The experts have predicted a windfall for some movies this Holiday Season. The Expected Top Five include-

Madagascar 2: Escape 2 Africa (opening this weekend)
Quantum of Solace (the new 007 movie, opening Nov. 14)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (sci-fi remake, opening Dec. 12)
Twilight (teen vampire saga based on best-seller, opening Nov. 21)
Yes Man (Jim Carrey high-concept comedy, opening Dec. 19)

High-profile movies that are probably conspicuous by their absence include: the Kidman-Hugh Jackman epic Australia (opening Nov. 26); Ron Howard’s Frost/Nixon (opening Dec. 5)—think Couric/Palin, only with bigger ideas and more Oscar buzz; Cruise’s Nazi Germany thriller Valkyrie (opening Dec. 26); and Brad Pitt’s age-defying The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (opening Dec. 25).

When she won the chance to play the latest Bond girl, Gemma Arterton didn’t have to worry too much about costume fittings.

The 22-year-old actress wears nothing more than a linen sheet as 007 actor Daniel Craig kisses her bare back in the forthcoming Quantum of Solace. The film also gives Craig’s female fans another chance to admire his muscular torso.

Miss Arterton plays gorgeous MI6 operative-Agent Fields, less than a year after graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. The daughter of a welder and a cleaner from Gravesend in Kent, she has already had several movie roles including the head girl in the remake of St Trinian’s.

Her latest character is said to be a tribute to the classic 1960s Bond girls. The producers have modeled her hair after Diana Rigg - who played the love interest in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.