• Barbara Broccoli was interviewed for The Hollywood Reporter recently and emphasised that she and her EON co-proder brother Michael remain keen on keeping the Bond franchise as a cinematic experience. In an interview and detailed profile published in the magazine [...]

    By Published On: December 13th, 2021
  •     All time high! Britain's leading film and sci-fi magazines, which have just hit leading retail outlets, have finally been able to catch up with No Time To Die (NTTD) and publish their reviews, after the timing of the [...]

    By Published On: November 8th, 2021
  • When you watch a 007 movie on the big screen in a cinema, you know that the architecture, artwork and design of the films have both reflected and influenced style and fashion for well over fifty years. In fact, one [...]

    By Published On: October 27th, 2021
  • (Warning: Spoilers Ahead). There have been a number of comments from critics and Bond fans alike that the ending to the new James Bond movie, No Time To Die, is somehow not in the 'Fleming tradition' and is 'unBond-like'. Some [...]

    By Published On: October 19th, 2021
  •   It is a big, bold and ambitious movie, and its ending has certainly taken many people by surprise. But it is clear from many of the UK's leading newspapers that Daniel Craig's new 007 movie No Time To Die [...]

    By Published On: October 18th, 2021
  • All Time High! It is one of the ultimate honours for an actor. The outgoing James Bond star Daniel Craig, who is currently enjoying huge success with No Time To Die, his final turn as 007, attended a special ceremony [...]

    By Published On: October 12th, 2021
  • The latest figures have revealed that Daniel Craig's final movie as Ian Fleming's James Bond, No Time To Die (NTTD), had the biggest UK opening weekend for a 007 film, bringing in over £21 million. The new movie, which went [...]

    By Published On: October 5th, 2021
  • In news that will please all concerned in the production, and all Bond fans everywhere, the new James Bond adventure No Time To Die, starring Daniel Craig for the last time as Bond, has been breaking box office records in [...]

    By Published On: October 3rd, 2021
  • The Royal World Premiere of No Time To Die, Daniel Craig's fifth and final adventure as James Bond 007, took place at the Royal Albert Hall (RAH) in central London on the evening of Tuesday, 28th September, and, despite the [...]

    By Published On: September 28th, 2021
  • Bond creator Ian Fleming made good use of his own memories of service with the British Royal Navy, and naval references featured at various points in the James Bond books. Now 007 actor Daniel Craig has something directly in common [...]

    By Published On: September 25th, 2021
  • The new edition of the BBC's weekly listings magazine Radio Times (for 25 Sept - 1 October, 2021), just published in the UK, has a great Bond and Moneypenny front cover and devotes six pages to James Bond and No [...]

    By Published On: September 22nd, 2021
  • The 'Culture' section of the UK's Sunday Times newspaper (September 19) was a real treat for 007 fans, as it carried what it called the 'exclusive inside story of No Time To Die'. Adorned with a great-looking Daniel Craig/gunbarrel front [...]

    By Published On: September 19th, 2021
  • For your ears only, 007. In anticipation of the upcoming release of the new 007 adventure No Time To Die, starring Daniel Craig as James Bond for the final time, the BBC Radio-2 music channel is transmitting a two-part celebration [...]

    By Published On: September 17th, 2021
  • The latest issue of the popular British science fiction and and fantasy magazine, SFX, contains some coverage of the new James Bond movie No Time To Die, Daniel Craig's final adventure as 007. As many Bond aficionados know, the new [...]

    By Published On: September 10th, 2021
  •   The new September, 2021, issue of the UK's best-selling film magazine Total Film includes 6 glossy pages of coverage of the new James Bond adventure, No Time To Die (NTTD), which hits British cinemas on 30th September. Bond magazine [...]

    By Published On: September 7th, 2021
  • You can sense the growing excitement in the air again. Given the upcoming premiere of No Time To Die, Daniel Craig's fifth and final turn as 007, at the Royal Albert Hall in London, and the general release at the [...]

    By Published On: August 30th, 2021
  •   To help celebrate what is nearly an incredible 40 years since the premiere of Octopussy, Roger Moore's sixth smash-hit adventure as Ian Fleming's iconic secret agent James Bond, the JBIFC have in the last few weeks made available six [...]

    By Published On: August 23rd, 2021
  • To help celebrate what is nearly 40 years since the premiere of Octopussy, Roger Moore's sixth smash-hit adventure as Ian Fleming's iconic secret agent James Bond, the JBIFC have in the past few weeks made available five edited extracts from [...]

    By Published On: June 23rd, 2021
  • To help celebrate what is nearly 40 years since the 1983 premiere of Octopussy, Roger Moore's sixth smash-hit adventure as Ian Fleming's iconic creation, the JBIFC has made available in recent weeks four edited extracts from an on-set report we [...]

    By Published On: May 22nd, 2021
  • To help celebrate nearly 40 years of Octopussy, the late Roger Moore's sixth adventure as James Bond, the JBIFC have been publishing some edited extracts from an on-set report we carried in 007 magazine back in 1983. Here is a [...]

    By Published On: May 17th, 2021
  • To help celebrate nearly 40 years of Octopussy, the late Roger Moore's sixth adventure as James Bond, the JBIFC have been publishing some edited extracts from an on-set report we carried in 007 magazine back in January, 1983. Here is [...]

    By Published On: April 19th, 2021
  • All Time High! To help celebrate nearly 40 years of Octopussy, the JBIFC is re-publishing some edited extracts from an on-set report we carried in 007 magazine back in January, 1983. The JBIFC's report was the first detailed account from [...]

    By Published On: April 15th, 2021
  • All Time High! It is nearly 40 years since principal photography commenced on Octopussy, which later received its Royal Premiere at the Odeon, Leicester Square, in London in June, 1983. The JBIFC takes the opportunity to look back at our [...]

    By Published On: April 11th, 2021
  • It was a key moment in the big-screen movie version of Ian Fleming's famous novel. Auric Goldfinger, explaining his villainous career to James Bond, told 007: 'This is gold, Mr. Bond. All my life I've been in love with its [...]

    By Published On: March 31st, 2021
  • Former James Bond actor Timothy Dalton celebrated his 75th birthday on 21st March, and many happy returns were offered by his numerous fans across the globe. He made two James Bond movies, The Living Daylights (1987) and Licence To Kill [...]

    By Published On: March 22nd, 2021
  •   The JBIFC is very sad to report that the acclaimed actor Yaphet Kotto, best known to 007 fans as the larger-than-life villain 'Mr. Big' (AKA 'Dr. Kananga') in Roger Moore's debut Bond movie Live and Let Die (1973), passed [...]

    By Published On: March 16th, 2021
  • Live and Let Drive! The new 30th series of the BBC's popular primetime motoring programme Top Gear, which has Chris Harris, Paddy McGuinness and Freddie Flintoff as the main hosts and started its latest run on Sunday, 14th March, includes [...]

    By Published On: March 15th, 2021
  • There is always tremendous media interest in new Bond women, and there will be some superb acting talent on offer from the women in the latest 007 entry in the smash-hit series. This includes Cuban actress Ana De Armas, who [...]

    By Published On: February 15th, 2021
  • Ralph Fiennes, who reprises his role as MI6 head 'M' in No Time To Die, was recently asked by the BBC about the situation concerning the delayed release of the 25th Bond adventure (its release has been delayed for a [...]

    By Published On: January 29th, 2021
  • It will come as no surprise to many people that the release of the new James Bond film, No Time To Die, the 25th entry in the smash-hit franchise and Daniel's Craig's final appearance as Ian Fleming's 007, has been [...]

    By Published On: January 22nd, 2021
  • The James Bond producer Barbara Broccoli was one of the leading figures who added their names to a special letter which has raised concerns about the state of British cinema in light of the impact of the current pandemic. The [...]

    By Published On: January 19th, 2021
  • The JBIFC is very sad to report that the Bond director Michael Apted has died, aged 79. As well as being responsible for the nineteenth James Bond movie, The World Is Not Enough (1999), starring Pierce Brosnan in his third [...]

    By Published On: January 9th, 2021
  • As many fans of George Lazenby's one-off James Bond adventure On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) will know, one of the cars used in director Peter Hunt's action-packed movie was a red 1969 Mercury Cougar XR-7, driven by Countess Teresa [...]

    By Published On: December 17th, 2020
  • The UK's BBC Radio-4 have given Bond fans an early Xmas present by repeating some of the Toby Stephens 007 adventures, the highly-praised adaptations by Archie Scottney of the Ian Fleming novels, produced by Martin Jarvis and Rosalind Ayres Productions. [...]

    By Published On: November 23rd, 2020
  • What motivates a memorable Bond villain? Rami Malek has dropped strong hints that his mysterious villain Safin will be a baddie driven by a hunger for vengeance in the new 007 movie No Time To Die. Speaking in an interview [...]

    By Published On: November 9th, 2020
  • The King is dead, but long live the King. The JBIFC is extremely sad to report that Sir Sean Connery, the first big-screen James Bond and an all-round icon of cinema, has passed away, aged 90. The very sad news [...]

    By Published On: November 1st, 2020