James Bond 'Ultimate Edition' DVD Boxed Set Releases

It was previously reported that three actor-specific ‘Ultimate Edition’ DVD boxed sets (Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Pierce Brosnan) would be released in the UK, as well details on a James Bond Ultimate Golden Triple Pack boxed set. CBn now rounds up all the latest details regarding the releases of the ‘Ultimate Edition’ boxed sets in both the UK and US…

James Bond ‘Ultimate Edition’ Volumes (US)

The US release of the James Bond ‘Ultimate Edition’ DVDs was broken up into four boxed sets, the first two released on 7 November 2006, and the following two on 12 December. Each set contains five films each, for a grand total of all twenty films.

Order Volume 1 (Gold Box Set – 7 November): Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever, The Man With The Golden Gun, The Living Daylights, and The World Is Not Enough

Order Volume 2 (Blue Box Set – 7 November): Thunderball, The Spy Who Loved Me, A View To A Kill, Licence To Kill, and Die Another Day

Pre-order Volume 3 (Red Box Set – 12 December): From Russia With Love, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Live And Let Die, For Your Eyes Only, and GoldenEye

Pre-order Volume 4 (Silver Box Set – 12 December): Dr. No, You Only Live Twice, Moonraker, Octopussy, and Tomorrow Never Dies

Actor-Specific Boxed Sets

Currently available only in the UK, these three boxed sets collect together the official James Bond films of Sean Connery, Roger Moore, and Pierce Brosnan. They were each released on 27 November 2006. Cover art for each boxed set can now be viewed here on the CBn Forums.

Order the Sean Connery ‘Ultimate Edition’ James Bond DVD Set: contains Dr. No, From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, and Diamonds Are Forever.

Order the Roger Moore ‘Ultimate Edition’ James Bond DVD Set: contains Live And Let Die, The Man With The Golden Gun, The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, and A View To A Kill.

Order the Pierce Brosnan ‘Ultimate Edition’ James Bond DVD Set: contains GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough, and Die Another Day.

Ultimate Triple Agent Boxed Sets

Also released exclusively to the UK are two James Bond ‘Ultimate Edition’ Triple Agent boxed sets: the Golden and Red collections. They each contain three films from the series and were released on 27 November 2006.

Order the ‘Ultimate Edition’ Golden Triple Agent Collection: contains Goldfinger, The Man With The Golden Gun, and GoldenEye.

Order the ‘Ultimate Edition’ Red Triple Agent Collection: contains Dr. No, Live And Let Die, and Tomorrow Never Dies.

Complete ‘Ultimate Edition’ Boxed Sets

Released only in the UK, the first set was the Limited Edition Attache Case set, released on 17 July 2006. This is followed by the James Bond ‘Ultimate Edition’ Collection, which was released on 4 December 2006.

Order the James Bond ‘Ultimate Edition’ Limited Edition Attache Case: contains all twenty official James Bond films.

Order the James Bond ‘Ultimate Edition’ Collection: contains all twenty official James Bond films.

‘Ultimate Edition’ Individual Releases

Released initially on 17 July 2006, all twenty official James Bond films can be ordered individually in the UK.

Click here for CommanderBond.net’s full round-up of all the latest James Bond 007 ‘Ultimate Edition’ DVD news: front and back cover art, box cover art, worldwide release dates, menu and screen caps, new certificates, ordering details, special features, technical specs, and more.

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Casino Royale Reprint Hits Charts; Audiobook Is #1

The release of the 21st official James Bond film, Casino Royale, has lead to a spark of interest for Ian Fleming’s original novel of the same name.

The Young Bond Dossier reports that the audiobook version of Casino Royale, read by Simon Vance, is currently #1 on the download chart at the Apple iTunes store.

Additionally, the official IFP website reported that the UK Penguin reprint of Casino Royale entered the fiction paperback bestseller chart at #43. The Hebrew reprint peaked at #3–the first time a Bond novel has been in print in that language in many years.

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Chris Cornell's 'You Know My Name' Nominated For Satellite Award

CBn Forum member ‘littlenellie’ reports that Chris Cornell’s title song for Casino Royale, ‘You Know My Name,’ has been nominated in the International Press Academy’s Golden Satellite Awards for best original song.

‘You Know My Name’ goes up against:

• ‘Upside Down,’ Jack Johnson, Curious George. Imagine/Universal
• ‘Never Let Go,’ Bryan Adams, Trevor Rabin The Guardian. Disney
• ‘Till The End Of Time,’ Nick Urata Devotchka, Little Miss Sunshine. Fox Searchlight
• ‘Love You I Do,’ Henry Krieger, Siedah Garrett, Dreamgirls. Dreamworks/Paramount
• ‘Listen’ Henry Krieger, Anne Previn, Dreamgirls. Dreamworks/Paramount

Pre-order the ‘You Know My Name’ CD single from Amazon.co.uk (£3.99)

Pre-order the ‘You Know My Name’ CD single from Amazon.com ($11.99)

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Casino Royale Passes $300 Million Mark

‘Nobody does it better’ seems like a pretty fitting tagline at the moment. Continuing on in its worldwide box office success, Casino Royale has now made more than $300 million worldwide–reports Deadline Hollywood Daily.

With a foreign total of $196.4 million and the current US total at $112 million, Daniel Craig’s first James Bond film performed strongly both internationally and in the US.

Casino Royale opened #1 in Japan with $3.3 million. Other weekend estimates for the film include: UK $10.4 million, Germany $8.6 million, France $5.3 million, Spain $2 million, Switzerland $1.7 million, and Denmark $1.6 million.

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Casino Royale UK Box Office Overtakes Die Another Day

According to Variety, Casino Royale has already earned more money from the UK box office in its first two full weeks than the entire UK box office take for 2002’s Die Another Day.

The newest James Bond film, in only two full weeks of release in the UK, has already earned $60 million. The most recent 007 film, Die Another Day grossed roughly $59 million in its entire UK box office.

Casino Royale was the 9th biggest all time UK opening day of £1.7 million as well as the biggest ever opening in the UK for a James Bond film. It beat the previous record holder, 2002’s Die Another Day (which took in &pound1.1 million), by 46%.

Casino Royale also made its way into the top three all time biggest UK weekend openings with $25,524,511 (about £13.49 million).

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Martin Campbell Proud of Casino Royale

Director Martin Campbell has reason to be satisfied with the final result that is Casino Royale, reports the New Zealand Herald.

However, work on the 21st official James Bond film could be described quite simply as a ‘nightmare,’ said the director. ‘Every time we called “cut” we had to go back to square one. We had 50 decks of cards, all pre-set so, when you dealt, the right hands would come up. All the chips had to be in perfect position around the actors. But there were three major sections and I had to shoot them slightly differently each time so it was difficult.’

On the harsh publicity regarding Daniel Craig as the new 007, Campbell said: ‘Everyone is a little possessive of Bond, and I suppose Daniel wasn’t right to a lot of these people. Then you see it and you realise he’s absolutely terrific.’

When it came to Ian Fleming’s very first James Bond novel, ‘everyone realised we had to go back to basics,’ he says. ‘We changed a few things–the villain becomes a banker for terrorism–and added a lot more action. But, essentially, it’s the same story.’

‘I like the fact I slipped under the radar,’ he said when discussing the lack of recognition he has received for his work in his home country. ‘I just tried to get on with my career. Recognition is bullshit. It’s the work that’s important.’

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A Night Out With Mads Mikkelsen

The New York Times features a new article based on a night out with Mads Mikkelsen, who plays the villainous Le Chiffre in Casino Royale.

While ordering dinner, Mikkelsen said of his role in the newest James Bond film: ‘I tried to make Le Chiffre an asthmatic and a heavy smoker. I thought that was a great combination. But no one smokes in a Bond film anymore.’

Mikkelsen did not watch either the 1954 or 1967 version of Casino Royale, nor did he read Ian Fleming’s novel of the same name while preparing for the role.

‘I was probably the clumsiest villain in the history of Bond films because I lost my depth perception,’ he mentioned when discussing the cloudy contact lens provided to him from the art department for the role. ‘I was bumping into lamps and sticking my hand out to shake hands that weren’t there.’

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Details On Upcoming Casino Royale Competition

Variety reports with details on upcoming competition that Casino Royale will be facing in December.

The biggest competition to James Bond (despite a very close US battle with Happy Feet‘s penguins) is New Line’s The Nativity Story, which will open at 3,183 playdates. However, according to the report: ‘viewed as somewhat unpredictable, given that it lacks the buzz of controversy that helped propel The Passion of the Christ to over $600 million in worldwide grosses.’

While the battle between Casino Royale and Happy Feet has been centered in the US so far, the penguins will be following James Bond to the foreign market (where 007 is currently dominating the box office) with openings in Germany and Italy for the Warner Bros film.

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James Bond 007 'Ultimate Edition' Actor-Specific Box Art Online

CBn had previously reported that UK James Bond fans who prefer the films of one specific 007 actor over another would be in luck with the latest planned ‘Ultimate Edition’ DVD releases.

Available to order on Play.com, three new James Bond ‘Ultimate Edition’ sets were released on 27 November 2006: the Sean Connery, Roger Moore, and Pierce Brosnan box sets. Cover art for each boxed set can now be viewed here on the CBn Forums.

The Connery set will include all six of his official James Bond films, all seven for the Moore set and all four for the Brosnan set.

Order the Sean Connery ‘Ultimate Edition’ James Bond DVD Set

Order the Roger Moore ‘Ultimate Edition’ James Bond DVD Set

Order the Pierce Brosnan ‘Ultimate Edition’ James Bond DVD Set

Click here for CommanderBond.net’s full round-up of all the latest James Bond 007 ‘Ultimate Edition’ DVD news: front and back cover art, box cover art, worldwide release dates, menu and screen caps, new certificates, ordering details, special features, technical specs, and more.

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Casino Royale Passes $100 Million Mark In US

Casino Royale has now passed the $100 million mark in the US box office, thanks to its takings of $1,551,530 on Thursday, 30 November–reports Box Office Mojo.

Daniel Craig’s debut film as 007 took the #1 spot each day this week from Monday, 27 November through Thursday (details not yet available for the Friday, 1 December takings). It’s current grand total in the US is $100,763,154, just barely behind Happy Feet, which has earned $103,955,600 domestically.

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