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My goodness. A day full of sorta kinda revelations about the next Bond film.

Producers reveal title of new James Bond - CNN.com:

Producers have revealed some of the secrets about the latest James Bond film, due for release later this year, including the inner turmoil that drives its suave superagent hero and its title: "Quantum of Solace." As titles go, it's not as mellifluous as "From Russia With Love" or "Goldfinger." But Daniel Craig, returning as Bond after 2006's "Casino Royale," says he likes it. "It has grown on me," Craig told reporters on the film's set at Pinewood Studios near London on Thursday. "It doesn't trip off the tongue. But why should it?"

Producer Michael G. Wilson said the title, chosen only a few days ago, was taken from a story by Bond creator Ian Fleming that appears in the collection "For Your Eyes Only." Craig said Fleming defined a quantum of solace -- it means, roughly, a measure of comfort -- as "that spark of niceness in a relationship that if you don't have, you might as well give up."

Filming began earlier this month at Pinewood, the franchise's home since the 1960s. It's a direct sequel to 2006's "Casino Royale," beginning an hour after that film ends, with Bond devastated by his betrayal by true love Vesper Lynd. "He had his heart broken at the end of the last movie and that certainly is a spur for him in this one," Craig said."I'd be lying if I said there wasn't revenge in his heart. But it's more than that. That spurs him on, but that's not what the movie is. It's not a revenge movie. It's about him figuring a few things out." [...]

Bond Girls' Kiss Reveal

One of the new Bond Girls has let slip a smooching secret... So, just who out of Gemma Arterton and Olga Kurylenko will be locking lips with 00-hotness?

Well, actress Gemma Arterton departed some titbits about a smooch at the photocall for the new Bond movie, Quantum Of Solace, at Pinewood studios, west of London. She said: "I do get to kiss Bond. I am an agent, but after a while I become a Bond Girl." Ooh, lucky, lucky lady.

Now, more importantly, will Daniel Craig be sauntering out of the sea in those skimpy swimming trunks? Well, he said: "I'm not going to put them trunks on ever again but there will be a certain amount of nudity in this movie."

Dollars'll get you donuts that "a certain amount of nudity" equals "the bad guys are going to torture him again because nudity makes him look more vulnerable when they're doing awful things to him, and this time we may even see Bond buttock, but we're not doing full frontal Bond because we still want a PG-13 rating in the states. However, we may consider Bond naughty bits for the European market and an unrated DVD release." Though it would be worth trying to find out if an R-rated Bond really would be a lower grossing film. Somehow, I suspect it wouldn't make that much difference.