With the UK's ITV-1 channel airing the second 007 adventure on Sunday 2nd April, the JBIFC takes a brief look at the key villains in the movie, a set of people who helped establish the iconic Bond film formula for those [...]
It was a case of many happy returns this month to the former two-times James Bond star Timothy Dalton, who turned an amazing 71 years of age on March 21st, 2017. The ever-busy star of stage, film and TV shows absolutely [...]
How well do you know the creator of 007? There was a rare but welcome re-screening of the BBC-TV docudrama Ian Fleming: Bondmaker on the evening of Thursday, 23rd March. The biographical production about the life and career of the author of [...]
Many happy returns, Ursula! This month sees the beautiful Swiss actress Ursula Andress celebrate her 81st birthday (she was born in Berne, Switzerland, on March 19th, 1936). She was, of course, the first main Bond woman in an EON 007 movie. [...]
Licence renewed! In some dramatic James Bond news, a British newspaper columnist has exclusively revealed that the veteran Bond scriptwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade have been contracted to pen the storyline for the next James Bond movie, which will [...]
Is 007 trying to outwit Ernst Stavro Blofeld and his white cat? Current James Bond star Daniel Craig recently teamed up with the online giving platform 'Omaze' to create a very special promo film for their new partnership. And this [...]
According to the obituary penned by 'M', and published in The Times when 007 had gone missing after destroying Blofeld's castle in Japan, James Bond was recruited into the 'Ministry of Defence' in 1941 with the help of an old Vickers colleague of his [...]
Naomie Harris has said that she thinks there is 'a very good chance' that Daniel Craig will return as James Bond. She was responding to the question that has inevitably faced a number of members of the 007 support team over [...]
Interesting reports have emerged that EON Productions have been in 'advanced talks' about using the historic port town of Dubrovnik, in Croatia, as a possible shooting location for the 25th James Bond movie. The news appears to confirm rumours that [...]
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From JB to GB! Back in January, 2014, the JBIFC exclusively revealed that the James Bond screenwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, who came up with the central story theme for Skyfall and, more recently, also worked on Spectre, had been working [...]
The JBIFC is very sad to report that the acclaimed stage and film actor Alec McCowen, who played Algy the Armourer in Sean Connery's unofficial James Bond movie Never Say Never Again (1983), has passed away. He died on February 6th, [...]
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Live and Let High! Current James Bond actor Daniel Craig, along with Naomie (Miss Moneypenny) Harris and two-times Bond director Sam Mendes, have all appeared in high positions in the Film 50 Power List 2017, which appeared in the UK's newspaper [...]
Figures released by the British Film Institute (BFI) on Thursday, 28 January, show that the UK's film industry has reached new heights in the last year, with key studios such as Pinewood (the traditional home of 007), Shepperton, and Leavesden [...]
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Will he or won't he, and does Miss Moneypenny know? This question has inevitably faced members of the 007 support team, as intense speculation has regularly occurred in the British and global media over whether Daniel Craig will be Bond in movie no. 25. [...]
This year will see the 40th Anniversary of Roger Moore's third 007 movie, the epic and hugely popular The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). Produced by Albert 'Cubby' Broccoli in a solo capacity after the break-up of his producing partnership with [...]
The DB5, Little Nellie, Wet Nellie, the jet ski Wet bike... and Wet Nellie 2? The MI6 Quartermaster always delivered some fantastic gadgets and iconic vehicles for secret agent 007 and, breaking the usual briefing convention, Pierce Brosnan's James Bond was [...]
The posters and bill-boards said it all: 'Look up! Look down! Look out! Here comes the biggest Bond of all!' Half a century ago, in December 1965, the James Bond movie Thunderball (1965), starring Sean Connery as Ian Fleming's secret agent 007, opened [...]
Now pay attention, 007. Amazingly, it has been just over a year since James Bond's last mission hit the big screen and sent box-office ticket sales soaring across the world's cinema circuits. As with all previous 007 adventures in the smash-hit [...]
A new documentary about Judi Dench, to be screened on the UK's BBC-2 TV channel on December 30th, will have contributions from 007s past and present, together with comments from Sam Mendes. The new programme, entitled All the World's Her [...]
Christmas has come early! Not only is Bond back on the radio, but some special guests will join him, too. Toby Stephens is making a welcome return as 007 in a new radio adaptation of Thunderball (1961), which will be broadcast on BBC [...]
One of the most daring stunts carried out during the filming of Octopussy back in 1982 involved 007 running along the top of a fast-moving railway carriage and hanging precariously onto the side as the train hurtles along through the [...]
James Bond - secret agent, trained marksman, civil servant and... part-time author? 007 creator Ian Fleming gave some intriguing clues about Bond's life in between assignments, and how his hero occupied his time at his desk in the rather grey building that served [...]
In the pre-credits to Sean Connery's final EON James Bond movie, Diamonds Are Forever (1971), 007 thinks he has disposed of SPECTRE head Ernst Stavro Blofeld by pushing him headfirst into a large pool of boiling mud: 'Welcome to hell, Blofeld'. It was [...]
The influence of Ian Fleming's James Bond on popular culture was enormous in the 1960s, and this could be seen in the numerous spy-related movies and TV series that all tried to cash in on the success of 007. 'Spymania' (as it [...]
The latest issue of the popular British sci-fi magazine Starburst contains an interview with Peter Lamont, the man who has contributed so much to the production design of the 007 franchise, having worked on an astonishing eighteen of the James Bond [...]
The latest James Bond movie SPECTRE, released to huge box office success in 2015, has evidently left a special and lasting legacy in Mexico City. As many 007 fans will recall, director Sam Mendes and his hard-working crew created a [...]
It contained some of the most memorable 007 movie moments of the 1960s, including one of the biggest sets yet seen in the James Bond franchise. Moreover, audiences were finally given their first sight of the mysterious villain who was intent on causing [...]
One of the main teaser posters for Thunderball (1965) said it all: 'Look Out! Here Comes The Biggest Bond Of All!' This year marks the 50th birthday of Sean Connery's fourth movie as James Bond, a smash-hit film at the [...]
It was the glossy spy movie that created another box-office triumph for EON and United Artists (UA), firmly established actor Sean Connery as a major star, and created the classic James Bond film formula, a template that many of the subsequent 007 movies would successfully follow. Its director, [...]
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Double-o heaven! Current James Bond actor Daniel Craig took the opportunity in an interview in New York to explain that he still loves being 007. In a special 90-minute interview given on the evening of Friday, 7th October, at the New [...]
In some exciting news for his many dedicated readers, it has been revealed that the best-selling author Anthony Horowitz has been commissioned to write a second James Bond novel. The new book will be published in the spring of 2018, and [...]
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After the success of the first James Bond movie Dr. No and rising star Sean Connery, United Artists quickly greenlit the return of 007. The EON producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman soon swung into action. They chose Ian [...]
The RADA-trained and award-winning British actress Lisa Dillon, who has taken roles in previous BBC Radio-4 Ian Fleming James Bond stories, will play a Bond woman in Thunderball, the latest and sixth adaptation of a Fleming 007 novel produced by [...]
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Later this year the fourth 007 movie Thunderball will celebrate its 50th anniversary, so it seems doubly appropriate that the Ian Fleming novel on which the film was based is to be the next BBC radio James Bond play. Yes, [...]
The James Bond films were created, of course, for the big screen and have often served as the ultimate cinematic experience, but we should not forget the fact that the 007 movies have also had a television presence in Britain [...]
The Name's Craig... Daniel Craig With all the recent speculation and media rumours about Daniel Craig's tenure as James Bond, and whether he will be reprising the role for Bond no. 25, it is perhaps worth reminding ourselves that it [...]
