Ian Fleming

Now pay attention, 007. It is astonishing to think that Daniel Craig's first 007 movie, Casino Royale, has been celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. Principal photography on the smash-hit film commenced in the Czech Republic in January, 2006, under [...]

Bond is Back! As 007 aficionados eagerly await details on Bond film number 26, the world of gaming has offered a welcome version of Ian Fleming's secret agent that will more than fill the gap. Indeed, there have been some [...]

Now pay attention 007. The JBIFC's archives contains numerous gems, including a short interview with the original screen 'M', Bernard Lee, conducted by the Club in 1980, in which he provided some background to his acting career and some brief [...]

Now pay attention, 007. 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 [...]

Now pay close attention, 007. Book Bond is well and truly back! In an exciting announcement made today (1st April), Ian Fleming Publications (IFP) revealed that a brand new James Bond novel, written by Charlie Higson, entitled King Zero, will [...]

Former James Bond actor Timothy Dalton celebrated his 80th birthday on 21st March, 2026, 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 [...]

Now pay attention, 007. Over the course of 1965-66, Thunderball (1965), Sean Connery's fourth movie as James Bond for EON, was playing to packed cinemas and proved to be a smash-hit film at the box-office. In fact, it was so [...]

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 [...]

Now pay attention, 007. With the recent publication of a new Felix Leiter novel, The Hook and the Eye (2025), written by former Bond continuation author Raymond Benson, the JBIFC takes the opportunity to briefly explore Ian Fleming's real-life relationship [...]

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 [...]

Now pay close attention, 007. Roger Moore's fifth James Bond movie For Your Eyes Only received its World Premiere on 24th June, 1981, at the Odeon Leicester Square, in central London, and was immediately seen by critics as taking the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Fifty years ago, in October, 1975, James Bond made his debut on television in the UK, with a screening of Dr. No on the ITV network, in what was then billed as a radical departure for 007: for the first [...]

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 [...]

Amazingly, it has been ten years since Daniel Craig's fourth James Bond mission SPECTRE hit the big screen and sent box-office ticket sales soaring across the world's cinema circuits. As with all previous 007 adventures in the smash-hit EON franchise, [...]

Now pay attention, 007. 'M' has a question for you: What is the relationship between the realm of spy fiction and the real world of spies? Quite often it is difficult to know what is fiction and what is fact. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

It is now over 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 world to a [...]

Now do pay attention, 007. Gadgets and secret pieces of hi-tech have always been a beloved part of the James Bond universe, in both the books and in the 25 EON films, and the crossover between fact and fiction is [...]

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 [...]

What makes a great Bond woman? Many Bond aficionados will have their own unique views. According to one writer, Robert Caplen, Bond women are considered to be 'ubiquitous symbols of glamour and sophistication'. Bond women are confident, liberated, beguiling, sexy [...]

Now pay close attention, 007. The resurrection, or reinvention, of Ian Fleming's sinister Bond villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld by Christoph Waltz in Spectre and No Time To Die created enormous interest on the part of commentators, and in some ways [...]

Now pay attention, 007. Eyes only. The latest issue of the popular and glossy British sci-fi and fantasy magazine Infinity explores how the James Bond continuation novel Colonel Sun filtered into the EON Bond movies. In an article penned by [...]

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. 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 [...]