Two classic James Bond film songs played a key role in the special Diamond Jubilee Concert held in London on Monday 4 June. The concert was staged around the famous Queen Victoria Memorial, just outside Buckingham Palace in the capital city, [...]
Bond producer Michael G. Wilson and new 007 author William Boyd were among the contributors to a BBC discussion on the enduring myth of James Bond. The report, shown on the BBC’s ‘Newsnight’ programme on May 31, was anchored by [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
