• Cary Fukunaga has been announced as the new director of Bond movie no. 25, which will now commence principal photography a few weeks later than originally planned. As the JBIFC revealed on 28th August, despite the departure of Danny Boyle, [...]

    By Published On: September 20th, 2018
  • Bart for Bond? In our last Bond 25 news update, the JBIFC noted that the award-winning British TV director and documentary maker Bart Layton is one of the possible contenders for the currently vacant director's seat on the next 007 [...]

    By Published On: September 17th, 2018
  • Since the recent surprise departure of Danny Boyle as director due to 'creative differences', the producers of Bond movie no. 25 have been busy searching for a replacement, somebody who is prepared to step in at short notice. According to the latest [...]

    By Published On: September 9th, 2018
  • Double-0 Heaven! Many congratulations are in order to James Bond star Daniel Craig and his award-winning actress wife Rachel Weisz, who are said to be 'very happy' at the birth of their new baby girl. It is their first child [...]

    By Published On: September 1st, 2018
  • Despite the doom and gloom that has been around in the media about Bond 25 since it was announced that Danny Boyle had stepped aside from the director's chair, as far as the JBIFC understands it EON hopes to be [...]

    By Published On: August 28th, 2018
  • Danny Boyle will no longer be the director of Bond 25, which was due to start filming in early December. In a brief announcement released from EON this evening (Tuesday, August 21st) at around 6.10pm GMT, it was stated: 'Michael [...]

    By Published On: August 21st, 2018
  • Red Grant, Oddjob, Hans, Wint and Kidd, Nick-Nack, Tee-Hee, Jaws, Stamper, Mr. Kil, Hinx... a quick roll-call of just a few of the cruel henchmen in the 007 franchise has some names very familiar to devoted Bond fans. In fact, one [...]

    By Published On: August 8th, 2018
  • 007 and counting... As pre-production work begins to take shape on Bond movie no. 25, director Danny Boyle has chosen art production designer Mark Tildesley as his production designer on the new 007 movie, which is due to commence filming later [...]

    By Published On: July 22nd, 2018
  • James Bond star Daniel Craig, who is gearing up to start shooting Bond movie no. 25 later this year, was a special guest of the American CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) recently. The CIA is the U.S. near-equivalent to the UK's [...]

    By Published On: July 8th, 2018
  • It is an incredible 45 years since the release of Live and Let Die, which had its UK opening at the Odeon Leicester Square on 5th July, 1973. It was the film, of course, that introduced the world to a new [...]

    By Published On: July 2nd, 2018
  • It is the news that many dedicated 007 fans and also serious car collectors have been patiently waiting for. According to reports in the British press, the famous Aston Martin drive by Sean Connery as 007 in Goldfinger (1964) and [...]

    By Published On: June 27th, 2018
  •   The exciting new Austrian-based James Bond exhibition '007 Elements', which opens on July 12th and promises to be the 'ultimate Bond experience' for visitors, has received an early review from the London Times newspaper. The new Bond experience, which the [...]

    By Published On: June 18th, 2018
  • The JBIFC is very sad to report that actress Eunice Gayson, the first woman to appear opposite Sean Connery's James Bond in the first big-screen 007 movie Dr. No (1962), has passed away in Surrey, where she was born and also resided [...]

    By Published On: June 10th, 2018
  • Ian Fleming has played 'a huge role' in his life and he said he is keen to acknowledge this. James Bond continuation author Anthony Horowitz proved to be a highly entertaining, thoughtful and self-deprecating guest when he was interviewed in [...]

    By Published On: June 4th, 2018
  • The name's Boyle, Danny Boyle. It is the news that many of us expected, but it is very nice to now have it confirmed. In a press release issued by EON Productions on the morning of 25th May, 2018, it [...]

    By Published On: May 25th, 2018
  • One year ago this month the world sadly lost Sir Roger Moore, the third actor to play James Bond and a true gentleman in every sense of the word. Still very sorely missed, Sir Roger was the first James Bond [...]

    By Published On: May 24th, 2018
  • James Bond author Ian Fleming, always on the lookout for memorable titles for his best-selling Bond novels, hit upon something really imaginative for the title to his Swiss-based 007 adventure of 1963: On Her Majesty's Secret Service. It was an [...]

    By Published On: May 19th, 2018
  • Miss Taro, Rosa Klebb, Fiona Volpe, Helga Brandt, Irma Bunt, Bambi and Thumper, Rosie Carver, Xenia Onatopp, Elektra King, Miranda Frost... The EON James Bond franchise has certainly had its fair share of strong and dastardly female characters. And with [...]

    By Published On: April 29th, 2018
  • Double-0 heaven! Many congratulations are in order. Rachel Weisz, the wife of 50-year old James Bond star Daniel Craig, has announced that she is expecting a baby with her husband. Rachel revealed that she is pregnant at the age of [...]

    By Published On: April 22nd, 2018
  • Award-winning actor Ralph Fiennes, who took over as 'M' in Skyfall and fully embraced the role in Spectre, has returned back to the world of spying and espionage, but this time in a movie which is based a true story. Fiennes recently started [...]

    By Published On: April 14th, 2018
  • Bond is back! 007 fans are in for a special treat this coming Easter weekend when Toby Stephens returns as James Bond in a new BBC Radio-4 adaptation of Ian Fleming's third novel, Moonraker (1955). As with with the previous BBC adaptations, [...]

    By Published On: March 28th, 2018
  • Now pay attention, 007. There's a new message from 'M'. Eyes only. Passed on from Station 'S' in Lincolnshire. Top priority. Message reads: An account of your first operation fetched high price. Stop. Telephone bid successful. Stop. Please be advised [...]

    By Published On: March 26th, 2018
  • 007 and counting... As the months tick down to the planned start of principal photography on the next entry in the EON franchise, the question of who will be appointed director on the new Bond movie has become more and [...]

    By Published On: March 17th, 2018
  • On 22nd February the JBIFC reported that news had emerged that Danny Boyle was being considered as a possible director for Bond movie number 25 in the iconic series, which is due to hit cinemas in late 2019. A new [...]

    By Published On: March 9th, 2018
  • The JBIFC is very sad to report that three-times Bond director Lewis Gilbert has passed away, aged 97. The award-winning director of such classics as Reach for the Sky (1956), Carve Her Name With Pride (1958), Sink the Bismarck! (1960) and Alfie (1966), Gilbert also helmed [...]

    By Published On: February 28th, 2018
  • Some fascinating news has emerged that the award-winning British director Danny Boyle, who has helmed films such as Slumdog Millionaire and the two Trainspotting movies, is a possible candidate for directorial duties on Bond no. 25. A report in the U.S. movie trade [...]

    By Published On: February 22nd, 2018
  • Speaking to the UK's Daily Telegraph newspaper earlier this month, Rachel Weisz (wife of James Bond star Daniel Craig) praised 007 creator Ian Fleming and strongly argued against the idea of having a female Bond to replace her husband when he eventually [...]

    By Published On: February 20th, 2018
  • The sad news has been announced that the American actor John Gavin, who came tantalizingly close to becoming James Bond on the big screen in 1971, has passed away, aged 86, in Los Angeles. He died on Friday, February 9th. [...]

    By Published On: February 11th, 2018
  • In a press release issued by Ian Fleming Publications on 8th February, 2018, the title, UK release date, and a brief synopsis for the exciting new James Bond novel by Anthony Horowitz have been revealed. The title of Horowitz's second 007 [...]

    By Published On: February 8th, 2018
  • In a detailed interview given to The Times newspaper (January 16th) in the UK, the Oscar-winning actor Christoph Waltz, publicising his new sci-fi comedy Downsizing, was asked about his role as Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the last 007 movie Spectre. [...]

    By Published On: January 22nd, 2018
  • Apart from it being an excellent James Bond movie, one of the pleasures of watching On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) is also the sheer quality of the work of the supporting cast. Given that the movie was George Lazenby's film [...]

    By Published On: January 17th, 2018
  • Denis Villeneuve, who recently helmed Blade Runner 2049 and is developing a remake of Dune, has regularly been in the rumour columns since the summer of 2017 concerning the possibility of him directing Bond 25. Daniel Craig was said to be keen in [...]

    By Published On: January 9th, 2018
  • Bond is Back! The fourth and most recent Daniel Craig 007 movie, Spectre, will receive its UK terrestrial TV premiere on the ITV-1 network on News Year's Day, 2018, at 8.00pm GMT. It is two years since the film, which [...]

    By Published On: December 23rd, 2017
  • James Bond fans are in for a great Boxing Day treat this Christmas. A very special two-hour radio show to celebrate the life and legacy of Sir Roger Moore, who passed away earlier this year, will be transmitted on BBC [...]

    By Published On: December 10th, 2017
  • There is some very good news for fans of the late Sir Roger Moore's interpretation of James Bond. The daily diary that he kept while filming his debut 007 adventure Live and Let Die (1973), first published in 1973 but long [...]

    By Published On: December 3rd, 2017
  • In a brief interview with the Irish public broadcaster RTE, James Bond producer Barbara Broccoli said that she is 'very happy' to have Daniel Craig back for the next 007 adventure, which will be no. 25 in the smash-hit EON [...]

    By Published On: November 18th, 2017