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I'm guessing the presentation hasn't started yet it's 8 central time usa time
Right. I'm on MST. And Vegas in an hour behind me.
Absolutely.
Not much new, but I believe them that they are getting started! Happiness for us fans!
Though that very much hasn’t been decided, James Bond‘s new owners — Amazon MGM — stopped by Las Vegas for CinemaCon, the annual convention of movie theater owners, to talk up the future of Britain’s favorite martini-drinking spy.
“We are committed to honoring the legacy of this iconic character while bringing a fresh, exotic new chapter to audiences around the world alongside Amy [Pascal] and David [Heyman],” the studio’s executives Courtenay Valenti and Sue Kroll said Wednesday night on stage at Caesars Palace. “They’re both in London getting started and couldn’t be here tonight, but we wanted to thank them for what we know to make an incredible partnership.”
They’ve both other projects on the go, including one they’re making together and a whole big Spider Man film for Pascal; I assume if they are getting started it’s not quite full time yet.
I'm in two minds. My left shoulder tells me it's going to be 18 January 2028, at around 6:03:05 or 6:03:06, in the evening. But, my big toe tells me that if we can get a 2nd lighting technician locked in by 3 January 2026, at about 2:47:32 (no later than 2:47:33, and definitely not 2:47:34! LOL!) in the afternoon, at the very latest, then we could be looking at a 15 November 2027, 5:20:13pm release!
Honestly, I'm happy with this. Now that we have some assurances that things are in the right hands and they aren't just going to pull a Force Awakens I hope they take as long as they need to make the best movie possible.
Bond 26 needs to be at least on a par with Goldeneye and Casino Royale for restarts to the series, if not surpassing them. Even if it is 6+ years between films, I'll happily wait as long as what we eventually get can live up to that standard.
Financially, it has a bit of leeway. It doesn't need to break a billion or anything, and with Bond we're most likely looking at success in this area beyond most films. Maybe there'll be some disastrous Snow White 2025 type situation (I hope not) but for all intents and purposes I see no reason why it won't be successful and I suspect it'll be well made. I don't know if it'll be quite as zeitgeist capturing as, say, SF or GE, or indeed the early Bonds (it'd be wonderful if it was though), but it's worth saying that's not always common, and again it really doesn't need to be in the short term. In that sense it just needs to make an impact and get Bond back onscreen to a good fan fare. We'll then get more films from there under the same producers in an ideal scenario. But make no mistake, we'll all likely pick this film apart, haha.
We're stilling picking apart the 60's films, so yeah that's a safe bet. :D
Oh yeah completely! But I think it's always worth saying what the fandom think and how a Bond film does in the wider world can be different things. I'd love if this film was successful and praised more for less across the board though.
Yeah. I just feel being the first official Non-Eon Bond film, it's automatically a very important film. Also, Amazon have all the tools to have an easier ride. Apart from being super-rich, and apart from access to the Fleming books which EON started with, Amazon have 25 Eon Bond films to look at. Plus, the continuation novels, comics and even some of the games. So I can't help but think that secretly, Amazon might be looking to top EON's Bond work because of the favourable position they are in. Not going to be easy, of course. So many legendary James Bond films to beat. If they can top EON, fine. After all, we all want better Bond films, as the films progress.
Yes. Exactly. Nothing wrong with that.
The one obvious positive of Amazon owning MGM, and Amazon and MGM co-owning Bond is that the marketing push for Bond 26 will be massive. It may even be one of the biggest marketing pushes for any film this decade. If the 2027 release date sticks, then we’re also looking at Bond’s concurrent relaunch into gaming as well.
So far, Amazon seems to be making all the right moves in tamping down on fan fears and surprising their critics. Bond 26 will make a billion dollars. I think that’s the goal. I think the most expensive marketing push for any Bond film in my lifetime was for Die Another Day. I was in high school. Bond was everywhere in the Fall of 2002. Bond 26 will be bigger.
Exactly I haven't been buzzing about Bond in so long. Exciting times! It's interesting that they played Goldfinger is that a clue?
True. Bond 26 is going to be massive. I can imagine the marketing being insane.
So if they're going to take time to develop the script, all power to them.
I personally hope they are going into it trying to make the best Bond film possible, whatever that looks like. As I’ve said before if they don’t then there’s very little point to this endeavour. But I think while there’s that pressure to prove the franchise is in good hands, I think there’s a stability to its affairs now that hasn’t been quite there during other tenuous times for Bond. So I think how high its ‘success’ has to go, especially critically and audience wise, has some leeway (obviously if it flops or suffers some sort of PR disaster this would be concerning, and no doubt it has to be successful).
I think it’s too early to be thinking about whether this next film will break a billion or anything, and in many ways it could be setting us up for disappointment that’s unnecessary. It could well do incidentally. I agree they’ll likely go all in to market this one. Again, I’d bank on it being successful, but I wouldn’t put any number on it yet.
*(and just btw, the Variety write-up about CinemaCon frames the rights as being held by a new company owned by Amazon-MGM, Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson. Not Amazon-MGM and Eon)
As I said the long term will be a bigger issue than the short term (no producer will be around forever). But we can only see.