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200,000 CASINO ROYALE BOOTLEGS DOWNLOADED, SAYS REPORT Tuesday, November 21 2006 
From
Russia
with
love
--
and
perhaps
a
degree
of
malice
as
well
--
came
the
first
bootleg
copies
of
Casino
Royale,
the
latest
James
Bond
flick.
According
to
Envisional,
an
online
company
that
monitors
Internet
piracy,
a
poor-quality
copy
of
the
film,
apparently
captured
with
a
camcorder
in
a
Russian
theater,
first
popped
up
on
Internet
file-sharing
sites
on
Friday,
the
day
the
movie
opened.
But
sound
and
picture
quality
were
said
to
be
(more)MOVIE REVIEWS: CASINO ROYALE Friday, November 17 2006 
Like
their
British
counterparts,
American
film
critics
are
bestowing
high
praise
on
Daniel
Craig
for
his
performance
as
James
Bond
in
Casino
Royale.
"Daniel
Craig
is
just
right
in
the
role,"
Michael
Phillips
writes
in
the
Chicago
Tribune.
"Craig
is
definitely
the
Real
Thing,"
comments
Eleanor
Ringel
Gillespie
in
the
Atlanta
Journal-Constitution.
Amy
Biancolli
enthuses
in
the
Houston
Chronicle.
"Craig's
performance
categorically
silences
the
naysayers,
igniting
the
film
with
a
combustible,
half-cocked
virility
that
the
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In nearly every country where it has opened -- the U.S. is the conspicuous exception -- the James Bond movie Casino Royale has dominated the box office. It debuted in first place in 18 additional countries over the weekend, helping to raise its overseas total for the weekend to an estimated $66.2 million and raising its total overseas gross to $108.4 million. It outperformed every previous Bond flick in each country. However, it has done so up to now without the challenge of Happy Feet.
