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'Quantum of Solace' Public Premiere To Take Place At London Film Festival

New James Bond film to be screened on 29 October at Odeon West End

From the BBC:

First public screening for Bond

The first public screening of new Bond film Quantum of Solace is to take place at this year's London Film Festival, organisers have announced.

It will take place on 29 October at the Odeon West End - the same night as the film's world premiere.

The festival will open with director Ron Howard's Frost/Nixon, based on interviews given by the disgraced former US president to Sir David Frost.

Penelope Cruz and Omar Sharif are amongst the stars expected to attend.

This year's event is due to take place in the capital from 15 to 30 October.

The announcement of the Bond premiere coincides with the release of a second trailer for Quantum of Solace, six weeks ahead of the film's arrival in UK cinemas.

The taster contains excerpts from previously unseen action sequences and shows Daniel Craig's 007 and Dame Judi Dench's M discussing revenge.

New Bond girl Olga Kurylenko is also featured in the trailer, which introduces the film's French villain Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric).

Real-life figures

It is the first time a new Bond movie has featured in the festival's line-up.

Other movies screening at the 52nd London Film Festival include W, Oliver Stone's biopic of President George W Bush.
Hebron (left) said she was "delighted" with the "high-quality" programme

Josh Brolin plays the title role in a cast that includes James Cromwell as George Bush Senior and Britain's Thandie Newton as Condoleezza Rice.

The film is one of a number of titles that take their inspiration from real-life figures.

In addition to Frost/Nixon, the festival includes Steven Soderbergh's two-part portrait of guerrilla leader Che Guevara, Bobby Sands drama Hunger and a documentary about the late writer Hunter S Thompson.

Also included are films about the Baader Meinhof gang, boxer Mike Tyson and 1960s pop producer Joe Meek.

The festival will also feature a number of titles seen at this year's Cannes Film Festival, including Palme d'Or winner The Class and Woody Allen comedy Vicky Cristina Barcelona.

'Festival of festivals'

Other celebrity guests expected to attend include Gwyneth Paltrow, Rachel Weisz, Benicio Del Toro and Colin Firth.

Danny Boyle, director of closing night film Slumdog Millionaire, will discuss his craft on stage at the National Film Theatre, as will writer-director Charlie Kaufman and Scotland's Robert Carlyle.

Speaking at Wednesday's press launch, artistic director Sandra Hebron said the event would host an "unprecedented" number of premieres this year.

London, she continued, had an advantage over its rivals in that it was "not constrained by the requirements of an A-grade competitive festival."

Though the event awards prizes to first-time filmmakers, it does not have a main competition like Venice, Cannes or Berlin.




Tickets available to BFI members from 26th September. Non-BFI from 28th September

At this rate, the film will be playing in 2007 in the UK.

They had public simultaneaous screenings in the Odeon West End and the Empire on World Premiere night for CR as well, although they were organised through the CTBF

'Quantum of Solace' Public Premiere To Take Place At London Film Festival

New James Bond film to be screened on 29 October at Odeon West End

How much do these tickets cost? I know it's pretty expensive down west, like over £10 for 1 ticket, ugh.

I'd absolutely love to go to this! I'm not a member of the BFI but hopefully can get my hand on some tickets

Sounds like a fine event to me. Anyone here planning on it?

I should be there. couldn't wangle any tickets to the world premiere this time

Hmmm... a bunch of us were planning to go see it there together on the 31st, but this may mean we can see it even sooner?

Again, hmmm....

interesting.... A similar event happened for CR. You had to become a member to be eligible to apply for a ticket.

However a lot of you will remember, that a few weeks before CR's release the odeon web site started selling tickets for a screening at midnight right after the world premiere at the odeon Leicester square.

That's where I saw CR , hopefully odeon will do the same for QOS

I'm still surprised they haven't announced that the film will be released on the 30th yet. Hopefully it will be

Ticket price is £25.00, but a portion of that goes to the Royal Premiere charities. Start time is 20.15, so I guess it is similiar to CR, in that they broadcast the activities at the Leicester Square Odeon into the West End Odeon and then show the film pretty much seconds after it starts at the Leicester Square Odeon

I am sort of a bit narked that THE QUANTUM OF THE SOLACE is being premiered to the public at the London Film Festival which is one of the most over-priced under-programed film carnivals in the world.

And if SOLACE is at all showing at the Odeon West End I would strongly urge Eon Productions to check out the staff. I've seen LFF wares there many times and every time the foyer and cinema staff are rude beyond rude (not letting you go to the toilet on your way out after the film and when questioned why become abrasive and discourteous). It sort of ruins my notion to catch SOLACE in London when it will be everywhere that day anyway.

What's the ticket hotline?