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Napoleon Solo wrote:This line in the MI6 story caught my eye:

//Studio executives have been alluding to a return to the two-year cycle to produce the 007 adventures, which would peg Bond 24 as a late 2014 release.
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They didn't allude to anything. They flat-out announced it at a gathering of theater chain executives. (MI6 ran a story about it at the time.)

Then, Barbara Broccoli and Daniel Craig commented. BB had her usual "northing's been announced" comment while Craig said the Sony executive got ahead of himself.
They also have the number of movies in Danno's contract wrong.

MGM and Sony need Bond to be viewed as productive/in production, for the studios well being they need this fiction to be in someway credible. The key question of who stars in the movies (since Craig can be dismissed after Skyfall) comes down to money and ease, will it be easier to make it with Craig or not, followed by does it make financial sense.

Thing about Craig is he is a prickly pear -a very difficult "talent" to handle and he goes off on sour notes and sulks about doing PR. He's not a big enough talent to demand the attention required to keep him moving forward. He had better be on his game promoting this movie, be affable and charming every stop. Almost impossible for him.

He also is hosting SNL last I heard, :twisted: Big step for him and not what he is used to at all, it's a very arduous scheduled on a demanding production set. I don't think he'll have the chops to pull it off. He is scheduled for 3 days after the first presidential debates, for the love god don't let Danny boy show up in black face. :twisted:
For the sake of the frachise Danny needs to take it easy on being involved in any political controversy / content . With his lack of ability at these kinds of productions I'd imagine he setting back stage on his duff most of the show sweating his next scene while letting the main cast take on the political satire they have to do during the election season.

SNL with Babs Boy Lollipop will be interesting if only because it is so far out of his comfort zone, plenty of better actors have gone there and bombed. Of course he could just get a cold -I suppose Alec Baldwin steps in.
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DC on SNL? Eee gads no :!: :roll: FBF, release the Kraken :!:
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bjmdds wrote:DC on SNL? Eee gads no :!: :roll: FBF, release the Kraken :!:
Hopefully, he'll be so dire that it will actually hurt SF's box office.
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bjmdds wrote:DC on SNL? Eee gads no :!: :roll: FBF, release the Kraken :!:
Hopefully, he'll be so dire that it will actually hurt SF's box office.
I can guess what Daniel Craig will be like on SNL - probably the same as this person if he appeared on it:

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It could be Adele after all according to this story, though bear in mind that it comes from The Sun, which has a long history of publishing bogus Bond stories.
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Everyone expects it to be her if its not I think there will be some disappointment.

If they chose somebody else it might be more interesting Adele is everywhere I'm so tired of hearing her all the time. A new song that wasn't man hating might be a good change of pace.
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It's her. No big secret. It will quickly be hyped, then fall off as fast as weekend 2 for Bond 23 in the USA. FBF should have wrapped the theme with Busta Rhymes :!: Eon will pay off the Academy to nominate it for best song as well. It won't matter FBF. Do not get hysterical if it is. It's Hollywood politics.
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Has anyone seen the new Bond 50th Anniversary Repackage] blu-ray covers? Amazon.com has them up. You'd have to do a search for 50th Anniversary Repackage linky
IMO the Connery and Moore covers looks pretty classic, Dalton and Brosnan don't looks as good.
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Omega wrote:Has anyone seen the new Bond 50th Anniversary Repackage] blu-ray covers? Amazon.com has them up. You'd have to do a search for 50th Anniversary Repackage linky
IMO the Connery and Moore covers looks pretty classic, Dalton and Brosnan don't looks as good.
The new covers are okay, but look a little modern for my taste. Personally, I think it would have been cool to have illustrated cover art. After all, it is the 50th anniversary, so they should do something special.
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I think the best were the SE DVDs 90s to 2002
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Dr. No wrote:I think the best were the SE DVDs 90s to 2002
I like the booklets that came with the Special Edition DVDs. I think the Ultimate Edition DVD covers aren't too bad looking either.
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The booklets were cool. Although some like the YOLT SE had Bond holding a glock on the cover. I can't think of the last movie we got with a booklet
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Like the repackaged Blu Rays-they're pretty reasonable as well-under $20 a pop-you could kind of pick and choose the ones you wanted and not break the bank. :up:
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I got the 11 movies out now for $40 shipped on ebay :yay: . Poor dude listed them wrong maybe but the new set has people dumping their old sets a lot of copies out there.
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There's a big piece about Bond in today's Times. I saw it at my local library, and so don't have a copy in front of me, but there was an interesting quote from Honor Blackman in there about how Daniel Craig is a very good actor, but not really Bond, and that the way he plays the character is not how Ian Fleming wrote him.
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Which will be more collectable? the 11 movie as the were on blu-ray, content, disc art, cover art?
Of the new 50th set assuming it is only produced for one year?

The original 11 might have unique content that is removed from the new 50th set, the new 50th set has new menus and artwork, but the content of those disc will be re-release in the new single releases,,,,,,,.. :?:
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Kristatos wrote:There's a big piece about Bond in today's Times. I saw it at my local library, and so don't have a copy in front of me, but there was an interesting quote from Honor Blackman in there about how Daniel Craig is a very good actor, but not really Bond, and that the way he plays the character is not how Ian Fleming wrote him.
I think she said the same sentiments not too long ago. Glad she is sticking to her guns
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bjmdds wrote:Four weeks to the UK release........no Connery...........no advanced heightened frenzy............no big deal.......... :down:
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VUDU (digital movie distribution) has the Bond collection up today for purchase. HDX copies are available, HDX for those who don't know is more or less equivalent picture to Blu-ray. $13.99 each for HDX.

Not a great deal if you know your way around a burner , the reason I'm saying something about it there was one interesting this about their collection, it has QOS but no CR, it also includes NSNA.
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Skyfall has been rated PG-13 by the MPAA for "intense violent sequences throughout, some sexuality, language and smoking". No surprises there.
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