• 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