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Columbia first issued Casino Royale on VHS in 1989, and on LaserDisc in 1994. In 1999, following the Columbia/MGM/Kevin McClory lawsuit on ownership of the Bond film series, the rights were transferred to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (whose sister company United Artists co-owns the franchise) as a condition of the settlement. MGM then released the first DVD edition of Casino Royale in 2002, followed by a 40th anniversary special edition in 2007. No advance press screenings were held, leading reviews to only appear after the premiere. Roger Ebert, in his review for the Chicago Sun-Times, wrote "[t]his is possibly the most indulgent film ever made". Time magazine described Casino Royale as "an incoherent and vulgar vaudeville".
Significant controversy followed the decision, with some critics and fans expressing doubt the producers had made the right choice. Throughout the entire production period, Internet campaigns such as danielcraigisnotbond.com expressed their dissatisfaction and threatened to boycott the film in protest. Craig, unlike previous actors, was not considered by the protesters to fit the tall, dark, handsome and charismatic image of Bond to which viewers had been accustomed.
Bond's lack of emotion when he does exact revenge shows this to be the case. Haggis said he completed his script two hours before the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike officially began. Forster noted a running theme in his films was emotionally repressed protagonists, and the theme of the picture would be Bond learning to trust after feeling betrayed by Vesper.
A Special Branch bodyguard working for Quantum member Guy Haines, an advisor to the British PM, is thrown off a roof by Bond after refusing to answer his questions. Assuming Bond killed the bodyguard, M orders him back to London for debriefing. Bond heads to Talamone and convinces his old ally René Mathis to accompany him to Bolivia. They are greeted by consular employee Strawberry Fields, who demands Bond return to the UK immediately.
And the [Q scene with the car] often gets commented on, of course, but the thing was — the story didn’t involve the car. In any of the action, the problem was there just wasn’t a place that made sense for it; you couldn’t just fire [the missiles]. I’m sure, at the time, we must have talked about it, like, ‘is there a way in which we could incorporate [the car] in terms of an action scene? After having Jeffrey Caine come on for a rewrite, with the screenwriter adding the prologue that introduced Bond and 006 on a past mission, the script still required some finessing. Barbara and Michael’s father, the late Albert “Cubby” Broccoli, had the final say in recasting their lead role, as the Broccolis seemed to want Dalton to return. So, with Brosnan officially enlisted to strap on the shoulder-holstered Walther PPK, Campbell and his producers turned their attention to the script.
It was the highest-grossing instalment of the James Bond series until Skyfall surpassed it in November 2012. On its US opening day, Casino Royale was on top with $14.7 million; throughout the weekend, it grossed a total of $40.8 million, ranking narrowly second behind Happy Feet. However, Casino Royale was playing in 370 fewer cinemas and had a better average ($11,890 per cinema, against $10,918 for Happy Feet). It earned $167.4 million by the end of its run in North America, becoming the highest-grossing film of the series, before being surpassed by Quantum of Solace's $168.4 million.
Suspecting Whyte, Bond tries to confront him, but instead meets Blofeld, who captures the agent and explains to him that the satellite can blow up nuclear missiles. Bond escapes and frees the captive Whyte and they establish that Blofeld is using an offshore oil rig as his base. Bond attacks the rig, stopping Blofeld's operation and dispersing his organisation. While searching for Blofeld, the head of SPECTRE, Bond (played by George Lazenby) saves Tracy di Vicenzo (Diana Rigg) on the beach from committing suicide by drowning, and later meets her again in a casino. Bond then receives information from Marc-Ange Draco, the head of the European crime syndicate Unione Corse and Tracy's father, about Blofeld's Swiss solicitor. Bond breaks into the solicitor's office and establishes Blofeld is corresponding with the London College of Arms.
Hal Galili, who appears briefly as a US Army officer at the auction, had earlier played gangster Jack Strap in Goldfinger.[citation needed] In October 2005, British actor Daniel Craig was cast as James Bond in Casino Royale, an adaptation of Ian Fleming's 1953 novel of the same name, which introduced the Bond character. Craig read all of Fleming's novels to prepare for the part, and cited as influences the Mossad and British Secret Service agents who served as advisers on the set of Steven Spielberg's 2005 film Munich, in which he played a supporting role.
The director collaborated strongly with Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, noting they only blocked two very expensive ideas he had.  blackcoin  found Casino Royale's 144-minute running time too long, and wanted his follow-up to be "tight and fast … like a bullet". The first dies a brutal and messy death in the washrooms of a cricket ground, whereas the second is a clean and clinical execution of a rogue operator handling the double-o section. For the first time in the Bond series, the scenes are shot in black and white to act as a flashback explaining Bond's promotion. The classic gunbarrel opener is saved until the credits sequence, where the film bursts back in to colour. The campaign also included a series of commercials featuring British model Twiggy. In its opening weekend in the United States and Canada, it set a record three-day gross for Columbia of $2,148,711.