James Bond

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 composer David Arnold will appear in Bridport, UK, for [...]

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 [...]

What makes a memorable Bond henchman? Screen presence? A sense of threat? Distinctive physical characteristics? Popularity with audiences? In many ways, the late actor Richard Kiel, who died aged 74 on September 10, 2014, in California, embodied all those features [...]

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 [...]

  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 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 [...]

The EON James Bond films carved out a reputation for exotic location shooting and international glamour, with key scenes often shot in places across the globe. But a surprising amount of filming, often for budgetary reasons, was carried out in [...]

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 [...]

The DB5, Little Nellie, Wet Nellie, the jet ski Wet bike... and Wet Nellie 2? The MI6 Quartermaster always delivered some fantastic gadgets and iconic vehicles for secret agent 007 and, breaking the usual briefing convention, Pierce Brosnan's James Bond was [...]

In his autobiography When the Snow Melts (published in 1998), the late Bond producer Cubby Broccoli aptly referred to 'the brilliant John Barry' and said his soundtracks were 'some of the best in cinema music'. More recently, former Bond music [...]

Now pay attention, 007. In surveys of the most famous baddies in the James Bond movies, Kamal Khan, the main villain in Octopussy (1983), tends to be pushed aside by the likes of Goldfinger, Blofeld, Stromberg, and Le Chiffre. Yet, [...]

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 [...]

Now pay attention, 007. The fourth Daniel Craig James Bond movie SPECTRE, released to huge box-office success back in 2015, was notable for its superb pre-credits sequence, where 007 was first seen looking rather like a black-clad version of Baron [...]

Golden high! As Goldeneye is given a very welcome and special 30th anniversary release in UK cinemas, the JBIFC takes the opportunity to look back at an interview Pierce Brosnan gave in 2017, which dealt partly with his debut as [...]

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 [...]

It has been really great during 2025 to see Goldeneye back in cinemas for special screenings to help celebrate 30 years of the movie, and all the evidence clearly indicates Pierce Brosnan's debut 007 movie has built up a very [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

It is the news that Bond fans and film commentators alike have been waiting months for: who will shape the new 007 movie? Now we know. Denis Villeneuve, the Oscar-nominated French-Canadian filmmaker, will direct the next James Bond film, Amazon [...]

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 [...]