“Quantum of Solace” Pushed Back a Week
Columbia Pictures has confirmed that they have decided to push the theatrical release of “Quantum of Solace” back a single week to November 14th. It makes sense, to take advantage of the holiday movie-going crowd.
“The strategic move places the highly-anticipated James Bond adventure one week closer to the prime movie-going holiday window and takes advantage of last week’s decision to move the release date of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.”
“We saw the film recently in London and Marc Forster, Daniel Craig and the entire team at EON have truly delivered another extraordinary Bond adventure,” said Jeff Blake, Chairman of Worldwide Marketing and Distribution for the Columbia Tristar Motion Picture Group. “‘Quantum of Solace’ is a seamless continuation of the storyline that began with the last film. We believe November 14th is a great date that allows us to play straight through Thanksgiving and right into Christmas. The Bond films have a long history of entertaining audiences in this holiday corridor going back to Goldeneye in 1995. The studio enjoyed tremendous success opening ‘Casino Royale’ in North America on November 17, 2006, and we believe this decision will give the public a wider opportunity to see the film over the holiday.”
“Quantum of Solace” New Poster
After those teasing 10 seconds action from the movie, last week, we finally saw the first trailer for “Quantum of Solace,” the new James Bond movie.
Now we’ve got the second poster for “Quantum of Solace.” Check it out!
”Quantum of Solace” - 10 Seconds!
This clip is real teaser. Whole 10 seconds of action sequences from ”Quantum of Solace”, new James Bond movie which will hit the theathers on November, 7th 2008.
Tell me if you saw something…
‘Quantum Of Solace’ - Filming in Austria - Video
Here’s a new ‘Quantum of Solace‘ video.
Daniel Craig, Marc Forster and Olga Kurylenko talk about filming, now in Bregenz, Austria.
‘Quantum of Solace’ In Bregenz, Austria
Residents in the western Austrian town of Bregenz were keeping their eyes peeled Tuesday for actor Daniel Craig who is shooting several scenes for the upcoming James Bond movie in the town.
A film crew will be in town until May 9 to shoot scenes for Quantum of Solace.
Filming Tuesday started with a chase scene in the city’s festival hall, a spokesman for the Bregenz opera festival said.
The city’s annual opera festival, with its signature floating stage on Lake Constance, will play a prominent role in the movie.
In the evening several streets in the medieval town, with a population of 30,000, will be closed off for filming, before filming on the floating stage Wednesday.
For James Bond to chase his adversaries across the huge stage, which is dominated by elaborate props and a huge eye, festival organizers set up a complete performance of Puccini’s Tosca, complete with audience.
Austrian media report that a possible shooting location for The next James Bond movie could be the “Seebühne” (Floating Stage) in Bregenz, Austria.
A spokesperson for the Bregenz Festival confirmed a report by Austrian ORF Radio Vorarlberg, that “people from Pinewood Studios in London” have visited the location by end of June, namely producer Barbara Broccoli, director Marc Forster and the director of photography.
‘Quantum of Solace’ - News from Italy
During Sunday’s press conference in Tremosine, Dan Bradley - who’s the second unit director - said that the scenes at Garda Lake will be 11 minutes long in the final film, but it depends from the weather: they hope the next days it will be sunny, so they’ll film more scenes and the final result will be longer, otherwise they’ll cut some scenes.
The scene is described as the ‘first sequence’ of the movie - 15 minutes or so where we see a spectacular car chase and then a gunfight. This scene is being done by a Second Unit, directed by Dan Bradley.
It’s a car chase along the Gardesana, a famous and beautiful road around the lake (which is the biggest lake in Italy), between Malcesine, Limone and Tremosine: they closed the road and mounted some cameras on some Aston Martins DBS.
The scenes involves 40 stuntmen (half italian and half european), six doubles of Daniel Craig, many Aston Martin DBS’s and a Black Alfa Romeo 159, famous Italian Car, which was the Bad Guy’s Car.
They’re going to shoot in Gargnano and Limone until April 25.
Daniel Craig is resting in London after filming in Siena and Chile, but he’ll be available to shoot some reverse shots if the weather is good.
It’s almost sure he’ll be in Carrara between April 25 and May 13, where they’ll film some important scenes in the very famous quarries of marble, with a flying camera.
On the James Bond set
‘Quantum of Solace‘ filming began in January and has taken the crew from Britain to Panama to this moonlike landscape in northern Chile, which is standing in for Bolivia.
It’s a place that director Marc Forster said evokes Bond’s “isolation and loneliness.”
“He is an assassin, he is a secret agent, and that reflects a certain lifestyle, which is lonely,” said Forster.
Indeed, the big news on the set is that one of the two Bond girls, Olga Kurylenko, doesn’t get in even a single kiss with star Daniel Craig. “Why would I be disappointed?” Kurylenko insisted. “I’m just doing my work.”
Forster, the youngest-ever Bond director at 39, was hired on by longtime producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson because of his emotionally intense films like “Monster’s Ball” and “The Kite Runner.”
Despite the heightened realism of the last Bond film, not to mention its commercial success (over $500 million worldwide), the German-born Swiss director was wary of joining the bombastic franchise. Forster negotiated with producers to ensure he had as much creative control as possible on the $200 million-plus production. Nevertheless, he’s still squeezed into the “framework of Bond.”
Filming is about halfway done on “Quantum,” which is the name of the organization Bond is going up against. Craig said the emotional tone is lighter than “Casino Royale,” in which Bond’s lover Vesper Lynd betrayed him and then died, but only a smidgen so.
