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' [...]
What makes a good Bond villain? Award-winning actor Javier Bardem, who played the sinister Raoul Silva in Skyfall, was arguably one of the best baddies in the Daniel Craig series of 007 movies. Critics certainly praised Bardem's memorable performance as [...]
Sir Sam Mendes, the director of two smash-hit 007 films, Skyfall and Spectre, gave an interview to the UK's Observer newspaper and included some interesting reflections on his Bond years. Sir Sam has been publicising his latest movie Empire of [...]
The new edition of the BBC's weekly listings magazine Radio Times (for 25 Sept - 1 October, 2021), just published in the UK, has a great Bond and Moneypenny front cover and devotes six pages to James Bond and No [...]
The UK's main ITV channel has been continuing with its summer season of Daniel Craig Bond films and, as Skyfall is rolled out as part of this, the JBIFC takes the opportunity to look back on Craig's third 007 adventure [...]
The JBIFC is very sad to report the death of the acclaimed stage and screen actor Albert Finney, who has passed away aged 82. Finney, who rose to acting fame as one of the 'New Wave' of British actors of [...]
Bond is Back! Break out the Vodka Martinis. It has become something of a tradition that Christmas-time in the past in the UK has regularly seen a James Bond movie as part of the TV festivities. This year will continue [...]
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Remember, remember, the month of November - gunpowder, treason and plot. Five years ago this November, just as many people in Britain were celebrating the defeat of the Guy Fawkes plot with traditional displays of fireworks, the big success [...]
Licence renewed! In some dramatic James Bond news, a British newspaper columnist has exclusively revealed that the veteran Bond scriptwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade have been contracted to pen the storyline for the next James Bond movie, which will [...]
According to the obituary penned by 'M', and published in The Times when 007 had gone missing after destroying Blofeld's castle in Japan, James Bond was recruited into the 'Ministry of Defence' in 1941 with the help of an old Vickers colleague of his [...]
Naomie Harris has said that she thinks there is 'a very good chance' that Daniel Craig will return as James Bond. She was responding to the question that has inevitably faced a number of members of the 007 support team over [...]
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From JB to GB! Back in January, 2014, the JBIFC exclusively revealed that the James Bond screenwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, who came up with the central story theme for Skyfall and, more recently, also worked on Spectre, had been working [...]
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Will he or won't he, and does Miss Moneypenny know? This question has inevitably faced members of the 007 support team, as intense speculation has regularly occurred in the British and global media over whether Daniel Craig will be Bond in movie no. 25. [...]
A new documentary about Judi Dench, to be screened on the UK's BBC-2 TV channel on December 30th, will have contributions from 007s past and present, together with comments from Sam Mendes. The new programme, entitled All the World's Her [...]
The Name's Craig... Daniel Craig With all the recent speculation and media rumours about Daniel Craig's tenure as James Bond, and whether he will be reprising the role for Bond no. 25, it is perhaps worth reminding ourselves that it [...]
The acclaimed film and stage actor Ralph Fiennes, who became the new 'M' in Skyfall and reprised the role in Spectre, has received high praise from the critics for his new interpretation of the King in Richard III, the stage [...]
The British singer Adele, who won an Oscar in 2013 for her theme song to Skyfall, was the headline act at the famous Glastonbury music festival in Somerset over the weekend. Her live performance, which took place at 10.15pm on the evening [...]
Dame Judi Dench, who very briefly reprised her role as 007's MI6 boss 'M' in Spectre, is going to reign again as Queen Victoria, two decades after she first portrayed Britain's nineteenth century monarch in the movie Mrs. Brown (1997). Her [...]
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Sam Mendes, the director of two highly successful 007 movies with Daniel Craig, has said the next Bond director should come from 'a slightly unexpected direction' when it comes to the main storyline for the next James Bond movie. He also repeated [...]
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Actress Naomie Harris, who played Eve Moneypenny in Skyfall and reprised the role in Spectre, has been giving some publicity interviews for another type of spy movie, Our Kind of Traitor, which had its UK premiere on 5th May and goes [...]
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Sam Mendes, the director of two highly successful 007 movies with Daniel Craig, has been lined up to speak at the forthcoming Hay Literary Festival in May-June, 2016. He will discuss the craft of film-making. The Hay Festival is an annual event held [...]
Former 007 star Timothy Dalton can be seen in a haunting new trailer for the latest series of the gothic horror TV series Penny Dreadful, the third season of which will hit U.S. TV screens on Sunday, May 1st, 2016. [...]
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You read it here first. Back in January, 2014, the JBIFC exclusively revealed that the James Bond screenwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, who came up with the central story themes and main title for Skyfall and, more recently, also worked [...]
The latest edition of the independent quarterly Cineaste (Spring, 2016), the respected American magazine devoted to the world of movies, has a detailed article on the latest Bond movie Spectre, and seeks to pin down and critically appraise the nature of Daniel [...]
Gino Salomone, entertainment reporter for WITI-TV Fox in Milwaukee, WI recently interviewed cast members from Skyfall and wanted to share them with JBIFC members.
The Royal Premiere of 'Skyfall', which took place at the famous Royal Albert Hall in London on the evening of Tuesday October 23, was a huge success, and the first major star to arrive at the venue was [...]
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Dame Judi Dench, who reprises her role as 007's MI6 boss 'M' in 'Skyfall', was interviewed in the magazine of the UK's Sunday newspaper The Observer on October 14. Dame Judi, who first performed for an audience an amazing 60 years ago, and [...]
With the Second Unit completing their work in Turkey on Friday May 25, all the main filming on 'Skyfall' has come to an end, and the movie now enters the post-production stage. The Second Unit, which stayed behind in Turkey [...]
There has been some extensive coverage of the latest 'Skyfall' filming in Istanbul, including a new round of interviews with Daniel Craig. Articles and reports have appeared on the MSN website, on Sky News, on ITV's 'Daybreak', and on the [...]
Key members of the Bond production team praised the locations and warm hospitality of Turkey when speaking at the 'Skyfall' press conference held in Istanbul on April 29. The press conference, which took place in the plush surroundings of the 5-star Ciragan [...]
The new June 2012 edition of the UK’s ‘Empire’ movie magazine is both a ‘Skyfall’ special and a celebration of 50 years of the 007 film series. The popular must-buy magazine, which has just hit British news-stands, has been [...]
News has emerged of a plan by the London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) to play the world-famous James Bond theme tune as they pass by the MI6 Headquarters in a boat. According to the UK’s ‘Sunday Times’ newspaper (April 22), a [...]
Spanish actor Javier Bardem has provided some further brief comments about his role as the villain in the new 007 adventure 'Skyfall'. In two new interviews, one given by telephone to a leading English-language newspaper in the Middle East, and [...]
