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 [...]
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' [...]
Now pay attention, 007. The UK's ITV and ITVX television channels are holding a James Bond movie bonanza during March. All 25 official 007 films are being screened on ITV during this month, starting on Monday, 4th March, with Goldfinger [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 25-film franchise when such [...]
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 [...]
One year ago this month the world sadly lost Sir Roger Moore, the third actor to play James Bond and a true gentleman in every sense of the word. Still very sorely missed, Sir Roger was the first James Bond [...]
The JBIFC is very sad to report that three-times Bond director Lewis Gilbert has passed away, aged 97. The award-winning director of such classics as Reach for the Sky (1956), Carve Her Name With Pride (1958), Sink the Bismarck! (1960) and Alfie (1966), Gilbert also helmed [...]
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 [...]
Bond is Back! To celebrate the life of Sir Roger Moore, the main studio MGM, the film restoration experts Park Circus, and EON Productions have announced in a joint statement that there will be special screenings of two of his 007 [...]
Figures released by the British Film Institute (BFI) on Thursday, 28 January, show that the UK's film industry has reached new heights in the last year, with key studios such as Pinewood (the traditional home of 007), Shepperton, and Leavesden [...]
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This year will see the 40th Anniversary of Roger Moore's third 007 movie, the epic and hugely popular The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). Produced by Albert 'Cubby' Broccoli in a solo capacity after the break-up of his producing partnership with [...]
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The James Bond films were created, of course, for the big screen and have often served as the ultimate cinematic experience, but we should not forget the fact that the 007 movies have also had a television presence in Britain [...]
The Spy Who Loved Me At the end of 1975, the newest design from the Lotus company was presented at the Earls Court Motor Show in London – the Esprit that had been created by Italian designer Giorgio [...]
Roger Moore Born 14th October 1927 The longest serving actor in the role to date – and a record which is unlikely to be equalled? Born in Stockwell, South London, in 1927, the son of a policeman. He [...]
Date of Release World Premiere 7th July 1977, Odeon Leicester Square, London. Running Time 125 minutes James Bond Roger Moore Plot Megalomaniac Karl Stromberg plans to obliterate mankind [...]
