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Eon, as the production company, hold the underlying rights to Bond (so they have very strong creative control) with MGM. And Sony are their partners for world-wide distribution, which is absolutely central to financing the film, so like all co-productions, Eon have to run everything (all key decisions etc.) through both MGM and Sony, and those "men in suits" have a huge responsibility towards their own business and shareholders because the deals on Bond are HUGE in terms of production budget, cash-flow, international marketing, and, hopefully, profits for all parties. So there's a lot at stake and so Sony are all over Bond, watching the creative process - story and script - like hawks - and maintaining a firm grip during production. They clearly deeply respect and trust Eon and Mendes - but obviously, just like members here on these forums, everyone has an opinion. And the more at stake - the more opinions there are. Eon, like all strong production companies and producers, essentially deal with all this and try to protect their director and writers as much as possible from the back room politics and keep the film on track.
These Sony leaks are awful - I for one am avoiding reading them.
Well .. this really spoils a bit some of the surprises SP can bring.
I would suggest that those who dont really want to know much about the film, dont read it. (for me it's OK because i want to know).
But what really annoys me is how an established/huge media such as CNN would do a piece based on information leaked through piracy.
I supose it's legal but imorall as well, at least it's what i think.
The news anchor says it's just a trial explosion, without cameras filming it. They're just testing how things would look. ;) Nevertheless, it's great to finally see some action on the set!
New photos confirming this as a location.
http://www.theestablishingshot.com/2014/12/first-look-bond-24-spectre-film.html
http://t.co/YDrbCfKxJX
In the Austrian press too
Oh dear, this is the price of fame I guess and a sign of more things to come :(
Well of course it faces on to Bond street station. LOL!
Anyway, moving on...
Are you for real? Have you read the leaks? It is completely obvious that they are real as they contains specific story details and names. Not just the Bond leaks but also everything else is so specific that only someone who knows just about everything about the enterntainment industry and is a hard core Bond fan could fake all this stuff.
Having said that, all the notes that have leaked so far refer to earlier versions of the screenplay, so nobody knows what they have changed and what they haven't.
Even more considering 3 more writers worked on the script this year.
Absolutely agree! There is enough to discuss, new photos, the information about filming in Rome, the explosion rehearsal in Austria :)
These locations are mentioned in the article, in reference to the car chase:
Porte Pia
Via Barberinu
Milvan bridge
I have avoided reading the actual leaked documents, but from what others have described in terms of the badly written script notes from someone within Sony, I can say, as a screenwriter myself, that I have frequently received very badly written - often incoherent - script notes, and sometimes the author/s can be disrespectful and show little understanding of the actual script (the draft) and the screenwriting process. But this, of course, is not always the case because some producers/script editors/execs etc. give excellent and very insightful script notes or comments.
Fully agreed, which is why I have not and will not read them, regardless of their veracity. But already within the past day I've been finding bits and details I didn't know and don't necessarily want to know popping up in various threads. I don't know if all of these have come from the leaks or from other news sources I just haven't seen yet. There's no way I'm leaving the board for the next year, so I guess I'll just live with it and in the meantime simply ask those with knowledge of SPECTRE details to use spoiler tags judiciously.
https://hmssweblog.wordpress.com/2014/12/11/spectre-may-be-one-of-most-expensive-movies-ever-made/
I am so excited about the filming locations in Rome, though. I have been there recently.
EON always 'scaled up' the budget when the immediately preceding movie was a commercial and critical success. So they were definitely going to do it this time. The only time they scaled down in budget was when the immediately preceding movie was a financial success but critically panned or not up to snuff...i.e. MR & DAD
Having said that, they have a lot of experience with this, so I'm sure they are not going to overbudget or overspend. They know what is expected from the fans and what SP can reasonably expect to make in the box office. 50+ experience with this is huge....
The bottom line is they will be hard pressed to net as money in pocket as they did with SF. The US $ is not cooperating (which will hurt overall worldwide gross unless ticket prices increase or audience numbers go up) and they got major savings with filming a lot of SF in Scotland and England the last time around.
They do of course get payment for filming in Mexico (or so I have heard from someone. Was this confirmed? I know it happens occasionally) but yeah, Rome, in particular, seems really expensive. However, I don't expect them to cut on critical things. If they have to convert the budget to euros with the US dollar like this they may have less budget than SF eventually. It happens, although I did not check the state of the US dollar lately.
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another excellent piece @waverly.
I think the Sony leaks really just gave some insight into the budget wrangling that goes on, on any big budget production. The stuff that eventually comes out in someone's book someday.
As the mi6 homepage article here notes, the budget revelations, give Mendes press-gathering remarks some context.
secondly, i thought sony would leave EON alone with this one considering their track record. i hope sony doesn't meddle too much considering the shit they produce on their own like Amazin spiderman 2.
thirdly, why would this leak be different that other leaks of information? are we trying to be self-rightious about this? the studio source that leaks information (bond 24 name, chris waltz info, etc info we got before Dec 4th) is the same as this. whoever leaked the information was breaching a confidentiality contact and would be the same thing. what am i missing here?