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  1. This is the real win:

    From Deadline Hollywood 2012


    “Meanwhile Fandango surveyed more than 1,000 Skyfall ticket-buyers and found...54% said Adele’s new theme song increased their awareness of the movie...”


    https://www.google.com/amp/s/deadline.com/2012/11/skyfall-opens-with-imax-midnights-as-321m-bond-movie-abroad-arrives-in-u-s-canada-spielbergs-lincoln-platforms-368990/amp/


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  2. They did 3 good films in a row back in the '60s, thank you very much!
     
    (Dr. No -> From Russia With Love -> Goldfinger)
     
    That said, you do have a point: consistent quality is not something this franchise is known for, Craig's tenure especially. Hopefully his successor will have a better good-film-to-bad-film ratio.


    History has a way of realigning these things. OHMSS, FYEO, LTK and QOS have all been reassessed favorably. OHMSS is now a classic.




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  3. This was written by David Arnold, the composer of Quantum of Solace,  for a Shirley Bassey solo album:

     

     

    I'm pretty sure it was a rejected song for the movie. It even has the word solace in the lyrics. And it is vastly superior to Another Way to Die

     

    I can’t remember where I read this but pieces of the song (not sure if it was the lyrics or arrangement) was part of Amy Winehouse’s early demo for QOS.

     

     

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  4. I could not agree more...the Lange song is vastly better then the Crow song.
    And the lyrics fit in so much better with the movie.



    Hot take:

    I prefer Tomorrow Never Dies over Surrender. I like Surrender but it’s a little too on brand for a Bond song. Also, Lange’s voice doesn’t do much for me.

    On a side note, I love The Living Daylights but I also wish The Pretenders’ Where Has Everybody Gone was a title song.





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  5. Do the producers commission a number of artists to have a go or do the artist come up with songs of their own accord and try their luck? I remember Tarantino talking about how annoyed he got with musicians sending him their work in the hope it would appear on one of his soundtracks. 
     
     


    I think it depends on whether or not the producers or composer or director have a particular artist in mind. Tomorrow Never Dies is interesting because there several demos floating around. If I’m not mistaken, the Swan Lee song was sunset used for one of the Hitman games.


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  6. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7956427/James-Bond-film-No-Time-Die-longest-180-minute-running-time.html


    No Time to Die runs to two hours and 54 minutes - though it may get longer

    The near-three hour film is a 'big gamble' for producers, a film critic said

    The script was 'constantly added to' and plot was changing, a source alleged

    Daniel Craig brought Phoebe Waller-Bridge in to make the script more 'woke'

    She was adding in pages and team were shooting more, making it 'chaotic'

    There’s a lot of hyperbole in the article but I think the takeaway is that this film will be Craig’s epic send off.


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  7.  
    I may be wrong here, but I believe the scheduling conflict was 355 which she signed on to after she was offered Bond.  She was offered Bond first, as well as the lead role in a John Woo remake of The Killer, and was circling both seriously with her fans positive she'd be in both.  And then ended up signing on to 355 instead, thus cancelling her role in both projects.


    You’re right. I didn’t mean to sound as if I was offering an alternative narrative.


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  8. Re: Spectre, the more I watch it, the more I am convinced it wasn't the script as much as it was Lea and Christoph being totally miscast in very critical roles.  Vs QOS where the problem was the script itself.  From the trailers Lashana Lynch looks like she is going to absolutely nail her character, and we've seen little of Ana (which makes me think she'll be onscreen for all of ten minutes) but she's been delivering lately.  Hopefully those two can offset Lea, and hopefully Christoph is relegated to one scene and Rami delivers (not really a Rami guy, at all really, but optimistic for him in this role anyway).
     
    But ultimately I don't really see Spectre affecting this one at the BO.  At the end of the day, this is the final outing of a James Bond actor who had two films that I would imagine many would rank amongst the absolute best Bond films ever.  And unlike Star Wars whose most recent "final entry" film suffered likely due to fans divisiveness over previous entries in the reboot, there has been a lot of room for the franchise to breath and thus even fans who were put off by Spectre will be in for NTTD because there has been a void in the market.  SW released five films in between Spectre and NTTD and that, more than anything, was their fatal flaw.  SW and Bond films need to float on rarefied air of "oh my God, is it that time again?" and I have a lot of confidence for NTTD five years away from Spectre where I might have been more nervous if they were only two years apart.

    EDITED TO ADD: Speaking of Lashana, it is INSANE to me that Lupita passed on her role for Simon Kinberg's 355.  With Kinberg at the helm and a January dump release date, it looks like it might have been a very bad decision.  Then again she's passed on all sorts of stuff I consider crazy and ended up in some great projects nonetheless, so maybe she knows something about NTTD script that we don't yet.


    From what I’ve read, Lupita turned down NTTD because of scheduling conflicts. Interestingly, Rami’s scheduling conflicts between NTTD and Mr. Robot were resolved because Universal stepped in. Universal produced Mr. Robot and is releasing NTTD overseas.


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  9. I think it's a symptom rather than a cause, insofar as writers who indulge that style of storytelling fundamentally misunderstand the appeal of the films and that misunderstanding often seeps its way into other aspects of the script. 
     
    NTTD is starting on the backfoot in that regard as they can't really ignore his new girlfriend, so I'll go easy until I see it. But the trailer really seems to labouring under the impression people loved Spectre. 


    I don’t think the filmmakers are oblivious to Spectre’s reception but they obviously feel there’s a satisfying ending to tell. I feel the trailer was less of a teaser and more of a level set after five years.


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  10. The even numbered ones are crap partly because they thought people liked serialisation in Bond movies. Quantum literally carried on from Casino's last scene while Spectre had the audacity to imply all of Craig's previous villains were part of Blofeld's grand plan. 
     
    Jury's still out on how far down that rabbit hole this movie will jump, but the trailer makes me nervous. 


    To be fair, I don’t think the moral of the story is that audiences don’t want serialization in Bond films but that QOS and SP don’t completely work. Although, both have admirable, even good, elements.

    Also, QOS and SP were both box offices successes. QOS made $586m against CR’s $599, and SP made $880, which is the sixth highest grossing film of 2015.

    I think people are underestimating Bond’s box office appeal and over stating the course correction necessary for NTTD to be a box office and critical success. SP left a bad taste in people’s mouths but so did Die Another Day, and the following film (CR) became the highest grossing and most critically acclaimed Bond film of its day.


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  11. 6 hours ago, lorddemaxus said:

    A 3-day OW above Bad Boys's 4 day? I could easily see at least one of Birds of Prey, Onward, Mulan, and No Time to Die do it. 

    No Time To Die opens Easter weekend. Given the property and the holiday, I think we can expect a 3-day and 4-day larger than Bad Boy's 4. If it opens to $85+ million, like Skyfall, over the 3-day then a $100 million 4-day is on the table.

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