Printing press section of the factory.
The lobby area of the factory.
CMGN Hamburg Printing Factory is a newsprinter plant situated in Hamburg, Germany and is operated by Carver Media Group Network for the purpose of publishing the newspaper "Tomorrow". It serves as a notable locale in the 1997 James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies and it's video game adaptation.
Movie appearance[]
After James Bond has been guided there by Paris Carver, he sneaks inside it by the rooftops, remaining unspotted by the security under its glass roof section. Bond finds in through a maintenance room and opens a hatch into a important workshop with the Ericsson JB988's antenna key lockpick. He spots an unsent satellite and soon hears Henry Gupta talking with some security detail and hides behind working equipment. Gupta and the guards get out of tinted-glass office room, with the former ordering them to send the 300 million dollar satellite to the launch site and caution not to damage because "if you break it, you bought it."
After Gupta and the men leave the workshop, Bond again uses the JB988 to get inside Gupta's office room and begins exploring the place. Bond finds a suitcase, but not the GPS encoder and begins to ponder a bit, until spotting a painting and fits a safe behind it. Using the JB988's fingerprint scanner, Bond is able to open the safe. He first finds German-language adult magazines, wads of cash and what appears to be bags of cocaine, as well as some syringes to be used with the drugs. But upon lifting up the adult magazines, Bond finds the GPS decoder and proceeds to leave, until he hears a high-pitched, drill-like sound.
James Bond catching Wai Lin breaking in.
Bond draws his Walther PPK and prepares to intercept the person getting in. It's Wai Lin and opening of the door sets off an alarm. Wai Lin swiftly leaves, with guards only seeing Bond, who slams the door open and locks it again. He runs to the hatch to access the roof and pushes over the 300 million dollar satellite to act as an obstacle for the guards. Bond gets out and shoots the lock on the hatch that he previously opened with the JB988's antenna lockpick.
From the maintenance room, Bond tries to climb to the roof, but is intercepted by a guard with a submachine gun. This forces Bond to escape into the lobby area of the building. He runs for a while until running into Wai Lin, attempting to escape as well. While Bond dodges the gunfire shoots back with his PPK, Wai Lin uses a wire grapnel to covertly sneak out behind the guards, who are too focused on Bond to notice her.
Bond then stumbles into the printing press machinery and navigates it to try lose the guards. One of the guards finds Bond and pins him down, resulting in a hand-to-hand fight between the two. Bond manages to knock the guard out, but another guard (with the red coat) finds Bond and attacks him. Bond and the red coat duke it out, until Bond punches him over the guard rails and into a printing press machine, where the man gets crushed and stains the paper in blood, with Bond quipping "They'll print anything these days."
Bond then attempts to sneak out through the loading storage. It first appears he has lost the pursuers, until somebody tries to shoot him and misses, instead hitting the glass of what appears to be the foreman's booth. With two guards running towards Bond whilst firing, Bond uses a roller and the cover of the large rolls to skate out. He almost gets hit by a forklift before rolling under a half-closed garage door. With Bond in public and temporarily out of danger, Bond gets aboard the BMW 750iL and leaves.
Video game[]
The printing factory acts as the 4th level of the game, under the name “Pressing Engagement.”
Behind the scenes[]
The scenes at the CMGN Printing Factory were all shot in England. The locations used were former Harmsworth Quays Printing Limited (now supplanted by Printworks), the Westferry Printing Works on London's Isle of Dogs and the East India Dock House (the former Financial Times Building).
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Blitz-Illu magazines in top shelf of Gupta's safe.
- The German adult magazines in Gupta's safe are that of a now-defuct Blitz-Illu. Founded in 1993, it was focused primarily on depicting undressed women (and also men from 1996 onwards) and providing materials to initiate sexual encounters via code or 0900 numbers. Other sections included tabloid-style "reportages" about people and their fates. Its circulation was up to 450,000 copies and it frequently received reprimands from the German Press Council for its reporting, which presented facts in an "inappropriately sensationalist manner," defamed entire groups of people, and its supposedly authentic reports were in fact completely fabricated. The magazine was discontinued circa 2008.