A key plot concept appears to have been leaked by a British newspaper. (Warning: possible spoilers ahead). The showbiz gossip columnist Baz Bamigboye, in his latest weekly page in the UK's Daily Mail newspaper (May 31st), has revealed that genetic [...]
Spy novelist and Ian Fleming expert Jeremy Duns has published a fascinating new short study of the influence of author Dennis Wheatley on the 007 creator. Entitled A Spy Is Born: Dennis Wheatley and the Secret Roots of Ian Fleming's James [...]
Its a wrap! The first stage of location shooting on Bond 25 has now been completed. Employing a lovely photographic view of the Island, Bond 25 director Cary Fukunaga has revealed via his Instagram account that the Jamaica filming leg [...]
One of the great things to observe during the first week of filming for B25 in Jamaica was the return of James Bond's CIA buddy Felix Leiter, played by Jeffrey Wright. Leiter is a recurring character in the Ian Fleming books [...]
The Bank Holiday weekend in Britain has a nicely 'Bondian' and Jamaican feel to it. Not only has production commenced on the latest EON 007 movie in Jamaica, but actor Toby Stephens is back as Ian Fleming's James Bond in [...]
Craig's last mission? The James Bond co-producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson gave a detailed interview to the showbiz writer Baz Bamigboye during the B25 launch event held at the Goldeneye villa in Jamaica. The session drew out their [...]
So now we know. After lots of rumours and some false-starts, Bond movie number 25 is gearing into action in truly great fashion. Key details were released to the media on 25th April from 'Goldeneye' in Jamaica, the iconic location where [...]
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As the late Ian Fleming might say, 'Welcome to Jamaica, Mr. Craig. I've been expecting you'. According to our man at Station 'K' in Kingston, Jamaica, 007 star Daniel Craig and the B25 crew have now landed on the beautiful Caribbean [...]
The British press carried a number of reports on Sunday, 14th April, that the acclaimed British screenwriter Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who penned the award-winning BBC TV series Fleabag and also Killing Eve, has undertaken dialogue work on the script for Bond 25. Waller-Bridge [...]
Double-0 heaven and counting! In just one's year's time, on April 8th 2020, Bond 25 will be released to an eager world. Anticipation has risen to new levels in recent weeks when the production made use of locations in [...]
The Oscar-nominated stage and film actor Ralph Fiennes, who has played Gareth Mallory (MI6 boss 'M') in the last two James Bond movies, has made some brief comments about the next entry in the EON franchise, Bond 25, and he [...]
As well as production taking place in its traditional studios at Pinewood in the UK, there are good indications that the new James Bond movie, no. 25 in the iconic series, will make use of at least (00)3 other countries in [...]
Both Ian Fleming and James Bond aficionados will be very pleased: Bond movie no. 25 plans to shoot in Jamaica. In many ways it is the Caribbean Island that gave birth to James Bond, as it was 007 creator Ian [...]
It is nearly fifty 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 [...]
As many Bond aficionados know, during the late 1950s 007 creator Ian Fleming collaborated with Irish film producer Kevin McClory and playwright Jack Whittingham on a proposed first James Bond movie. A collection of copy correspondence from 1959-60, written to [...]
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A fascinating new book, Ian Fleming and Operation Golden Eye: Keeping Spain out of World War II, penned by historian Mark Simmons, explores the various Allied operations and schemes created to keep Franco's Spain and Salazar's Portugal out of World [...]
James Bond co-producer Barbara Broccoli has firmly ruled out any Dr.Who-style gender reinvention of Ian Fleming's iconic secret agent 007 and reminded people that Bond is very much male. In an interview given to the UK's Guardian newspaper (published on [...]
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James Bond star Daniel Craig, who is gearing up to start shooting Bond movie no. 25 later this year, was a special guest of the American CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) recently. The CIA is the U.S. near-equivalent to the UK's [...]
It is an incredible 45 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 new [...]
Ian Fleming has played 'a huge role' in his life and he said he is keen to acknowledge this. James Bond continuation author Anthony Horowitz proved to be a highly entertaining, thoughtful and self-deprecating guest when he was interviewed in [...]
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. And with [...]
Double-0 heaven! Many congratulations are in order. Rachel Weisz, the wife of 50-year old James Bond star Daniel Craig, has announced that she is expecting a baby with her husband. Rachel revealed that she is pregnant at the age of [...]
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Bond is back! 007 fans are in for a special treat this coming Easter weekend when Toby Stephens returns as James Bond in a new BBC Radio-4 adaptation of Ian Fleming's third novel, Moonraker (1955). As with with the previous BBC adaptations, [...]
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Now pay attention, 007. There's a new message from 'M'. Eyes only. Passed on from Station 'S' in Lincolnshire. Top priority. Message reads: An account of your first operation fetched high price. Stop. Telephone bid successful. Stop. Please be advised [...]
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Speaking to the UK's Daily Telegraph newspaper earlier this month, Rachel Weisz (wife of James Bond star Daniel Craig) praised 007 creator Ian Fleming and strongly argued against the idea of having a female Bond to replace her husband when he eventually [...]
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In a press release issued by Ian Fleming Publications on 8th February, 2018, the title, UK release date, and a brief synopsis for the exciting new James Bond novel by Anthony Horowitz have been revealed. The title of Horowitz's second 007 [...]
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Hold on tight - the 007 rumour roller-coaster for Bond 25 has already started! The British newspaper the Sunday Mirror (30th July) has claimed, in what it calls an 'exclusive', that the next James Bond movie, number 25 in the franchise, will [...]
The recent screening of the third Sean Connery James Bond movie Goldfinger by the UK's ITV-4 channel (on 21st July) drew appreciative comments by reviewers in the weekly TV listings in British newspapers, and one critic was full of praise [...]
Thirty years ago this summer, new James Bond actor Timothy Dalton was introduced to cinema audiences around the globe in his debut 007 movie The Living Daylights (1987), which was premiered at the famous Odeon cinema in London's Leicester Square. [...]
The new issue of All About History, the popular history magazine published in the UK, briefly explores James Bond creator Ian Fleming's role in World War Two, as part of a general article on the 'Spies That Won WWII'. Clearly [...]
Many of the biographers of Ian Fleming have come to appreciate in recent years the full extent to which the James Bond author drew inspiration for his spy novels from various incidents and people from the real-life world of espionage, [...]
The fifth smash-hit EON James Bond movie, You Only Live Twice (1967), celebrates its fiftieth birthday this year, and - as a contribution to this - the JBIFC takes the opportunity to briefly explore the role of the main baddie in [...]
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As interesting (but unconfirmed) rumours have emerged that 007's American buddy Felix Leiter could be back in Bond 25, the JBIFC takes the opportunity to briefly explore Ian Fleming's real-life relationship with the American intelligence services. Fleming biographers have long been [...]
With the UK's ITV-1 channel airing the second 007 adventure on Sunday 2nd April, the JBIFC takes a brief look at the key villains in the movie, a set of people who helped establish the iconic Bond film formula for those [...]
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How well do you know the creator of 007? There was a rare but welcome re-screening of the BBC-TV docudrama Ian Fleming: Bondmaker on the evening of Thursday, 23rd March. The biographical production about the life and career of the author of [...]
Many happy returns, Ursula! This month sees the beautiful Swiss actress Ursula Andress celebrate her 81st birthday (she was born in Berne, Switzerland, on March 19th, 1936). She was, of course, the first main Bond woman in an EON 007 movie. [...]
