Let’s watch a French James Bond parody

There are so many important elements to a James Bond film: danger, beautiful women, product placement…..
With that in mind, here’s a French 007 parody — spoofing Quantum of Solace Daniel Craig as well as elements of classic Bond movies — that our friend Kevin Collette told us about. Even if you don’t speak a word [...]

Alternate Quantum of Solace title songs

The title song to last year’s Quantum of Solace had, at best, mixed reviews. On YouTube, there’s a song that supposedly was submitted and rejected by the filmmakers. With YouTube, though, even a rejected song can have a life of its own. Witness this video where the song appears over the titles from the 2008 [...]

It’s Double Double-O-Seven!

It’s Double Double-O-Seven!

Originally uploaded by Paul Baack

I’ve always loved James Bond movie double features, which is now pretty much a thing of the past. They had the coolest — and sometimes the dumbest — posters, combining key art elements from the relevant films. I think this is in the spirit of those pop [...]

Writers announced for Bond 23

This press release just came in:
MORGAN, PURVIS & WADE TO WORK ON BOND, JAMES BOND
LOS ANGELES, CA June 12, 2009 – Producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli of EON Productions Ltd and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures have today announced that Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon, The Queen), Neal Purvis and Robert Wade (Quantum of Solace, Casino Royale) [...]

The Bumps and Bruises of the Bond Business

The Times Online has a nice little piece on the Powell family, who for the past two generations have done stunt work for the James Bond movies.
The Powell family is among the best-kept secrets in film, having performed Bond’s stunts for more than 40 years. In 20 films, Fred “Nosher” Powell, 80, and Dennis [...]

James Bond vs. Neoliberalism

From the “tripped over this and found it interesting” department:
A blogger with the handle uhhh has recently published a rather unique — and fascinating — take on the 2008 James Bond movie Quantum of Solace. Looking at the film through a sociopolitical spectrum, heposits that the QUANTUM organization, and Dominic Greene’s “Greene Planet” company, [...]

McLaughlin Group borrows Quantum of Solace

The McLaughlin Group, the weekly political gabfest borrowed Quantum of Solace as a segment title during the installment that aired the weekend of May 9-10.
The segment, naturally, wasn’t about secret agents. Instead, it was about how the U.S. economy is showing some signs of stabilizing.
It turns out this wasn’t the first time. Back during the [...]

Preposterous elements of Quantum of Solace

The media review website, Television Without Pity , is home to some of the snarkiest writing on the web, and is always an entertaining read. Staffer Zach Oat recently took a look at the Quantum of Solace DVD, in an effort to catalog some of the more… goofy… elements of the 22nd James [...]

Quantum of Solace DVD on Tuesday, reviews out already

The DVD for Quantum of Solace, Daniel Craig’s second outing as 007, is coming out on Tuesday. The reviews are in already. Here’s one from Scotsman.com:
(W)hen Paul Greengrass unleashed The Bourne Ultimatum… it exposed new Bond for the posing, pouch-wearing pretender he was and the franchise for the relic it had become.
That should [...]

Quantum of Solace: preview of things to come?

A few months ago, when Quantum of Solace hit U.S. theaters, this video was produced by an outfit called ScienCentral. The upshot: water is going to be a source of conflict in the future, similar to the plot of the 007 movie. QoS director Marc Forster shows up in the video.