ENTERTAINMENT
January 29, 2008 | By Jill Lawless, Associated Press
IVER HEATH, England -- It takes a lot of planks and plaster to bring James Bond's adventures to life. The latest 007 movie, "Quantum of Solace," is being shot amid high security at a sprawling studio complex near London, where vast soundstages have been transformed into a medieval Italian town, a corner of South America and the high-tech headquarters of British intelligence.
ENTERTAINMENT
November 2, 2008 | By Michael Ordona
After the big gambles that paid off with "Casino Royale," the makers of the James Bond series are now playing with the house's money. "We were coming off a highly successful film, 'Die Another Day'; we sat down with the studio and said, 'We want to do the original book, and there's a 20-minute card game in it. It starts out black and white. There's no Q, no Moneypenny and the girl dies at the end,' " said longtime producer Barbara Broccoli with a laugh.