Now pay very close attention, 007. According to an official statement from Amazon-MGM, together with some fresh news reports published on 14-15 May, the casting process for the new actor who will play James Bond has officially begun. The very [...]
Now pay close attention, 007, especially if you are a big fan of Daniel Craig's smash-hit debut James Bond movie Casino Royale. James Bond screenwriters Neil Purvis & Robert Wade and 007 music composer David Arnold will appear in Bridport, [...]
Speculation in the UK’s media over who will play the new Bond has continued apace over the last few weeks. Fan favourite Henry Cavill appears to have now ruled himself out due to his age (he is 42), which [...]
Now pay very close attention, 007. The James Bond films have had an extensive range of villains and henchmen, and 007 has often had to contend with baddies who have had global ambitions (such as Stromberg and Drax), or are [...]
The acclaimed late actor Max von Sydow (1929-2020) is perhaps still best-known to English-speaking audiences for his roles in The Exorcist (1973) and as the sci-fi villain Ming the Merciless in the hugely entertaining Flash Gordon (1980) (alongside a pre-Bond [...]
Now pay attention, 007. During the 1970s and 1980s, United Artists and EON became highly skilled at mounting extensive publicity campaigns for each new James Bond film, and targeting newspapers and magazines with movie tie-in material became a key part [...]
As James Bond fans around the globe wait patiently for news about the next 007 movie, 'Bond 26', now under the creative control of Amazon, it reminds the JBIFC of the watershed period that came between Moonraker (1979) and For [...]
Now pay attention, 007. The recent sad passing of director Lee Tamahori deserves to be marked with a look back on Pierce Brosnan's final movie as James Bond. On 18th November, 2002, Brosnan's fourth Bond adventure Die Another Day had [...]
The JBIFC is very sad to report that the Kiwi film director Lee Tamahori, who gave us Die Another Day (2002), Pierce Brosnan's fourth and final James Bond movie, has passed away. He died on November 7th, 2025, after a [...]
After the spectacular success of Skyfall (2012), many observers and Bond aficionados wondered how the next Bond film could match Daniel Craig's third 007 adventure. There was also intense interest in whether director Sam Mendes could be tempted to [...]
As 007 fans wait patiently for more details on the next James Bond film, after Amazon took over from EON, there have been a number of reappraisals of past 'alternative' interpretations of our favourite secret agent. This includes the unofficial [...]
There has been much speculation over the years about what shape a third Timothy Dalton Bond film may have taken had he fulfilled his three-Bonds contract. The latest issue of the UK's popular and glossy sci-fi, fantasy and cult film [...]
Bond is Back and shaping up nicely. In some really exciting and fresh news for James Bond fans, Amazon MGM Studios revealed on Thursday, July 31st, that veteran screen-writer and three-times film director Steven Knight, probably best known for penning [...]
Now pay attention, 007. It was the plot with a Midas touch. But where did Bond author Ian Fleming gain his inspiration from for the raid on Fort Knox in his best-selling novel Goldfinger (1959)? The 60th anniversary in 2023 [...]
Now pay close attention, 007. There have been numerous 'alternative' scripts and screen treatments for the James Bond films over the years, and one such was a version of Moonraker that was put together by none other than Gerry Anderson, [...]
One of the highlights of the late Roger Moore's fifth smash-hit James Bond movie, For Your Eyes Only (1981), was the close attention given to the motivations and behaviour of the two main villains, Aristotle Christasos (played by the excellent [...]
Memo from 'M': Eyes Only: in many ways EON's Quantum of Solace (2008) still remains controversial among Bond aficionados even today, but if there is one aspect that does seem to unite most fans, it is agreement that the film [...]
Now pay attention, 007. The latest issue of the UK's popular magazine Infinity, the nostalgia sci-fi and cult fantasy film and TV mag, carries an article on A View To A Kill to help celebrate the film's 40th anniversary. Although [...]
Now pay close attention, 007. Look up, look down, look out! Sixty years ago, shortly before the latest EON James Bond movie Thunderball was released starring Sean Connery again as Ian Fleming's secret agent, there was already a huge thirst [...]
As the world waited for the dawn of a new Century back in December, 1999, Bond was back - with a Bang! The World Is Not Enough (1999), Pierce Brosnan's third adventure as Ian Fleming's secret agent, hit cinemas [...]
In a recent interview former James Bond Daniel Craig recalled being highly frustrated over Quantum of Solace, a movie that started filming while there was no firm script yet in place, but he looked back more fondly on Skyfall. As [...]
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The year 2024 marks an astonishing 60 years since the third smash-hit James Bond movie, Goldfinger, was premiered in 1964. Still regarded by many critics as one of the best entries in the 007 series, the film embodied a hugely [...]
By the time Moonraker (1979), Roger Moore's fourth smash-hit James Bond Movie, hit the big screen, producer Cubby Broccoli had decided that the sheer size and fantastical feel to the latest entry in the EON series had been pushed to [...]
Recent Bond villains have come in all shapes and sizes, ranging from the bleeding-eye ruthlessness of Le Chiffre to the state-building schemes of Dominic Greene or the technological hacking skills of Raoul Silva. More generally, who can forget the robotic [...]
It is an incredible 51 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 [...]
It is now an astonishing 35 years since Timothy Dalton's second, and final, James Bond movie, Licence to Kill, hit the big screens. It was premiered on 13th June, 1989, at the Odeon in Leicester Square, London, and 007 fans [...]
One of the pleasures of watching the James Bond films is finding out what devious plans the latest arch-villain has, and how 007 will find resourceful ways to thwart those evil ambitions before it is too late. In Roger Moore's [...]
Whoever becomes the new EON James Bond will rapidly find that their success will be very dependent on, and ultimately shaped by, the nature of the Bond 26 storyline. It has always been a huge challenge for the various screenwriters [...]
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Although former James Bond Daniel Craig held his licence to kill for a longer period than any other Bond actor, and made five smash-hit 007 films, it is easy to overlook the fact that the late Sir Roger Moore starred [...]
Now pay attention, 007. The latest issue of the popular and glossy UK sci-fi and cult nostalgia magazine Infinity, which has just been published, will be a must-buy for James Bond fans as it celebrates 60 years of [...]
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After the spectacular success of Skyfall (2012), many observers and Bond aficionados wondered how the next Bond film could match Daniel Craig's third 007 adventure. There was also intense interest in whether director Sam Mendes could be tempted to [...]
After Roger Moore's successful debut in Live and Let Die (1973), his second 007 adventure was quickly put into production. And, fifty years ago, on 18 December 1974, Roger's James Bond movie The Man With The Golden Gun (1974) was [...]
As Bond fans across the globe continue to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the EON James Bond movie Goldfinger (1964), many critics still point to the third smash-hit 007 movie as the film that embodied everything audiences came to love [...]
The 'alternative' versions of Bond history have always proved beguiling to 007 fans. In a fascinating article for a British newspaper, best-selling author and James Bond expert Jeremy Duns has described the events that led to him gaining access to [...]
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The year 2024 marks an astonishing 60 years since the third smash-hit James Bond movie, Goldfinger, was premiered in 1964. Still regarded by many critics as one of the best entries in the 007 series, the film embodied a hugely [...]
After the evident 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 [...]
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