• The latest James Bond movie Skyfall, starring Daniel Craig in his third adventure as 007, has now surpassed the astonishing figure of $1 billion at the global box office, which is more than £620m. According to a Skyfall box office update placed on the [...]

    By Published On: December 31st, 2012
  • Former James Bond Timothy Dalton has expressed high praise for the current James Bond actor Daniel Craig and believes that Skyfall and the 007 franchise now deserve full Oscar recognition. According to the UK's Sunday Express (December 30), in an interview Timothy Dalton gave [...]

    By Published On: December 30th, 2012
  • The BBC's 24-hour TV news channel, in its end-of-year Review, has made the new James Bond film Skyfall one of its top ten films of the year. Written and presented by the film critic Tom Brook, the BBC news channel's 'Review 2012: [...]

    By Published On: December 27th, 2012
  • James Bond author Ian Fleming is to be commemorated with a special steel statue on the seafront at a famous port town in southern England. According to the website www.thisiskent, which carries general news about the county of Kent in [...]

    By Published On: December 27th, 2012
  • With a new book now on the market about Timothy Dalton's first James Bond movie, it seems a good moment for the JBIFC to look back at the screen treatment for the film that was never made: a third Dalton [...]

    By Published On: December 19th, 2012
  • Spanish actor Javier Bardem, who played Raoul Silva in Skyfall, has won a Satellite Award in America for his highly-praised role as the latest Bond villain. At the special Satellite Awards event, held at the Intercontinental Hotel in Beverly Hills on [...]

    By Published On: December 17th, 2012
  • While trawling through the JBIFC's archives, a short interview with the original screen 'M', Bernard Lee, conducted by the Club in 1980, re-emerged, in which he provides some background to his acting career and some brief thoughts on the Bond [...]

    By Published On: December 16th, 2012
  • A rediscovered transcript of an interview with Sean Connery can give us some insights into how the first Bond star viewed the challenges of being 007 and how the franchise helped pioneer the use of radio marketing for major films during [...]

    By Published On: December 15th, 2012
  • Boyd is back. The Christmas edition of the BBC's Radio Times magazine contains an interview with the new James Bond novelist William Boyd, in which he talks about his new TV spy drama 'Restless' and provides some brief comments about his upcoming 007 novel. The [...]

    By Published On: December 12th, 2012
  • The 'Skyfall' director Sam Mendes was interviewed in the British Sunday newspaper The Observer on December 9, and offered some more reflections on his helmsmanship of the 23rd James Bond movie. He also sought to dampen down some of the rumours already [...]

    By Published On: December 10th, 2012
  • The James Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson have expressed their gratitude to the cinema-going public in the UK for making the new 007 movie 'Skyfall' the highest grossing film of all time at the British box office. In [...]

    By Published On: December 6th, 2012
  • To help celebrate the 50th Anniversary of 007 on the big screen, the UK's BBC-4 TV channel will hold an evening devoted to the music and songs of the James Bond films, and will include some rare television footage retrieved from the [...]

    By Published On: December 4th, 2012
  • It has been announced that the popular 'Bond In Motion' exhibition, which opened in January 2012 at the UK's National Motor Museum at Beaulieu, will remain open for another year. The unique exhibition, designed to help celebrate 50 years of [...]

    By Published On: December 1st, 2012