"Quantum of Solace," with Daniel Craig returning as James Bond, easily made for the best opening weekend for the spy franchise, earning more than $67 million at the box office.

The series' first direct sequel opened with nearly $30 million more than its predecessor, 2006's "Casino Royale."

The James Bond actor, who has been awarded the membership number 007, will hit the first drive from the Aberdeenshire course.

Connery hailed Trump's vision, saying that it would help stimulate the Scottish economy.

"During tough economic times, this is a major vote of confidence in Scotland's tourist industry and our ability to rise to the challenge," he commented. "I look forward to seeing a new gem in the north-east that is good for Aberdeenshire and good for Scotland."

Drew Kerr's five-word review of the new James Bond movie's theme song by Alicia Keys and Jack White: "Won't break bad song streak."

While Kerr works in public relations by day, his alter ego on the Web is Total Music Geek. He has taken it upon himself to rate the many individual James Bond movies' theme songs.

For Kerr, a "classic" Bond movie song is made up of several elements.

"It has to be seductive, and obviously have a spy-ish sound, usually that minor key," he says. "I think, in a way, you have to honor John Barry, who created most of the James Bond music through the years with his sort of 'horn stabs,' and the way he imagined the theme in how these songs would sound."

Kerr declares Madonna's "Die Another Day" the worst Bond title song of all time.

When you meet professional celebrity look-alike Glenn Reichle you will be convinced you have rubbed shoulders with the handsome Hollywood actor Pierce Brosnan, one of several actors who has portrayed the delightfully suave secret agent James Bond in the popular film series.

Glenn's claim to fame began when he was a student at Oviedo High School. "The kids used to call me Remington Steele," says the 39-year-old Chuluota resident, referring to the 1982 television series of the same name starring Pierce Brosnan.

Then, after Pierce Brosnan became so successful in films as the adventurous James Bond, Glenn was often mistaken for the actor around town. In 2003, at the urging of friends and family, he decided to take advantage of the resemblance and put together a professional portfolio to distribute to local celebrity look-alike agents.

Late night has a new man of mystery: Kimmel, Jimmy Kimmel.

In this exclusive sneak peek for PEOPLE, the talk show host stars in a James Bond spoof video to open his ABC show Thursday. Guests on the show will be Daniel Craig and Olga Kurylenko of Quantum of Solace.

Watch as Kimmel dons a tux, beds a Bond girl, gets chased by villains and proves that martinis aren't the only drinks best shaken, not stirred.

James Bond's Lotus from The Spy Who Loved Me is expected to fetch up to £120,000 when it goes up for auction next month.

Auction house Bonhams is also hoping that the registration number AU1 from Bond classic Goldfinger will raise lots of "money pennies" when it goes in the same sale.

The white 1976 Lotus Esprit from the 1977 film starring Roger Moore and Barbara Bach, will be sold on December 1 at the auction house's annual motoring sale at Olympia, in west London.

The registration number is expected to fetch more than $118,500.

Director Marc Forster has revealed that James Bond almost became a father in latest movie Quantum Of Solace.

The filmmaker told New York magazine that writer Paul Haggis's idea to have Bond look after the child of Casino Royale's Vesper Lynd was shot down by the producers.

He said: "Haggis had an idea they weren't fond of, and I didn't know if it would work or not. The idea was that Vesper in the last movie, maybe she had a kid, and there would be an orphan out there. It wasn't anything to insult the franchise. But they felt it wasn't particularly Bond - him looking for the kid."

On the day history was made with the election of the first U.S. black president, actor Daniel Craig has said the next James Bond star should also be black.

Speaking at the opening of Quantum of Solace at the International Film Festival in Rome, Craig sang the praises of America's president-elect, saying the moment has now arrived for a black 007 too.

Addressing reporters on the red carpet, the 40-year-old said: 'If we can have a black US president we can have a black James Bond.'

The new James Bond film has broken box office records on its opening weekend in the UK - taking £15.5m in three days, according to early figures.

Quantum of Solace took a further £14.2m in France and Sweden, according to industry journal Screen Daily.

The movie, which premiered in London on Wednesday, beat the previous record of £14.9m set in 2005 by Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

Daniel Craig's latest outing as Bond had already broken opening day UK box office records taking £4.9m on Friday, according to studio Sony.

Bond has a black eye. You won't see it on the screen when Quantum of Solace opens Nov. 14 — it'll be digitally airbrushed out of the movie — but it sure is hard to miss when Daniel Craig arrives at Pinewood Studios on a balmy afternoon last June. ''We were doing a fight sequence a few days ago,'' the actor explains, showing off eight fresh stitches under his puffy right eye. On Quantum of Solace, stuff seems to happen on a daily basis. In fact, there have been so many mishaps reported since shooting started last winter — a fire at Pinewood, cars taking wrong turns into lakes, fingertips getting chopped off — that the British press began calling it the ''cursed'' Bond movie. Still, don't believe everything you read in the tabloids.

The James Bond who all but limps onto this studio lot outside London, wearing a black Tom Ford suit and a matching shiner, may appear battered and weary. But James Bond the character — the superspy who's survived five decades of being dangled over piranha tanks, tossed out of airplanes, shot at with spearguns, and even being played by Timothy Dalton — hasn't looked this indestructible in years.

Daniel Craig has been winning rave reviews as the latest 007 – and some say he’s the best yet. But the humble actor admits to Rob Driscoll that he thinks someone else could do a better job.

“I think I’m only borrowing it, don’t you?” says 40-year-old Craig, about to grace the globe’s cinema screens once again in his second stab at the part in Quantum of Solace. “This is all great, but I think someone else is going to come along and hopefully do a better job than I’ve done and move it on. It’s not mine. It’s Ian Fleming’s, it’s the (films’ producers) Broccolis’ – I could say I’m the caretaker, but that’s a naff thing to say.”

A Russian communist group has attacked the newest Bond girl, Olga Kurylenko, for her "moral and intellectual betrayal" in starring in a film about the "enemy of the Soviet people."

Ukrainian-born Kurylenko, 28, stars in the new James Bond film, Quantum of Solace, alongside English actor Daniel Craig.

"In the name of all communists we appeal to you, Olga Kurylenko, wanton daughter of unclean Ukraine and deserter of the Slavic world. The Soviet Union educated you, cared for you, and brought you up for free, but no one suspected that you would commit this act of intellectual and moral betrayal," the St. Petersburg-based KPLO group's statement read, going on to call James Bond "the killer of hundreds of Soviet people and their allies."

There was some embarrassment at For Your Eyes Only's Royal premiere, which was used as a fundraising event for the Year of the Disabled. The film featured as its opening scene a villain in a wheelchair being picked up by Bond's helicopter strut and then being dropped down an industrial chimney.

At the Royal premiere of Moonraker, the scene where Drax sets his dogs on doomed PA Corinne made Prince Philip leap from his seat and cry: 'Don't go into the woods, you stupid girl!'

The influence of the Bond films is so great that Nasa was thrilled to let 007 give the world its first view of the Space Shuttle in Moonraker - two years before the launch of the real thing.

British actor Roger Moore, who played the suave secret agent James Bond seven times, was awarded the Order of Arts and Letters, one of France’s highest honours, at a ceremony in Paris.

Culture Minister Christine Albanel, who presented the honour to Moore, said he was a true legend of both cinema and television.

"France is happy and proud to honour a legendary actor with an immense heart," said Albanel.

James Bond star Daniel Craig enjoys filming love making scenes because the on-screen romps make shooting whole movies "easier".

The super spy has had a gala time ‘romping’ Bond girls like Eva Green, and Gemma Arterton in new movie ‘Quantum of Solace’.

However, the hunk admits it's a welcome break from the intense action scenes throughout the rest of the superspy films, because he doesn't need to put too much thought into them.

"I'm an actor so I've been an exhibitionist for as long as I can remember,” Contactmusic quoted him, as saying.

Shaken by the gyrations of the financial markets? Maybe a look at James Bond memorabilia as an investment would stir your imagination.

Experts say the value of 007 memorabilia has shot up, not least because of the world premiere on Wednesday of "Quantum of Solace," the eagerly awaited new Bond movie starring British actor Daniel Craig.

At the top end are 007's cars, most notably a 1965 Aston Martin driven by Sean Connery in "Goldfinger" and "Thunderball." The gadget-laden car fetched more than a million pounds ($1.6 million) at auction in the United States two years ago.

The £80,000 golden gun used in the 1974 James Bond film The Man With The Golden Gun has been stolen from studios in Hertfordshire.

The gun was noticed to be missing from Elstree Studios on Friday. The studios hope the golden gun will be offered to a memorabilia dealer. It is then hoped the thief will be able to be traced via the dealer.

Creators of the latest James Bond flick blew two million pounds after smashing 12 new Aston Martins during the filming of Quantum Of Solace.

The British luxury performance cars, which were donated for the Bond movie for the purpose of advertisements, were used to depict real-life crash scenes for the movie and are now beyond any use even for spares.

Gary Powell, the stunt co-ordinator, said the motors were smashed to fucking pieces and that when one DBS suffered more damage than intended, the producers simply ripped off a piece from a brand new car to continue shooting.

Think Aston Martin and inevitably you think of James Bond. It’s a relationship that since its introduction in 1964’s Goldfinger has outlasted each of 007’s romantic entanglements and become entrenched in the imagination of generations of movie-lovers. And now, proving the popularity of Bond and his power when endorsing products, the classic car company has been voted the coolest brand in a survey of over 2,500 people and brand experts for YouGov.

Those questioned for the survey were asked to rate brands in six categories – style, originality, authenticity, desirability, innovation and their uniqueness. Beaten to the punch by Bond and his top motor were the iPhone at second place (as featured onscreen with Kim Cattrall in Sex and the City) and the general Apple brand at third. Bang and Olufsen (whose BeoLab 5 speakers turned up in Bruce Wayne’s apartment in The Dark Knight) and YouTube (a memorable shout-out in Hancock) filled out the top five in fourth and fifth respectively.