This isn’t a suave, tuxedoed Bond, but a raw, violent operative learning what it takes to kill with cold efficiency. This made Craig the first actor ever to receive a BAFTA nomination for a performance as James Bond. In December 2006, Casino Royale was named the best film of the year by viewers of Film 2006. In 2009, UK ice cream company Del Monte Superfruit Smoothies launched an ice pop lolly moulded to resemble the upper torso of Bond, a reference to the scene of him emerging from the sea. In 2008, Entertainment Weekly named Casino Royale the 19th-best film of the past 25 years. On 18 November 2006, Casino Royale opened at the first position in 27 countries, with a weekend gross of $43.4 million in the non-UK, Irish, US and Canada markets.
MI6 chief M admonishes Bond for causing an international incident and ignoring her orders to capture Mollaka alive. Using information captured from Mollaka, Bond is led to corrupt Greek official Alex Dimitrios in the Bahamas, who had hired Mollaka at Le Chiffre's request. After winning his Aston Martin DB5 in a poker game and seducing Dimitrios' wife Solange, Bond pursues Dimitrios to Miami and kills him, then chases down the new attacker Dimitrios has hired.