Looks like you won’t see a new Bond movie for at least two more years.
MGM is in the red, Bond star Daniel Craig‘s found other work and worst: The script for 23 still isn’t ready yet.
“Quantum of Solace” and “Casino Royale” star Craig recently committed to the Hollywood adaptation of the Swedish film “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.”
David Fincher’s remake of the Swedish-language bestseller won’t begin shooting until later this year, meaning that Craig wouldn’t be free until later in 2011 at the earliest, according to the L.A. Times.
Craig’s moves away from Bond, meanwhile, come as MGM is in a world of hurt. The company is reportedly nearly $4 billion in debt and unable, in the meantime, to fund new movies.
Switching Bond actors is not believed in the works but Craig, who turned 42 in March, would be too old to play Bond if the delay stretches on for much longer.
Moreover, the new Bond film has been billed as the third in the trilogy that began with “Casino Royale.” And with the need to wrap up many dangling plot lines — in this case, Bond’s quest for resolution after the death of romantic interest Vesper Lynd, among others — the third movie in a trilogy is typically hardest to lock down, the Times noted.
Producers on the James Bond movies are said to be “panicked” about the delay of the movie.
Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson – who have worked on a number of the spy movies including ‘Quantum of Solace’ and ‘Casino Royale’ with Craig, are “completely panicked that if they go five, six years without a Bond movie, it’ll be over. They don’t want to kill the golden goose,” a source told the Hollywood Reporter.
Despite being born to Baptist and Catholic parents, Julia Roberts found herself a new religion during filming of her new movie “Eat, Pray, Love.”
The actress, who spent time in India and Bali for the film, tells the September issue of Elle magazine that she is now a practicing Hindu who goes to temple to “chant, pray and celebrate.”
“I’m definitely a practicing Hindu,” says Roberts, adding that she takes her entire brood – including husband Danny Moder and their kids Henry, 3, and 5-year-old twins Phinnaeus and Hazel – to temple on a regular basis.
And since Hindus believe their souls can be reincarnated, Roberts hopes to come back in a life opposite of her own celebrity lifestyle.
“Golly, I’ve been so spoiled with my friends and family in this life,” the 42-year-old actress says. “Next time I want to be just something quiet and supporting.”
David Carradine‘s widow is fighting off the financial claims an ex-wife is making on his estate, but the whole estate amounts to only $40,000, according to TMZ.
Anne Carradine filed a petition to be named administrator of David’s estate, though she claims the estate is so paltry the filing shouldn’t be necessary.
In the documents, Anne claims the grand total of David’s estate is $40,000 in personal property, and $0 in real estate.
David’s ex-wife Gail Jensen, who died in April, had filed papers before she died asking to administer the estate because she claimed David owed her money.
Three decades after John Lennon‘s death, Yoko Ono said she opposes his killer’s parole because he remains a potential threat.
Ono said she was trying to be “practical” in asking that Mark David Chapman remain behind bars for fatally shooting the pop legend on Dec. 8, 1980, outside Lennon’s Manhattan apartment building. Chapman, who has been repeatedly denied parole, is up for review again this month in New York State.
Lennon’s widow said Chapman might be a danger to her, other family members and perhaps even himself. She did not elaborate.
At his last parole hearing, Chapman said he was ashamed and sorry for gunning down the former Beatle. He told the parole board he understood the gravity of his actions and was a changed man.
Ono, 77, made her remarks at a meeting Thursday of the Television Critics Association. She was discussing a new PBS documentary on Lennon’s family and artistic life in New York in the 1970s.
“LennonNYC,” airing Nov. 22 as part of the “American Masters” public TV series, includes rare studio recordings, concert film outtakes and home movies, producer Susan Lacy said.
Ono provided access and was among those interviewed for the documentary.
Reviewing her life with Lennon was “painful” at times, Ono said, but provided the chance to show him as a “three-dimensional person” and to explore his ultimately tragic affection for New York.
The film “is about New York, the city he was in love with and strangely, the city that he loved so much, it killed him,” Ono said. “It was his love, and it was his death.” Lennon would have been 70 in October.
— The Associated Press also contributed to this report
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