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Also on the Sky thing, back to back movies on one dedicated channel is a great tribute to the movies but they should have put a bit of money and imagination into it, a least in launch week, and had some original documentaries, just a Skyfall exclusive and a Bond girl Doc that was on the Casino Royale DVD. Then a tribute to Desmond Llewelyn, a Casino Royale and a QOS doc - that have all been on TV before!
It's a 90 min documentary about James Bond. That's a fairly niche audience and the distribution and release reflects that.
I agree it sucks, but that's the film business.
Lovely stuff.
I hope this is costing EON money and no one turns up. Perhaps they can subsidise it through the profits they did with that Neflix-lite site that gave it to all of America for free?
Not going to find any sympathy here for EON - their treatment of the global fanbase for this doc and the 50th as a whole has been pitiful.
I'm also getting pretty sick of seeing various posts stating that various old Bond films will be showing on the big screen at the local movie theatre in Hicksville, South Dakota or wherever.
Is anyone aware of any classic films being shown in the UK at all? Not even DN on 'global Bond day'? It takes the piss.
Yeah, right. What have they done for us other than producing a multi-million pound film? So unfair.
We have had plenty of celebratory Bond events this year to mark the 50th. An exhibition of art, design and costuming that will go on a worldwide tour. A display of fifty Bond vehicles at the Motor Museum. A charity auction from Christies, open to all with some low-priced memorabilia. The films released on BluRay. A video game that looks back over the classic Bond films. A photographic exhibition by Terry O'Neill, featuring never seen before pictures. A day celebrating Goldfinger...I actually am losing count of all the events that have happened. To say they've done nothing is a little unfair.
Oh, and The EON doc is not produced by EON, so maybe you should be venting your frustration on the small, independent film company that did make it.
The video game looks crap so that doesn't count.
What I really, really wanted was for old Bond films to be re released at the cinema. I would've killed to see TLD on the big screen again.
Well, the auction had lots that were pretty affordable, actually.
I can't help that you didn't hear of Goldfinger Day, but that doesn't mean it didn't happen.
Whatever your views on the game, it has still been produced as part of the celebrations, so it does count.
Remember, EON doesn't own the back catalogue. MGM does. It's hardly EON's fault if they haven't chosen to re-release the films.
Perhaps they could have re-released a few, but the margins on a re-release of something like TLD would be tiny. Do you really think that the prints and distribution and paying for the run would wash its face? It would lose money, no question.
This is a joke right? The cheapest things on there were about £1000. I earn a decent salary but I'm afraid £1000 is a bit of a ridiculous outlay. If I'd sought it out then fine, but to advertise it as something for the fans is a bit aloof if you ask me.
The teenage me would've had absolutely no chance of getting anything from this auction - where's the affordable stuff for people who don't have the money or don't want to pay through the nose.
Well thats actually their business I think you'll find. I think they expect to make millions from it - or is that the big 50th treat to the fans; you dont have to pay to go and see SF?
Should we be applauding people for merely doing their job now?
So a small independent film company decide to just give their film away for free in the worlds biggest market and then not even release it anywhere else apart from the UK do they? No wonder they are small - I'm amazed they are still solvent. A third party company have obviously been commissioned to make this film but EON are in ultimate control of the strategy for all this stuff.
What has really happened is that some misguided cretin at EON has thought 'lets give the fans a treat and let them see this for free. We'll release on some site that no one can access outside US borders and wont they all be pleased?'
Well it seems doubleonothing is happy with this approach but forgive those of us in the rest of the world who arent. I'm not sure which is more of an insult - living in the rest of the world where you cant access it at all or living in Great Britain (but not Northern Ireland) where you are expected to pay for a cinema ticket.
This from the Christies website, the crucial sentence in bold.
Online auction – www.christies.com/bond
From Friday, 28 September to Monday, 8 October 2012, forty lots will be sold in an online auction allowing Bond fans from around the world to bid in real time for memorabilia selected by EON Productions from their archives. Items on offer will represent every one of the twenty-three James Bond films, including props, costumes, posters, jewellery and more. All lots are offered without reserve, with bids starting at only £50 each; estimates for individual items start from £1,000.
No wonder doubleonothing isnt too bothered that James Bond day is a joke. If he thinks a starting price of a grand is 'affordable' hes probably got his own Learjet to fly out to the states and catch all the events there while spraying the Bond 50th Bollinger all over supermodels and chomping on Beluga sarnies.
Well we're criticising EON here and as this event was organised by the London Film Memorabilia Convention and has cock all to do with them I dont really see your point.
doubleonothings position appears to be that we should be ecstatic at whatever pitiful scraps EON throw at us from their table. Presume he has the same opinion of the Bluray release as well? Just eat up your thin gruel people and stop complaining is apparently what we should be doing.
You have a point here - kind of. Not saying release some of the more obscure (to the general public) films but if youre telling me releasing DN on Bond day for a week wouldnt cover its costs but some documentary about Bond would then I dont believe you. In any case they are releasing loads of old films in the states so are they doing that just to lose money? DN in London on limited screens and for a limited time would make money.
And in any event how about just taking the hit and releasing a few as a treat to the fans? At the end of the day its hardly going to make much of a dent in the SF box office is it?
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Well, I suppose it depends on your definition of "affordable" doesn't it? Whilst nearly all the items for auction would be out of the reach of the average teenager, you have to remember that these lots are pieces of genuine Bond history. It's a question of supply and demand that determines their value. There's limited supply and a high demand. Of course they're not going to go for a tenner.
Secondly, this auction is for charity. All the proceeds go to worthy charitable causes. Are you really suggesting that they try to make less money for the needy so that those with a smaller income can buy a Bond prop?
I would suggest that a thousand pounds is a reasonable amount for a serious collector to part with for a piece of genuine Bond memorabilia and knowing that money is for a good cause.
either way they should have part financed this doc and put it on the bloody bonus disc.
Park Circus released Goldfinger nationwide a few years back as part of 6 weeks of British Films. It doesn't cost as much as it did to do this now that films have been digitalised. I'm stunned Dr No is not on release this Friday.
I saw GF and OHMSS in the cinema when they did the digital releases...seems odd that they'd put them out then and not now.
I'm sure there's a reason for all of this, but I honestly can't think what it is.
http://uk.ign.com/articles/2012/10/03/everything-or-nothing-the-untold-story-of-007-review
7.2/10
I second that @doubleonothing.
The clip showed on this video report by BBC is the Teaser Trailer.
If you're in America you can watch it on some cable thing for free online.