Defiance was one of those odd films that the studio clearly had no idea what to do with. Despite starring Daniel Craig, hot off the biggest James Bond opening in franchise history, and featuring an established director in Edward Zwick, the WWII action film opened on limited screens and faded into obscurity before it had a chance.

Apparently, Paramount originally considered Defiance to be an awards contendor giving its late 2008 release, but the movie isn’t that good. Still, it is an entertaining, exciting and action-packed war drama with plenty of Nazi killings and melodrama – it should have been a decent-sized hit. (more…)

James Bond really is 007 after yet another accident on the Quantum of Solace cost Daniel Craig, who plays James Bond, three of his fingers. Details of how he lost his trigger finger and two others is still unclear, but at least now he won’t be able to make any un-gentleman-like gestures.

OK, in reality, Daniel Craig only sliced off the tip of one of his fingers, according to Daily Mail, but it is the second injury inflicted to the Bond star while filming Quantum of Solace. The production is beginning (if it hasn’t already) to look like a cursed one, as there have been several accidents, injuries and crazy mayors that have disrupted shooting.

An exterior set was heavily damaged after a fire broke out at the studio; a stuntman drove an Aston Martin into a lake; another stuntman suffered head injuries after slamming head first into another vehicle; and Craig had to get eight stitches to the face a few weeks ago.

Is this the wrath of Amy Winehouse?

Ukranian hottie Olga Kurylenko has been selected to bed with James Bond in the new James Bond film called… James Bond 22. Kurylenko is a very attractive model, as seen from this lovely image (main picture), and that’s about all that I have to say about that.

Since I’ve already laid into Yahoo! once in the last week, I’ll do it again: In their news story titled “Ukraine’s Olga Kurlyenko picked as new “Bond girl”, you may notice that they manage to spell this woman’s name wrong in the title. If I met her in person I probably would be too distracted to spell her name right, too, but somehow I’m guessing the writer of the story wasn’t staring at her at the time of writing (well, not in person anyway). One hand busy or not, great editing on their part, even if the story is originally from ET.

Anyway, the 28-year old Kurylenko crushed rumors that other hottie Gemma Arterton (picture inset) was going to be THE Bond girl, but since she’s still going to be in the movie in a smaller role, she’s presumably A Bond girl nonetheless.

James Bond 22 returns Daniel Craig to the role of the British secret agent under the direction of Marc Foster; the movie comes to theaters this November. I have to do a Most Anticipated List of 2008, because Bond 22 is going to be right up there near the top. The addition of these two lovely ladies doesn’t hurt my excitement either, and I mean that in the most innocent of ways.