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  • &pictures presents action packed Fridays with back to back ‘Bond Nights’!

    &pictures presents action packed Fridays with back to back ‘Bond Nights’!

    MUMBAI: The dashing Pierce Brosnan and the equally cosmopolite Roger Moore are set to grace the Indian television screens with their films, The World is Not Enough and The Spy Who Loved Me back to back on Friday, 5th June, 8 PM onwards. &pictures – India’s premium mass Hindi Movie channel that prides itself in bringing world class movie-viewing experience to the audiences, has handpicked the best amalgamation of recent and classic James Bond series. Taking action to a higher level, ‘Bond Nights’ will feature British secret service’s rouge assassin James Bond fighting the nuclear meltdown in The World is Not Enough followed by The Spy Who Loved Me where Bond saves the world from a reclusive megalomaniac who wants to create a new civilisation under the sea.

     

    In The World is Not Enough, oil tycoon Sir Robert King and Bond’s friend (David Calder) is assassinated after recovering $3 million British pounds from a Swiss Bank in Spain. James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) feels responsible for his death and takes the position as bodyguard to his daughter (Sophie Marceau) while trying to catch his killer. Soon, Bond learns that an evil terrorist known as Renard was responsible for the assassination of Sir Robert and with the help of nuclear scientist Dr. Christmas Jones (Denise Richards) and former enemy, Ex KGB agent Valentin Zukovsky (Robbie Coltrane), Bond sets out to foil Renard’s plan to wipe out Europe with a nuclear bomb. As Agent 007 tries to protect Elektra while trying to save an entire continent, he is challenged with the worst obstacle of it all – defeating a villain who can feel no pain at all. What will James do to protect the lives of millions of people while he has only just begun to question Elektra’s motives?

     

    In The Spy Who Loved me, a globe-trotting assignment sees Bond skiing off the edges of cliffs and driving a car deep underwater. The British super-spy James Bond (Roger Moore) unites with sexy Russian agent Anya Amasova (Barbara Bach) to defeat megalomaniac shipping magnate Karl Stromberg (Curt Jurgens), who is threatening to destroy New York City with nuclear weapons. Bond’s most deadly adversary on the case is Stromberg’s henchman, Jaws (Richard Kiel), a seven-foot giant with terrifying steel teeth. Will Bond be able to defeat Karl Stromberg? Will Karl Stromberg destroy New York City?

     

    Tune- in to Pierce Brosnan`s -The World is not enough and Roger Moore’s ‘The Spy Who loved me’ on &pictures this Friday, 5th June 2015 from 8 PM onwards!

  • James Bond car auctioned for $389,000

    James Bond car auctioned for $389,000

    MUMBAI: The 2008 Aston Martin car used by Daniel Craig in the Bond film Quantum of Solace has been sold in an auction of Bond movie memorabilia for 241,300 pounds (around $389,000), it is understood.
    The cost of the 2008 Aston Martin 6 litre V12 DBS 2 door coupe, which went to an anonymous buyer, was 1.5 times higher. The trading took place in the presence of 600 VIP guests. Many items of the auction were presented by the stars of the film.
    Actress Judi Dench, who plays M, presented one of the most piquant lots, a pair of blue trunks worn by Daniel Craig in Casino Royal. “All I can tell you, they are unwashed,” the actress said in a lighter vein.
    The trunks were sold for 44,500 pounds and will be given to a charity fund Women For Women.
    The second most expensive item in the auction was an Omega watch made of titanium and used by Craig in the soon to-be releaseed film Skyfall. The watch was expected to be sold for some 8,000 pounds but was sold for 157,300 pounds.
    Former Bond, Roger Moore presented a musical score of the soundtrack for the same film signed by the British singer Adele, performer of the title track. The lot was sold for 13,800 pounds.
    The total cost of the 1 pieces that were auctioned was 752,100 pounds. All proceeds will go to various charitable organisations.
    The auction was held to mark the 50th anniversary of the first James Bond movie.

  • Roger Moore tops with 7 James Bond portrayals

    Roger Moore tops with 7 James Bond portrayals

    MUMBAI: As the 23rd James Bond movie Skyfall is midway in terms of shooting, we take stock of how many actors reprised the role of the secret agent and number of times.

    While Roger Moore holds the record with seven potrayals of Agent 007 in films like 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 Kill, Sean Connery was one short of Moore‘s achievement (Dr. No, From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice and Diamonds Are Forever).

    Following is Pierce Brosnan with four portrayals (GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World is Not Enough and Die Another Day) while the current Bond, Daniel Craig is doing his third Bond film (Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace and Skyfall).

    But the franchise producer Michael G. Wilson wants Craig to take the record with eight Bond films.

    At the bottom is Timothy Dalton who has played Bond twice (The Living Daylights, License to Kill) while George Lazenby played the action hero in just one movie On Her Majesty‘s Secret Service.

  • Bond festival gathering steam on Star Movies

    Bond festival gathering steam on Star Movies

    MUMBAI: With the latest James Bond film Casino Royale in theatres across the country Star Movies’ month long initiative Absolute Bond Festival is gathering steam.

    On 20 November 2006 the channel airs Octopussy. Roger Moore plays the ttile role. When 009 turns up dead clutching a fake Faberge egg, Bond is sent to investigate. When the real jewelry is auctioned at Sotheby’s, 007 follows the seller, Kamal Khan (Jordan) to India, where he meets Octopussy (Adams), the head of a female gang of smugglers. Learning Khan and Octopussy are partners with General Orlov (Steven Berkoff), an insane Soviet hardliner, Bond races to West Berlin, where Octopussy’s circus is entertaining American troops. Dressed as a clown, 007 races against time to find and disarm a nuclear bomb planted by Orlov as part of his mad scheme to invade and conquer Europe.

    Another Moore Bond A View To A Kill airs on 21 november at 9 pm. This marked Moore’s final appearance as Bond. He has to stop Madcap computer industrialist Max Zorin (Christopher Walken) from triggering a massive earthquake in Silicon Valley and annihilating the global computer market.

    With the help of geologist Stacey Sutton (Tanya Roberts), Bond must contend with May Day (Jones) and Zorin’s endless supply of henchmen.

    On 22 November the channel airs The Living Daylights with Timothy Dalton in his first outing as Bond. Narrowly missed by a female sniper, Soviet General Georgi Koskov (Jeroen Krabb) defects to England. During his debriefing, Koskov informs MI6 that KGB chief Leonid Pushkin (John Rhys-Davies) has started a new operation: Smiert Spionem: Death to Spies.

    With one of their agents already dead, M orders Bond to assassinate Pushkin. Not trusting Koskov, Bond learns the sniper was the general’s girlfriend, Kara Milovy (Maryam D’Abo). Traveling to Tangiers, Bond discovers Koskov’s partners with arms dealer Brad Whitaker (Joe Don Baker). Captured, Bond’s sent to Afghanistan, where Koskov makes an opium purchase worth millions. Escaping, Bond destroys the opium and returns to Tangiers, where he kills Whitaker and Pushkin arrests Koskov for high treason.

    On 23 November the channel airs Licence To Kill which was the second and last film with Dalton. When drug lord Franz Sanchez (Davi) exacts his brutal vengeance on Bond’s friend Felix Leiter (David Hedison), 007 resigns from the British Secret Service and begins a fierce vendetta against the master criminal.

    Bond won’t be satisfied until Sanchez is defeated, and to accomplish this aim he allies himself with a beautiful pilot (Lowell) and Sanchez’s sexy girlfriend (Talisa Soto). But Bond, relegated to outlaw status, must battle agents on both sides of the law as he discovers the horrifying extent of his prey’s resources.

    The channel has also quoted Tam data c&s 4+ Males SEC A, A+ saying that since the Bond festival started there has been a 58 per cent jump in channel shares compared to the previous six weeks. While reach of the channel remains constant, there was a 37 per cent improvement in weekly time spent.

    Star VP marketing Satya Raghavan says, “James Bond is a global phenomenon and is hugely popular in India. The Absolute Bond festival on Star Movies has created an enormous amount of buzz and excitement amongst its viewers. We are extremely delighted at the response and this line up of Bond films will keep the viewers entertained and coming back for more! If you haven’t caught them already, there are eight more movies to go”.