Sentences with phrase «bond film franchise»

Film is a continuation of the James Bond film franchise and will serve as Daniel Craig's possible final outing as 007.

Not exact matches

«There's been a steady stream of James Bond films, which keeps the general public very aware of that particular franchise,» says Young.
A Bond film that feels caught between its roots as a mindlessly enjoyable action - franchise and its new mandate to deliver the operatic emotions and sudsy plot lines of today's superhero properties.
He must be a big fan of the James Bond franchise, as he brings forth the best Bond film since Skyfall, hidden inside a Marvel superhero flick.
Director Sam Mendes hasn't simply made an outstanding entry into the James Bond franchise, he's made an outstanding film, period.
The once - shaky future of the Bond franchise is now more secure with a co-financing and distribution agreement covering the next two films.
All in all, Thomas Newman's terrible Skyfall score is a very sad day for film music and those that enjoy listening to it and an equally sad day for the Bond franchise.
Skyfall (Sam Mendes, 2012) The iconic spy James Bond returns in what can be easily one of the best spy thrillers of the year, let alone one the best Bond films in this popular franchise.
Three years ago, director Sam Mendes took the reins of the Bond franchise, pitting cyber terrorism against old fashioned knuckle and grit, employing the most talented international actors working, and crafting the single best 007 film of its then 50 - year legacy, Skyfall.
Working again with writer / producer Lionel Wigram, after the two successfully made a franchise out of Robert Downey Jr.'s Sherlock Holmes six years ago, Ritchie's The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is a welcome throwback to early Bond films, loaded with hip action, and always having a tongue planted slightly in cheek.
At the Los Angeles press day for the film, Daniel Craig, director Sam Mendes, and producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson discussed how Skyfall presented an opportunity to continue to regenerate the franchise and introduce new characters, how they wrote the role of the Bond villain specifically for Javier Bardem, why Mendes was drawn to directing the film, what inspired his decision to cast Bérénice Marlohe, how DP Roger Deakins contributed to the extraordinary look of the movie, and why after five decades Bond is still such a potent franchise.
The next James Bond film will be called «Spectre» — suggesting franchise favourite Blofeld does indeed (as per the rumours) make a...
DEADLINE — Hard to imagine there will be a hotter film package unveiled at Cannes next week than 355, a large - scale espionage film that Simon Kinberg will direct with an all - star international spy cast of Jessica Chastain, Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz, Fan Bingbing and Lupita Nyong» o. They'll play international agents in a grounded, edgy action thriller that aims to alter a male - dominated genre with a true female ensemble, in the style of spy franchises The Bourne Identity, Mission: Impossible and James Bond.
Bond girl Naomie Harris will join franchise king Dwayne Johnson in the film adaptation of the classic video game «Rampage».
If it's true that Atkinson was recently motivated by the stateside failure of this very film to check himself into an Arizona rehab centre for depressed celebrities (and frankly, don't blame audiences — distributor Universal didn't exactly tax themselves advertising Johnny English to domestic moviegoers), I hope his caretakers remind him in haste that none of Monty Python's features grossed an enviable sum abroad, that the James Bond franchise has already satirized itself into the ground (it's no casual point that Johnny English was co-scripted by the same writing team behind The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day), and that his first problem is trying to please a country that opens rehab centres for depressed celebrities.
Honorable Mentions: As usual, some good films have to fall just outside the top 10 list including: Tommy Lee Jones «feature - length directorial debut, «The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada ``; Christopher Nolan «s excellent, in - between - Batman - movies cum rival magician film, «The Prestige,» starring Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale; Guillermo del Toro «s fantastical fairy tale, «Pan's Labyrinth ``; Sofia Coppola «s anachronistic teen alienation set in the 16th century, «Marie Antoinette ``; Martin Campbell «s superb rebooting of the Bond franchise with «Casino Royale ``; Martin Scorsese «s «Infernal Affairs» remake «The Departed» (which has been on TV so many bloody times, its power has worn off); Oliver Assayas ««Clean» which featured a Cannes - winning performance by Maggie Cheung as a struggling addict; and Park Chan - Wook «s final installment of his vengeance trilogy, the beautifully haunting, «Lady Vengeance.»
The 25th James Bond film has an anticipated release date of November 8, 2019, with franchise staples Neal Purvis and Robert Wade set to pen the script, returning for their seventh Bond installment.
In other words, all the quintessential elements of a successful Bond film were in alignment, and it shows; there's no simply going - through - the - motions for the franchise just yet.
If all goes according to plan, Danny Boyle will be directing Daniel Craig in his last film in the Bond franchise, currently known as Bond 25.
Having never shot an action film, Deakins was initially wary when director Sam Mendes first approached him about working on the 23rd installment in the James Bond franchise.
Bond star Pierce Brosnan is keen to return to action movies and is eyeing a role in blockbuster film franchise The Expendables.The Irish star has...
Adapting a TV series to film is usually a recipe for disaster, and dropping a dated spy - fi franchise in late summer between the twin juggernauts of Mission: Impossible and James Bond is something akin to a box office suicide...
It's a new era for James Bond, the debut of Daniel Craig in the starring role, and on nearly every level, it's a real step in the right direction for this hit - and - miss franchise, perhaps the best Bond film since the 1960s (some might say since Goldfinger, but I also have a fondness for On Her Majesty's Secret Service).
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If this were to turn into a franchise, not unlike the Bond films that Brosnan was such a big part of, I would not mind one bit.
You obtained the rights soon after you left the Bond franchise, but the tone of the Bond films in the 90s is very different compared to today's spy films.
The film sees Sam Mendes (Skyfall) directing Bond veterans Daniel Craig as James Bond, Rory Kinnear as Tanner, Ben Whishaw as Q, Naomie Harris as Eve Moneypenny, Ralph Fiennes as M and Jesper Christensen as Mr. White, alongside franchise newcomers Andrew Scott (Pride) as Denbigh, Lea Seydoux (Blue is the Warmest Colour) as Madeleine Swann, Dave Bautista (Guardians of the Galaxy) as Mr. Hinx, Monica Bellucci (The Sorcerer's Apprentice) as Lucia Sciarra, Stephanie Sigman (The Bridge) as Estrella and Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained) as Oberhauser.
Today, at a grand unveiling at the 007 stage at Pinewood Studios, director Sam Mendes revealed the title of the 24th James Bond film - and the follow - up to the franchise's first billion - dollar grosser, Skyfall - will be SPECTRE.
Casino Royale, the 21st film in the Bond franchise, has nine Bafta nominations.
Naomie Harris Photo: Kerry BrownThe star of the Videovision Entertainment's The First Grader, Naomie Harris, who plays the lead role of Jane Obinchu in the multi award - winning film, has been cast in the new James Bond film, Skyfall, the 23rd film in the James Bond franchise.
The Terminator franchise has always existed somewhere in the mushy middle between unified stories told across multiple films (The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter) and serial stories free to change actors, back stories, and plot points (James Bond, any superhero franchise).
Apparently Christopher Nolan's influence has fully asserted itself in the blockbuster world judging by all the Star Trek, James Bond and other franchises seeming to shoot and market their films in this manner.
Purvis and Wade are a writing duo known for penning a considerable amount of films from the venerable Bond franchise, including Casino Royale, The Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, and most recently, Spectre.
Naomie Harris and Berenice Marlohe play two very different female characters in director Sam Mendes» entry in the franchise, but both actresses are aware of how the female role in the Bond films has changed over the years.
Daniel Craig is back as James Bond 007 in Skyfall, the 23rd adventure in the longest - running film franchise of all time.
Filming for Bond 25, the latest installment of the 007 franchise, was due to start this autumn but has been put back to later next year as the lead man's wife Rachel Weisz gives birth to their first child together.
The scene featuring the world's largest film stunt explosion is spectacular and will live long in the memory as one of the outstanding moments in the Bond franchise
I look forward to the day when we get to see Bond just go on an assignment that only exists for one film rather than make every movie a sequel to the previous installment to appease grumpy critics and audiences who never liked the first 50 years of the franchise in the first place.
Opening the night was the (perhaps misleadingly titled) Outstanding British Film category which eschewed recognition of daring and original films such as Berberian Sound Studio and Sightseers in favour of Anna Karenina and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, along with this year's winner - the 23rd entry in the Bond franchise - Skyfall.
It's fitting that in its 50th anniversary, the James Bond movie franchise produced one of the best instalments in the series, and one of the finest films of the year, as Academy Award - winning director Sam Mendes teamed up with Daniel Craig's 007 for the super spy's 23rd official adventure, Skyfall.
Even established, long - running film franchises like the James Bond films have never really concerned themselves much with continuity.
commentary on the elasticity of this genre model (Bond films in particular, the lead in said franchise McGoohan was offered, er, once upon a time) as allegory for the plastic - fantastic of a progressively absurd world.
AM: How does «Spectre» compare to the latest films in the Bond franchise?
That the first of Ian Fleming's Bond books actually featured a Bentley is inconsequential, as is the fact that the 24 - film franchise has had the spy in everything from an AMC Hornet to a Toyota 2000GT.
James Bond's fascination with Aston Martins will continue in the next Bond film, Spectre, after EON Productions, the producers of the Bond movie franchise, unveiled the Aston Martin DB10.
Others of note include the aesthetically dynamic and conceptually dense Bobby Jesus» Alma Mater b / w Reading the Book of David and / or Paying Attention is Free by Frances Stark combining a hip - hop soundtrack with transcribed conversations and take home flyers; Taryn Simon's Birds of the West Indies features the cars, weapons and women of the James Bond franchise pictured as they are now, meaning that while the objects appear as they did in the films, the women bear the effects of age (some are well into their 60s and 70s), which effectively distances them from the roles they had played by reinforcing the reality and humanity that separates them from the objects amongst them.
That said, it does feel dated, overdone and a little bit creaky in places, and A View To A Kill really marks the end of the road for «classic» Connery - Lazenby - Moore Bond - cinema was moving on, and it was time to bring the iconic spy film franchise into the modern era.
1967 and 1983 were great years for James Bond fans — the film franchise spans over fifty years, but those two years are the only ones that saw two film releases within the same year, Casino Royale and You Only Live Twice in 1967 and Octopussy and Never Say Never Again in 1983.
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