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Russian media to get 20-minute sampler of `Quantum of Solace`, cast and crew press conference in Moscow
Quantum Of Solace - 11-10-08

According to a press release from Sony Picture PR assistant Julia Boykova, members of the Russian media will treated to a 20-minute preview of the upcoming 22nd James Bond film "Quantum of Solace" this week.

Director Marc Forster, producer Barbara Broccoli and cast members Daniel Craig (007), Olga Kurylenko (Camille) and Anatole Taubman (Elvis) will attend a press conference at the Ritz Carlton hotel in Moscow on Monday 13th October at 10:30am.

The screening of 20-minutes worth of footage will take place the day before, Saturday 12th October, at 18:15 in the 'October' cinema.

The press release notes that members of the media who attend the events will have to arrive early in order for their cameras and recording equipment to be collected for 'anti-piracy' reasons.

A full screening of the film will take place in Russia on 23rd October for accredited members of the press.

The film opens in the county on 6th November.

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Basildon regional premiere announced for `Quantum of Solace`
Event - 11-10-08

Empire Basildon is proud to host the Regional Charity Gala screening of the most anticipated film of the year all in aid of Cancer Research UK. Be one of the first to see this exciting new film on Thursday 30th October. Take your seats from 7pm onwards with the film beginning at 8pm.

Tickets are priced at £15.00 & £25.00.

The £15 Standard ticket gets you admittance to the film in an allocated standard seat as well as free entry and reception drink at the after show party at New York, New York* nightclub.

The £25 Premium ticket gets you admittance to the film in an allocated Premium seat, canapés reception; free soft drink and popcorn in the cinema, as well as free entry and reception drink in New York, New York* nightclub. If this is not enough on arrival you will welcomed into a sectioned of area with entertainment.

The cinema will also be selling raffle tickets on the night exclusively to the audience to win some extra special prizes.

* Please note admittance to New York, New York is for over 18 yrs old only.

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Marc Forster talks about his direction on `Quantum of Solace`
Quantum Of Solace - 12-10-08

The latest 007 movie Quantum of Solace is directed by an unlikely candidate Marc Forster, the man behind Monster’s Ball and The Kite Runner - reports Star Online

It was perhaps, to understate the case, a surprise that Marc Forster should direct a big budget action adventure like Quantum of Solace, the latest James Bond outing.

Many raised an eyebrow when it was announced that Forster - the director of such diverse films as Monster’s Ball, Finding Neverland and The Kite Runner - would take on the 22nd James Bond movie, but producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson were convinced that they had found the right man for the job.

Even so, Forster himself took a little convincing.

“My first reaction was that I didn’t want to do the movie. I wasn’t interested,” he says candidly. “I only did the meeting out of courtesy to the studio. I like Sony, and I’d worked with them before and eventually when I sat down with them I thought Barbara and Michael were very charming and interesting, and I felt like they were very director-driven.

“And I felt that, yes, there is this framework of the Bond world and one has to make the movie within that, but at the same time I felt like I could have the space to create my own Bond.”

And that’s exactly what Forster did.

Once on board, he revelled in the challenge of working with Daniel Craig, an actor he had admired for years, and creating a contemporary action thriller that not only honours the world’s longest running movie franchise, but drives it forward.

Forster felt that Craig’s acclaimed debut as Bond, in the smash hit Casino Royale, had taken the character to an interesting, new place.

“I thought Daniel brought a humanity and a vulnerability back to Bond,” he explains. “I felt that the psychological aspect was interesting. He was someone people could relate to; he wasn’t this remote, super-hero.

“And that I found really interesting and I felt if I could get a little more psychological and vulnerable with him and push the character a little further than they went in Casino Royale, then I could make a really interesting movie.”

Forster was born in Germany and raised in Switzerland. As a boy, he watched Bond movies on television, and later, sought them out at the cinema.

“I liked the early ones with Sean Connery. And then I saw a couple with Roger Moore and the one with George Lazenby, and then I saw one with Timothy Dalton and a couple of the ones that Pierce Brosnan did,” he recalls.

“I didn’t see every single one and I didn’t go back and watch them all because I always intended to create my own. I went back and watched my favourite ones just to give a little bit of homage here and there.”

Forster is also a fan of the action genre.

“The Bourne series is really well done, and they are really good movies. I thought the craftsmanship was excellent. I thought The Matrix, the first one, was very interesting too. And over the years there have been some very interesting action films - James Cameron is a very talented action director with Terminator 1 and 2 and Aliens. Those are all really good action films. So I think I was always very drawn to action pictures, in a sense, and that’s why I agreed ultimately to do one.”

Taking the helm of a mammoth production, which travelled to exotic locations all over the world - including Panama, Chile, Italy, Austria and the UK - for a gruelling six-month-long shoot was daunting but rewarding, he says.

“It was the longest shoot I’ve ever done, and we did a lot of six-day weeks, so it was tiring. But now it’s all done, I’m feeling great about the movie and in good spirits

“Actually, one of the reasons why I took it was because I wanted to see how an action film is made. It was a challenge but it was a lot of fun too. I think what I realised is that shooting action is not as difficult as writing action. The key to really good action is writing it. It has to be there on the page so you can figure it out. Because shooting action ultimately is executing what is on the page, and it has to be really detailed.”

Quantum of Solace starts immediately after Casino Royale finished - an hour later in real time. The woman he fell in love with had betrayed Bond - the murdered Vesper Lynd played by Eva Green - and he wants answers.

His quest ultimately leads him to Dominic Greene (played by Mathieu Amalric), the head of a shadowy organisation called Quantum, which is secretly trying to gain control of some of the developing world’s most precious natural resources.

Bond tries to stop Quantum but his boss, M, played by Dame Judi Dench, fears that he is out of control. Bond also discovers that he can trust no one - and that Quantum’s influence reaches far and wide, and that he now has enemies within the CIA and indeed the British government.

“Judi Dench is one of the greatest actresses living today,” says Forster.

“And I felt that she was always slightly underused in the other films. I felt like they didn’t give her a large enough part, and personally I could watch her read the phone book. So I wanted to make her part bigger and give her more scenes and have her interact with Bond more because she is the only woman Bond doesn’t see in a sexual context, and I find that really interesting.

Forster is also delighted with the cast recruited for Quantum of Solace - Mathieu Amalric, who was spectacular in the highly acclaimed The Diving Bell and The Butterfly, and relative newcomers Olga Kurylenko as Camille, and Gemma Arterton as Agent Fields.

“Mathieu Amalric is one of the most brilliant actors working today, and I wanted someone who had this very innocent, friendly and soft demeanour because you know the interesting thing about villains these days is that it’s not like it was during the Cold War, where there were clearly defined good guys and bad guys.

“Now the good guys and the bad guys are mixed up - there’s not someone who is just bad or just good. You know, Bond can be as bad as the bad guy can be good.

“The idea with casting Olga was to find someone who is a mirror image, a counterpart to Bond, who also has lost someone and understands what that feels like and is looking for someone who took the loved ones from her. And at the same time her character is someone who has the same emotional unavailability that Bond has. Because Bond is someone who obviously struggles with expressing his emotions, we wanted to find someone who was like that.

“We wanted someone who is very physical and strong and knows how to handle a gun. And Olga was just fantastic.

“And so was Gemma. She plays an MI6 agent stationed in Bolivia. Her Agent Fields is the opposite of Camille’s character. Her character feels more quirky and light and funny and vulnerable.

“The important thing about casting those two is that you see Bond reacting with both of those girls and you can see how he is in both of those situations.”

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Hi :D

You are not going to believe it, well neither can I!!! :x QofS does not start in New Zealand until 27 November!!!! Good God what is wrong with this country? How far behind can one be!!!! :lol:

You lovely ladies are going to make me envious as you get to see it soon!!! :cry: I'm very sad but hey good things come to those who wait!!! I bloody hope so!!! :lol: I will be expecting to read all about the movie and Daniel on this Forum, your opinions and favourite scenes, etc. :D

Ladies you will be my eyes and ears until 27 November. I think it's on later because it's to run into the Christmas movie season here in New Zealand. It's a summer blockbuster for us and schools are closing for Christmas Holidays which are anytime from mid-November to mid-December depending on what year/class you are in. I can understand why they are not screening QofS until then!!!!

I am so looking forward to it and at least I can count down the days now!!! Yippee!!! :lol: An early Christmas present for me!!!

Love Suexxx :D
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Bond girl Olga Kurylenko rises from humble Soviet childhood

Quantum Of Solace - 14-10-08

Olga Kurylenko, the model and actress who stars in the upcoming James Bond movie, began acting by playing Santa Claus' young wife in a school play in her Ukrainian hometown - reports the AP.

Teachers remember Kurylenko, the 28-year-old brunette who charms 007 in "Quantum of Solace," for the determination, drive and luck that turned her into a Bond Girl.

"She was such a talented girl," said her hometown piano teacher, Halina Kulchitska. "Even if she hadn't become James Bond's girl, she still would have gotten some big role."

Kurylenko grew up in this city of 140,000 on the Azov Sea in southeastern Ukraine, where monuments made from giant metal anchors dot the city center and middle-aged men spend their free time fishing along the main embankment, cigarettes in their mouths.

Raised by her mother, Marina, an art teacher, and her grandmother, a doctor, Kurylenko and her family lived in a three-room apartment not far from the city center. That was a luxury by Soviet standards, when many lived in communal flats, sharing the kitchen and bathroom with several families.

Today her crumbling five-story apartment building, where carpets, comforters and underpants are hung to dry in the courtyard and children play on rusting slides, is testimony to how far she's traveled since then.

In Moscow on Monday to promote the film, Kurylenko expressed incredulity over being a Bond Girl. "I still don't believe it and don't think that I realize it yet," she told Associated Press Television News.

In the movie, Bond (Daniel Craig) and Kurylenko's character, Camille, try to save Bolivia's water supplies.

"Camille is quite a strong woman, very independent. She carries a wound which comes from her childhood," said Kurylenko. "There is something very terrible that happened to her when she was a little girl and everything she focuses on is revenge connected to this event and that is her motivation in the movie."

Kurylenko's star began to rise at 16 when she was spotted by a model scout in the subway in Moscow, where she was on vacation. She moved to Paris to work in a modeling agency, then began a career as an actress.

Kurylenko's drama teacher, Ina Kaminska, said her student simply got lucky.

"It's all great, just great, we are all very happy — she became a Cinderella — but nevertheless when she was in my class I didn't see that kind of future for her," the 70-year-old Kaminska said.

Kurylenko got one of her first main roles after she joined the school drama class in the seventh grade, playing the young wife of Grandfather Frost, the local equivalent of Santa Claus.

After she was cast for the new Bond movie, Kurylenko's school was besieged by journalists and abuzz with all things related to her. Teachers even put her photos as a model and actress prominently on display at the school, but they were later taken down after parents of younger students complained the pictures were too revealing.

Artur Shevchenko, 16, who goes to the same school as Kuylenko did, said he has a crush on the actress.

"I've seen her photos online — they are not bad at all," he said with a laugh. "The girl is quite sexy — I think she will be OK for Bond. I think of all his girlfriends she will be one of the best. ... As for me, I wouldn't mind being Bond myself."

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frontcover of The Moscow Times

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Also there's an article on Berliner morgenpost, page 8. I will try to get it later
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Ohh, that's great. Thanks Montana.
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`Quantum of Solace` rated 12A in the UK, running time 105 minutes
Quantum Of Solace - 15-10-08

"Quantum of Solace" has officially received its classification for exhibition in UK cinemas - 12A. The news will come as no surprise to MI6 readers, as it was reported last month that the film would likely receive this rating. The film has already received its PG-13 rating in the USA.

The 22nd James Bond film "passed with no cuts made", but as is usual for major motion pictures these days, an early cut was viewed by the BBFC to advise the production on how to secure the rating.

The BBFC statement on the classification reads:
This film was originally seen by the BBFC in an unfinished version, for advice as to the film's suitability at '12A'. The BBFC advised the company that the film would most likely receive a '12A' as it was, but that care should be taken when finishing the film not to increase the intensity of certain scenes. When the completed version of the film was submitted for classification, reductions to one of those scenes had been made and the film was passed '12A' without cuts.

When submitted to the BBFC, the work had a running time of 105m 58s, making it the shortest 007 movie in the series 46 year history. MI6 reported last month that the film was expected to clock in around 106 minutes.

For fans, the film may feel especially short following on from "Casino Royale", which was the longest film in the James Bond franchise - running for 144 minutes.

The last Bond film to sneak under the 2 hour mark was Pierce Brosnan's second outing as 007 in 1997's "Tomorrow Never Dies" which ran for 116 minutes. The shortest Bond film to date is 1964's "Goldfinger", which ran for only 110 minutes.

An often over-looked effect of a movie's run time is the box office. As "Quantum of Solace" is set to be around 30 minutes shorter than "Casino Royale", it may squeeze some extra daily showings at theatres.

Contrary to popular belief, the 12A certificate was not introduced for the film Spider-Man, and the first film that got the certificate was actually The Bourne Identity. However, Spider-Man and other films still on general release at the time were reclassified as 12A. Die Another Day (2002) was the first Bond film to be classified 12A.

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Daniel Craig's Hungarian dubbing voice gave an interview. He said: "Not heavy to dub, Bond speaks in simple sentences. Daniel Craig is a more charismatic, harder guy. Locks up a man in the dressing room in this film, turns back, and breaks the doorhandle off with his bare hand."

Bond: Did he sleep with him for the informations?
Bond Girl: Would you disturb it if I would say it, yes?
Bond: Not a bit.
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advicky wrote:Daniel Craig's Hungarian dubbing voice gave an interview. He said: "Not heavy to dub, Bond speaks in simple sentences. Daniel Craig is a more charismatic, harder guy. Locks up a man in the dressing room in this film, turns back, and breaks the doorhandle off with his bare hand."

Bond: Did he sleep with him for the informations?
Bond Girl: Would you disturb it if I would say it, yes?
Bond: Not a bit.
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The question “When was the last classic James Bond song?” is not, many would argue, one designed to start a debate — unless you can call three or four seconds of consideration followed by an emphatic answer a debate....“The new one, for Quantum of Solace” — but Jack White and Alicia Keys’s Another Way to Die (you can see why they steered clear of the film title, can’t you?) is, to judge by fan sites and message boards, unlikely to join a roll of honour ...
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`Star Trek` trailer to debut in front of `Quantum of Solace`

Quantum Of Solace - 15-10-08

According to TrekMovie, the theatrical trailer for the new Star Trek movie will be attached to the 22nd James Bond film "Quantum of Solace".

The site reports that the much anticipated Trek trailer will drive leagues of fans to the theatre to see ‘any movie’ or ‘almost any movie’ that its attached to.

This could be good news for 007, with additional ticket sales from Trekkies bumping the opening weekend's numbers.

Many Trek fans went to see "Cloverfield" in its record-breaking opening weekend, just to be the first to see the Star Trek teaser trailer.

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`Another Way To Die` enters singles charts in the UK and USA

Quantum Of Solace - 16-10-08

"Another Way To Die", the title song to the upcoming James Bond film "Quantum of Solace" by Jack White and Alicia Keys, has registered on the singles charts in the UK and USA.

In the UK, the song entered the Top 40 Singles Chart at #26 on downloads alone. In its third week on sale, "Another Way To Die" has remained in that same slot.

In the USA, the song faired less well in the Billboard chart, making its debut at #107.

Recent Bond songs have performed better in the UK than in the USA. "You Know My Name", the title song for 2006s' "Casino Royale", crested at #7 in the UK compared to a lowly #79 in the USA.

A CD single of "Another Way To Die" is due on 20th October 2008, just days before the world premiere, and should help boost the chart rankings.

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The first real review - hopefully spoilerfree - will be online soon from the press screening that will take place tomorrow.
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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