Actor Daniel Craig is likely to play James Bond in the next 007 movie, letting slip the reprisal will start filming next year.

Chatting to fans after a Broadway performance of A Steady Rain with Hugh Jackman, the UK heart-throb let slip the follow-up to the 2008 James Bond film Quantum Of Solace will begin shooting next year – ahead of any announcement by MGM.

The next movie is reportedly titled Bond 23 and has Craig and Judi Dench attached with no director signed on to date.

MGM, meanwhile, had no comment. Quantum Of Solace grossed $586million worldwide and Casino Royale grossed $594million.

Craig’s production with Jackman meanwhile is drawing rave reviews. The leading men were seen at the show’s opening with Deborra-Lee Furness, Jackman’s wife, and Craig’s partner Satsuki Mitchell.

Former James Bond star Pierce Brosnan is to play Robert Pattinson’s dad in a new movie called Remember Me.

The Irish actor and the Twilight heart-throb are due to begin filming the movie together in New York later this month.

Pattinson, 23, will give up his fangs to play a young man whose brother’s suicide ended his parents’ marriage.

Swedish actress Lena Olin is in talks to play Pattinson’s mum, who has split from Brosnan, 56.

Emilie de Ravin, a regular on the TV series Lost, will play a woman who lives life to the fullest after watching her mother getting killed before her eyes.

The Hollywood hunks are expected to swell their ranks of fans at the expense of stars with skinnier body types, such as Zac Efron and Leonardo DiCaprio.

Sociologist Bernard Salt, a partner with business analysts KPMG, said that as the global financial crisis wore on, women would turn a keener eye to a motor mechanic for a life partner rather than an investment banker.

"The recession will see the demise of the metrosexual," Mr Salt said.

"In a boom, women are not worried about their financial security and are attracted to attractive, slim, weedy, geeky, metrosexual hairless males.

“During the downturn, the theory is that women are concerned about safety, security and food supply, so their taste in men will shift from the androgynous, hairless men towards the more muscular, primal, hairy male.

Mr Salt added that the most eligible bachelors in the credit crunch might be plumbers, electricians and other tradesmen who had skills that were marketable in good times and in bad.

Former Bond man Pierce Brosnan’s upcoming movie release has been put on the hold due to a lack of funds to market and promote the movie. Brosnan had signed up to play Lord Charles Somerset in the movie Heaven and Earth, a twenty million dollar biopic of James Miranda Barry.

The story is about James Miranda Barry, a woman doctor who masqueraded as a man to follow a medical career. There are now reports that an unidentified British financer has pulled out of providing funds he promised in time thus resulting in the film’s release being delayed.

There is little that can be in a situation like this, the producers are certainly the ones who have maximum risk at the moment and their money is completely invested. About Pierce I cannot understand why he is still not James Bond but then it now seems he is not going to be able to show his acting talent in this film either.

This could be a major setback for everyone involved in this project but for a big star like Pierce to have his movie not being able to get release just highlights that the economic crisis has started to affect Hollywood in a major way as well.

The memoirs of movie legend Roger Moore could be turned into a Hollywood biopic and Johnny Depp is all set to star in that movie being planned on the life of the former James Bond actor.

Johnny Depp??? Now those who are scouting to have this chap play Roger Moore should hear to what I have to say. You will have to place more actors on your books. You must know that other leading actors would not be part of a project that stars Johnny Depp.

Personally I have nothing against Johnny and he really can act, but he won’t be able to do proper justice to the demand of playing Roger Moore. May be he should not take up the role him self.

No doubt he played the role of a pirate really well, and there will be other good movies not connected to being a pirate no doubt, but don’t get carried away. There are other talented actors in Hollywood who would really do the job much better. We do not need a debonair to play Roger Moore although that could be a pre-requisite for some fans.

Guess what this comes across as being one of the truest admissions from an actor regarding the benefits of being an actor. Daniel Craig whose latest ‘Bond’ movie “Quantum of Solace” is set to release in the US this weekend has said he likes being an actor because he can “dress up and show off”.

At the same time he says he realizes that though there are obvious benefits of being a hugely popular actor but yet he insists he shall not become arrogant or self-obsessed about his talent. Another great thought expressed by the actor is that “Anybody who starts to think they’re sexy immediately becomes unsexy.”

Wow man that’s some kind of thought that could help many of Hollywood’s self proclaimed sexy celebrities really determine whether they all actually have the right to called themselves sexy or not. Go Bond you really deserve sexy & adventurous women.