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Croatian actor Goran Visnjic has reportedly been offered a villain part in the next James Bond film as Vesper Lynd's Algerian former lover. Visnjic had auditioned for the role of Bond in Casino Royale, but lost out to Daniel Craig. (IGN) [imdb]
Dreamworks is going into pre-production on a film based on the Tintin comics by Hergé. If the film does well, it will be followed by sequels. (Coming Soon)
James McAvoy is profiled at the Guardian.
Leonard Pierce at The High Hat looks at Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep:
"There are other Philip Marlowes, and there are other noir detectives played by him, but none of them are as exact, as pinpoint, as completely whole as the Bogart’s Marlowe in The Big Sleep. His Rick Blaine was a betrayed romantic turned nihilist, far worse - and far better - than a mere cynic; his Sam Spade felt too deeply, angered too easily, and ultimately played by rules he didn’t even believe in. But his Philip Marlowe was pitch-perfect at every turn, from the way he stood to the way he talked to the way he made love."