Articles tagged with ‘MGM’
Bond is Back!
Posted on January 11th, 2011 at 2:01 pm by
James Bond fans rejoice! One of the longest running film franchises in history will continue! MGM has set an official release date of November 9th, 2012 for a new James Bond movie, as first reported by Deadline Hollywood.
Perhaps the best part of the news is that actor Daniel Craig will once again carry the license to kill. As SBGLA previously reported, Kate Winslet’s ex, Sam Mendes, will direct the film. The screenplay for the 23rd Bond movie has reportedly already been written, but the plot is being kept confidential.
Principal production of the action flick is scheduled to commence toward the end of 2011. In light of MGM’s restructuring after its merger with Spyglass Entertainment, the film does not yet have a distributor. It looks as though four Hollywood studios, Fox, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., and Sony will enter into a bidding war for the distribution rights.
This will possibly be Craig’s final outing as 007 so hopefully it will be a memorable film. It sounds like it is time for Q to get all of his best gadgets ready to go!
Kate Moves Her Kids to London to be with Sam Mendes and James Bond!
Posted on December 3rd, 2010 at 2:59 pm by
Kate Winslet is moving her son and daughter from New York City to live in London to be closer to James Bond… the next James Bond movie that is. The Brit actress recently revealed that her ex-hubby Sam Mendes is still attached to direct the 23rd Bond film and that she wants him to be able to spend time with her kids while he works on the spy flick, as reported by the Daily Mail Newspaper.
Winslet said: “Sam is doing the next Bond film, all being well, and we’ll all be in England if that happens. It’s such a massive commitment for him and it’s not fair for him to commute backwards and forwards to New York from London. It would be impossible. The children will be there with me.”
The Academy Award winning actress, who was directed by Mendes in the film Revolutionary Road, added that she and Mendes remain close friends, but that there are no plans for her to appear in character alongside 007. Other than the intended release date of November of 2012, Winslet’s disclosure is the first fairly legitimate news to surface about the next Bond flick since MGM, the distributer of the Bond franchise, finally merged with Spyglass Entertainment earlier this year.
With the early stages of development of the untitled movie rumored to be underway, it appears that filming is likely to begin toward the end of next year at Pinewood film studios, which would allow production to wrap in time for the intended release date. Although Daniel Craig has said he is planning on portraying James Bond again, nothing has been confirmed.
Kate moving her family across an ocean to be with Sam is an impressive show of loyalty. Maybe the two artists will rekindle their love for each other after all. Either way, I think Sam should use his apparent influential friendship with Kate to convince her to reconsider the idea of being a Bond girl. Sam probably knows better than anyone that Kate could bring the perfect mix of glamour, class, and dramatic angst to the cut-throat world of James Bond. It would be the most titanic Bond film ever!
James Bond has a Date with The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo!
Posted on July 26th, 2010 at 5:59 pm by
Although we will not be seeing Daniel Craig as James Bond again anytime soon, due to MGM’s bankruptcy, Craig fans will still be able to get their dose of the British actor in the upcoming Hollywood remake of the popular Swedish film, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, as first reported by Deadline New York. Craig is rumored to have beaten out George Clooney, Johnny Depp, and Brad Pitt for the lead role.
Originally a novel by late Swedish author and journalist Stieg Larsson titled Män som hatar kvinnor (which literally translates to “Men Who Hate Women”), the story follows a middle-aged journalist, Mikael Blomkvist (Craig), as he investigates the mysterious disappearance of a girl who went missing forty years earlier at the age of 
sixteen. The story is the first of three that make up what is called The Millenium Trilogy. The next two books in the series are titled respectively The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets’ Nest.
If Sony Pictures Entertainment goes forward with adapting all three Millenium books into films, Craig will be the first Bond actor to have been featured as the lead character in two separate movie franchises. The rest of the cast of the American version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo has not been announced yet, but the film has been slated for release on December 21, 2011.
Congratulations to Mr. Craig for winning the highly coveted role!
New James Bond Film Officially Cancelled!
Posted on July 5th, 2010 at 7:38 am by
Oh noooo! This is such disappointing news for us James Bond fans. Movie studio MGM has confirmed that production of the twenty-third bond film has been completely terminated. Back in April, producers Michael Wilson and Barbara Broccoli announced that development of the next installment of the celebrated spy movie franchise had been put on hold “indefinitely” due to the financial instability of MGM, the distributor and major stakeholder of the Bond property. With this announcement, the film’s development has gone from being on hold to full stop.
To date, MGM is still bankrupt and seeking a buyer for the studio and/or its assets, such as James Bond. The studio has been given until July fourteenth by its lenders to work out a plan of action with potential buyers. The three major entities to emerge as the most likely to purchase MGM are Spyglass Entertainment, Summit Entertainment, and Lionsgate Entertainment.
Unfortunately, this news means it will likely be several years before we see a new Bond picture released in theaters. EON Productions, which produces the Bond films, has stated: “We do not know when development will resume and cannot comment further at this stage.” Daniel Craig, the most recent actor to play 007, has not released a statement about the cancelation. In light of the fact that he is under contract for at least two more films, Craig is probably not thrilled about the news.
I’m sad to say that it looks like we have no choice other than to simply live and let die… for now.
