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Any flat can look great in a Bond movie, writes Daisy Waugh for The Sunday Times. The reality, like Hugh Grant’s nostrils, can be disappointing

Quantum of Solace is holding much stronger in the U.K. than it is in the U.S., where it fell 60 percent last weekend, only its second here. Then again, its U.K. competition wasn’t giving it much of a challenge this weekend.

The James Bond thriller “Quantum of Solace” opened in first place in U.S. and Canadian theaters with ticket sales of $70.4 million for Sony Corp. and Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer Inc., the best-ever debut for the spy franchise, according to Michael White and James Callan for Bloomberg. The film series, which began in 1962 with “Dr. No,” [...]

Travel like 007? Low impact, he ain’t, says Rob Lovitt, travel writer for msnbc.com. He’s ba-a-ck. Indeed, the man from MI6 — you know, the dapper gent with the penchant for fast cars, comely companions and fine-tuned martinis — is back with a vengeance. “Quantum of Solace,” the 22nd James Bond movie, hits U.S. movie [...]

“Quantum of Solace,” Daniel Craig’s second outing as James Bond, begins just minutes after “Casino Royale” ended and sets off at such a furious pace — a breakneck car chase along hairpin roads — you half expect 007 to overtake himself and save his lover Vesper Lynd from the soggy Venetian fate that ended “Royale”, [...]

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Sony’s “Quantum of Solace” hit paydirt in Europe with socko openings in major and minor markets and gritty holds on home turf in the U.K. and in France, according to Archie Thomas in Variety. Brit superspy James Bond is showing great traction at the U.K. box office. “Quantum of Solace,” distribbed by Sony, followed up [...]

James Bond blew away foreign box office rivals as “Quantum of Solace” gunned down $106.5 million at 9,870 playdates in 60 territories — the 11th biggest international weekend ever, writes Dave McNary for Variety. Underlining Bond’s global popularity, Sony-MGM’s Bond pic averaged a socko $10,790 per location. It’s cumed an eye-popping $160.3 million internationally in [...]

Hornby posted on Friday a 33 percent drop in half-year profit, hitting its shares, but had high hopes the release of its new James Bond Scalextric model cars would boost Christmas sales, according to an article in the International Hereld Tribune written by Farah Master and Martina Fuchs. Hornby posted on Friday a 33 percent [...]

I’m a big James Bond fan, so am looking forward to the newest Daniel Craig installment when it opens this month, writes Sue Frause for the Seattle Travel Examiner. And what better way than to get a touch of Bond than by staying in Wimco Villas’ Villa La Guardia in Tuscany’s Maremma coast. The historic [...]