How time flies, Mr. Bond! It is amazing to think that Daniel Craig's first 007 movie, Casino Royale, celebrates its tenth anniversary this year. Principal photography on the smash-hit film commenced in the Czech Republic in January, 2006, under the watchful eye of director [...]
The name's Blaize... John Blaize. This was the name that James Bond author Ian Fleming seriously considered giving to another of his creations, a dashing hero he developed for a possible film version of one of his non-fiction books, The Diamond [...]
Golden High, 007! Pinewood Studios, located in the county of Buckinghamshire in Britain, and the famous UK home to the 55-year old James Bond film franchise, has announced that, due to recent blockbusters such as the 24th James Bond movie Spectre [...]
As many people know, James Bond author Ian Fleming drew some of his inspiration for 007 and his fictional espionage world from the unique knowledge he acquired during his own real-life role as an Intelligence officer in London in World War [...]
Now pay attention, 007. Thirty five years ago this summer Roger Moore's fifth James Bond movie For Your Eyes Only was entertaining audiences in the UK's cinemas, having just received its World Premiere (which took place on 24th June, 1981, [...]
The acclaimed film and stage actor Ralph Fiennes, who became the new 'M' in Skyfall and reprised the role in Spectre, has received high praise from the critics for his new interpretation of the King in Richard III, the stage [...]
The British singer Adele, who won an Oscar in 2013 for her theme song to Skyfall, was the headline act at the famous Glastonbury music festival in Somerset over the weekend. Her live performance, which took place at 10.15pm on the evening [...]
Dame Judi Dench, who very briefly reprised her role as 007's MI6 boss 'M' in Spectre, is going to reign again as Queen Victoria, two decades after she first portrayed Britain's nineteenth century monarch in the movie Mrs. Brown (1997). Her [...]
In his autobiography When the Snow Melts (published in 1998), the Bond producer Cubby Broccoli aptly referred to 'the brilliant John Barry' and said his soundtracks were 'some of the best in cinema music'. More recently, former Bond music composer [...]
One of the more memorable features of Ian Fleming's final James Bond novel The Man With The Golden Gun was the way that the main assassin, Francisco 'Pistols' Scaramanga, used a gold-coloured pistol. This theme was given an even more [...]
When James Bond author Ian Fleming first introduced the criminal network SPECTRE to his many readers in the novel Thunderball in 1961, he inadvertently created an organisation which has arguably become one of the most famous fictional crime syndicates in popular literature. [...]
Sam Mendes, the director of two highly successful 007 movies with Daniel Craig, has said the next Bond director should come from 'a slightly unexpected direction' when it comes to the main storyline for the next James Bond movie. He also repeated [...]
The recent coverage of the latest James Bond movie Spectre also saw much interest once again in Ian Fleming, the original creator of 007, and this was helped along nicely by the publication of a collection of his letters, edited [...]
Now pay attention, 007. A new issue of the glossy Bond magazine MI6 Confidential has just been published, and contains some great coverage of the visual effects that go into a James Bond movie. In fact, issue no. 35 of [...]
The JBIFC is very sad to report the passing of actor Burt Kwouk, aged 85, whose death was announced on 24th May in a brief statement issued by his family. Burt famously played Cato in seven Pink Panther movies and [...]
Seven-times James Bond Sir Roger Moore has commented on all the media speculation about Daniel Craig's tenure as 007, and his words add a welcome voice of sanity to the situation. Sir Roger asked: 'Why is the media intent on saying [...]
Sir Sean Connery's fourth smash-hit 007 movie Thunderball celebrates its 50th birthday later this year and, as part of the JBIFC's 2016 celebration of the classic Bahamas-set James Bond adventure, we are taking a look at various aspects of the marketing of the [...]
The recent resurrection, or reinvention, of Ian Fleming's sinister Bond villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld by Christoph Waltz in Spectre created enormous interest on the part of commentators, and in some ways owed a debt to the Donald Pleasence interpretation as seen [...]
Actress Naomie Harris, who played Eve Moneypenny in Skyfall and reprised the role in Spectre, has been giving some publicity interviews for another type of spy movie, Our Kind of Traitor, which had its UK premiere on 5th May and goes [...]
A popular annual literary festival held in Kent, England, will have this year an 'Ian Fleming evening', where the creator of James Bond will be the topic of discussion by two of his major biographers, together with his stepdaughter. The special [...]
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Sam Mendes, the director of two highly successful 007 movies with Daniel Craig, has been lined up to speak at the forthcoming Hay Literary Festival in May-June, 2016. He will discuss the craft of film-making. The Hay Festival is an annual event held [...]
The very sad loss of four-times Bond director Guy Hamilton on Wednesday, 20th April, 2016, was keenly felt across the Bond world, especially by Sir Roger Moore. Guy Hamilton directed Roger in his first 007 adventure Live and Let Die in [...]
The JBIFC is very sad to report that the man with the golden touch, director Guy Hamilton, who helmed four 007 movies - including the iconic and much-loved Goldfinger (1964) - has died. He passed away on Wednesday, April 20th, 2016, aged [...]
Not many people realise that Ian Fleming's James Bond once saw a very brief BBC-TV incarnation, and this alternative version remains a bit of a 'lost moment' in 007 history. Fleming's famous literary hero appeared in a popular BBC arts programme in 1973, and was played [...]
Former 007 star Timothy Dalton can be seen in a haunting new trailer for the latest series of the gothic horror TV series Penny Dreadful, the third season of which will hit U.S. TV screens on Sunday, May 1st, 2016. [...]
You read it here first. 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 themes and main title for Skyfall and, more recently, also worked [...]
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Later this year will mark the 50th birthday of Thunderball (1965), Sean Connery's fourth movie as James Bond, a smash-hit film at the box-office which in many ways took 'Bondmania' to new and dizzying heights in the mid-1960s. One of the [...]
James Bond producer Barbara Broccoli is adding an important new role to her considerable portfolio. In a press release issued by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), it has been announced that she has been appointed Vice [...]
The latest edition of the independent quarterly Cineaste (Spring, 2016), the respected American magazine devoted to the world of movies, has a detailed article on the latest Bond movie Spectre, and seeks to pin down and critically appraise the nature of Daniel [...]
It was a stunning entrance, a scene in Dr. No (1962) that fed the imaginations of a whole generation of cinema-goers, and helped create one of the most memorable screen images of the 1960s: Ursula Andress as Honey Ryder, emerging from [...]
The latest issue of the American magazine Cinefex (no. 145, February, 2016), which celebrates the world of special and visual effects in movie-making, contains a detailed article on the production of Spectre. The magazine, which is available in retail [...]
Double-O heaven! The latest issue of the glossy James Bond magazine MI6 Confidential has just been published and carries extensive coverage of Spectre, including its worldwide premieres, box-office performance and key marketing campaigns. There are also interviews with members of [...]
It was a double triumph for the latest 007 movie Spectre at the 2016 Jameson Empire Awards in London, with the latest Sam Mendes-directed James Bond adventure winning the Awards for 'Best Thriller' and 'Best British Film' in 2015. The Awards [...]
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The recent coverage of the latest James Bond movie Spectre also saw much interest once again in Ian Fleming, the original creator of 007, including questions about where he might have gained the inspiration for some of the characters and themes that [...]
It has been announced that the paperback edition of Anthony Horowitz's novel Trigger Mortis, the latest James Bond book, will go on sale in the UK on 19th May, 2016, and will be issued with a superb new piece of artwork [...]
The JBIFC is very sad to report that Sir Ken Adam, designer extraordinaire, has passed away. In a statement released on 11th March, the Bond producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli said: 'The Bond family mourns the passing of [...]
