Daniel Craig is this week’s Entertainment Weekly’s cover guy as the magazine says goodbye to Bond’s four decade reign at the box office.

For those who haven’t heard, cash-strapped MGM Studios has pulled the plug on the next James Bond movie as a result of the company’s deepening financial woea. Fans of Agent ‘007′ have found the news extremely difficult to digest — especially since the franchise’s next Daniel Craig-starrer could take years to finalize.

Coupling that fact with the current climate in Hollywood leads box office experts to predict that we’ve seen Bond take his last adventure in the iconic film franchise.

“The last time the Bond series was put on this sort of “indefinite” hold was back in the early 1990s, after a series of legal battles (and Timothy Dalton) nearly wrecked the series. It took six years to get it up and running again. And in Hollywood today, six years is an eternity. ‘No franchise can afford to be away from screens for that long anymore,” says a former MGM exec. ‘You lose too much momentum. Even for Bond, it could be deadly.’”



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