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November 22, 2006 — "Casino Royale" did boffo biz in its opening frame last weekend but Barbara Broccoli, Michael G. Wilson and co. will be setting aside the champagne as it emerged that the Bond pic has already been illegally downloaded from the web 200,000 times, according to U.K.-based internet monitoring company Envisional.

"Casino Royale" did $42.2 million at 3,063 in 27 markets in its opening frame last weekend. The best performance came from its gangbusters $25 million four-day bow in Blighty. But by the weekend two pirated versions were available for free access on public file sharing networks, according to Envisional.

The first pirated copy  a poorly-shot camcorder version apparently originated from Russia  was on the web late on Fri-day, just a day after the Nov. 16 debut. By Saturday morning, a higher quality copy, possibly from Italy, went online. Envisional also reported that pirate DVDs were on sale on the streets in London and Scotland.

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