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Centre international d'assistance aux personnes déplacées, Paris, France
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On Her Majestys Secret Service
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From Russia With Love
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  • Monty Norman must get royalties automatically every time the theme, regardless of who arranged it is played, just like his original deal with EON says. The controversy has never affected the films. It is that a few people, including journalists, cla…
  • Regarding Fukunaga and long takes, you can be sure that there will be one in Bond 25. Fukunaga actually explained that it's one of his goals on any project. Even when he didn't come up with the original script, he will rewrite an entire part of it, …
  • Walecs wrote: » He wrote some pretty good themes for The Force Awakens, such as Rey's, Kylo's, Finn's, Poe's and March of the Resistance. Unfortunately he hasn't come up with anything particularly memorable for The Last Jedi :| That was ac…
  • He was truly hilarious in Logan Lucky. Given the cold reception he got when he hosted SNL, I assumed he wasn't good at comedy. But that was the opposite. He threw himself so completely into this slow-witted but extremely skilled guy that I didn't th…
  • There are some composers that work better when paired with a director who knows them well. Ennio Morricone has written some great scores, and has been incredibly prolific over something like six decades, but one can argue that his best work came fro…
  • The_Bleeding_Heart wrote: » I do wonder if Romer will collaborate with the artist for the title song... When’s the last time that happened? "You Know My Name" from "Casino Royale".
  • Martin Campbell would be pushing 80 by the time a new actor is signed for the part, which makes it almost impossible for him to direct his debut, as he did for Brosnan and Craig. Fukunaga has however a ton of projects in waiting, including shooti…
  • Éric Serra was hired on Goldeneye because Luc Besson was at a popularity peak in the early nineties, with La Femme Nikita and The Professional which influenced many thrillers. They also took Tchéky Karyo in the cast, and a few months later the first…
  • Consider Toy Story 4. The script makes Bo Peep one of the major characters, while she was just a minor one in Toy Story 1 and 2, and was entirely missing from Toy Story 3. Twenty years after TS2, they had to reestablish her, for the audience to u…
  • It's very likely that Universal or MGM heard about the title weeks in advance from EON and didn't like it. I don't think that everybody was ready to reveal it during the TV event, until this was vetoed, it's just that they had two options, one with …
  • Yeah, great to see some actual footage, and some great-looking footage actually. That's the best way to get ourselves out of the recurring topics here: - Should Purvis and Wade be fired? - Should Dave Arnold do the score? - Mendes was the wors…
  • Moneypenny is a composite of two different characters from the novels. There's the stern Miss Moneypenny who's the authoritarian and smart secretary to M, and Loelia Ponsonby, a secretary to the 00 section that Bond shares with a couple of agents. F…
  • It's funny to see how much speculation there is for something that's already known. The intimacy coach is hired for scenes between Craig and de Armas. It means that it's her character who has an affair with Bond, not Lynch's, and that she's the m…
  • Bonus points for referencing Layer Cake. Discovering Craig in Casino Royale was quite a shock to me, but I would have understood much earlier the potential that Broccoli, Wilson and Campbell found in him if I had watched Layer Cake.
  • People have issues with CGI, when it's the obvious green screen stuff, and Justice League was full of them due to the extensive reshoots that didn't even allow the graphic artists to do a decent job (or the moustache fiasco). The sloppiness also com…
  • They should also have done this on Russell Crowe's belly on a few films he's done.
  • Getafix wrote: » Mendes also has no feel for action and (I think) insisted on directing the action sequences himself. Cary is a younger director with a much better sense for action. Alexander Witt is credited as second unit director on C…
  • Intimacy coordinators are a relatively new thing. They were used during production of the second season of The Deuce, which takes place in the porn industry during the late seventies and was released a year ago. Basically, they're like stunt coordin…
  • QBranch wrote: » Surprised at the lack of clapperboards this time around. Usually, we'd have seen a couple more by now. Their sound could give Craig a heart attack.
  • Tabloids basically want drama. If Daniel Craig slipped while running and hurt himself, that means for them that he's severely injured. From the later reports, it looks like the production sent him to New York to get checked by a top surgeon and phy…
  • acidie wrote: » He probably has injured himself, but I would say cancelled is an over exaggeration, they have probably fiddled around with the schedule and are probably filming scenes that dont require Daniel at the moment. We have seen pics from …
  • Torgeirtrap wrote: » A new Bond game (or games) would be the only thing that could lure me back into gaming again. Haven't played a video game in 3-4 years. If you read the entire article, you realize that they have no definite strategy so …
  • Baz has had zero other real scoop about Bond 25 so far, while he shared, at the same point in production, actual info about Skyfall and Spectre, for instance about casting. His last actual scoop is now 4 or 5-year-old. It’s totally fair to consider…
  • All the action set pieces have been more or less inscribed in stone, as they have to do some planning about the locations, the approvals by the authorities, the tax grants, storyboarding, etc. Besides, the second unit is usually in charge of many th…
  • Lupita Nyong'o was in two small films called Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Star Wars: The Last Jedi. They might have played at your local theater.
  • Guys, you tend to presume that the Seydoux interview took place this week. It could have been done two or three weeks ago, at a time Burns had just finished working on the rewrites and Waller-Bridge was starting. It doesn't mean in anyway that they'…
  • Stephanie Sigman, who plays Estrella, is a strong actress. She was the lead in the original version of Miss Bala. However, her casting in Spectre had more to do with the production accommodating requests by the Mexican government, by casting and hi…
  • AlexanderWaverly wrote: » The Sun and the New York Post, both owned by Rupert Mudoch's News Corp., are doing stories along this line. (I won't post the links, either). A few days ago, someone posted that there may be some group pressure t…
  • Maybe Paloma was originally a different character, and Walter-Bridge, prompted by Fukunaga, rewrote her to be a Latina.
  • Regarding David Arnold, he's undeniably the best at creating John Barry pastiches with a touch of electro, and he writes some good leitmotivs, but he's never moved beyond the pastiche phase. The question is whether they want something that sounds l…