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Bond News Of The Day Thread -Resurrected Edition!


This may not be news in the strictest sense, however follow the link for a picture of a paper running the announcement of Ian's death in 1964.

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James Bond winner makes evening a success

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The Hunts Post competition winner Danny Conway was the star of a James Bond-themed charity night on Saturday at Abbots Ritpon village hall.

The Hunts Post launched an appeal for a replacement Bond after the original person due to play the British secret agent backed out at the last minute.

Mr Conway successfully applied for the role. The Brampton man, who bears a striking resemblance to Sean Connery, entertained guests by posing with them and a bevy of Bond girls in front of an Aston Martin.

Huntingdon and District Round Table secretary Thomas Birch, who helped to organise the event said: “It went really well. Though the final figure on how much was raised is yet to be confirmed.”

nPictured are, from left to right, Mr Birch, Bond girl Katie Dyer, Mr Conway and Matthew Elliott, social secretary of Huntingdon and District Round Table.
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The James Clayton Column: Aliens vs. ‘Select Your Opponent’
Aliens vs. 007

James Bond went into outer space to save the world in Moonraker, but has never had to save the world from outer space. He's bested the KGB, SPECTRE, several deranged drug barons and a long list of sociopath megalomaniacs over the past fifty years, but how will he fare when confronted by cosmic terror from beyond the stars? Having warmed up on Cowboys & Aliens, Daniel Craig will once more come back to the 007 role, ready to accept his toughest mission yet. He will be shaken. He will be stirred. He will be forced to get down and dirty in the back of an Aston Martin with a celestial cephalopod that wants to suck his face off.
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Goldeneye wrote:http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/894894/ ... onent.html
The James Clayton Column: Aliens vs. ‘Select Your Opponent’
Aliens vs. 007

James Bond went into outer space to save the world in Moonraker, but has never had to save the world from outer space. He's bested the KGB, SPECTRE, several deranged drug barons and a long list of sociopath megalomaniacs over the past fifty years, but how will he fare when confronted by cosmic terror from beyond the stars? Having warmed up on Cowboys & Aliens, Daniel Craig will once more come back to the 007 role, ready to accept his toughest mission yet. He will be shaken. He will be stirred. He will be forced to get down and dirty in the back of an Aston Martin with a celestial cephalopod that wants to suck his face off.
Cowboys VS Aliens. Thanks but no thanks. My money's all on Potter no matter what.

As for Bond 23, screw that crap and who care about Bond anyway. He's dead.
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FormerBondFan wrote:
Goldeneye wrote:http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/894894/ ... onent.html
The James Clayton Column: Aliens vs. ‘Select Your Opponent’
Aliens vs. 007

James Bond went into outer space to save the world in Moonraker, but has never had to save the world from outer space. He's bested the KGB, SPECTRE, several deranged drug barons and a long list of sociopath megalomaniacs over the past fifty years, but how will he fare when confronted by cosmic terror from beyond the stars? Having warmed up on Cowboys & Aliens, Daniel Craig will once more come back to the 007 role, ready to accept his toughest mission yet. He will be shaken. He will be stirred. He will be forced to get down and dirty in the back of an Aston Martin with a celestial cephalopod that wants to suck his face off.
Cowboys VS Aliens. Thanks but no thanks. My money's all on Potter no matter what.

As for Bond 23, screw that crap and who care about Bond anyway. He's dead.
It is funny.Bond 23 Craig vs the face hugger.
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Bond vs. the facehugger..pretty obvious who's going to win that one... the face hugger! How about Cowboys and Ailens Vs. Predator? :lol:
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James Bond creator Ian Fleming is born today in 1908

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Welcome to Daily TWiP, your daily dose of all the holidays and history we couldn’t cram into The Week in Preview.

Does the name “Ian Fleming” ring a bell? How about if we say it this way? “Fleming. Ian Fleming.” That’s right - today we celebrate the birth anniversary of the British journalist and novelist who created the James Bond series. He was born Ian Lancaster Fleming in Mayfair, London, England, today (May 28th) in 1908.

During World War II, Fleming was recruited as a personal assistant to the director of naval intelligence of the Royal Navy. His intelligence work there provided much of the background for the James Bond novels, the first of which was “Casino Royale,” published in 1953. Sales of the novels didn’t take off in the U.S. until President John F. Kennedy listed “From Russia With Love” as one of his favorite books.

Fleming’s famous spy was a composite of several people, including naval officer Patrick Dalzel-Job and Fleming’s older brother, Peter, but he was named after the ornithologist James Bond, who let Fleming use his family’s Jamaica estate as a writing retreat.

When the books began to be adapted into films, Fleming put in a good word for his cousin, actor Christopher Lee (whose birthday was yesterday, by the way) for the roles of Dr. No or James Bond. He was passed over in favor of Joseph Wiseman and Sean Connery, respectively, but was later picked to play the titular role in “The Man with the Golden Gun.”

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Battlefield 3 vs MW3 is “Bourne vs Bond”, says EA boss

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The differences between Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3 are like “Roger Moore’s James Bond versus Jason Bourne”, says EA President Frank Gibeau, and the DICE game’s strengths lay in the fact that “it’s not just a rail shooter” – and that that will be what “sets it apart” from MW3.

“With Call of Duty you can see the entire Russian navy showing up with more warships than they have in reality,” Gibeau said in an interview with VentureBeat, “One way to think about it is just like Roger Moore’s James Bond versus Jason Bourne in the spy realm.”

He continued: “You can have spectacular, killer, exciting visceral moments. Battlefield has that. But where Battlefield has always come from is its authenticity at depicting big battles.”

He highlighted the tank level demonstrated at E3 2011 as an example of the technological edge the Frostbite 2 engine gives Battlefield 3 in depicting huge battle scenes: “[It] allows us to do a lot of things differently like that tank level. You can drive the tank anywhere on the map. It’s a huge open place and it’s not just a rail shooter where you can only go in one direction. You can drive the tank left. You can drive the tank back. You can have a full tank battle that way.”

Gibeau concluded: “that fidelity, that authenticity of feeling like you are in the Paris Metro and there are soldiers approaching you with flash lights on their guns. We really believe that visceral realistic feeling is what sets us apart from them.”

This isn’t all Gibeau has had to say on Activision’s shooter recently: he’s also criticised the Call of Duty Elite subscription charges.

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When it comes to his movie set, filmmaker Martin Campbell is a talented tyrant in search of silence. “It isn’t pretty when a cellphone rings,” says Daniel Craig, who played James Bond for Campbell in “Casino Royale.” “People leave puddles when Martin comes after them.” So you can imagine the angst last summer when a shrill beeping interrupted work on “Green Lantern,” the Warner Bros. project that arrives in theaters this week as the most expensive superhero film in a summer packed with them.

“Not good,” star Ryan Reynolds muttered as the bleating fire alarm filled the New Orleans wood frame house that had been rented for an emotional family scene. The culprit, it turned out, was the mist being pumped into the home to lend a suffused, sentimental burnish to the footage, and crew members scrambled up the cherry wood staircase to find the off button even as Campbell turned three shades of purple. Work got underway once again but then another commotion: A fire truck had arrived at the curb and neighbors were beginning to cluster. The affable Reynolds shrugged with a don’t-look-at-me expression. “You know,” the star said, “I’m not actually a superhero.”

It feels like alarms have been going off for months on the $200-million “Green Lantern” — the studio and filmmakers were spooked by the early blogger view that the movie looked more cartoonish than cosmic — but Warner is banking on the hope that Reynolds will turn out to be the hero who saves the day. His biggest challenge will be getting past early reviews that seem to range from tepid to savage.
Peter Sarsgaard as Hector Hammond in "Green Lantern." (Warner Bros.)

Peter Sarsgaard as Hector Hammond in "Green Lantern." (Warner Bros.)

The 34-year-old Canadian plays a reckless test pilot named Hal Jordan who finds himself pulled into a strange off-planet adventure when he is reluctantly drafted into an interstellar peacekeeping force called the Green Lantern Corps, a knighthood that boasts aliens of every shape and size and outfits them with high-tech rings that are so wondrous they seem magical to human eyes.

Jordan has been a Chuck Yeager figure in the pages of the Warner-owned DC Comics since the Eisenhower administration, but he is just now getting a feature-film opportunity as the studio finally looks beyond Gotham City and Metropolis for a major superhero franchise.

The Warner goal is to match the varied and vibrant movies coming out of Marvel Studios (two “Iron Man” films, “The Incredible Hulk,” “Thor” and next month’s “Captain America: The First Avenger”) and go beyond the Batman and Superman brands that at this point have combined for more than a dozen feature films.

To lead the way, the studio and producer Donald De Line (“The Italian Job,” “Yogi Bear”) turned to Campbell, who reenergized the 007 franchise and also showed a deftness with crowd-pleasing masked-man adventures. His two Zorro films combined for more than $390 million in worldwide box office with a mix of genre peril and flirty wit. That same combination is the key to “Lantern,” according to Reynolds.
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Green Lantern, played by Ryan Reynolds, and Sinestro, played by Mark Strong, speak to a Guardian of the Green Lantern Corps. (Warner Bros. Pictures)

“The challenge from Day 1 was to find the right tone, that’s the first conversation, and we felt it should be a movie that is fun and an adventure and is heroic,” Reynolds said in Louisiana, the tax-credit home of the production but not a locale that appears on screen or in the script. “You think about the heroes in movies like ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ or ‘Top Gun’ in a way, that’s what we were looking for here. I’ve said that he’s a guy who knows how to throw a punch and kiss a girl and tell a joke. He deals with dark things, but it’s not a dark film.”

Dark is in these days — “The Dark Knight Rises” (a sequel to “The Dark Knight”) and “Dark Shadows” are filming in the U.K. right now and Ron Howard is ramping up an adaptation of “The Dark Tower.” The green glow and warm wink of the “Lantern” project have made it a cause of concern for the Comic-Con crowd that loves lone-wolf antiheroes such as Batman, Wolverine and Jack Sparrow.

An early trailer that emphasized romantic comedy instead of adrenaline adventure stirred an online backlash, but in April the filmmakers, Reynolds and costar Blake Lively made a course correction with a presentation at Wonder Con in San Francisco, where thousands of fans cheered new footage that showed a ferocious space battle.

Lively was still jittery amid the applause. “It’s intimidating,” she told a reporter backstage, “because it’s a movie that has so much money and so many stakes — so many people are so invested in it.”
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Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan in Warner Bros.'"Green Lantern." (Warner Bros.)

The competition is intense too. There are four big superhero movies this summer (and a fifth upcoming film, “Cowboys & Aliens,” that is based on a comic book) and, in tone and approach, “Green Lantern” appears to be the most traditional; Matthew Vaughn’s “X-Men: First Class” for instance, is nightclub-cool with its retro setting and “groovy mutations,” but “Lantern” is more in the mode of the first “Spider-Man” film with its bright colors, wisecracking hero and mad-genius villains that are played over-the-top.

“I think this is the one you can take the kids to,” Reynolds said last week in a separate interview in Los Angeles. “I knew that when I saw [the giant alien character] Kilowog for the first time. That’s when I said, ‘Oh, kids will love this guy, that’s what this is.’”

The filmmaking was an intense exercise in visual effects even by the standards of this era of ubiquitous CG-moviemaking. Like last year’s “Tron: Legacy,” the film strives for a pulsing-light vision of costume and contour; the muscular Reynolds is in essence wearing a superhero skin-suit that was “painted” on him in post-production.
Temuera Morrison as Abin Sur in "Green Lantern." (Warner Bros.)

Temuera Morrison as Abin Sur in "Green Lantern." (Warner Bros.)

But there’s a thin line between movie magic and video-game flatness these days and Warner Bros. decided just two months ago to throw another $9 million into the visual effects budget to improve the digital sculpting and final-stage polish work. And with good reason. Last year, in New Orleans, costar Mark Strong — who plays the imperious alien Sinestro — said “Green Lantern” would be judged against the best efforts in a sector that is now leaping forward constantly.

“It was ‘Lord of the Rings’ that gave us the armies and just the epic accomplishment of that and then, for me, watching the aliens in ‘District 9,’ the emotion of them and how they were fit into our world, that was just amazing,” Strong said as he sipped water during a break from his fight and flight training. “And ‘Avatar,’ of course, was just off the scale, really, and changed the conversation.

“This strand of movies just lends themselves to the epic and the fantastic and that’s where we want to be,” Strong continued. “This is a story with hundreds and hundreds of aliens. This is a big canvas and that is a challenge but it is also an amazing opportunity.”
Tim Robbins as Hammond, Angela Bassett as Doctor Waller and Peter Sarsgaard as Hector Hammond in "Green Lantern." (Warner Bros. Pictures)

Tim Robbins as Hammond, Angela Bassett as Doctor Waller and Peter Sarsgaard as Hector Hammond in "Green Lantern." (Warner Bros. Pictures)

For director Campbell, a New Zealand native raised in England, the film was a chance to “make a superhero film that is up there — out in space, on different planets, in the cosmic — as opposed to down here, which we’ve seen again and again.”

That’s true, the membership of the Green Lantern Corps is like a Knights of the Round Table mashed-up with the alien cantina scene in “Star Wars” and, if this film clicks with audiences, the plan is for the franchise to hopscotch throughout the universe the way Spider-Man swings through the five boroughs of New York. “There’s a vast universe to explore and this mythology is as rich as any that’s been put on the screen in these other frachises,” De Line said. In the comic books, other Earthlings have worn the ring, among them the stern John Stewart and crass Guy Gardner, and Greg Berlanti, also a producer on the film and one of the screenwriters, has even pitched a nine-film series that would approach the Green Lantern Corps as a Jedi-level story tapestry.

The character will need to win over casual moviegoers first, who will have to accept the basic conceit of the film — that the glowing ring of Hal Jordan can make anything he imagines take shape, whether it’s a giant green fist, a giant green brick wall or a green jet fighter.

“It’s all about will power, what he sees in his mind he can make real with his ring,” Reynolds explained on the hot, difficult day last year in the Big Easy. A bit later, after all the imaginary fires on the set were out, Reynolds sat down to talk about the future. If will power alone could make a box office hit, “Lantern” would have already been on its way to days of green. “This is the movie the fans want to see,” Reynolds said. “We are going to deliver.”

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Classically Trained: 'Bond' themes featured by Pacific Symph

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Call him Davis. Carl Davis.

The American conductor-composer this week will be leading the Pacific Symphony in its last pops concert series of the season, "The Music of Bond. James Bond."

Dubbed "a license to thrill," the 8 p.m. concerts Thursday through Saturday by the Costa Mesa-based orchestra are in the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall.

Images from the famed "Bond" film series will be projected during the concert, the hall decorated "Casino Royale"-style, vintage Aston Martins parked outside and martinis served shaken — not stirred.

British vocalist Mary Carewe sings the hits from films including "Goldfinger," "From Russia with Love" and "Live and Let Die."

She has toured the world with Davis and "made these iconic James Bond themes her own," according to symphony officials.

"The films have left a legacy of female artists, so I was looking around for someone who could take on the lot in her own way while doing the songs a good service," Davis said in a release, "and Mary Carewe has been fantastic. We've been working together for about 10 years, and she's got a very polished act now."

Other notable projects by Davis, who was born in New York but now lives in London, are his extensive work for making silent films not so silent anymore. His efforts, involving writing new material or restoring the original score, include work on 1926 version of "Ben-Hur," Buster Keaton's "The General" (1926) and Charlie Chaplin's "City Lights" (1931).

For "Bond," Davis noted how the films spanning from 1962 to the present day "cover a big scope of popular culture's development in musical style."

"So the first films have rather crooning, ballad-type songs … (then) after the rock and roll came rhythm and blues," he said in a release. "The films have always been on the cutting edge of popular music in their time, so the story is very interesting to follow."

Tickets start at $25. For more information, call (714) 755-5799 or visit http://www.pacificsymphony.org.

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Free concerts in the park will be happening again this summer throughout southern Orange County.

Symphony in the Cities is now in its seventh year and features a free performance by the Pacific Symphony and an interactive musical center for children.

The concerts are on the following dates: July 30 at the Village Green of Oso Viejo Park, 24932 Veterans Way, Mission Viejo; July 31 at Woodbridge Community Park, 20 Lake Road, Irvine; and Aug. 14 at Pittsford Park, 21701 Pittsford Drive, Lake Forest.

All three concerts start at 7 p.m., with various activities beginning at various hours beforehand. They're nicely geared for families — conductor Carl St. Clair even leads a "conducting" session for the kids that's complete with colored straws — so everyone can enjoy being together outside. Just don't forget to bring the chairs and blankets.

BRADLEY ZINT is a copy editor for the Daily Pilot and a classically trained musician. E-mail him story ideas at bradley.zint@latimes.com.
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Mark Wright: 'I can be the next James Bond' Essex star think

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In some ways Mark Wright has many of James Bond's traits - well, mainly his love of women - but he thinks he could go the whole hog and actually BE the next version of the 007 superspy.
Mark Wright is riding high on TV fame off the back of The Only Way Is Essex, but he reportedly thinks his future lies in movies.

And he plans to bag one of the biggest roles of all - James Bond.

Since splitting from his agent Dave Read, Mark has avoided the usual reality star route of calenders and PA's, and instead he's focusing on Hollywood.

Pals of Mark are not quit convinced.

One told The Daily Star: “People have been telling Mark he is the real star of the show and needs to break away and be his own man.

“He’s had agents tell him he could be the next James Bond and he actually believes it.

"But we don’t think Daniel Craig will have any sleepless nights.

“Mark was worried he was being turned into a playboy like Calum Best.”

He kind of already is.

James Bond, though? Well, he'd have to sort out his accent for a start!
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Rosie Whiteley wants to star in a Bond movie

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Model-actress Rosie Huntington Whiteley wants to star in the iconic James Bond movies, saying her role in the upcoming debut film Transformers: Dark of the Moon might help her in this direction.
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The 25-year-old, who debuts by replacing sultry actress Megan Fox in the third installment of the hit franchise, admits having ambitions to appear in the Bond franchise, which currently stars Daniel Craig as the suave spy, reported Contactmusic.

"I've had some interest from various directors. I thought that if I did something it would be some walk-on part not a proper, big movie like Transformers. I had the time of my life making this movie.

And I'd always dreamed that I might get the chance to be a Bond girl," she said.
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Blowfeld wrote:Model-actress Rosie Huntington Whiteley wants to star in the iconic James Bond movies
Well, that rules her out then. EON only hires people who hate Bond and want to destroy the franchise.
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Ways with Words: 'I would rather have been a Bond girl', says Dame Stella Rimington
She was famously the inspiration for Dame Judi Dench’s no-nonsense M in the James Bond films.
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Blowfeld wrote:Model-actress Rosie Huntington Whiteley wants to star in the iconic James Bond movies
Well, that rules her out then. EON only hires people who hate Bond and want to destroy the franchise.
When I wrote that, I didn't know she was dating Jason Statham. She'd probably want him as Bond. Ugh. He makes Daniel Craig look like Roger Moore in the charm department.
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Jason Statham as Bond? Just.....no.(wish we had a vomiting smiley..that's pretty much how I feel.)
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He would be very bad as Bond outside his own mind I don't think anybody took it seriously
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I would like to see him as a Baddie, we've never had an Eastend villian in a Bond. :D
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Jason Statham would make a much better Bond than Craig, but he is not really suited for Bond.

I do enjoy Statham's tongue on cheek action roles.
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Capt. Sir Dominic Flandry wrote:Jason Statham would make a much better Bond than Craig, but he is not really suited for Bond.
And what about Fat Seagal or bondnotblonde's favorite Jerry Sadowitz? Would they be any better than DC? :lol:
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