Alicia Keys And Jack White May Perform On James Bond-Themed X Factor by Devin Zydel
(from CommanderBond.net)
I hate The X Factor as much as the next person with any taste, but this could be fun. Well, a chance to hear the new theme would be good at least.
Hellboy defeats Batman in cinemas
(from BBC News)
"Comic book movie Hellboy II: The Golden Army has knocked The Dark Knight off the number one spot in the UK and Ireland box office chart. [It] took £2.97m on its opening weekend." Hardly a huge haul, but then TDK (which finally dropped from first down to fourth) is in its fifth week.
New Pics From Oliver Stone’s W by Glen Ferris
(from Empire Online)
A preview of Empire's preview of Oliver Stone's forthcoming film W.. Stone says that Bush is "a circular character; even now he harkens back to who he was in 2000. His speeches are the same. There doesn’t seem to be a growth. There’s a fundamental inability in the man, a King Lear kind of hubris, where he can’t admit to any fault, whereas Nixon [the subject of Stone's previous Presidential biopic] seems to have been genuinely haunted by doubt and uncertainty. As a result, this is a very different type of movie. While Nixon was a very rich meal, this is more of a soufflé. And with a soufflé, you never quite know until it bakes." And it will be baked & served on November 7th in the UK.
3 comments:
Alicia Keys is awful, and terribly overrated in my opinion.
I would therefore suggest that the new theme is probably a big pile of poo.
We haven't had a good Bond theme since TWINE... and they were usually so good in the old days. Mostly.
Did you ever get a full length version of the Bond theme from the Casino Royale trailer? You know, the one with the choir and stuff? That was awesome.
A fair number of the old Bond themes were fairly crap too. I quite liked the Casino Royale one -- it suited what they were aiming for with the film, more so than (to pick a random old example) something like Moonraker did (which is also a shit song in its own right, of course).
I never did find that Bond theme... but I wish I'd searched for it two years ago, cos I've just found links to a Smirnoff minisite that used to have not only the full track but also all its layers, designed for people to create remixes for a competition. Of course, two years on, the site's gone. Russian bastards.
So, the search goes on...
In case it somehow gets missed: yay!
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