James Bond had the box-office both shaken and stirred this weekend according to preliminary figures. “Quantum of Solace” opened in the United States to the largest opening weekend for a Bond movie ever, taking in $70.4 million in ticket sales.
The opening easily eclipsed the previous Bond box-office high held by “Die Another Day.” “Day” took [...]
Russo Review — “Quantum of Solace”
November 14, 2008 || Category: Film Reviews || Tags: 007 || 3 Comments
Reviewed by: Joe Russo (Film Critic & SoSF Contributor)
Actors: Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Judi Dench
Director: Marc Forster
Rating: PG-13
Studio: Universal Pictures
Release Date: November 14, 2008
Run Time: 106 min
Russo Rating: 6/10
Fails to maintain the magic that is James Bond
Last year, in my review of The Kite Runner, I had this to say about director Marc Forster:
“For a [...]
Russo Review — Casino Royale 40th Anniversary DVD
October 27, 2008 || Category: DVD Reviews || Tags: 007 || 2 Comments
Reviewed by: Joe Russo (Film Critic & SoSF Contributor)
Actors: Peter Sellers, David Niven, Orson Welles, Ursula Andress, Woody Allen, William Holden and Joanna Pettet
Directors: Val Guest, Ken Hughes, John Huston, Joseph McGrath, Robert Parrish and Richard Talmadge
Number of discs: 1
Rating: NOT RATED
Studio: MGM
Original Film Release Date: April 28, 1967
DVD Release Date: October 21, 2008
DVD Run [...]
Russo Review — “The James Bond Blu-ray Collection”
October 20, 2008 || Category: DVD Reviews || Tags: 007 || Leave a Comment
Reviewed by: Joe Russo (Film Critic & SoSF Contributor)
Actors: Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Pierce Brosnan
Format: Box set
Number of discs: 6
Rating: PG
DVD Release Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Russo Rating = 9/10
Purchase and save 38% off SRP HERE.
“An impressive collection of Bond films, certainly designed to capitalize on the new direction that Casino Royale and Quantum [...]
Bond Takes Advantage of Potter Move
August 22, 2008 || Category: Film News || Tags: 007 || Leave a Comment
The next big James Bond flick starring Daniel Craig as agent 007 saw an opportunity once “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” opted to move their premiere to a later date. Like any good secret agent, the deft spy has moved “Quantum of Solace” to debut a week later than originally scheduled to take [...]
Bond Film for Faulks Novel Gets a Pass
August 20, 2008 || Category: Book News || Tags: 007 || 3 Comments
If Eon Productions, the Bond franchise holder, has their way, then there will be no film coming out anytime soon based on the Sebastian Faulks novel titled “Devil May Care.” The company has passed on the idea of turning his work into a movie even though the fan intensity level is back up for [...]
Quantum of Solace trailer goes on-line
June 30, 2008 || Category: Film News || Tags: 007, Trailers || 3 Comments
A teaser trailer for the next installment in the James Bond franchise, Quantum of Solace, has hit the Internet from MGM and Columbia Pictures.
Starring Daniel Craig in his second out as Ian Fleming’s legendary British spy, Solace is reported to pick up where the previous Bond film, Casino Royale ended.
Solace will open in theaters [...]
Look out! Classic Bond is coming to Blu-ray
This week MGM and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment announced that they will be releasing six classic James Bond films on Blu-ray starting this fall — October 21. Those chosen for the first entry into the hi-def world will be the first Connery/Bond flick “Dr. [...]
Bond 22 Gets Official Movie Title
January 24, 2008 || Category: Film News || Tags: 007 || 2 Comments
Daniel Craig returns as agent 007 James Bond for the next film about the legendary spy. This next outing for 007 is the 22nd film in the franchise and was temporarily titled Bond 22. However, Pinewood Studios in London announced today that the film’s official title will be “Quantum of Solace.”
With 22 [...]
Her Majesty’s Postal Service & Royal Mail has issued a new set of commemorative stamps showcasing Ian Fleming’s most famous spy in the world, Agent 007 — James Bond.
Today (Tuesday, January 8, 2008) six new stamps portraying Sean Connery’s roles as the popular British spy from “Dr. No,” “Goldfinger,” “Diamonds Are Forever” [...]
James Bond Ultimate Collector’s Set
November 6, 2007 || Category: On DVD || Tags: 007 || Leave a Comment
The James Bond Ultimate Collector’s Set (1989), starring: Sean Connery and George Lazenby, is now available on DVD beginning today, November 6th, 2007.
The ‘James Bond Ultimate Collector’s Set’ includes all the fast-paced adventures, high-performance sports cars, futuristic gadgets, narrow escapes, explosive battles and the sexy, bold and brazen Bond girls, along with hours of extras, [...]
007 Returns To Bookshelves For Fleming’s 100th Birthday
July 12, 2007 || Category: From Page To Screen || Tags: 007 || 3 Comments
To celebrate the centennial of the late author’s birth the Ian Fleming estate has given permission to British writer Sebastian Faulk to pen a new James Bond novel for bookshelves sometime in 2008. Fleming died in 1964, never fully realizing the power and scope his famous spy would hold over the world in his [...]
Marc Forster of “Finding Neverland” and “Stranger Than Fiction” fame will sit in the center seat for the 22nd James Bond film.
Daniel Craig will return as Bond for this one.
Forster will get to work soon with writer Paul Haggis. They both will hammer out a final script from the submitted draft from screenwriters Neil [...]
Barry Nelson Remembered
April 16, 2007 || Category: Human Interest || Tags: 007, Obituary || 1 Comment
Written by: Samuel K. Sloan (SoSF Managing News Director)
I have a trivia question for you. Who was the very first actor to ever have an on-screen portrayal of super-spy James Bond? If you said David Niven, who starred in the 1967 satiric Bond farce “Casino Royale,” or Sean Connery who first appeared as [...]
Written by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF Staff Journalist)
The original (and still the best) 007, Sean Connery age 76, hinted he may be interested in returning to the franchise that made him a star — if the price is right.
“It would have to be something really considerable to bring me back. It would have to [...]
Bond Fans Vocal In Their Support For Brosnan
February 22, 2006 || Category: Film News || Tags: 007 || 4 Comments
Submitted by: Kyle Nin
James Bond fans worldwide have banded together and formed a website to protest Barbara Broccoli’s decision to drop Pierce Brosnan as Agent 007 for the fair-haired Brit Daniel Craig.
The group called “CraigNotBond” hold firmly to the belief that Brosnan was just reaching his stride and was at the height of his popularity [...]
Source: MTV
Submitted by: Kyle Nin
Blonde and Bond
Daniel Craig is excited and ready to pursue the next generation of James Bond. He told MTV that in the new Bond flick ‘Casino Royale,’ unlike the original comedy version of the 1960’s, this feature will have all the right elements that make it a true Bond movie. [...]
Source: Super Scifi
Oscar winner Charlize Theron (Aeon Flux) has turned down the female lead in the upcoming James Bond movie, Casino Royale, opposite new 007 Daniel Craig, the British tabloid Sun newspaper reported.
Craig can also soon be seen in Spielberg’s much anticipated “Munich.”
Connery Is Back as 007, James Bond
November 10, 2005 || Category: Game Reviews || Tags: 007 || Leave a Comment
Source: CNN Technology
Written by: Sid Lipsey
Connery brings Bond back to the U.S.S.R.
Sean Connery, the original suave British spy in the popular James Bond films, is once again playing 007 in Electronic Arts’ video game remake of the 1963 Bond movie, “From Russia With Love.”
“[Connery] was receptive to it right from the beginning,” says EA’s “From [...]
Source: Moviehole
Pierce Brosnan’s days as chesty MI6 agent James Bond are over, “Casino Royale” director Martin Campbell confirms.
Though rumours were kicking about that the sacked 007 would be asked back for the new film, mainly because they couldn’t find a fitting proxy, the film’s director says otherwise.
Campbell, who directed Brosnan in “Goldeneye” (1995), [...]
Written by: Uncle Sam
Slice of Sci-Fi has learned that Pierce Brosnan is still in serious contention for keeping his James Bond tuxedo in the next 007 installment, “Casino Royale.” Although hyped by some studio execs as “too old” for the role, Sony Pictures is reportedly still favoring Brosnan as their man for the job.
Supposedly, [...]
Bond Pick Closer to UK Home?
September 26, 2005 || Category: Film News || Tags: 007 || Leave a Comment
Source: The Sun
Submitted by: Kyle Nin
British tabloid The Sun is reporting that Daniel Craig and Henry Cavill both arrived at Pinewood Studios to meet with the producers of Casino Royale. The rumor has it that both actors were scheduled on the same day to do screen tests for the lead role of Bond, James [...]
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