New James Bond film to release next year

The James Bond franchise will be back on track with a new film hitting the cinemas Nov 9, 2012. Daniel Craig will return as the superspy in the 23rd Bond film, contactmusic.com reports. The franchise was left hanging last year when film studio MGM went into bankruptcy. But new bosses at MGM and

EON Productions have confirmed that Sam Mendes will direct the unnamed action movie.

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Daniel Craig's friend Rachel Weisz finds that home is where the heart is

Rachel Weisz, the New York-based actress, says she misses London, where her Christmas companion, the James Bond star Daniel Craig, has also lived.
Rachel Weisz pledged to continue to bring up her four-year-old son, Henry, in New York when she announced in November that she had split up with Darren Aronofsky, the American film director.

The Oscar-winning star of The Constant Gardener yearns, however, to return to Britain, where she spent Christmas in a West Country cottage with Daniel Craig, who plays James Bond.

"I miss home so much," admits Weisz, 40, who attended St Paul's Girls' School in Hammersmith. "Not only my family, but my friends. Also, London itself.

"I was in London for a long season doing theatre and I was delighted to get to know its parks again and the little shops that are full of charm, and that calmer way of dealing with people."

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James Bond film back on track?

Daniel Craig could return as James Bond in the upcoming installment of the franchise, following reports that the latest 007 film is back on track. Sam Mendes has pulled out of negotiations to direct futuristic thriller The Hunger Games because MGM are ready to move forward with
production on Bond 23.

According to Deadline Hollywood, the shooting for the movie could begin by late summer or early autumn 2011. Earlier, the Bond Daniel Craigflick was put on indefinite hold, with EON Productions blaming the financial difficulties of MGM studios, which is reported to have a 3.7 billion-dollar debt, reports the Mirror.
 
MGM announced this week that its lenders have agreed to extend the company's debt repayment period further.

The studio, which also has a stake in the forthcoming Hobbit movie, is going through a pre-packaged bankruptcy before Spyglass takes over.

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