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VILLAIN CAST FOR NEXT 007 MOVIE Thursday, February 16 2006 
Bearing
out
rumors
spread
by
his
taxi-cab
driver
father,
Danish
actor
Mads
Mikkelsen
appeared
at
a
news
conference
Wednesday
in
the
Czech
Republic
with
the
producers
and
leading
actors
of
the
forthcoming
007
movie
Casino
Royale,
where
it
was
announced
that
he
had
landed
the
role
of
the
villain
Le
Chiffre.
The
role
was
played
by
Orson
Welles
in
the
1967
spoof
of
the
Ian
Fleming
book.
The
new
film
has
already
begun
shooting,
despite
(more)MGM JOINS BLU-RAY CAMP Thursday, November 10 2005 As expected, MGM has announced its support of Sony's Blu-ray high-definition DVD format against Toshiba's competing HD DVD system. The announcement came on Tuesday, roughly six months after Sony led an investment group in acquiring MGM from Kirk Kerkorian. Analysts had said at the time that one of the reasons for Sony's interest in the deal was MGM's vast library -- more than 4,000 titles -- which it could instantly convert to Blu-ray product. In (more) |
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Just one day after announcing that Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen would portray the villain in Casino Royale, the next James Bond flick, the film's producers said that French actress Eva Green had been cast as the next "Bond girl." Green, who starred opposite Orlando Green in Kingdom of Heaven (and was later linked to him romantically), will play the role of Vesper Lynd, a role played by Swiss actress Ursula Andress in the original 1967 Casino Royale spoof. In a statement, producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, said: "After an extensive search we have found the perfect actress. ... She brings to the complex role of Vesper an exciting combination of enigmatic and seductive beauty." Columbia Pictures Chairman Amy Pascal added that while Bond stories are first about action, "you need to have palpable sexual tension in the movie and in casting Vesper, we really needed to up the ante, because this character is very much an equal to Bond and central to our story."
