20 mins of Casino Royale seen

Perceptibly confident that they’ve enough goodies to fill a small bag, Sony has shown 20 minutes of footage from the upcoming ‘Casino Royale’ to patrons of the Cinema Expo International. Apparently what was shown, bought the house down. (I do hope so

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Fri, June 30th, 2006

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