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A James Bond car is expected to fetch over £3.5 million at an auction scheduled to take place in October this year. Driven by actor Sean Connery in the Bond films Goldfinger and Thunderball.

The 1964 Aston Martin DB5 will go under the hammer at the Battersea Evolution arena on October 27. The vehicle - with UK registration number FMP 7B - will be auctioned by RM Auctions, together with Sotheby's, at its annual Automobiles of London event.

The Aston Martin will feature a variety of operational gadgets - including machine guns, bullet-proof shield, revolving number plates, tracking device, removable roof panel, oil slick sprayer, nail spreader and smoke screen.

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The original GoldenEye was a bond game released for the Nintendo 64 with Pierce Brosnan as Agent 007. A remake had been announced at this year’s E3 regarding a remake of the game. The remake will be made by Eurocom and Activision with Peirce being replaced by Daniel Craig, the current James Bond.

Despite being a remake, the game will not necessarily share the exact same plot elements as the film. The new game will also be called GoldenEye and will be a Wii exclusive.

DANIEL Craig’s new apartment used to belong to a gay porn star  according to a new report. American tabloid the National Enquirer says Craig  who was recently seen kissing another guy outside a gay bar  paid cash for a plush $1.9 million penthouse from Fredrik Eklund, a Swede who appeared in a string of man-on-man X-rated films under the stage name of Tag Eriksson. Daniel, 42, has been dating film producer Satsuki Mitchel for the past few years. He was previously married to Scottish actress Fiona Loudon, with whom he has a daughter, Ella.

Pierce Brosnan has revealed he doesn't miss the character that propelled him to worldwide fame - James Bond. The Irish actor took on the secret agent role for GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day before letting Daniel Craig step in.

"I enjoyed my time as Bond but I don't miss him - I don't have any desire to do Bond again," he told Reveal. "I love who I am as an actor right now." Pierce, who acts alongside Robert Pattinson in Remember Me, admitted he's aware of his shortcomings now that he's 56.

"I'm aware of my lack of stamina, particularly working with a young cast on Remember Me with Robert Pattinson, the latest heartthrob. Things do rattle and shake at times, but that's the challenge of life anyway," he said.

Old movies have a wonderful way of reminding us about some of the classic sports cars dating back to the 1960s and the characters that drove them. This was 20 years before product placement and embedded marketing became a lucrative form of advertising and a normal marketing practice.

When EON productions decided to use the Aston Martin DB5 in the 1964 James Bond movie Goldfinger, they approached Aston Martin thinking that they would jump at the opportunity to supply a couple of free cars for the publicity, but the answer was "no" -- they would have to purchase the cars. EON purchased two DB5s and sold them back to Aston Martin when they had finished with them.

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James Bond may be on vacation thanks to MGM financial crisis but Daniel Craig appears to be looking into other projects including one of the most talked about flick of Hollywood, ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’. It is said that Craig may join the cast of the cinema adaptation of award-winning crime novel.

James Bond may be on vacation thanks to MGM financial crisis but Daniel Craig appears to be looking into other projects including one of the most talked about flick of Hollywood, ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’. It is said that Craig may join the cast of the cinema adaptation of award-winning crime novel.

Daniel Craig, best known as secret agent James Bond on the silver screen, used a fistful of cash to prevail in a battle for a Tribeca penthouse The 42-year-old English actor and American film producer Satsuki Mitchell, who is Mr. Craig's longtime girlfriend, have bought the one-bedroom penthouse apartment at 53 Warren St., which is expected to close next week. They relied on an all-cash offer to seal the deal on the $1.9 million-listed apartment that had received multiple bids."It's a very Bond apartment," said Fredrik Eklund, who with John Gomes listed the penthouse for broker Core. He said the duplex loft has 20-foot ceilings, floor-to-ceiling windows and three terraces. The loft's private elevator opens directly onto one of those terraces.

Mr. Craig and Ms. Mitchell are the latest in a long line of film and television celebrities who have made Tribeca home, including Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel, James Gandolfini as well as Mariah Carey. Brokers say the downtown neighborhood attracts fewer tourists and the smaller buildings with full-floor apartments afford more privacy. During the economic downturn, however, there weren't that many were buyers for such properties.

The four condos in the building at 53 Warren—but not the penthouse—were initially listed by Prudential Douglas Elliman. The listing was taken over by Core a year ago. The new brokers sold the four units after cutting prices by about 25%. But the developer held back listing the penthouse until the end of last year when the market first showed some signs of stabilization.

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Daniel Craig delivers a startling performance as Joe Scott, a washed-up Hollywood star adrift in a haze of sex, drugs and squandered fame. But when he receives news of the sudden death of his childhood best friend, Joe flashes back to his younger self (played by Harry Eden of Oliver Twist) in his small English seaside village and the summer of innocence and tragedy that would change his life forever.

Olivia Williams (The Sixth Sense), Claire Forlani (CSI:NY) and Eve co-star in this powerful drama about love, loss and one man s journey to redemption, executive produced by Daniel Craig and featuring songs by Scott Walker, David Bowie and Roxy Music.

Others include James Bond, The Beatles, Lord Nelson, Shakespeare and TV’s Little Britain duo David Walliams and Matt Lucas. Prince Charles, Margaret Thatcher, Noddy and Concorde are also there. The figures took 13 people 15 days to build, using more than 500 tonnes of sand sprayed with glue. Former world sand sculpture champion Nicola Wood, from Leicester, who made a Dylan Thomas exhibit, said: ‘I’m really pleased by how it all turned out.’

An unrestored Aston Martin used for the movie “Goldfinger” and left in a barn for years was among the stars of a 4.7-million-pound ($6.8 million) auction last night as collectors battled for James Bond’s favorite cars from the 1950s and 1960s.

The DB4 sold for 84,000 pounds, beating a high presale value of 50,000 pounds, while an earlier DB2 Team car also beat its estimate to become the top lot at 513,000 pounds. The DB2 would have competed in the 1950 Le Mans 24-Hours event if it hadn’t crashed in France on the way to the circuit. The repaired car was raced in the 1950s by drivers such as Stirling Moss.

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