• Now pay attention, 007. Why do some of James Bond's enemies seek to be 'friends' with the MI6 agent? The word 'frenemy' was not invented for the Bond films, but there are some key moments over the course of the [...]

    By Published On: March 30th, 2025
  • It contained some of the most memorable 007 movie moments of the 1960s, including one of the biggest sets yet seen in the James Bond franchise, thanks to the late, great Ken Adam. Moreover, audiences were finally given their first [...]

    By Published On: October 27th, 2024
  • In the pre-credits to Sean Connery's final EON James Bond movie, Diamonds Are Forever (1971), 007 thinks he has disposed of SPECTRE head Ernst Stavro Blofeld by pushing him headfirst into a large pool of boiling mud: 'Welcome to hell, Blofeld'. It was [...]

    By Published On: June 30th, 2024
  • It is the James Bond film that pushed mid-1960s Bond frenzy to new levels of interest and gained huge amounts of media publicity, especially during its location shooting in the sunny Bahamas. One of the main teaser posters for Thunderball [...]

    By Published On: May 5th, 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
  • Now pay attention, 007. When James Bond author Ian Fleming first introduced the criminal network SPECTRE to his many readers in the novel Thunderball in 1961, he inadvertently created an organisation which has arguably become one of the most famous [...]

    By Published On: October 22nd, 2023
  • 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 [...]

    By Published On: January 9th, 2023
  • 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 [...]

    By Published On: September 22nd, 2021
  • The latest issue of the popular British science fiction and and fantasy magazine, SFX, contains some coverage of the new James Bond movie No Time To Die, Daniel Craig's final adventure as 007. As many Bond aficionados know, the new [...]

    By Published On: September 10th, 2021
  • Bond will be back - soon! While we patiently await the unveiling of the eagerly anticipated new 25th James Bond film later this year, those keen for a few 'preview' teasers on the movie can read some interesting new comments [...]

    By Published On: July 10th, 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
  • 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 [...]

    By Published On: December 22nd, 2018
  • In a major piece of surprise news for 007 fans, new director Cary Fukunaga has confirmed that French actress Lea Seydoux, the leading Bond woman in Spectre, will return for the as-yet-untitled Bond 25. Key members of the Craig-era MI6 support team [...]

    By Published On: December 7th, 2018
  •   The exciting new Austrian-based James Bond exhibition '007 Elements', which opens on July 12th and promises to be the 'ultimate Bond experience' for visitors, has received an early review from the London Times newspaper. The new Bond experience, which the [...]

    By Published On: June 18th, 2018
  • In a detailed interview given to The Times newspaper (January 16th) in the UK, the Oscar-winning actor Christoph Waltz, publicising his new sci-fi comedy Downsizing, was asked about his role as Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the last 007 movie Spectre. [...]

    By Published On: January 22nd, 2018
  • Bond is Back! The fourth and most recent Daniel Craig 007 movie, Spectre, will receive its UK terrestrial TV premiere on the ITV-1 network on News Year's Day, 2018, at 8.00pm GMT. It is two years since the film, which [...]

    By Published On: December 23rd, 2017
  • From Austria With Love: further details have been revealed about the new James Bond Experience in Solden. Called '007 ELEMENTS', the Experience is a new James Bond cinematic installation built inside the summit of the Gaislachkogl Mountain in Solden. According [...]

    By Published On: September 19th, 2017
  • To Bond or not to Bond? The acclaimed Shakespearean stage actress and British film star Dame Judi Dench, who very briefly reprised her role as 007's MI6 boss 'M' in Spectre, spent 60 minutes being interviewed before an audience at The [...]

    By Published On: June 13th, 2017
  • The fifth smash-hit EON James Bond movie, You Only Live Twice (1967), celebrates its fiftieth birthday this year, and - as a contribution to this - the JBIFC takes the opportunity to briefly explore the role of the main baddie in [...]

    By Published On: May 8th, 2017
  • One of the highlights of the last James Bond film Spectre in 2015 with Daniel Craig was the presence of 'Mr. Hinx', a tough and towering henchman who seemed impervious to pain and, while working for Ernst Stavro Blofeld's organisation, gave [...]

    By Published On: May 1st, 2017
  • 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 [...]

    By Published On: March 10th, 2017
  • 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 [...]

    By Published On: March 6th, 2017
  • 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 [...]

    By Published On: February 25th, 2017
  • 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 [...]

    By Published On: February 19th, 2017
  • 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. [...]

    By Published On: January 22nd, 2017
  • 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 [...]

    By Published On: December 12th, 2016
  • In the pre-credits to Sean Connery's final EON James Bond movie, Diamonds Are Forever (1971), 007 thinks he has disposed of SPECTRE head Ernst Stavro Blofeld by pushing him headfirst into a large pool of boiling mud: 'Welcome to hell, Blofeld'. It was [...]

    By Published On: November 13th, 2016
  • The latest James Bond movie SPECTRE, released to huge box office success in 2015, has evidently left a special and lasting legacy in Mexico City. As many 007 fans will recall, director Sam Mendes and his hard-working crew created a [...]

    By Published On: November 1st, 2016
  • It contained some of the most memorable 007 movie moments of the 1960s, including one of the biggest sets yet seen in the James Bond franchise. Moreover, audiences were finally given their first sight of the mysterious villain who was intent on causing [...]

    By Published On: October 23rd, 2016
  • One of the main teaser posters for Thunderball (1965) said it all: 'Look Out! Here Comes The Biggest Bond Of All!' This year marks the 50th birthday of Sean Connery's fourth movie as James Bond, a smash-hit film at the [...]

    By Published On: October 15th, 2016
  • 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 [...]

    By Published On: September 9th, 2016
  • A brief, but interesting, news item from RadarOnline.com has claimed that James Bond actor Daniel Craig has been offered a huge financial inducement to remain as 007. According to the site, it has 'exclusively learned' that Sony is offering the actor [...]

    By Published On: September 4th, 2016
  • Now pay very close attention, 007: you'll be driving the new Aston Martin DB11, complete with additional modifications, perfect for avoiding those annoying little traffic jams and for tracking down a certain Ernst Stavro Blofeld, who has apparently escaped from prison. And [...]

    By Published On: August 20th, 2016
  • 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 [...]

    By Published On: June 29th, 2016
  • 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 [...]

    By Published On: June 27th, 2016
  • 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 [...]

    By Published On: June 22nd, 2016