trucks to film major live events, a few television studios and a post-production unit.
However, early last month the BBC pulled its sale plans leaving Pinewood with costs of almost £1m.
However, the group reported a rise in television revenues, from £11.8m in 2006 to £12.1m. Pinewood, which hosts a number of TV productions including the Weakest Link and My Family, said the level of TV bookings and enquiries in the first few months of this year indicate stronger demand year-on-year.
http://www.mi6.co.uk/news/index.php?itemid=6076
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I like that insided look of the state of mind Bond is in
SPOILER
While the plot may revolve around natural resources and regime change, the emotional core of Quantum of Solace is the broken heart Bond suffered when Vesper Lynd betrayed him at the end of Casino Royale (Solace picks up within an hour of where Royale left off). Craig explained that Bond's "emotions at the end of the last movie directly tie into where we begin with this one. Where he is and where he's actually headed, and how other people perceive where he is, is sort of how the movie begins and where it's headed. Generally, let's say the CIA and MI6 and M and all the rest think he's in one place and actually he might be someplace else. But he's certainly getting back at the people who killed the woman he loved."
Craig points out that in the original Ian Fleming short story, the title Quantum of Solace (which means a measure of comfort) refers to "the nature of relationships and the fact is that if you don't have that quantum of solace in a relationship" then the person who is hurt the most by the relationship will, in Fleming's words, resort to a sort of "bestial cruelty." Craig stressed, though, that for the movie "we've tried to make that bigger and one thing for sure is that (Bond's) lost the love of his life. The last thing that he knows is that she was a double agent, she sold him out. That the relationship he was living with her was just a lie so he's got this little kind of spark in him. He needs an answer. Although he doesn't want to admit it, he needs to find out. Without that, he's not going to function properly. Definitely this movie's about the beginning of that discovery. It doesn't make sense. This man wins at poker. He's one of the best poker players in the world and this woman turned him upside down and lied to him to his face and made him fall in love with her. And that has popped him off. So he needs to find out."
James Bond finds 'Solace' a bit Chile
By RYAN PEARSON, AP Entertainment Writer 1 hour, 12 minutes ago
ANTOFAGASTA, Chile - After getting the bad end of his own ax in a fight, a bloodied villain limps alone in a stark desert. Mathieu Amalric stumbles to the red, rocky ground. "CUT!" rings loudly from the set of the 22nd James Bond film.
Picking up an hour after "Casino Royale" left off, "Quantum of Solace" is the spy franchise's first direct sequel. Filming began in January and has taken the crew from Britain to Panama to this moonlike landscape in northern Chile, which is standing in for Bolivia.
It's a place that director Marc Forster said evokes Bond's "isolation and loneliness."
"He is an assassin, he is a secret agent, and that reflects a certain lifestyle, which is lonely," said Forster.
Indeed, the big news on the set is that one of the two Bond girls, Olga Kurylenko, doesn't get in even a single kiss with star Daniel Craig. ("Why would I be disappointed?" Kurylenko insisted. "I'm just doing my work.")
The question is: Do audiences want an emo Bond?
Craig says not to worry too much.
"We're not making a kitchen sink drama here. We are making a Bond movie," he said. "What Marc wanted and the producers and what I wanted is to bring back a visual flair to the movie, so that every frame in every shot that we see is beautiful. And there may be things exploding, but they're good to look at."
Still, Forster, the youngest-ever Bond director at 39, was hired on by longtime producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson because of his emotionally intense films like "Monster's Ball" and "The Kite Runner."
Despite the heightened realism of the last Bond film, not to mention its commercial success (over $500 million worldwide), the German-born Swiss director was wary of joining the bombastic franchise.
Forster negotiated with producers to ensure he had as much creative control as possible on the $200 million-plus production. Nevertheless, he's still squeezed into the "framework of Bond."
"But I like it because you feel like it can make you very creative," he said. "And a lot of interesting things come out of that. Because, if you look at filmmakers that worked under politically repressive regimes, (they) made sometimes really interesting movies."
Filming is about halfway done on "Quantum," which is the name of the organization Bond is going up against. Craig said the emotional tone is lighter than "Casino Royale," in which Bond's lover Vesper Lynd betrayed him and then died — but only a smidgen so.
"It's kind of Bond's journey into, at first we think it's vengeance, but it goes somewhere else," Craig said. "They've killed the love of his life, this organization, and we don't know who this organization are, and he needs to find out who they are. And it's for personal reasons but also professional reasons."
Craig said that aside from some communications equipment, "Quantum" puts little emphasis on gee-whiz electronics.
"The Aston Martin's there, and that's still the best gadget we have," he said.
During reporters' visit to the set, Forster was filming the climax. Offices and a lodge underneath one of the world's largest telescopes at Paranal Observatory acted as an eco-hotel, used by the villain. Back in London, it would be re-created — in order to be blown up, Broccoli said.
Craig fired into the skylight above the offices, and Kurylenko's character Camille ran separately off the roof of the building, flipping into a balcony. Amalric, playing the villain Dominic Greene, roamed the set in post-Bond fight makeup, bloodied and bruised on his cheeks.
A French director and actor known internationally for his star turn in "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly," Amalric was allowed no shortcuts to villaindom.
"No scars, no eye that bleeds, no metal jaw," he said. "I tried everything to have something to help me. I said to Marc: No nothing? A beard? 'No.' Can I shave my hair? 'No. Just your face.'"
Craig, muscles flexing under a dark polo shirt, said he was exercising more than he had on the "Casino Royale" set, to avoid injuries when doing his own stunts.
He laughingly steered conversation away from health concerns. "It's just not very Bond-like," he said. "Bond should be able to do ten press-ups, then smoke 60 cigarettes, and then drink a bottle of something and pop a pill, I think."
Kurylenko, a 28-year-old Ukranian-born model-actress with few films to her credit, said her character also has "a masculine spirit."
"When she meets Bond, it clashes," she said. "She's careful and she doesn't trust that easily. So basically with men, she either uses them, or if they're no use, and she sees that they can't serve her, then she throws them away."
There have been several noteworthy confrontations around on the Bond production so far. In Panama, riots near the set forced a shift in schedule. And in Chile, a local mayor interrupted production claiming producers didn't get his permission.
National media has reported on Chileans' disappointment in not seeing more of Craig during his stay in their country. And in a separate controversy, Chile-as-Bolivia has not been a popular choice, either: Hurt feelings remain between the South American neighbors over an 1879-84 war in which Chile took Bolivia's Pacific coastline. The two have not had diplomatic relations since 1978.
"We knew there was a war 100 years ago, but we didn't know it was still an issue," Wilson said.
Next, the eternal question: What's next for Bond?
Wilson said he expected Bond production to pause for at least a year following "Quantum of Solace."
"I need a break for a little while," he said.
Forster said he won't be back for Bond 23.
"If I would ever do a big movie again in that size," he said, "it has to be my own franchise, which I would create from scratch, which I would cast, create the look and really create the franchise on my own."
And Craig, who turned 40 while filming in Panama, said he'd keep playing Bond — so long as the quality remains high.
"I want them to stand alone and be good films," he said. "As long as that continues, then we'll keep making them. And if it doesn't, then we'll stop."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080405/ap_ ... ekCpus0NUE
Bruises and grit: 007 seeks solace in realism
By Pav Jordan Sat Apr 5, 3:15 AM ET
CERRO PARANAL, Chile (Reuters) - Wincing on a windswept mountainside in arid, northern Chile, James Bond's new incarnation Daniel Craig is on a quest for realism -- and he has the bruises to prove it.
Breaking after a grueling 10-hour day of filming Bond's latest adventure, Quantum of Solace, in remote Paranal in Chile's copper mining heartland, a metaphor for the isolation of the world's most famous fictional super-spy, Craig says he is after grit.
"I'm bruised up from the fight scenes, but that's part of the deal," Craig told Reuters in an interview in the world's driest desert, the Atacama, grimacing as he sat down. "I wouldn't have done the movie without going all the way."
He does as many of his own stunts as insurance allows.
Craig, who shot to fame with the 2006 Bond movie Casino Royale, pumps iron every evening, eats well and says his secret is to completely immerse himself in the role of 007.
"We're making a Bond film, but we need some reality. We need to do more," he said, sitting in the navy polo shirt and black jeans he wore on set. His skin is wind-burnt. Veins protrude on buff biceps.
"But the reality of the situations and ... people's emotions is kind of important because we want an audience to kind of care and just to get involved and stay interested."
Ukrainian actress Olga Kurylenko, who plays Bond's new love interest Camille, is also suffering. She says she is so bruised she no longer needs make-up to make her look tough.
Ultimately, Bond is all about action, and the film promises twice as much as in Casino Royale.
"It's not like we're making some sort of big action romance here. This is a Bond movie first of all," Craig said. "You have to apply the Bond equation, which is that we have to have as much action as we possibly can that fits in with the story, which makes sense."
In fact, Craig and Kurylenko don't even kiss on-screen -- though true to Bond he does have a fling with another woman.
Quantum of Solace, produced by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, is set an hour after the end of Casino Royale, which introduced movie fans to English actor Craig, who turned 40 while filming on location in Panama in March.
The cast try not to let too much slip about the plot.
CONTEMPORARY THEMES
But it involves Bond trying to track down the killers of Vesper Lynd -- the woman who betrayed his love in Casino Royale -- and stop an evil plan by an eco-terrorist to help install a dictator in what is supposed to be Bolivia in exchange for control of land with crucial natural resources.
The scenes filmed in Chile are near the end of the picture, as Bond is "catching up with the bad guys," Craig said.
"There's a theme in the movie, which is about shortages in the world and how people are abusing them and this sets it up quite nicely really," he added.
Chile's desolate Cerro Paranal mountain, 2,600 meters (8,530 ft) above sea level, looks like the moon and is meant to be the Bolivian lair of new villain Dominic Greene.
The legacy of past dictatorships and shortages due to climate change are two very real themes in Latin America, home to a host of dictators in the 1970s and 1980s and now to melting glaciers.
Desert winds whipping up twisters behind him, Wilson said the location is also meant to emphasize Bond's mental anguish. "This is a desolate landscape that reflects Bond's feelings."
Director Marc Forster was at first reluctant to make the mass-audience film, which is far removed from earlier projects like Oscar-winning Monster's Ball and The Kite Runner.
But he said he was drawn by the challenge of bringing more passion to a film made for a broader audience.
The film aims to get away from the special effects and gadgets that characterized earlier Bond movies, the cast says, though Bond still has his trusty Aston Martin.
"I want to go back to the 60s and 70s thriller look," said Forster, pointing to the franchise's first Bond movie, Dr. No, and others as a hint of the gritty filming fans can expect.
But while the rhetoric of Craig's critics, who earlier campaigned online saying he was 'too blonde and too ugly', has died down, the film has stirred controversy of its own.
A local mayor was detained by police after he drove onto the set during filming to protest the fact that Chile was being used to represent impoverished neighboring Bolivia.
Chile annexed the region around the northern mining center of Antofagasta in a war in the late 19th century, depriving Bolivia of its only maritime border, and tension between the two countries still runs high.
The film will be released jointly by Sony Pictures Entertainment's Columbia Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios. It is scheduled to open in Britain on October 31 and on November 7 elsewhere.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080405/lf_nm/bond_dc_1
SPOILER
While the plot may revolve around natural resources and regime change, the emotional core of Quantum of Solace is the broken heart Bond suffered when Vesper Lynd betrayed him at the end of Casino Royale (Solace picks up within an hour of where Royale left off). Craig explained that Bond's "emotions at the end of the last movie directly tie into where we begin with this one. Where he is and where he's actually headed, and how other people perceive where he is, is sort of how the movie begins and where it's headed. Generally, let's say the CIA and MI6 and M and all the rest think he's in one place and actually he might be someplace else. But he's certainly getting back at the people who killed the woman he loved."
Craig points out that in the original Ian Fleming short story, the title Quantum of Solace (which means a measure of comfort) refers to "the nature of relationships and the fact is that if you don't have that quantum of solace in a relationship" then the person who is hurt the most by the relationship will, in Fleming's words, resort to a sort of "bestial cruelty." Craig stressed, though, that for the movie "we've tried to make that bigger and one thing for sure is that (Bond's) lost the love of his life. The last thing that he knows is that she was a double agent, she sold him out. That the relationship he was living with her was just a lie so he's got this little kind of spark in him. He needs an answer. Although he doesn't want to admit it, he needs to find out. Without that, he's not going to function properly. Definitely this movie's about the beginning of that discovery. It doesn't make sense. This man wins at poker. He's one of the best poker players in the world and this woman turned him upside down and lied to him to his face and made him fall in love with her. And that has popped him off. So he needs to find out."
Just a little LOL on the sideHeh. 'Fat Bond': sounds like a hoagie or something.
"Yeah, I'd like to order the Fat Bond, hold the blue square-cut swimming trunks...on rye."
James Bond finds 'Solace' a bit Chile
By RYAN PEARSON, AP Entertainment Writer 1 hour, 12 minutes ago
ANTOFAGASTA, Chile - After getting the bad end of his own ax in a fight, a bloodied villain limps alone in a stark desert. Mathieu Amalric stumbles to the red, rocky ground. "CUT!" rings loudly from the set of the 22nd James Bond film.
Picking up an hour after "Casino Royale" left off, "Quantum of Solace" is the spy franchise's first direct sequel. Filming began in January and has taken the crew from Britain to Panama to this moonlike landscape in northern Chile, which is standing in for Bolivia.
It's a place that director Marc Forster said evokes Bond's "isolation and loneliness."
"He is an assassin, he is a secret agent, and that reflects a certain lifestyle, which is lonely," said Forster.
Indeed, the big news on the set is that one of the two Bond girls, Olga Kurylenko, doesn't get in even a single kiss with star Daniel Craig. ("Why would I be disappointed?" Kurylenko insisted. "I'm just doing my work.")
The question is: Do audiences want an emo Bond?
Craig says not to worry too much.
"We're not making a kitchen sink drama here. We are making a Bond movie," he said. "What Marc wanted and the producers and what I wanted is to bring back a visual flair to the movie, so that every frame in every shot that we see is beautiful. And there may be things exploding, but they're good to look at."
Still, Forster, the youngest-ever Bond director at 39, was hired on by longtime producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson because of his emotionally intense films like "Monster's Ball" and "The Kite Runner."
Despite the heightened realism of the last Bond film, not to mention its commercial success (over $500 million worldwide), the German-born Swiss director was wary of joining the bombastic franchise.
Forster negotiated with producers to ensure he had as much creative control as possible on the $200 million-plus production. Nevertheless, he's still squeezed into the "framework of Bond."
"But I like it because you feel like it can make you very creative," he said. "And a lot of interesting things come out of that. Because, if you look at filmmakers that worked under politically repressive regimes, (they) made sometimes really interesting movies."
Filming is about halfway done on "Quantum," which is the name of the organization Bond is going up against. Craig said the emotional tone is lighter than "Casino Royale," in which Bond's lover Vesper Lynd betrayed him and then died — but only a smidgen so.
"It's kind of Bond's journey into, at first we think it's vengeance, but it goes somewhere else," Craig said. "They've killed the love of his life, this organization, and we don't know who this organization are, and he needs to find out who they are. And it's for personal reasons but also professional reasons."
Craig said that aside from some communications equipment, "Quantum" puts little emphasis on gee-whiz electronics.
"The Aston Martin's there, and that's still the best gadget we have," he said.
During reporters' visit to the set, Forster was filming the climax. Offices and a lodge underneath one of the world's largest telescopes at Paranal Observatory acted as an eco-hotel, used by the villain. Back in London, it would be re-created — in order to be blown up, Broccoli said.
Craig fired into the skylight above the offices, and Kurylenko's character Camille ran separately off the roof of the building, flipping into a balcony. Amalric, playing the villain Dominic Greene, roamed the set in post-Bond fight makeup, bloodied and bruised on his cheeks.
A French director and actor known internationally for his star turn in "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly," Amalric was allowed no shortcuts to villaindom.
"No scars, no eye that bleeds, no metal jaw," he said. "I tried everything to have something to help me. I said to Marc: No nothing? A beard? 'No.' Can I shave my hair? 'No. Just your face.'"
Craig, muscles flexing under a dark polo shirt, said he was exercising more than he had on the "Casino Royale" set, to avoid injuries when doing his own stunts.
He laughingly steered conversation away from health concerns. "It's just not very Bond-like," he said. "Bond should be able to do ten press-ups, then smoke 60 cigarettes, and then drink a bottle of something and pop a pill, I think."
Kurylenko, a 28-year-old Ukranian-born model-actress with few films to her credit, said her character also has "a masculine spirit."
"When she meets Bond, it clashes," she said. "She's careful and she doesn't trust that easily. So basically with men, she either uses them, or if they're no use, and she sees that they can't serve her, then she throws them away."
There have been several noteworthy confrontations around on the Bond production so far. In Panama, riots near the set forced a shift in schedule. And in Chile, a local mayor interrupted production claiming producers didn't get his permission.
National media has reported on Chileans' disappointment in not seeing more of Craig during his stay in their country. And in a separate controversy, Chile-as-Bolivia has not been a popular choice, either: Hurt feelings remain between the South American neighbors over an 1879-84 war in which Chile took Bolivia's Pacific coastline. The two have not had diplomatic relations since 1978.
"We knew there was a war 100 years ago, but we didn't know it was still an issue," Wilson said.
Next, the eternal question: What's next for Bond?
Wilson said he expected Bond production to pause for at least a year following "Quantum of Solace."
"I need a break for a little while," he said.
Forster said he won't be back for Bond 23.
"If I would ever do a big movie again in that size," he said, "it has to be my own franchise, which I would create from scratch, which I would cast, create the look and really create the franchise on my own."
And Craig, who turned 40 while filming in Panama, said he'd keep playing Bond — so long as the quality remains high.
"I want them to stand alone and be good films," he said. "As long as that continues, then we'll keep making them. And if it doesn't, then we'll stop."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080405/ap_ ... ekCpus0NUE
Bruises and grit: 007 seeks solace in realism
By Pav Jordan Sat Apr 5, 3:15 AM ET
CERRO PARANAL, Chile (Reuters) - Wincing on a windswept mountainside in arid, northern Chile, James Bond's new incarnation Daniel Craig is on a quest for realism -- and he has the bruises to prove it.
Breaking after a grueling 10-hour day of filming Bond's latest adventure, Quantum of Solace, in remote Paranal in Chile's copper mining heartland, a metaphor for the isolation of the world's most famous fictional super-spy, Craig says he is after grit.
"I'm bruised up from the fight scenes, but that's part of the deal," Craig told Reuters in an interview in the world's driest desert, the Atacama, grimacing as he sat down. "I wouldn't have done the movie without going all the way."
He does as many of his own stunts as insurance allows.
Craig, who shot to fame with the 2006 Bond movie Casino Royale, pumps iron every evening, eats well and says his secret is to completely immerse himself in the role of 007.
"We're making a Bond film, but we need some reality. We need to do more," he said, sitting in the navy polo shirt and black jeans he wore on set. His skin is wind-burnt. Veins protrude on buff biceps.
"But the reality of the situations and ... people's emotions is kind of important because we want an audience to kind of care and just to get involved and stay interested."
Ukrainian actress Olga Kurylenko, who plays Bond's new love interest Camille, is also suffering. She says she is so bruised she no longer needs make-up to make her look tough.
Ultimately, Bond is all about action, and the film promises twice as much as in Casino Royale.
"It's not like we're making some sort of big action romance here. This is a Bond movie first of all," Craig said. "You have to apply the Bond equation, which is that we have to have as much action as we possibly can that fits in with the story, which makes sense."
In fact, Craig and Kurylenko don't even kiss on-screen -- though true to Bond he does have a fling with another woman.
Quantum of Solace, produced by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, is set an hour after the end of Casino Royale, which introduced movie fans to English actor Craig, who turned 40 while filming on location in Panama in March.
The cast try not to let too much slip about the plot.
CONTEMPORARY THEMES
But it involves Bond trying to track down the killers of Vesper Lynd -- the woman who betrayed his love in Casino Royale -- and stop an evil plan by an eco-terrorist to help install a dictator in what is supposed to be Bolivia in exchange for control of land with crucial natural resources.
The scenes filmed in Chile are near the end of the picture, as Bond is "catching up with the bad guys," Craig said.
"There's a theme in the movie, which is about shortages in the world and how people are abusing them and this sets it up quite nicely really," he added.
Chile's desolate Cerro Paranal mountain, 2,600 meters (8,530 ft) above sea level, looks like the moon and is meant to be the Bolivian lair of new villain Dominic Greene.
The legacy of past dictatorships and shortages due to climate change are two very real themes in Latin America, home to a host of dictators in the 1970s and 1980s and now to melting glaciers.
Desert winds whipping up twisters behind him, Wilson said the location is also meant to emphasize Bond's mental anguish. "This is a desolate landscape that reflects Bond's feelings."
Director Marc Forster was at first reluctant to make the mass-audience film, which is far removed from earlier projects like Oscar-winning Monster's Ball and The Kite Runner.
But he said he was drawn by the challenge of bringing more passion to a film made for a broader audience.
The film aims to get away from the special effects and gadgets that characterized earlier Bond movies, the cast says, though Bond still has his trusty Aston Martin.
"I want to go back to the 60s and 70s thriller look," said Forster, pointing to the franchise's first Bond movie, Dr. No, and others as a hint of the gritty filming fans can expect.
But while the rhetoric of Craig's critics, who earlier campaigned online saying he was 'too blonde and too ugly', has died down, the film has stirred controversy of its own.
A local mayor was detained by police after he drove onto the set during filming to protest the fact that Chile was being used to represent impoverished neighboring Bolivia.
Chile annexed the region around the northern mining center of Antofagasta in a war in the late 19th century, depriving Bolivia of its only maritime border, and tension between the two countries still runs high.
The film will be released jointly by Sony Pictures Entertainment's Columbia Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios. It is scheduled to open in Britain on October 31 and on November 7 elsewhere.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080405/lf_nm/bond_dc_1
The top notch acting in the Weisz/Craig/Spall 'Betrayal' is emotionally true, often v funny and its beautifully staged with filmic qualities..
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Some translations from the german BILD article. Their choice of words is really funny sometimes 
He closes the blue-grey (?) granite eyes and tips the chiselled head.
I meet him for the fourth time. He is getting tougher all the time. His silhouette is
smooth like that of a panther. His muscles are tight like a bow. He is a hero as of stone – but with wit, heart and modesty.
Bild: You have a menacing walk, like a glowing slow match (fuze)
Dan: Really? A sort of Bond Walk?
Bild: When are you going to marry your girlfriend?
Dan: Laughs and lifts the eagle arms. If I marry, you will be the last to get notice. He laughs like a killer. He almost laughs at me.
He closes the blue-grey (?) granite eyes and tips the chiselled head.
I meet him for the fourth time. He is getting tougher all the time. His silhouette is
smooth like that of a panther. His muscles are tight like a bow. He is a hero as of stone – but with wit, heart and modesty.
Bild: You have a menacing walk, like a glowing slow match (fuze)
Dan: Really? A sort of Bond Walk?
Bild: When are you going to marry your girlfriend?
Dan: Laughs and lifts the eagle arms. If I marry, you will be the last to get notice. He laughs like a killer. He almost laughs at me.
The top notch acting in the Weisz/Craig/Spall 'Betrayal' is emotionally true, often v funny and its beautifully staged with filmic qualities..
I like that.Germangirl wrote:Some translations from the german BILD article. Their choice of words is really funny sometimes
He closes the blue-grey (?) granite eyes and tips the chiselled head.
I meet him for the fourth time. He is getting tougher all the time. His silhouette is
smooth like that of a panther. His muscles are tight like a bow. He is a hero as of stone – but with wit, heart and modesty.
Bild: You have a menacing walk, like a glowing slow match (fuze)
Dan: Really? A sort of Bond Walk?
Bild: When are you going to marry your girlfriend?
Dan: Laughs and lifts the eagle arms. If I marry, you will be the last to get notice. He laughs like a killer. He almost laughs at me.
My books!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_of ... %28film%29ad78472 wrote:When will they go to Italy?
I found a lot of information there. Have they been already in Italy?
Yes, they filmed scences at last years Palio in Sienaad78472 wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_of ... %28film%29ad78472 wrote:When will they go to Italy?
I found a lot of information there. Have they been already in Italy?
I know it. But are they in Italy now?redluna wrote:Yes, they filmed scences at last years Palio in Sienaad78472 wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_of ... %28film%29ad78472 wrote:When will they go to Italy?
I found a lot of information there. Have they been already in Italy?
That's a very good reference. Yes, they were in Siena last summer. Do you remember the pictures of him in a window watching the horses?ad78472 wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_of ... %28film%29ad78472 wrote:When will they go to Italy?
I found a lot of information there. Have they been already in Italy?
Here's from your article for future reference:
From 4-12 April, the main unit will shoot on Sienese rooftops. For two weeks, they will shoot around the shores of Lake Garda, and spend another two weeks at Carrara.[53] Sienese officials have supplied €1 million to the filmmakers, to build four camera cranes, alter rooftops, and hire 300 extras needed for the scene. A cable camera is being used for the first time in a feature film.[52] During Bond's car chase around Lake Garda, a truck will be blown off a cliff, though a specially-designed net has been designed to stop it falling into the lake.[62]
Filming will take place at the floating opera stage at Bregenz, Austria from 28 April-9 May 2008. The sequence, in which Bond chases a villain on to the stage during a performance of Tosca, will use 1500 extras.[63] A short driving sequence will shoot at the nearby Feldkirch, Vorarlberg.[64] The crew will return to Siena to shoot at the Piazza del Campo from 13-17 May. 1000 extras have been hired to recreate the Palio di Siena, for a scene where Bond emerges from the Fonte Gaia. Originally, Bond would have emerged from the city's cisterns at Siena Cathedral, but this was thought disrespectful.[53] By June, the crew will return to Pinewood, where new sets (including a replica of the ESO Hotel's interior) have been built.[56][45]
JoniJoni wrote:That's a very good reference. Yes, they were in Siena last summer. Do you remember the pictures of him in a window watching the horses?ad78472 wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_of ... %28film%29ad78472 wrote:When will they go to Italy?
I found a lot of information there. Have they been already in Italy?
Here's from your article for future reference:
From 4-12 April, the main unit will shoot on Sienese rooftops. For two weeks, they will shoot around the shores of Lake Garda, and spend another two weeks at Carrara.[53] Sienese officials have supplied €1 million to the filmmakers, to build four camera cranes, alter rooftops, and hire 300 extras needed for the scene. A cable camera is being used for the first time in a feature film.[52] During Bond's car chase around Lake Garda, a truck will be blown off a cliff, though a specially-designed net has been designed to stop it falling into the lake.[62]
Filming will take place at the floating opera stage at Bregenz, Austria from 28 April-9 May 2008. The sequence, in which Bond chases a villain on to the stage during a performance of Tosca, will use 1500 extras.[63] A short driving sequence will shoot at the nearby Feldkirch, Vorarlberg.[64] The crew will return to Siena to shoot at the Piazza del Campo from 13-17 May. 1000 extras have been hired to recreate the Palio di Siena, for a scene where Bond emerges from the Fonte Gaia. Originally, Bond would have emerged from the city's cisterns at Siena Cathedral, but this was thought disrespectful.[53] By June, the crew will return to Pinewood, where new sets (including a replica of the ESO Hotel's interior) have been built.[56][45]
One of my favourite picture.
But my most important question: Where is Daniel now? Is he in the sunny Italy? Or is he in the snowly London?
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I think Daniel might go home for a few days because of the FoaF premier next sunday. Maybe at last he'll also get the special birthdaycard waiting for him...