Chris Corbould On Creating 'Quantum' Special Effects
Special effects supervisor discusses working on the 22nd James Bond film

‘Desperate’ Diddy Films James Bond Audition Tape
Sean “Diddy” Combs has spent over $1 million dollars filming an audition tape in a desperate attempt to become the first black actor to play the world’s most famous secret agent, James Bond. The hip-hop mogul, who previously admitted he would like to replace Daniel Craig as the next James Bond, flew from New York to the South of France to shoot the footage that shows him in a helicopter, wearing a tuxedo, and surrounded by two scantily-clad women. The 39-year-old believes that since Bara

Box Office Results: Xmas slays Twilight
Wow.  Talk about a surprise this weekend.  All of our predictions, plus the majority of others, had Twilight taking the box office for its second straight weekend, but the holiday comedy Four Christmases spread its joy by grossing a whopping $46.7 million.  Twilight’s $39.5 wasn’t too shabby, but the star power of Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn proved too much for the tweensters this time around. Bolt had an incredible showing its second weekend, actually grossing $9 million more than it

Watch Diddy’s Audition Tape For The Next James Bond Film:
Bad Boy Records boss Sean “Diddy” Combs has spent $1 million on filming for an audition tape he hopes will bolster his chances of replacing actor Daniel Craig and becoming the first black actor to play British secret agent James Bond. The hip-hop mogul flew from New York to the South of France to shoot the [...]

Roger Moore: Daniel Craig 'Marvelous' As Bond
HONG KONG (AP) - From one Bond to another: job well done. Roger Moore told reporters Thursday that Daniel Craig was "marvelous" as James Bond because he brought a fresh dimension to the character. The 81-year-old actor, who starred in seven Bond films in the 1970s and the 1980s, said Craig's performances in Steven Spielberg's 2005 political thriller "Munich" and "Sylvia" in 2003, in which he plays the poet Ted Hughes, helped shape a new Bond. "All of those parts were very, very different to one's concep

Holiday Comedy 'Four Christmases' Invades 'Twilight' Zone
Warner Bros' romantic comedy 'Four Christmases' took the No. 1 spot at the box office this weekend and made an estimated $46.7 million since opening on Wednesday. The film, starring Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn as an unmarried couple forced to make four reluctant Christmas visits to all sets of parents, took in $31.7 million in weekend gross, studio estimates showed Sunday. Finishing No. 2 was Disney's animated feature 'Bolt,' which made an estimated $26.6 million during its second weekend in relea

Insider on TV: Tonight
Here are the big stories we're working on for "The Insider:"   Michelle Obama's wardrobe to the White House! Tune in to get the style secrets to her inaugural dress! Then, after Britney's GMA birthday bash! What you didn't see. Plus, Daniel Craig's next movie after James Bond! We'll take you behind the scenes of 'Defiance.'

Nicole Kidman & Hugh Jackman Bring 'Australia' To Paris
Parisians will be enjoying a taste of Oz after the Hugh Jackman & Nicole Kidman romantic epic. Returning to the backdrop of director Baz Luhrmann's first collaboration Moulin Rouge!,...

EMPIRE’s 100 Greatest Movie Characters
I have to go to Beverly Hills this evening to attend a press screening of an upcoming movie, So for now, keep yourself entertained with what Empire has got for us today, via movie-moron, it has listed 100 Greatest Movie Characters. I only posted 15 here, so you ‘re going to have to visit EMPIRE for the complete list. Now.. I’m not sure what criteria or basis they used to decide who gets to be in which number but I disagree with most of them, I should make my own list. I mean, c’mon.. I kno

'Quantum' still rules overseas
International News: Bond pic racks up fifth weekend win -- James Bond remains king of the international box office as "Quantum of Solace" racked up its fifth straight weekend victory with $20.1 million at 8,755 playdates in 73 markets.

P. Diddy's James Bond Audition Tape
Rap star reportedly spends over $750,000 on audtion tape that also promotes new fragrance

DIDDY STILL TRYING TO BE FIRST BLACK 007!
Sean “Diddy” Combs is using the promo for his new I Am King fragrance as an audition tape for producers of the James Bond franchise, hoping that the footage Will sway filmmakers to consider casting him as the first black 007. RSS feed for comments on this post TrackBack URI One Response for "Diddy STILL TRYING TO BE FIRST BLACK 007!" ceecee December 1st, 2008 at 5:07 pm 1 Oh geezs! Someone please stop him! He is becoming a c

Quantum of Diddy
In case you've not yet seen it, Diddy's six-minute commercial for his new cologne (in which he rides a Jet Ski in a tuxedo) is also his unsolicited audition to be the next James Bond. He makes a compelling case! [YouTube] Read more posts by Lane Brown Filed Under: Diddy, James Bond Your Ad Here Uncategorized Comments are closed. « Travis Barker, DJ AM Reunite for New Year’s Performance Britney

(Holiday) Weekend Box Office Estimates: Audiences Give “Christmas” Present
With Thanksgiving now in the rear view, the Christmas season officially got underway as the holiday-themed Four Christmases took the weekend crown. The Reese Witherspoon/Vince Vaughn romantic comedy earned $31.6 million (though not the respect of critics), more than enough to put it ahead of #2 Bolt - which narrowly took second over Twilight, even though the tween vampire flick has a $50+ million advantage over the Disney flick going into their third weeks, now well over the $100 million mark. That didn

G.W.E.E!: Leonardo “Loverboy” DiCaprio
You may know DiCaprio as the sweet-as-pie mentally challenged kiddo in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, or perhaps you remember him from Titanic — which you may or may not have seen 4 times and cried like a little baby during each and every viewing. These days, Darling DiCaprio is starring in Ridley Scott’s new film Body of Lies, adding the ‘tough guy’ moniker to his already long list of characters.] I’m not embarrassed to admit that when I was in 7th grade, I had 102 pictur

It's A Baz Luhrmann Movie, If....
Over the weekend I caught "Australia" and while I definitely liked it more than most critics (or, apparently, audiences), there were a few things I felt were lacking. But at the end of the day it had all the hallmarks of a great Baz Luhrmann movie -- gorgeous cinematography, smoking hot stars, dazzling costumes and a villain with well-sculpted facial hair! Yes, it seems more than spectacular scenery or a lavish love story, a bad guy with a mysterious mustache or skanky soul patch is becoming a must for an

EXCLUSIVE: Why Baz Luhrmann loves tripping up the derby with wild ponies like 'Moulin Rouge!' and 'Australia'
Seven years after director Baz Luhrmann experienced a crazy romp through the kudos derby riding "Moulin Rouge!" he's back with "Australia. " What does he think of awardsmania? Why does he risk the wrath of gritty film critics to make his wildly romantic movies in the cynical 21st century? Last Wednesday night, Baz and I teamed up to do a Q&A screening chat at the Directors Guild of America theater in New York. We didn't have enough time to cover all key topics, so we hooked up again

New ‘Australia’ trailer
I’ve been hearing some good things about Hugh Jackman’s performance all along, but for some reason, he’s never cracked my Best Actor chart.  It’s a crowded field, but anyway, this is a great trailer.  I’m a Baz supporter through and through, and I’ve been told this isn’t the straight-up epic it appears to be from the materials released so far.  It isn’t Baz restraining his vision for the sake of a style of film he hasn’t tackled yet; it is very much a

New Trailer for ‘Australia’
The newest trailer courtesy of MovieWeb. Another masterpiece from Baz has Oscar written all over it. Kidman and Jackman were made for this type of epic movie. If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Tagged under | australia, Baz Luhrmann, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman Leave a Reply Name (required) Mail (will not be published) (required) Website

What to Say When Your Movie Flops, Australia Edition [Didgeridon't]
What do you do when your big sweeping Oscar-hopeful epic that cost $130 million dollars does a shallow swan dive at the box office? You completely change the party line on the entire movie! Well, that's what Fox is doing about Australia—Baz Luhrmann's continental Nicole Kidman/Hugh Jackman period romance—at least. Though the film initially was being thrust at us as Titanic but with Aborigines and a lot more plastic surgery, it's now been shifted (or downgraded) to an artsy "adult" (not that

TECH SUPPORT: Best Costume Design — Volume I
The Academy Award for Best Costume Design recognizes, shock of shocks, the clothes and accessories worn by actors in a film.  Clothing can add to the story and express the nature and situation of the characters who wear them. If a single word could be used to describe this category, it would be “period.”  31 of the 40 nominees here this decade were period pieces.  This is not altogether surprising.  Period clothes automatically draw attention by not being the sort of fashion we see every d

TECH SUPPORT: Best Sound Mixing — Volume I
Those words from Al Jolson forever changed filmmaking in 1927, ushering in “talkies” and bringing about the beginning of the end of the silent film era. The Academy Award for sound mixing recognizes the artists who fashion a film’s audio side.  It must be distinguished from Best Sound Editing, which is the integration of artificially created sound effects into the mix.  Mixing is the blending of those effects, along with dialogue, music and any other noise captured during filming.  The Oscar a

New TV trailer for Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman’s Australia
MSN has just revealed a new trailer for Baz Luhrmann’s Australia, starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman. In the film that opens on November 26 th, an English Aristocrat travels to far away continent, where she meets a scruffy local played by Hugh Jackman and reluctantly agrees to join forces to save the land she inherited. They embark upon a transforming journey across hundreds of miles of the world’s most beautiful yet unforgiving terrain, only to still face the bombing of the city of Darwin by the J

THEATRICAL REVIEW: AUSTRALIA (2008)
What is it about?Nicole Kidman’s cattle baron husband Is killed in 1939 Australia. With the help of Hugh Jackman, the two try to save the farm, and survive World War II.Who Made It?Baz Luhrman came up with the story and directed. He is also responsible for such films as STRICTLY BALLROOM, ROMEO AND JULIET and MOULIN ROUGE.Among the other writers credited are Stuart Beattie (who created the characters in PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN as well as writing DERAILED, 30 DAYS OF NIGHT and the upcoming G.I. JOE), Ro

Nicole Kidman: 'I Loved Being Dirty and Sweaty in New Film'
Nicole Kidman liked getting her hands dirty on the set of her new film Australia. The actress - who is married to country music star Keith Urban - plays an aristocratic Englishwoman who is forced to team up with a rough farmhand (played by Hugh Jackman) to save her ranch. So the 41-year-old had to learn how to control the livestock for the Baz Luhrmann epic. She reveals, "I got pretty good at cutting cattle, and I loved cracking the stock whip!. "It's a hard thing for a woman to do, but I did it. I lov