• GREG BECHTLOFF's report from the Los Angeles 1999 'Press Junket' for THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH (Issue 37 of 'OO7' MAGAZINE) MICHAEL G. WILSON the Bond co-producer proved to be an interesting segment in the junket. His low-key demeanour and low [...]

    By Published On: May 29th, 2012
  • First published in ‘OO7’ MAGAZINE (issue 21) Timothy Dalton talked to ‘James Bond author Raymond Benson for 007 Magazine, Issue 21, about playwrights, the theatre, Ian Fleming – and that man Bond. First of all, let me say [...]

    By Published On: May 29th, 2012
  • With the Second Unit completing their work in Turkey on Friday May 25, all the main filming on 'Skyfall' has come to an end, and the movie now enters the post-production stage. The Second Unit, which stayed behind in Turkey [...]

    By Published On: May 28th, 2012
  • Prior to introducing a screening of the 'Skyfall' trailer at the Cannes Film Festival, new Bond girl Berenice Marlohe spoke briefly to the media about working with Daniel Craig. According to the London 'Evening Standard', the French actress said there [...]

    By Published On: May 23rd, 2012
  • James Bond co-producer Michael G. Wilson was a special guest on the BBC's 'Breakfast' programme on Monday May 21, which also screened the very first airing of the new trailer for 'Skyfall'. The 'Breakfast' programme, presented by Bill Turnbull and [...]

    By Published On: May 21st, 2012
  • As part of its contribution to the 50th Annniversary of 007, the British ITV television network has embarked on a special James Bond film season. Entitled 'Bond: 007 at 50', the special season of screenings kicked off on Saturday May [...]

    By Published On: May 16th, 2012
  • Date of Release 26th October 2012 (UK) Running Time 143 minutes Daniel Craig James Bond Plot When Bond's latest assignment goes gravely wrong and agents around the world are exposed, MI6 is attacked forcing M to relocate [...]

    By Published On: May 14th, 2012
  • After shooting some spectacular motorbike stunts with Daniel Craig in Istanbul, the 'Skyfall' production team switched filming to Adana last week. Work in Adana by the film's second unit began back in March, with various road and train action sequences being [...]

    By Published On: May 13th, 2012
  • The new issue of the British movie magazine 'Total Film' has a short report from the set of 'Skyfall', with comments from Daniel Craig and also from the movie's armourer, Joss Skottowe. The magazine (July 2012), which has just hit [...]

    By Published On: May 13th, 2012
  • The BBC TV listings magazine 'Radio Times' (12-18 May) contains an appreciation of the 50th Anniversary of the James Bond films by film critic Barry Norman. Norman's article is designed to tie in with a showing of the first Bond [...]

    By Published On: May 13th, 2012
  • As stunt co-ordinator, he's been involved in the real action in 007's life for nearly 40 years. And Vic Armstrong is still hellbent on scaring the living daylights out of us. Report: Richard Girling Vic Armstrong is not [...]

    By Published On: May 13th, 2012
  • Ian Lancaster Fleming was born in London on 28th May 1908, the second of four brothers. He was educated at Eton College and then abroad in Germany and Austria. After an early career at Reuters news agency, he [...]

    By Published On: May 10th, 2012
  • James Bond has thrilled audiences for over 23 years and A View To A Kill is no exception, and this marks the seventh time that Roger Moore has portrayed Ian Fleming's Secret Agent OO7. Roger Moore made his [...]

    By Published On: May 10th, 2012
  • Sir Kingsley William Amis, CBE (16 April 1922 – 22 October 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, various short stories, radio and television scripts, along [...]

    By Published On: May 10th, 2012
  • Daniel Craig Born 2nd March 1968 Daniel Wroughton Craig was born in 1968 in Chester, England. He grew up in Liverpool, England and moved to London, England when he was 16. Here, he trained at the National Youth Theatre [...]

    By Published On: May 9th, 2012
  • Pierce Brendan Brosnan Born 16th May 1953 Born in Navan, County Meath, Ireland, 11-year-old Pierce Brosnan joined his mother in London in 1963. He started his professional involvement with showbusiness as an acting assistant stage manager at the [...]

    By Published On: May 9th, 2012
  • Timothy Dalton Born 21st March 1946 Out went the humour and in came a more serious 007 in a style more imagined by author Ian Fleming. James Bond was now living on the edge. Timothy Dalton first gained [...]

    By Published On: May 9th, 2012
  • John Edmund Gardner (20 November 1926 – 3 August 2007) was an English spy and thriller novelist, best known for his James Bond continuation novels, but also for his series of Boysie Oakes books and three continuation novels containing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional villain, Professor Moriarty. Gardner, [...]

    By Published On: May 9th, 2012
  • In the 19th 007 film made by EON Productions Ltd., The World Is Not Enough, vehicles from BMW  again made a special appearance. Bond – played for the third time by Pierce Brosnan, takes to the wheel of [...]

    By Published On: May 8th, 2012
  • Thanks to the large amount of attention that the BMW Z3 attracted when it appeared in the 1995 film, GoldenEye, both partners were interested in continuing the cooperation. In Tomorrow Never Dies, the screenplay called for Bond to [...]

    By Published On: May 8th, 2012
  • Raymond Benson (born September 6, 1955) is an American author best known for being the official author of the adult James Bond novels from 1997 to 2003. Benson was born in Midland, Texas and graduated from Permian High [...]

    By Published On: May 8th, 2012
  • Christopher Hovelle Wood (born 5 November 1935 in London's Lambeth borough is an English screenwriter and novelist best known for the Confessions series of novels and films which he wrote as 'Timothy Lea'.  Under his own name, he [...]

    By Published On: May 8th, 2012
  • The first BMW in a James Bond film took place in a chase scene in 1983's Octopussy. On the Berlin Avus, the Police, who had 5 Series BMWs cars and a BMW motorcycle, are in pursuit of James Bond, who [...]

    By Published On: May 7th, 2012
  • After the great successes in Goldfinger and Thunderball, the Aston Martin models only played minor roles in the next films in the Bond series. George Lazenby, for instance, in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969) traveled on the [...]

    By Published On: May 7th, 2012
  • For Your Eyes Only For Roger Moore’s fifth role, the script called for two vehicles. First, on the island of Corfu, Bond used a white Esprit Turbo. When the bad guys tried to break into it, it destroyed [...]

    By Published On: May 7th, 2012
  • The Spy Who Loved Me At the end of 1975, the newest design from the Lotus company was presented at the Earls Court Motor Show in London – the Esprit that had been created by Italian designer Giorgio [...]

    By Published On: May 7th, 2012
  • Charles Murray Higson (born 3 July 1958), more commonly known as Charlie Higson is an English actor, comedian, author and former singer. He has also written and produced for television. In 2004, it was announced that Higson would [...]

    By Published On: May 5th, 2012
  • The official James Bond website, 007.com, has uploaded a new 'Skyfall' Production Videoblog, concentrating on the work of Production Designer Dennis Gassner. Speaking against the backdrop of some interesting shots of the interiors of MI6 and its offices, which were created [...]

    By Published On: May 5th, 2012
  • Sebastian Faulks, one of Britain's most admired novelists, is the author of Devil May Care, which he wrote at the invitation of Ian Fleming Publications Ltd to mark Ian Fleming's centenary. The book was published on 28 May [...]

    By Published On: May 4th, 2012
  • Roger Moore Born 14th October 1927 The longest serving actor in the role to date – and a record which is unlikely to be equalled? Born in Stockwell, South London, in 1927, the son of a policeman. He [...]

    By Published On: May 3rd, 2012
  • Jeffery Deaver (born May 6, 1950) is an American mystery/crime writer. He has a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a law degree from Fordham University and originally started working as a journalist. He [...]

    By Published On: May 3rd, 2012
  • George Lazenby  Born 5th September 1939 Although only playing 007 on one occasion, George Lazenby brought to the role a younger more physical James Bond in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service(1969), undoubtedly one of the best films in [...]

    By Published On: May 3rd, 2012
  • There has been some extensive coverage of the latest 'Skyfall' filming in Istanbul, including a new round of interviews with Daniel Craig. Articles and reports have appeared on the MSN website, on Sky News, on ITV's 'Daybreak', and on the [...]

    By Published On: May 2nd, 2012
  • In a rare interview, former James Bond actor Timothy Dalton has offered some thoughts on his time as 007 and revealed that he is still very much a Bond fan himself. Interviewed for the latest issue of 'Empire', the popular [...]

    By Published On: May 2nd, 2012
  • Key members of the Bond production team praised the locations and warm hospitality of Turkey when speaking at the 'Skyfall' press conference held in Istanbul on April 29. The press conference, which took place in the plush surroundings of the 5-star Ciragan [...]

    By Published On: May 2nd, 2012
  • [private] [/private] An overview of the production of the 21st Bond film.. Storm Front The first official slate on Casino Royale was struck on 30 th January 2006 in Modrany Studios in the Czech Republic. The first scenes shot were [...]

    By Published On: May 2nd, 2012