The first public screening of new Bond film Quantum of Solace is to take place at this year's London Film Festival, organisers have announced.
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The festival will open with director Ron Howard's Frost/Nixon, based on interviews given by the disgraced former US president to Sir David Frost.
Penelope Cruz and Omar Sharif are amongst the stars expected to attend.
This year's event is due to take place in the capital from 15 to 30 October.
The announcement of the Bond premiere coincides with the release of a second trailer for Quantum of Solace, six weeks ahead of the film's arrival in UK cinemas.
The taster contains excerpts from previously unseen action sequences and shows Daniel Craig's 007 and Dame Judi Dench's M discussing revenge.
New Bond girl Olga Kurylenko is also featured in the trailer, which introduces the film's French villain Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric).
Real-life figures
It is the first time a new Bond movie has featured in the festival's line-up.
Other movies screening at the 52nd London Film Festival include W, Oliver Stone's biopic of President George W Bush.
Josh Brolin plays the title role in a cast that includes James Cromwell as George Bush Senior and Britain's Thandie Newton as Condoleezza Rice.
The film is one of a number of titles that take their inspiration from real-life figures.
In addition to Frost/Nixon, the festival includes Steven Soderbergh's two-part portrait of guerrilla leader Che Guevara, Bobby Sands drama Hunger and a documentary about the late writer Hunter S Thompson.
Also included are films about the Baader Meinhof gang, boxer Mike Tyson and 1960s pop producer Joe Meek.
The festival will also feature a number of titles seen at this year's Cannes Film Festival, including Palme d'Or winner The Class and Woody Allen comedy Vicky Cristina Barcelona.
'Festival of festivals'
Other celebrity guests expected to attend include Gwyneth Paltrow, Rachel Weisz, Benicio Del Toro and Colin Firth.
Danny Boyle, director of closing night film Slumdog Millionaire, will discuss his craft on stage at the National Film Theatre, as will writer-director Charlie Kaufman and Scotland's Robert Carlyle.
Speaking at Wednesday's press launch, artistic director Sandra Hebron said the event would host an "unprecedented" number of premieres this year.
London, she continued, had an advantage over its rivals in that it was "not constrained by the requirements of an A-grade competitive festival."
Though the event awards prizes to first-time filmmakers, it does not have a main competition like Venice, Cannes or Berlin.
(BBC)
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