According to some interesting reports today (May 17), Christopher Nolan, the director of the recent Batman trilogy, has emerged as a possible candidate for director of James Bond movie no.24. Many of the reports are based on a piece by the British showbiz journalist Baz Bamigboye in his celebrity gossip column in the UK’s Daily Mail [...]

Pinewood Studios, located in the county of Buckinghamshire in Britain, and the famous UK home to the 50-year old James Bond franchise, has had its latest expansion plans blocked by the local authorities. The Studios, which is hoping to be a key host of the new Stars Wars movie to be filmed in Britain in [...]

Sam Mendes, the award-winning director of Skyfall, has spoken about the importance of Pinewood Studios and its place in future film production in the UK, including the 007 franchise. Speaking to the British newspaper The Guardian, the man who helmed Bond 23 was responding to the latest developments in the campaign for expansion of the [...]

The Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen, who played the sinister Bond villain Le Chiffre in Casino Royale (2006), has revealed that he was already well-read on the subject of serial killers before he started his new TV series Hannibal. The new TV drama, which saw its first episode screened in the UK on May 7, has the highly [...]

The British actor Henry Cavill, who once screen-tested for the role of 007 but lost out to Daniel Craig, has said he would ‘love’ to be James Bond if the opportunity ever came up again in the future. The 29-year old Jersey-born actor is about to appear in this Summer’s reboot of the Superman franchise, [...]

Former James Bond actor Pierce Brosnan, who has recently been publicising his new romantic movie Love Is All You Need, has said that his time as 007 was ‘one of the most rewarding roles’, and also praised the work of his successor as Bond, Daniel Craig. Interviewed while promoting his new film, which co-stars Kim Bodnia [...]

The award-winning director of Skyfall, Sam Mendes, has said that his James Bond movie, under the surface, was a meditation on ageing and loss and what it means to be English. This was just one of the points that emerged in a new profile of the director by Emma Brockes for a major British newspaper. Mendes [...]

The new James Bond author William Boyd, interviewed on the opening day of the London Book Fair, praised the ‘genius’ of original 007 writer Ian Fleming and the way that the James Bond creator had given his fictional hero an ‘incredible richness’. The London Book Fair (LBF), which saw the announcement of the title of the new [...]

The new James Bond book penned by British author William Boyd will be entitled Solo, and will involve 007 in an adventure that takes him to three continents, the main focus being on the continent of Africa. The memorable new title was unveiled today (April 15), on the opening day of the London Book Fair (LBF), [...]

The title of the new James Bond adventure written by author and screenwriter William Boyd will be announced on Monday, April 15, in central London, during a special talk given by the award-winning novelist, and he has also given a new interview to help promote the event. The announcement of the title to Boyd’s eagerly [...]

Michael G. Wilson, co-producer of the James Bond movies, spoke to the BBC recently in London about the nature of his job and the challenges that arise from being a producer on a highly successful film franchise. In a short clip recently made available by the BBC news service, Wilson was interviewed briefly at the Jameson [...]

The new edition of the popular British sci-fi and fantasy magazine SFX contains an article which looks back on Sean Connery’s unofficial 007 comeback movie Never Say Never Again, which was released in 1983. The rogue James Bond movie, which was recently released in the UK on Blu-ray (courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment), is given [...]

A new theory about James Bond author Ian Fleming’s role in the controversial ‘Dieppe Raid’ of 1942 was aired in a documentary screened in the UK over the 2013 Easter Bank Holiday. The documentary, Dieppe Uncovered, which was first shown on the History Channel in Canada in August, 2012, was transmitted on the ‘Yesterday’ cable [...]

The new issue of the American magazine Cinefex (April, 2013), which celebrates the world of special and visual effects in movie-making, contains a detailed article on the production of Skyfall. The magazine, which has just appeared in retail outlets on both sides of the Atlantic, has an article entitled ‘Old Dog, New Tricks’. Written by Joe Fordham, [...]

The Skyfall director Sam Mendes has explained in a bit more detail his reasons for not taking on directorial duties on the next James Bond movie, which will be no. 24 in the smash-hit franchise. As many Bond fans know, the dramatic news emerged on March 6 that the Oscar-winning director of Skyfall had taken what he called the [...]

Director Sam Mendes, speaking after the triumph of Skyfall at the 2013 Jameson Empire Film Awards ceremony held in London, said he has ‘definitely’ left the door open to doing another James Bond movie in the future. The Jameson Empire Film Awards evening, held on Sunday March 24 at the Grosvenor House Hotel in central London, saw Skyfall triumph, winning three [...]

French actress Blanche “Dolly” Ravelec (She played Jaws girlfriend Dolly in Moonraker) and Richard “Jaws” Kiel will be appearing in Southern England in late May at a couple of events . They will be appearing on Saturday May 25th Between 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM at the Mountbatten Center in Portsmouth Then on Sunday May [...]

In an interview given to a Sunday newspaper in the UK, Ben Whishaw, the actor who played the new ‘Q’ in Skyfall, gave some tantalizing hints that his character may have a wider role in Bond 24. Interviewed at length by Kate Kellaway for The Observer newspaper (March 17) in London, Whishaw, who is starring in John [...]

The James Bond Producers, Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, have revealed that they were just as surprised as everybody else that Skyfall director Sam Mendes declined to take on the directorial duties for Bond 24. In fact, the last week has seen a number of comments from the EON producing duo on the topic. Speaking at [...]

On the eve of the opening of his new play Peter and Alice, which stars Judi Dench and Ben Whishaw, the Skyfall co-writer John Logan gave some tantalizing clues about how he sees the future character development of James Bond. Interviewed by Sarah Hemming for the ‘Life and Arts’ section of the UK’s Financial Times newspaper (March 9-10), the [...]

The British movie magazine Empire has exclusively revealed that Sam Mendes, who directed the smash-hit 007 film Skyfall, will not be taking the helm on the next James Bond movie, which will be no.24 in the series. The magazine revealed on March 6 that Mendes has decided not to direct the next instalment, but has [...]

On the eve of the London opening of his new play Longing, the new James Bond author William Boyd was interviewed on the ‘Today’ programme on BBC Radio-4 on February 28, and made some comments about his upcoming 007 novel. Boyd was asked various questions about both his writing for the stage and, inevitably, his new [...]

The British singer Adele, along with her co-writer Paul Epworth, triumphed at the Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles yesterday evening (February 24) when the pair won a well-deserved Oscar for Adele’s smash-hit theme song to the 007 movie Skyfall. The award for Skyfall, for Best Original Song, was announced on stage by the actor Richard [...]

According to the UK’s Daily Mail newspaper (February 22), the EON Producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson will be joining 007 star Daniel Craig at the Oscars ceremony in Los Angeles this coming Sunday, in what promises to be a very special evening for the James Bond franchise. As many Bond-watchers are aware, singer Adele will [...]

To mark the release of Skyfall on Blu-ray and DVD in the UK, it has been announced that the 007 movie is now the first film to have a train specially named after it. Moreover, to help celebrate the smash-hit success of Skyfall at the UK box-office and its new release on DVD, a special Bond-themed ceremony [...]

Will he or won’t he? According to a British popular newspaper, Skyfall director Sam Mendes is ’75 per cent’ of the way towards agreeing to helm the next 007 adventure, which will be Bond no. 24 in the 50-year old franchise. Writing in the UK’s Daily Mail newspaper on February 15, the showbiz gossip columnist [...]

The latest James Bond movie Skyfall received two major and well-deserved awards at the BAFTA awards ceremony held in central London last night (Sunday, February 10), including an award for ‘Outstanding British Film’. The Skyfall director Sam Mendes, Bond producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, and two of the movie’s writers, Neal Purvis and [...]

The BBC’s film critic Barry Norman has placed two James Bond movies, the first film and the latest film, in his new ‘Greatest British Films’ selection, which has just been released by the Radio Times magazine in the UK. The veteran BBC film expert revealed his list of 49 great British films in the latest issue of [...]

The latest edition of the popular British film magazine Empire (March, 2013), which has just hit newsagents and other general retailers in the UK, has a very positive review of the new Skyfall DVD, which is due to be released in the UK in just over two weeks time. Neil Alcock, reviewing the latest James Bond movie for the [...]

The actor Bernard Horsfall, who played Campbell, the MI6 contact for George Lazenby’s 007 in Switzerland in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969), has sadly died, aged 82. Horsfall, who was born in Hertfordshire in England in 1930, died on January 29. He began acting in the late 1950s, and made his film debut in the [...]

The actress Lara Pulver has been cast as Ann, the wife of Ian Fleming, in the new biopic being made about the 007 author’s life starring Dominic Cooper as the creator of James Bond. In some new details carried by three British newspapers on January 25 (The Independent, the Daily Mail and the London Evening Standard), it [...]

In a major coup for the Oscars, it was announced from Hollywood on Wednesday January 23 that the British singer Adele will perform her highly-acclaimed theme song to Skyfall at the 2013 Oscars ceremony. The Oscars evening, which is the 85th Academy Awards ceremony, is due to take place on Sunday, February 24, in the [...]

Brief details have been released on a new four-part TV biopic about the wartime life and career of Ian Fleming, starring a rising theatre and movie actor as the famous creator of James Bond, to be screened later this year. According to a report in the movie trade paper Variety on January 17, the young British actor [...]

There was a major boost for the team behind Skyfall when the British singer Adele won a very well-deserved Golden Globe award in Hollywood for her theme song to the new James Bond movie. Adele, who comes from Tottenham in London, was awarded the Golden Globe for Best Original Song for Skyfall. It was the first appearance [...]

A showbiz columnist writing in the UK’s Daily Mail newspaper on Friday, January 11, claimed that the James Bond producers have offered Sam Mendes a start date of 2014 if he is willing to direct the next 007 movie, which will be Bond no. 24 in the 50-year franchise. The Mail newspaper’s showbiz gossip columnist Baz Bamigboye, [...]

In some long-awaited news from the USA, it was announced on January 10 that the latest James Bond movie Skyfall has picked up 5 Oscar nominations, including one for the British singer Adele for her theme song to the film. Perhaps inevitably, most of the attention in the UK’s media on the 007-related Oscars news has focused [...]

In a hopeful sign for the upcoming Oscars, it was announced on Wednesday, January 9 that the latest 007 movie Skyfall has gained nominations in eight BAFTA categories in the UK. At just before 8.00am this morning, the British media began to cover the breaking news about the EE British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) nominations, and relayed [...]

With two of James Bond author Ian Fleming’s non-fiction books being reprinted in new editions, to go on sale in the UK in early April, 2013, it is interesting to recall how one of them nearly made it onto the big screen. Fleming’s account of the true-life story of illegal gem dealing, The Diamond Smugglers (1957), together [...]

The respected film industry news website Deadline.com has revealed that the 2013 Oscars ceremony, due to take place in late February, will include a special tribute to the James Bond franchise. The official announcement came in a press release placed on the Deadline.com website and on other similar sites on Friday January 4. The official [...]

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 official 007.com website on December 30, the new Bond movie, which was directed by Sam [...]

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 to the newspaper by telephone, the 68-year old actor and former two-times James Bond made [...]

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: The Year in Film’, devoted part of its review of the past year in the [...]

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 the south-east area of the UK, the new statue celebrating the best-selling 007 author (and [...]

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 007 adventure. Charles Helfenstein, the author of the superb book The Making of On Her Majesty’s [...]

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 Sunday evening (December 16), Bardem won the Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role [...]

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 franchise. With the recent demise of Bond’s boss ‘M’ in the climax to Skyfall, there is [...]

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 the early 1960s. As part of our own contribution to the 50th anniversary of James [...]

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 magazine, which gives TV listings in the UK for the Christmas and New Year period [...]

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 linking him to the next 007 movie. As Bond fans are well aware, ‘Skyfall’ has [...]

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 an official press release issued by Eon Productions on December 5, the Bond producers said [...]