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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 fictional crime syndicates in popular literature. [...]
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 [...]
Now pay attention, 007. A new issue of the glossy Bond magazine MI6 Confidential has just been published, and contains some great coverage of the visual effects that go into a James Bond movie. In fact, issue no. 35 of [...]
Now pay close attention, 007. The resurrection, or reinvention, of Ian Fleming's sinister Bond villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld by Christoph Waltz in Spectre and No Time To Die created enormous interest on the part of commentators, and in some ways [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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Later this year will mark the 50th birthday of Thunderball (1965), Sean Connery's fourth movie as James Bond, a smash-hit film at the box-office which in many ways took 'Bondmania' to new and dizzying heights in the mid-1960s. One of the [...]
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 [...]
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The latest issue of the American magazine Cinefex (no. 145, February, 2016), which celebrates the world of special and visual effects in movie-making, contains a detailed article on the production of Spectre. The magazine, which is available in retail [...]
Double-O heaven! The latest issue of the glossy James Bond magazine MI6 Confidential has just been published and carries extensive coverage of Spectre, including its worldwide premieres, box-office performance and key marketing campaigns. There are also interviews with members of [...]
It was a double triumph for the latest 007 movie Spectre at the 2016 Jameson Empire Awards in London, with the latest Sam Mendes-directed James Bond adventure winning the Awards for 'Best Thriller' and 'Best British Film' in 2015. The Awards [...]
James Bond star Daniel Craig joined his co-stars and other members of the SPECTRE production team for a special press call held in London yesterday (October 22nd), and offered his views on his 'bond' with Bond. The press event, held [...]
Truly spectacular, 007! The special UK press screening of the new James adventure SPECTRE, which took place yesterday (Wednesday), has led to a wave of early reviews in the British press and on TV, and the overwhelming verdict is that this is one [...]
Now pay attention, 007. It was a case of Sam meets Sam recently. The latest official video log from the SPECTRE production team was released on the evening of October 20th, focusing on singer Sam Smith's theme song Writing's on [...]
A new video blog has been released by the EON Bond producers which gives fans an insight into the spectacular car chase shot in the recent SPECTRE filming in Rome. The new 'vlog', placed on the official 007.com website, features contributions from Neil [...]
Doubly spectacular, 007! With the principal location filming by the main unit in Mexico now complete, there is growing anticipation that the pre-credits sequence for SPECTRE is set to be the biggest opening sequence ever filmed in the EON [...]
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Bond is back, and better than ever! The first SPECTRE teaser trailer was released on Friday 27th March at 11.45pm (GMT), and it has provided 007 fans across the globe with a brief but beguiling glimpse of the atmospheric storyline that [...]
Shooting on the exciting pre-credits sequence for SPECTRE has continued this week in Mexico City, with further 'Day of the Dead' festival filming, some interior and exterior scenes at a hotel, and some gruelling physical action involving Daniel Craig pursuing a [...]
Gorgeous French actress Lea Seydoux, who has the major role of Madeleine Swann in the next James Bond adventure SPECTRE, gave a detailed interview to a British newspaper recently, and set out some of the background to how she was [...]
Super-cool James Bond star Daniel Craig and beautiful Italian actress Monica Bellucci attended a special SPECTRE press and photocall today (Wednesday, 18 February, 2015) in Rome. The afternoon photocall took place at Rome's City Hall. At one point [...]
