Bonus Video Spotlight: “Quantum of Solace”
“Quantum of Solace,” latest film of the long-standing James Bond franchise, opens Friday. In honor of the superspy’s latest adventure, I’ve scoured YouTube for some cool 007-related videos for this Bonus Video Spotlight.
It’s all about serving the readers here at BAM’s Blog, and if I get to ogle Daniel Craig in the process, all the better.
“QOS” trailer:
First “QOS” trailer:
“Another Way to Die” music video featuring Jack White and Alicia Keys:
“QOS” clip:
“QOS” London premiere:
“QOS” first look:
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Bond, James Bond, specialty site up at NewsOK
The new James Bond film “Quantum of Solace” opens in theaters Friday, with rough-around-the-edges heartthrob Daniel Craig reprising his role as the superspy.
In honor of this cinematic special occasion, Matthew Price, George Lang and I – your humble, hard-working entertainment scribes at The Oklahoman and NewsOK – worked with blog guru Nick Tankersley and crack artist Todd Pendleton to create a specialty site worth toasting with a shaken, not stirred, martini.
The site has photos of the series’ Bond girls, images from “QOS” and breakdowns on every film in the franchise, including non-canonical fare such as “Never Say Never Again.”
In addition, you have until noon Wednesday to sign up for one of 15 passes for two to Thursday night’s free screening of “QOS” at the Warren Theatre in Moore.
Check out the site at www.newsok.com/bond.
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Wednesday Video Spotlight: New “Quantum of Solace” trailer
A new trailer for the 22nd James Bond film “Quantum of Solace” is now circulating on the Internet. The new preview gives a better look at the action, James Bond’s (Daniel Craig) tormented soul and especially of creepy French bad guy Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric of “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”).
The film is set to open on Nov. 14 in the United States.
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Entertainment podcast: Fall movies
“Quantum of Solace”
George Lang and I talk about the fall movies we’re most looking forward to, and run down the ones most likely to strike box office gold, in this week’s NewsOK entertainment podcast.
You can click here to give it a listen.
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Movie theaters prepare for fall films
My colleague George Lang and I run down the films coming to Oklahoma City theaters this fall in this story from Friday’s Weekend Look section of The Oklahoman.
Bond’s back before year’s end
Movie fans charting the course of their fall visits to multiplexes will notice the conspicuous absence of The Boy Who Lived. Yes, Thanks to the efforts of some dark forces in Warner Bros.’ schedule, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” got pushed back to next summer, but the studios have other opportunities to conjure magic this fall – the return of James Bond might be all that is needed to lift any box-office curses.
Today
Nicolas Cage teams with directors Oxide and Danny Pang (“The Eye”) for a remake of the Pang’s slam-bang 1999 assassin’s tale, “Bangkok Dangerous.” And in “Baghead,” four friends go to a remote cabin to create a horror film that will boost their careers, only to find that the villain, a guy with a bag over his head, is stalking them.
Sept. 12
Ethan and Joel Coen follow their Oscar win for “No Country for Old Men” with the George Clooney-led goofball comedy “Burn After Reading,” in which a discredited CIA analyst’s memoir falls into the hands of two dim gym employees (Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand).
“Righteous Kill” brings the “Heat” by reuniting stars Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro. “Tyler Perry’s the Family That Preys” brings together Kathy Bates and Alfre Woodard as two matriarchs of wildly different families ripped asunder by greed and infighting.
Two desperate single mothers (Melissa Leo and Misty Upham) get involved in smuggling illegal immigrants into the United States through Mohawk Indian land in writer-director Courtney Hunt’s “Frozen River.” After a torturous 14-year gestation, Diane English’s remake of “The Women” finally sees the light, starring Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Jada Pinkett Smith and Debra Messing.
Sept. 19
In Neil LaBute’s “Lakeview Terrace,” a young couple (Kerry Washington, Patrick Wilson) falls under the scrutiny of their distrusting Los Angeles Police Department neighbor (Samuel L. Jackson). John Cusack, John Cleese, Eddie Izzard and Steve Buscemi voice “Igor,” the story of a hunchbacked assistant who dreams of becoming a mad scientist.
Dane Cook plays a professional bad date hired to reunite Kate Hudson with Jason Biggs in “My Best Friend’s Girl.” Wayne Wang, director of “The Joy Luck Club,” explores father-daughter relationships in “A Thousand Years of Good Prayers.” “Battle in Seattle,” starring Woody Harrelson and Charlize Theron, dramatizes the 1999 World Trade Organization riots.
(Many more movies after the jump.)
