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The title of James Bond 25 is “No Time to Die.”

It’s upbeat enough to suggest 007 will be back for more adventures after this one, and Daniel Craig’s title character will not be exiting this mortal coil any time soon.

I like it. Even though this is Craig’s last mission, we can look forward to more James Bond for eons to come.

“No Time to Die” hits theaters next April. We know the cast– Rami Malek, Christoph Waltz, etc plus Ralph Fiennes and Ben Whishaw. So now, the big question, who will sing the song? “No Time to Die” is perfect for a song title. And you can already hear Adele’s voice, can’t you? But will it be her? Or someone new?

That’s the cliffhanger!

Bruce Springsteen has already been pretty revealing in his autobiography, “Born to Run,” the book, and in his Broadway play (now nominated for an Emmy Award).

But in the trailer for the documentary he’s made about his excellent new album “Western Stars,” Bruce admits: “I’ve spent 35 years trying to learn to let go of the destructive parts of my character.”

“Western Stars” will debut at TIFF, then Warner Bros. will open it in October. “Western Stars” the album should win the Grammy for Album of the Year if it’s placed in the right category and the mysterious Grammy committee admits it’s the best album of 2019. Which it is. Not Pop, Traditional, Americana or some other nonsense. Best Album.

Here’s the trailer:

Annapurna Pictures’ Megan Ellison is independent and very smart, but her Annapurna Pictures has dug itself into a hole. This weekend’s release of “Where’d You Go, Bernadette?” was the last straw, with just $3.4 million taken in over three days. It’s a bust.

“Bernadette” follows a string of failures, most of them better reviewed than “Bernadette” but none of them commercial successes. This is all since Megan decided to become her own distributor and not partner up on her quality releases. And she’s had them, too, with “Zero Dark Thirty,” “American Hustle,” and so on.

Deadline.com reports now that Megan’s dad, Larry, founder of Oracle software, and a massive billionaire, is paying off Annapurna’s debuts of over $200 million setting the ship right. No, not everyone can do this when their business founders. Indeed, most companies would file for bankruptcy. But Larry won’t let that happen to his daughter. And $200 million is a drop in the bucket for him. So it’s all good.

But Annapurna has to take a look at what’s happened here. They’ve had some huge failures, like “The Sisters Brothers.” They had a chance with “Booksmart,” and blew it. Two summers ago they just dumped Kathryn Bigelow’s “Detroit” instead of waiting for Oscar season. Another colossal disaster. Annapurna has suffered from no PR and no marketing. Instead of attracting press, they repel it. That’s got to change. Megan Ellison has to get some smart people into the office, ones to whom she’ll listen. Then Annapurna can rise from the ashes of this chapter.

I promised this headline, so here it is: Where’d ya go, Bernadette? Richard Linklater’s comedy starring Cate Blanchett, based on a best selling book, scored just $3.4 million this weekend. It’s the lowest Linklater opening, it’s pretty low for Blanchett, a two time Oscar winner.

Linklater’s oeuvre is indie films, but for an indie film in wide release, “Bernadette” is a disaster. It’s a disaster we knew was coming, however. Originally scheduled for last winter, “Bernadette” was held and supposedly tweaked. But the damage was done.

Rotten Tomatoes has it 43%. Annapurna Pictures, which can’t get out of its own way, held the premiere way downtown, stealthily. Their August release date for a Blanchett-Linklater film signaled anyone who cared that this was not a festival or prestige film. “Bernadette” was dumped.

At least Annapurna’s other recent failure, “Booksmart,” made $22 million. “Bernadette” will not get that far. Annapurna, now releasing as United Artists Releasing, has released four films this year and taken it a total of $104 million. They’re waiting, I guess, for the MGM James Bond film, set for next spring. But by that time their staplers will be empty and they’ll have to dog ear memos without paper clips.

Could “Bernadette” have been saved? A Hail Mary pass might be bringing it to Toronto, and launching Cate into a thin (so far) Best Actress crowd, made a big deal at the Gotham Awards (where Cate and Richard would have been hailed as heroes). But Annapurna is marketing-and-publicity-free. No effort was better than anything else, I guess.

The Friday box office offered only good news to Universal Pictures, which has the number 1 and 2 films. “Good Boys” scored $8.3 million including Thursday previews. “Hobbes and Shaw” aka Fast and Furious did $3.8 million, kicking it up to $123.4 million after 8 days. So their Universe is happy.

But Warner Bros. can’t be too thrilled with “Blinded by the Light.” They put a lot into the Bruce Springsteen-themed feature, and even backed it up by buying Bruce’s “Western Stars” music film pre-Toronto. They went all in on Bruce, which we love. But Bruce’s fans didn’t turn out last night for “Blinded.” It’s DOA with $3 million for the weekend, $1.3 million last night.

I haven’t seen it, but “Blinded” sounded a lot like “Yesterday,” which is wrapping up a big $70 million run.

Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” is still spinning its fable about fabled Tinseltown. Should finish the weekend with $112 million. That’s still $8 million away from “Inglorious Basterds,” which finished with $120 million. “Hollywood” will not exceed Tarantino’s biggest, “Django Unchained,” at $162 million.

We knew “Where’d You Go Bernadette?” would bomb, and it did. Sad to say because it’s Richard Linklaker and Cate Blanchett. Annapurna Pictures stealths under the rubic United Artists Releasing now, but it’s Megan Ellison’s company nevertheless. They’re still smarting from “Booksmart,” which at least made $22 million. “Bernadette” will be lucky to scoop up half of that. This poor movie was never right from the beginning, so now it’s just being put out of its misery. On to bigger things!