Ian Fleming

Now pay attention, 007. 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 [...]

Now pay attention, 007. Urgent 'Eyes Only' from 'M'. Code red. Since the announcement of the Amazon deal with EON to take over 'creative control' of James Bond on screen, there has been a wave of speculation about 007's future [...]

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. Your next mission for MI6 will be under the direction of new owners. How are previous 007 actors responding to this dramatic news? In a round of interviews given to help publicise his role in [...]

Unsurprisingly, since the dramatic news broke, there has been a wave of coverage of the EON-Amazon deal in the UK's media. Not only has there been extensive coverage on all the major British TV news channels, but the stunning development [...]

Whichever way one looks at it, it is undoubtedly the most dramatic development in the Bond 'universe' for ages, and the news took many 007 fans by surprise. On 20th February, 2025, at 14:21 GMT, the news broke that the [...]

Eyes Only, 007: Priority Red: Both critics and Bond fans alike have regularly pointed to From Russia With Love, the second 007 adventure in the EON franchise, as one of the best in the series, combining a brooding Hitchcockian atmosphere [...]

Eyes Only, 007: A message from 'M': The recent announcement from Ian Fleming Publications (IFP) that it is publishing an exciting compilation of writings, reviews and articles by Ian Fleming, Talk of the Devil: The Collected Writings of Ian Fleming, [...]

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 [...]

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 over the [...]

  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 [...]

Now, pay attention 007. If you believe some of the critics, James Bond is now a character of the past and will never return. Don't believe a word of this. If there is one thing that will always remain 'forever' [...]

Now pay attention, 007. The latest edition of Infinity, the UK's popular nostalgia, sci-fi and cult films and TV magazine, has a great article on the various interpretations on the big screen of James Bond's close CIA ally, Felix Leiter. [...]

  Now pay attention, 007. Apart from it being an excellent James Bond movie, and possibly one of the most 'Flemingesque' of the EON series, one of the pleasures of watching On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) is also the sheer [...]

It contained some of the most memorable 007 movie moments of the 1960s, including one of the biggest sets yet seen in the James Bond franchise, thanks to the late, great Ken Adam. Moreover, audiences were finally given their first [...]

In many ways, he was the man with the golden touch. A new two-hour documentary from the UK's Sky Arts channel on Sir Christopher Lee, broadcast on 24th October, helps to remind us that The Man With The Golden Gun [...]

How do you like your Bond viewings - on the big or small screen? The James Bond franchise has epitomized all the larger-than-life thrills and visual glamour we often associate with big-screen cinema, but it is important to remember that [...]

  What does 007 represent to most fans? Entertainment, excitement, thrills, escapism, glamour, exotic locations, fantastic stunts, wonderful music... we could go on. It is no exaggeration to say that Ian Fleming's fictional creation James Bond has become one of [...]

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 [...]

Now pay close attention, 007. The posters and bill-boards said it all: 'Look up! Look down! Look out! Here comes the biggest Bond of all!' Nearly sixty years ago, in December 1965, the James Bond movie Thunderball (1965), starring Sean [...]

Bond is Back! An exciting new exhibition of the work of the late illustrator and 007 strip-cartoon artist John McLusky, who did so much to present Ian Fleming's James Bond to the general public in an early and striking visual [...]

The second actor to play James Bond in the official EON series, George Lazenby, has announced his retirement. George, 84, made the announcement on 'X' (formerly Twitter), where he explained: 'It's been a fun ride but getting older is no [...]

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 [...]

What makes a good Bond villain? This is a question the JBIFC has posed on a number of occasions before and there are numerous candidates. The early 007 films were adept at putting Ian Fleming's villainous and highly memorable creations [...]

No pay attention, 007. It was a Bond movie that tended to divide critics at the time, and some accused the franchise of having lost its way. Bond aficionados also took quite strong positions on the film, with some loving [...]

There is no doubt that the impact of Dr. No on cinema audiences was a watershed moment in big screen history, but how did From Russia With Love build on this success? With the UK's ITV network rescreening these two [...]

Ten years ago, in 2014, former two-times James Bond star Timothy Dalton, who at the time was promoting his role in the gothic horror TV series Penny Dreadful, gave some detailed reflections on his general screen career in a new [...]

It is the James Bond film that pushed mid-1960s Bond frenzy to new levels of interest and gained huge amounts of media publicity, especially during its location shooting in the sunny Bahamas. One of the main teaser posters for Thunderball [...]

Now pay attention, 007. Back in 2013 some new research by a British academic threw some intriguing new light on the close bond between 007 author Ian Fleming and Allen Dulles, who was the head of the Central Intelligence Agency [...]

Loosely based upon Ian Fleming's third best-selling novel, the James Bond film Moonraker (1979), the eleventh EON 007 production, was a spectacular movie in every meaning of the word. While the late Sir Roger Moore often named The Spy Who [...]

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 [...]