• It's the news that had been doing the rumour circuits for a few weeks but has now been officially confirmed. Amazon MGM Studios, which have taken 'creative control' of James Bond on screen after a deal with EON, have announced [...]

    By Published On: March 25th, 2025
  • 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 [...]

    By Published On: March 16th, 2025
  • 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 [...]

    By Published On: February 23rd, 2025
  • 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 [...]

    By Published On: February 20th, 2025
  •   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 [...]

    By Published On: January 12th, 2025
  • 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' [...]

    By Published On: December 8th, 2024
  • Now pay attention, 007. On Wednesday, 13th November, the UK’s press carried detailed reports from The Associated Press (AP) of an interview AP had conducted with the James Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson on the eve of [...]

    By Published On: November 17th, 2024
  •   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 [...]

    By Published On: October 5th, 2024
  • 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 [...]

    By Published On: September 1st, 2024
  • 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 [...]

    By Published On: July 7th, 2024
  • 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 [...]

    By Published On: March 25th, 2024
  •   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 [...]

    By Published On: February 26th, 2024
  • 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 [...]

    By Published On: September 3rd, 2023
  • Now pay attention, 007. It seems astonishing to think that the 18th EON James Bond movie, Tomorrow Never Dies, which starred Pierce Brosnan in his second smash-hit 007 adventure, received its World Premiere at the famous Odeon Leicester Square, in [...]

    By Published On: August 30th, 2023
  • Experience suggests that it is often fun to speculate on 'alternative' versions of the Bond universe and explore how the films may have gone in another direction had circumstances been different. Back in 2012, a new book came on to [...]

    By Published On: March 1st, 2023
  • Now pay attention, 007. It's an amazing twenty years since Pierce Brosnan's final movie as James Bond hit our cinema screens. On 18th November, 2002, Brosnan's fourth Bond adventure Die Another Day had its Royal Premiere at the Royal Albert [...]

    By Published On: November 19th, 2022
  •   As the 60th Anniversary cinema re-release of the 007 films reaches The World Is Not Enough (1999), Pierce Brosnan's third adventure as Ian Fleming's secret agent, and Garbage is also lined up as one of the performers for the [...]

    By Published On: August 18th, 2022
  • The year 2022 is the 60th Anniversary of James Bond on the Big Screen and there have already been some great events to help celebrate 007's longevity and global fame, such as the re-release of all the James Bond movies [...]

    By Published On: July 30th, 2022
  • Bond producer Barbara Broccoli has responded to some brief questions posed to her about the future of 007 and the EON franchise, and about the selection process for a new actor to replace Daniel Craig. According to Deadline, the well-known [...]

    By Published On: July 4th, 2022
  • The EON James Bond movie franchise celebrates its 60th Anniversary in 2022, making it one of the most successful continuous movie franchises in cinema history. To help with the birthday celebrations, it has been officially announced that cinemas in the [...]

    By Published On: April 19th, 2022
  • In an exclusive interview given to the UK's newspaper The Times, the James Bond producers, Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, have re-confirmed that no key decisions have been made yet about Bond's future direction. The search for Daniel Craig's [...]

    By Published On: March 4th, 2022
  • All Time High! It is one of the ultimate honours for an actor. The outgoing James Bond star Daniel Craig, who is currently enjoying huge success with No Time To Die, his final turn as 007, attended a special ceremony [...]

    By Published On: October 12th, 2021
  • The Royal World Premiere of No Time To Die, Daniel Craig's fifth and final adventure as James Bond 007, took place at the Royal Albert Hall (RAH) in central London on the evening of Tuesday, 28th September, and, despite the [...]

    By Published On: September 28th, 2021
  • The 'Culture' section of the UK's Sunday Times newspaper (September 19) was a real treat for 007 fans, as it carried what it called the 'exclusive inside story of No Time To Die'. Adorned with a great-looking Daniel Craig/gunbarrel front [...]

    By Published On: September 19th, 2021
  •   The new September, 2021, issue of the UK's best-selling film magazine Total Film includes 6 glossy pages of coverage of the new James Bond adventure, No Time To Die (NTTD), which hits British cinemas on 30th September. Bond magazine [...]

    By Published On: September 7th, 2021
  • The King is dead, but long live the King. The JBIFC is extremely sad to report that Sir Sean Connery, the first big-screen James Bond and an all-round icon of cinema, has passed away, aged 90. The very sad news [...]

    By Published On: November 1st, 2020
  • 007 and Counting... It has been a frustrating few months, but as we eagerly await the release of the new James Bond movie in 2021, there are still plenty of things to tease our appetites in the meantime. The new [...]

    By Published On: October 26th, 2020
  •   Deep concern over the Coronavirus pandemic and a seeming second surge of Covid-19 across parts of the world has prompted the producers of the James Bond franchise to come to a very difficult decision: the cinema release of No [...]

    By Published On: October 2nd, 2020
  • The JBIFC is very sad to report that Michael Lonsdale, the actor who played villain Hugo Drax opposite Roger Moore's 007 in Moonraker (1979), has died, aged 89. He passed away at his home in Paris. The award-winning and bilingual [...]

    By Published On: September 22nd, 2020
  •   The UK's main ITV channel has been continuing with its short summer season of Daniel Craig Bond films and, as Spectre is rolled out as part of this, the JBIFC takes the opportunity to look back on Craig's fourth [...]

    By Published On: June 26th, 2020
  • All time high. The new March, 2020, edition of the UK's best-selling movie magazine Total Film contains a glossy celebration of the new 007 movie No Time To Die, now due to hit cinemas later this year. With a choice [...]

    By Published On: March 16th, 2020
  • This will come as no surprise. The James Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson have announced that, after 'careful consideration and thorough evaluation of the global theatrical marketplace', the release of the 007 movie No Time To Die, [...]

    By Published On: March 4th, 2020
  • Nobody does it better. The new April 2020 issue of the popular and best-selling British cinema magazine Empire, which has just hit retail shelves in the UK, includes a special bonus magazine entitled Bond: The Ultimate Celebration, with an introduction by [...]

    By Published On: February 21st, 2020
  • 007 and counting. As we eagerly await the 25th entry in the iconic franchise, No Time To Die, the James Bond producers have given some thoughts on the Daniel Craig five-film 007 era. The leading U.S. showbiz entertainment journal Variety recently published [...]

    By Published On: January 27th, 2020
  • Live and Let High! As excitement builds for the 25th James Bond movie, starring Daniel Craig in his final instalment in the smash-hit franchise, the 007 producers have now confirmed both the main singer and the soundtrack composer for No Time To [...]

    By Published On: January 15th, 2020
  • Collectors of James Bond printed magazine material have been given an excellent New Year present in the shape of previews of No Time To Die in two of the UK's leading film magazines. The new issue of Total Film magazine [...]

    By Published On: January 6th, 2020