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Daniel Craig is this week’s Entertainment Weekly’s cover guy and the magazine investigates if it is the end of the James Bond franchise.

Apparently the future of 007 is in danger, as MGM is up for sale and no buyer in sight. The company went up for auction last November and there is still no buyer for it. next, in July, according to London’s Mirror the Bond 23’s unclear suspension was turned into a total cancellation.

“The last time the Bond series was put on this sort of “indefinite” hold was back in the early 1990s, after a series of legal battles (and Timothy Dalton) nearly wrecked the series. It took six years to get it up and running again. And in Hollywood today, six years is an eternity. ‘No franchise can afford to be away from screens for that long anymore,” says a former MGM exec. ‘You lose too much momentum. Even for Bond, it could be deadly.’”

Ironically, Bond was never stringer as the recent two movies have grossed together over a billion dollars across the world.

Naturally, the future of MGM and the Bond franchise is a sensible subject now, in particular for people making a great deal of money from the series. Most probably the Broccoli siblings (producers) are freaking out.

According to an insider, “What they wanted was a sale of MGM to Sony or Fox or Time Warner. A big studio with giant vaults of cash that would welcome the Bond franchise with open arms. But if MGM goes into bankruptcy, they’re screwed. With bankruptcy comes a long line of people with their hands out and all sorts of potential lawsuits. The Broccolis could get caught up in legal limbo. That would make it very difficult for them to get the Bond franchise off the ground again.”

In case you are an Elvis collector with a strong stomach, we have a great deal for you: the embalmer who prepared Elvis Presley’s body following his death 32 years ago is now auctioning off the tools used on the King of Rock n’ Roll’s corpse.

The undisclosed mortician was employed at the Memphis Funeral Home, where Elvis’ body was taken after his death on August 16, 1977. The embalmer saved several items used to prepare the corpse and will be up for sell during a public auction in The Windy City next month.

These items up for auction include forceps, rubber gloves, comb, needle injectors, eye liner, aneurysm hook and arterial tube. The items were used only once, to embalm Elvis’ body, put on makeup to his face and to dye his hair jet-black.

All the instruments used in the autopsy of Elvis will be auctioned by Leslie Hindman Auctioneers on August 12.

Update: The autopsy tools have been removed from the auction.

“Due to questions of ownership, the retired embalmer and his son have decided to turn over the property to the Memphis Funeral Home and its parent company, Service Corporation International, with the intention of donation,” Williams said in a statement.

But you can still buy Elvis Graceland home from 1957 to 1969.