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Sunday, January 29, 2012

Beckinsale movie tops film chart

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23 January 2012 Last updated at 10:49 GMT

Beckinsale plays vampire warrior Selene in Underworld Awakening The fourth Underworld movie, which sees the return of Kate Beckinsale, has topped the US film chart on its debut.

Underworld Awakening made $25.4m (£16.3m) this weekend, according to official estimates.

Beckinsale starred in the first two vampire action movies in the franchise but bowed out of the third before making her comeback.

Sony's president of worldwide distribution, Rory Bruer, credited Beckinsale for the film's success.

"She is such a force. Her character - you just can't take your eyes off her. I know the character is very dear to her as well, and she just kills it," he said.

Red Tails, about the first black fighter pilots to serve in World War II - the Tuskegee Airman - entered the chart at number two.

The movie, executive produced by George Lucas, made an estimated $19.1m (£12.3m), well above expectations according to its studio, 20th Century Fox.

"I believe what George Lucas has stated all along - this is an important story and a story that must be told," said the studio's Chris Aronson.

Last week's number one, Contraband, starring Mark Wahlberg, dropped to number three with $12.2m (£7.8m).

September 11 drama, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, starring Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock, came in fourth with $10.5m (£6.8m).

Stephen Soderbergh's Haywire was fifth with takings of $9m (£5.8m).

Rounding out the top 10 were the Disney re-release of Beauty and the Beast at six, Joyful Noise at seven, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol at eight, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows at nine and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo at 10.

Source BBC

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Play villain Javier Bardem in the next James Bond movie

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Javier BardemFabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images

Javier Bardem has a pretty good hit rate as a bad guy: the last time "has Spanish actor" evil, it won an Oscar for no country for old men. He is the man final kills from James Bond? (Probably not.)

42 Years Javier Bardem has revealed that he is to take one of the most famous roles in the cinema: the James Bond arch enemy. The transmitter of Christiane Amanpour has confirmed the scoop on ABC Nightline as Bardem of one of the best kept secrets of Hollywood's.

"I'm very excited, because my parents me [bond] to see films and I took, to which all of them, looked so to play, the fun," Bardem said. "they have this man to play me," he continued, "but I can give you lots of information." Since presumably if he out have geplaudert, he would then have to kill Amanpour (which may be good for ABC would have little on Amanpour's career reviews but).

(Photos: Bardem's career in the film)

What we do know is this: the next Bond film is officially known as bond 23 (the standard procedure in bond world), the rumor mill suggests that it finally Skyfall, called which would at least an improvement over the clunkily titled quantum of solace.

Planned for release in November 2012, assumes the role of 007 for a third time and fellow Brit Sam Mendes directed by Daniel Craig, with the film possibly is the first Bond film to be rotated. Work on bond 23 was last year because of concerns about the future of MGM, exposed to had filed for bankruptcy protection.

As other casting decisions reported in the Belfast Telegraph, that relatively unknown actress Berenice Marlohe the role of Bond girl has caught and Naomie Harris (Pirates of the Caribbean) and Ralph Fiennes Chief M will be included with Dame Judi Dench as bond.

One could argue that Bardem spends his life with a bond, the girls see his own that he has been married against the Spanish Penelope Cruz. But if he feels himself slightly rusty in the villain, we suggest he rewatch his performance as Anton Chigurh in no country. Because if he brings but a little bit of this threat, bond and the public in for a sleepless night.

Photos:The best of the bond girls

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