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) [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
(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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]