Judi Dench the updated Walt Disney World Epcot attraction Spaceship Earth in February 2008. The same month, she was named as the first official patron of the York Youth Mysteries 2008, a project to allow young people to explore the York Mystery Plays through dance, film-making and circus. Her only film of 2008 was Marc Forster's "Quantum of Solace", the twenty-second Eon-produced James Bond film, in which she reprised her role as M along with Daniel Craig. A direct sequel to the 2006 film "Casino Royale", Forster felt Dench was underused in the previous films, and wanted to make her part bigger,
Judi Dench by Ralph Fiennes' character. Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the "James Bond" series, "Skyfall" was positively received by critics and at the box office, grossing over $1 billion worldwide, and became the highest-grossing film of all-time in the UK and the highest-grossing film in the "James Bond" series. Critics called Dench's Saturn Awards-nominated performance "compellingly luminous". In 2013, Dench starred as the title character in the Stephen Frears directed film, "Philomena", a film inspired by true events of a woman looking for the son which the Catholic Church took from her a half-century before. The film was screened in