•   Now pay close attention, 007. Saturday, 6th May, 2023 (Coronation Day), was a very special occasion in the life of the British Isles. As one age ends, another one begins. With the passing of Queen Elizabeth II and the [...]

    By Published On: May 6th, 2023
  • Happy Birthday, Mr. Bond! Ian Fleming's iconic fictional spy, James Bond, 007, is celebrating an astonishing 0070 years as one of Britain's greatest cultural creations of the post-1945 period. The very first James Bond thriller, Casino Royale, was published by [...]

    By Published On: April 14th, 2023
  • With speculation mounting in various quarters about the nature of the next James Bond movie (Bond 26), and who the new 007 will possibly be, it is worth remembering that new actors in the role have often benefited from continuity [...]

    By Published On: April 12th, 2023
  • Now pay attention, 007. Many of us are very familiar with the diamond smuggling theme that was a crucial part of the storyline to Sean Connery's sixth smash-hit James Bond movie Diamonds Are Forever (1971). In many ways, though, the [...]

    By Published On: April 6th, 2023
  • Bond is back - and this time he is working on behalf of His Majesty's Secret Service. In a press release issued on Friday, 31st March, 2023, Ian Fleming Publications revealed the exciting news that Young Bond author Charlie Higson [...]

    By Published On: March 31st, 2023
  • Now pay attention, 007. One morning Ken Adam, a former pilot himself, was listening to the radio and he heard the inventor and ex-RAF pilot Wing Commander Ken Wallis talking about his autogyro helicopter. Adam suggested to EON that this [...]

    By Published On: March 18th, 2023
  • The JBIFC are very sad to report that the actor Chaim Topol, who played Milos Columbo in Roger Moore's fifth 007 adventure For Your Eyes Only (1981), has died, aged 87. Topol (who was happy to be known just by [...]

    By Published On: March 10th, 2023
  • Experience suggests that it is often fun to speculate on 'alternative' versions of the Bond universe and explore how the films may have gone in another direction had circumstances been different. Back in 2012, a new book came on to [...]

    By Published On: March 1st, 2023
  • The year 2023 will mark an incredible 50 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 [...]

    By Published On: February 25th, 2023
  • It is fifty-four years since James Bond movie no. six, On Her Majesty's Secret Service (OHMSS), hit the big screen and gave us, albeit briefly, a new face to 007 and possibly one of the most faithful film versions of [...]

    By Published On: February 17th, 2023
  • One of the key but relatively understated support roles in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) was that of Bond's contact in Bern and again at the Alpine village just below Piz Gloria. This essential part to the storyline was [...]

    By Published On: February 6th, 2023
  • After the success of the first James Bond movie Dr. No and rising star Sean Connery, United Artists quickly greenlit the return of 007. The EON producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman soon swung into action. They had already [...]

    By Published On: January 14th, 2023
  • Sir Sam Mendes, the director of two smash-hit 007 films, Skyfall and Spectre, gave an interview to the UK's Observer newspaper and included some interesting reflections on his Bond years. Sir Sam has been publicising his latest movie Empire of [...]

    By Published On: January 9th, 2023
  • Now pay attention 007: another very special anniversary is with us. The 18th EON James Bond movie, Tomorrow Never Dies, which starred Pierce Brosnan in his second smash-hit 007 adventure, is celebrating its 25th birthday (it received its World Premiere [...]

    By Published On: December 10th, 2022
  • Now pay attention, 007. It's an amazing twenty years since Pierce Brosnan's final movie as James Bond hit our cinema screens. On 18th November, 2002, Brosnan's fourth Bond adventure Die Another Day had its Royal Premiere at the Royal Albert [...]

    By Published On: November 19th, 2022
  • In 2014 the JBIFC was very sad to report the death of actor Richard Kiel, aged 74, on September 10 in California. Richard, of course, had played the very tall and steel-toothed henchman 'Jaws' in two hugely successful James Bond [...]

    By Published On: November 12th, 2022
  • Bond author Ian Fleming was a big fan of hi-tech inventions and new gadgets, and some of his close associates shared his enthusiasm. In 2013, the year after Skyfall was released, a movie which sought to break away from 'gadgets' [...]

    By Published On: November 4th, 2022
  • Now pay attention, 007. A relatively rare transcript of an interview with Sean Connery can give us some interesting insights into how the first James Bond star viewed the challenges of being Ian Fleming's 007 and how the EON franchise [...]

    By Published On: October 31st, 2022
  • The year 2012 was a truly great year for James Bond fans. Not only was there interest in all things 'Bond' due to the late Queen 'parachuting' into the Olympics Stadium and Craig's third Bond adventure Skyfall soon became a [...]

    By Published On: October 23rd, 2022
  • It was a case of Castle Royale. Former James Bond star Daniel Craig attended a special investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle in England to receive his '007 Honour' from Princess Anne. The actor was made a 'Companion of the Order [...]

    By Published On: October 19th, 2022
  • Why do some of James Bond's enemies seek to be 'friends' with the MI6 agent? The word 'frenemy' was not invented for the Bond films, but there are some key moments over the course of the 25-film franchise when such [...]

    By Published On: October 16th, 2022
  • The JBIFC is very sad to report that the highly talented and popular Scottish actor Robbie Coltrane has died, aged 72. He passed away on Friday, 14th October, in a hospital near Falkirk in Scotland. A graduate of Glasgow School [...]

    By Published On: October 15th, 2022
  • Sixty years ago this month, in October, 1962, a new kind of action movie, and a new kind of hero, took cinema box offices by storm, to the evident relief and delight of Bond producers Albert R. Broccoli and [...]

    By Published On: October 7th, 2022
  • Now pay attention, 007. As one age ends, another one begins. With the passing of Queen Elizabeth II and the accession of King Charles III to the throne, both the United Kingdom and Ian Fleming's fictional creation James Bond [...]

    By Published On: September 17th, 2022
  •   As the 60th Anniversary cinema re-release of the 007 films reaches The World Is Not Enough (1999), Pierce Brosnan's third adventure as Ian Fleming's secret agent, and Garbage is also lined up as one of the performers for the [...]

    By Published On: August 18th, 2022
  • The year 2022 is the 60th Anniversary of James Bond on the Big Screen and there have already been some great events to help celebrate 007's longevity and global fame, such as the re-release of all the James Bond movies [...]

    By Published On: July 30th, 2022
  • The JBIFC is sad to report that the singer and songwriter Monty Norman, associated in so many people's minds with the iconic main James Bond theme first heard in Dr. No (1962), has died aged 94. In the Autumn (Fall) [...]

    By Published On: July 13th, 2022
  • Bond producer Barbara Broccoli has responded to some brief questions posed to her about the future of 007 and the EON franchise, and about the selection process for a new actor to replace Daniel Craig. According to Deadline, the well-known [...]

    By Published On: July 4th, 2022
  • The exciting cinema re-release of all the James Bond movies as part of the 60th Anniversary of the 007 movie franchise this year has been very popular with Bond fans, providing the fantastic opportunity to see the films on [...]

    By Published On: June 23rd, 2022
  • It has already left readers both shaken and stirred. The new James Bond novel With a Mind to Kill, the third and final entry in a trilogy by the best-selling author Anthony Horowitz, has been given very positive and enthusiastic [...]

    By Published On: June 5th, 2022
  • Bond is Back! The eagerly anticipated new James Bond novel, With A Mind To Kill, the third of a trilogy by the best-selling author Anthony Horowitz, has now been published in the UK by Jonathan Cape. It will undoubtedly prove [...]

    By Published On: May 26th, 2022
  • Fans of the Hammer Horror and Bond film actor Christopher Lee were given a very golden treat by BBC-4 in the UK on Sunday 22nd May when the channel devoted an evening to commemorate the later actor's birth a century [...]

    By Published On: May 22nd, 2022
  • Roger Moore's fourth James Bond movie Moonraker (1979), the eleventh in the smash-hit EON series, generated huge financial returns at the global box office, but it was very different to Ian Fleming's original third novel (1955). In fact, apart from [...]

    By Published On: May 9th, 2022
  • The EON James Bond movie franchise celebrates its 60th Anniversary in 2022, making it one of the most successful continuous movie franchises in cinema history. To help with the birthday celebrations, it has been officially announced that cinemas in the [...]

    By Published On: April 19th, 2022
  • Nobody does it better! Dame Shirley Bassey helped launched the 75th British Academy Awards (Bafta) ceremony on Sunday 13 March, held live at the Royal Albert Hall in central London. The red-carpet event, presented by Australian comedian Rebel Wilson (complete [...]

    By Published On: March 14th, 2022
  • In an exclusive interview given to the UK's newspaper The Times, the James Bond producers, Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, have re-confirmed that no key decisions have been made yet about Bond's future direction. The search for Daniel Craig's [...]

    By Published On: March 4th, 2022