Whoever becomes the new EON James Bond will rapidly find that their success will be very dependent on, and ultimately shaped by, the nature of the Bond 26 storyline. It has always been a huge challenge for the various screenwriters [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Bond has been Back on the Box in March. With the UK's TV channels ITV4 and ITVX currently engaged in a special Bond film season (the latest being Skyfall, screened on Friday 15th March, followed by an 'edited for violence' [...]
After Roger Moore's successful debut in Live and Let Die (1973), his second 007 adventure was quickly put into production. And, fifty years ago, on 18 December 1974, Roger's James Bond movie The Man With The Golden Gun (1974) was [...]
The 'alternative' versions of Bond history have always proved beguiling to 007 fans. In a fascinating article for a British newspaper, best-selling author and James Bond expert Jeremy Duns has described the events that led to him gaining access to [...]
When Sir Ken Adam (1921-2016) passed away a few years ago, he was seen by many film experts and cultural commentators as a 'designer extraordinaire'. His influence on the James Bond movies of the 1960s and 1970s was instrumental in [...]
The year 2023 has certainly witnessed plenty of coverage of famous Bond villains or their henchmen. Part of the 50th anniversary celebrations for Live and Let Die (1973), for example, has included numerous clips of the actor and acclaimed dancer [...]
What makes a great Bond villain? In surveys of the most famous baddies in the 007 movies, Kamal Khan, the main villain in Octopussy (1983), tends to be naturally pushed aside by the likes of Goldfinger, Blofeld, Stromberg, and Le [...]
It was surely a case of Double-O Heaven on 4th October when Sir Roger Moore: The Personal Collection saw a large number of items from the late 007 actor's personal collection go before the auction hammer at Bonhams in central [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
What did Bond 1 really think about Bond 3's interpretation of 007? After he had completed Diamonds Are Forever (1971), and stepped aside from the role that turned him into a global star, Sean Connery remained notably reluctant to comment [...]
007 and counting. The weeks will be ticking down to October 4th, which is the date for a very special auction that will take place at Bonhams in central London. James Bond actor Sir Roger Moore's personal collection of memorabilia [...]
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Happy Birthday, Mr. Bond. The year 2023 has now marked an incredible 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, [...]
It is an astonishing 40 years since the release of Roger Moore's sixth James Bond adventure, Octopussy, and - as part of the birthday celebrations - the JBIFC thought it would be appropriate to look back at the incredible work [...]
Live and let bite? As part of the celebrations this year of an astonishing 50 years of Live and Let Die (1973), the JBIFC revisits the crocodile sequence from Roger's debut 007 film. Interestingly, one of the most popular images [...]
With speculation mounting in various quarters about the nature of the next James Bond movie (Bond 26), and who the new 007 will possibly be, it is worth remembering that new actors in the role have often benefited from continuity [...]
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After Roger Moore's successful debut in Live and Let Die (1973), his second 007 adventure was quickly put into production. And on 18 December 1974, Roger's James Bond movie The Man With The Golden Gun (1974) was given a Royal [...]
Now pay attention, 007. One morning Ken Adam, a former pilot himself, was listening to the radio and he heard the inventor and ex-RAF pilot Wing Commander Ken Wallis talking about his autogyro helicopter. Adam suggested to EON that this [...]
The JBIFC are very sad to report that the actor Chaim Topol, who played Milos Columbo in Roger Moore's fifth 007 adventure For Your Eyes Only (1981), has died, aged 87. Topol (who was happy to be known just by [...]
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The year 2023 will mark an incredible 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 [...]
One of the key but relatively understated support roles in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) was that of Bond's contact in Bern and again at the Alpine village just below Piz Gloria. This essential part to the storyline was [...]
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In 2014 the JBIFC was very sad to report the death of actor Richard Kiel, aged 74, on September 10 in California. Richard, of course, had played the very tall and steel-toothed henchman 'Jaws' in two hugely successful James Bond [...]
The exciting cinema re-release of all the James Bond movies as part of the 60th Anniversary of the 007 movie franchise this year has been very popular with Bond fans, providing the fantastic opportunity to see the films on [...]
Fans of the Hammer Horror and Bond film actor Christopher Lee were given a very golden treat by BBC-4 in the UK on Sunday 22nd May when the channel devoted an evening to commemorate the later actor's birth a century [...]
To help celebrate what is nearly an incredible 40 years since the premiere of Octopussy, Roger Moore's sixth smash-hit adventure as Ian Fleming's iconic secret agent James Bond, the JBIFC have in the last few weeks made available six [...]
To help celebrate what is nearly 40 years since the premiere of Octopussy, Roger Moore's sixth smash-hit adventure as Ian Fleming's iconic secret agent James Bond, the JBIFC have in the past few weeks made available five edited extracts from [...]
To help celebrate what is nearly 40 years since the 1983 premiere of Octopussy, Roger Moore's sixth smash-hit adventure as Ian Fleming's iconic creation, the JBIFC has made available in recent weeks four edited extracts from an on-set report we [...]
To help celebrate nearly 40 years of Octopussy, the late Roger Moore's sixth adventure as James Bond, the JBIFC have been publishing some edited extracts from an on-set report we carried in 007 magazine back in 1983. Here is a [...]
To help celebrate nearly 40 years of Octopussy, the late Roger Moore's sixth adventure as James Bond, the JBIFC have been publishing some edited extracts from an on-set report we carried in 007 magazine back in January, 1983. Here is [...]
All Time High! To help celebrate nearly 40 years of Octopussy, the JBIFC is re-publishing some edited extracts from an on-set report we carried in 007 magazine back in January, 1983. The JBIFC's report was the first detailed account from [...]
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All Time High! It is nearly 40 years since principal photography commenced on Octopussy, which later received its Royal Premiere at the Odeon, Leicester Square, in London in June, 1983. The JBIFC takes the opportunity to look back at our [...]
The JBIFC is very sad to report that the acclaimed actor Yaphet Kotto, best known to 007 fans as the larger-than-life villain 'Mr. Big' (AKA 'Dr. Kananga') in Roger Moore's debut Bond movie Live and Let Die (1973), passed [...]
Live and Let Drive! The new 30th series of the BBC's popular primetime motoring programme Top Gear, which has Chris Harris, Paddy McGuinness and Freddie Flintoff as the main hosts and started its latest run on Sunday, 14th March, includes [...]
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 [...]
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