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THE MAKERS OF the new James Bond movie – which has already had its release date pushed back once due to the pandemic – have said that it will not be released until April 2021.
“No Time to Die”, the 25th installment of the fictional British spy saga, sees Bond drawn out of retirement in Jamaica by his old friend and CIA agent Felix Leiter.
It is expected to be actor Daniel Craig’s last outing as 007, after starring in four previous films.
The movie had been initially set for a London premiere on 31 March 2020 before a rollout worldwide in April.
As the Covid-19 pandemic took hold in March, MGM, Universal and Bond producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli announced they were delaying the release until November 12, with a US launch on 25 November.
Then on Friday, they said the film would be delayed further until 2 April “in order to be seen by a worldwide theatrical audience”.
“We understand the delay will be disappointing to our fans but we now look forward to sharing No Time to Die next year,” they said.
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Simple answer. Take it out of the hands of RTE. In recent years they send turkeys who couldn’t win. Main reason? If we won they would have to host the next year. It would bankrupt the station.
@Niall Sheridan: you’ve been watching too much father ted..
@Niall Sheridan: Nail on the head.
@Niall Sheridan: Bankrupt the station lol:-
To host Eurovision, Liverpool city council will be using €2.3 million of council funds, which will be matched by the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority. Additional funding will come via the European Broadcasting Union, the BBC, and the U.K. government — for a total investment of around €11.3 million. They expect to generate £40M by hosting the event.
@Niall Sheridan: the elephant in the room is rte,s general mediocrity… rte is riddled with awful output . Therefore its general management lacks creative creativity…
Its preocupation with gender equality , dulls its output…
@Niall Sheridan: and they wouldn’t get away with holding it in a showjumping shed in mill street
The answer is in the article. RTE chooses and manages the act and voting is held on the Late Late Show. An outdated conservative show not representing the majority of the population. Maybe it did in the 70′s and 80′s but not today and is obvious from the choice that was made. Our country is filled with great musicians, the problem is the management behind this event – all the money in the world can’t fix that.
Stop trying to fabricate talent, there is authentic talent all around Ireland, you just need authentic people to spot it.
“My lovely Horse” That would have been a winner.
Send Enoch Burke and family
Because it’s not 1985.
Maybe because the generic Stock, Aiken & Waterman type production (which hardly reflects an Irish sound in any event) went out in the eighties. Countries have been modernising and utilising their own distinctive traditional vibe for an age in Eurovision. And if there’s one thing we’re not short of in Ireland, it’s a wealth of great traditional history to draw from.
I’d rather watch the paint dry whilst pulling my fingernails out!!
@Ann Neylan: I know some clubs that can facilitate that. Dress code is leather only.
@Ann Neylan: Oh thanks. I thought I was without a compass on a cold lonely sea.
@Don’t Forget: I’d be up for that!… as long as I’m not subjected to viewing the Eurovision!!!
Butch Moore , Dana , Linda Martin , Johnny Logan and other singers could sing . Those singers and others went to Eurovision with “proper” songs , not like the entries Ireland has sent in recent years .
Unfortunately we aren’t as well liked and popular abroad as we’d like to think we are. That and although the Irish entry deserved to go through ahead of a bunch of lads dancing around in their underwear, it was a very mediocre woke song about we are one love etc
Waste of money has been since Australia moved to Europe
21 countries have never won the eurovision and still enter it every year. Some people need to calm down about Ireland not getting to the final.
@Tom Leddy: Yes but Ireland is a country known for punching well above its weight in the arts in general. What’s put on that stage every year is not a reflection of the talent available in this country and the worst thing of all about that, is that it’s on purpose. RTE can’t risk sending too good a song because they don’t want to have to host it. Their attitude is nauseating.
Problem: Our entry is chosen on a TV program which nobody under 40 watches. Answer: Irish Live Music Venues choose 15 acts. Each if these chooses a song. Then there is a LIVE concert in the Point with voting done on a reasonably accessible app.
@sean o’dhubhghaill: This!
@sean o’dhubhghaill: Forgot to mention that the concert should be live-streamed FREE!
@sean o’dhubhghaill: Good idea but it would have to be taken out of the control of RTE, because they won’t even put up proper funding for 1 act.
Withdraw. Ireland could never win at the moment even if they had the best song ever. It’s not a song contest it’s a political game
@Carm(Orange Vampire): Ireland are not doing well BECAUSE it’s a song contest and we haven’t sent a decent act in years…..
When you bring, non european Countries into competition and to keep it alive. You know it is failing, like giving a dying pig a blood transfusion and using a Donkey or a mule.
@Emmet Murphy: I think you’re telling Porky’s there
@Emmet Murphy: hardly dying, have you seen the viewing figures? Biggest TV event outside the Olympics and World Cup. The fact is we haven’t had great songs and because we have no neighbours other than the brits we can’t rely on friendly votes like Scandinavian and Eastern European countries do. If it were based purely on jury votes like back in the day we’d have won it a few more times. But no jury voting in the semi finals means we’re always underdogs
@Gearóid MacEachaidh: Viewing figures, seriously and that is how you’d measure its success? I tuned in one time, to see how silly it had become and I was right.
@Emmet Murphy: that’s how the people who produce the success measure it lol, more viewing figures mean more TV rights money and advertising money. So yes, that is how I and the real world measures success. And of course it’s silly, it’s meant to be. That’s the whole point!
@Gearóid MacEachaidh: produce the show*
Is it the same people all the time at RTE? Louis Walsh and Linda Martin etc? They need throwing in the bin. Everyone saying we were robbed this year. Millions of people around Europe hated it. All it had to do was not be in the five worst songs of the night. It was an utterly bland song with utterly bland lyrics likened to a World Cup anthem or Coca Cola ad. The main singer was terrified with fear, and the backers sang the majority of the song. And as for the outfit? It was an instantly forgettable performance instantly forgotten by the entire continent. Fire the judges. And finally can you imagine the holy mortifying shame of Ireland pulling out “because we can no longer win it”. We’d be a laughing stock. But then…
Send Cruachan next year and metalheads all over Europe will rally to it.
We could go the revival route and have Michael Flately emerge, his oiled golden torso glinting in the follow-spots while playing air-shillelagh and singing something that includes the phrase, ‘ Hup ye boy yeh’ ?
@Focal Cliste: thanks for the laugh
@Focal Cliste:
The Eurovision is a 2 night song contest. Nowadays the weirder the acts the more votes they get. As for investing more money in our efforts NO WAY. Most recent winners seem to disappear within the year.How many delegates are with the Irish act. It is a jolly for rte staff.
Should have gone with CONNOLLY
Meh
What is even the point of it? How much money have we spent on sending acts to Eurovision over the years and what have got out of it? It’s a waste of money. As creative investments go, we would be much better off just keeping our money for local initiatives that are for us than for performative eurotrash.
Was it necessary to send an alert for this “news”?
Maybe AI can create us a winning tune.
Ireland just have access to the block voting. Norway votes for Sweden, Sweden votes for Norway, Croatia votes for Moldova, Moldova votes for Croatia. Its as simple as that. Eurovision organisers don’t care how farcical the song is, just keep spending money on votes guys.
Ask Dana if she’ll do it next year. And tell her she can have the Aras when Michael D. is done with it…..
I think even Liberace would have been embarrassed to wear that outfit.
Simply take the politics out, and a few more things? That’s what needs to happen. Fin.
RTE is the problem. They have no actual intention of hosting the Eurovision. But this is a bigger problem than Ireland’s over/underachieving record. It’s a systemic flaw in the design of the contest. An artist who wants to represent their country shouldn’t have to contend with whether their (largely irrelevant, out of touch) national broadcaster genuinely wants to host it. There has to be a better way.
Any country which sent a grotesque puppet called Dustin to represent them can’t complain when they fail time after time. People have very long memories and regarded it and still regard it as an act approaching contempt.
Used to love the EuroVision but it’s not the same.
Ireland needs to put fresh brains behind the whole entry concept. This country has oodles of talented artists not getting a look in because RTÉ uses the same old criteria but that needs to change. Up the budget for a start , all those millions supposedly allocated at the budget for the Arts should be spent on this , the returning revenue would be worthwhile . Put Ireland back into the Eurovision with a bang !
Move to country to Moldova or to the Baltic ocean
Irish song is chosen first by limited few within RTE and then Friday night late late show audience, which wouldn’t exactly be the prime target audience of the Eurovision…
Balkan countries are building entire, standalone shows around their selections, with amazing production value and engagement. It’s essentially a Eurovision contest on a national level.
The original voting system was the fairest. Once everyone in the country got a chance to vote up to 10 times each at a modest cost fairness went out the window and greed barged in.
Move on from this rubbish, way more important issues to be fixed.
Maybe pay to get in automatically like other countries do?
It’s become a very lavish stage show now rather than a song contest . Riverdance was meant to be just an interval entertainment all those years ago ,but as.we know completely eclipsed the song on stage .Maybe that’s the clue to the future . Go big or go home they say but honestly is it any way to squander money .
I’m going to write our winner for next year, wish me luck guys!
Will the Eurovision ever forgive us for insulting them by sending a Turkey to represent us.
Like the Late, Late it’s time to let the eurovision song contest die a peaceful death
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