July 25th, 2014
by David Leigh
The cover of the forthcoming Young Bond novel, Shoot To Kill, which was unveiled at the end of May has been amended after it was pointed out that the Walther P38 gun used on the cover was not in production when the story is set. The cover of the forthcoming Young Bond novel, Shoot To Kill, […]
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July 22nd, 2014
by David Leigh
Photo: “Piazza Quattro Fontane 270deg Pano” by R Bitzer licenced under CC BY-SA 3.0 The president of Roma Lazio Film Commission has revealed to Italian media that the producers of Bond 24 are in talks for permission to shoot a key car chase in Rome. Luciano Sovena revealed that the chase would take place along Rome’s Via […]
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July 22nd, 2014
by David Leigh
Bond 24 stunt coordinator Gary Powell uploaded a photo to Instagram on Sunday taken on board an executive jet. UPDATE: The photo has been removed. The photo is interesting as Alexander Witt (Left, Second Unit Director of Photography) and Callum McDougall (Right, Executive Producer) can clearly be identified. While no details are known, it seems […]
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July 18th, 2014
by David Leigh
Guernsey Post is to issue a set of six stamps celebrating the life of Ian Fleming on 30th July. The stamps, with a range of values, each features a black and white photograph of James Bond’s creator, including one in uniform while working in Naval Intelligence, and another sat at his writing desk in Goldeneye. […]
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July 15th, 2014
by Edward Biddulph
We are so used to seeing the James Bond films on TV that we can easily forget that the films were made for the big screen, but even the best TVs cannot do justice to the panoramic action, the locations, the plots and the inevitable explosions.
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July 11th, 2014
by David Leigh
Sam Mendes attended an event at Windsor Castle on Tuesday night organised by Films Without Borders, in which he spoke about how the Olympics changed his approach to editing Skyfall, as well as Bond 24. Interviewed by Films Without Borders supporter Prince Edward, Mendes spoke about his first experience of Bond in Live And Let […]
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July 9th, 2014
by David Leigh
The arrival of July finds many of us counting down the days to our summer holidays and so in this article we look at some simple ways to update your summer wardrobe with some 007-style panache.
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July 5th, 2014
by David Leigh
007 fans in London will have the opportunity to watch two classic Bond films on the big screen at two very unique venues. Goldfinger will be screened on Thursday 10th July at an outdoor screening in Grosvenor Square, home of the US Embassy, while Casino Royale is due to be shown at the Hippodrome in […]
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July 3rd, 2014
by David Leigh
New Young Bond author Steve Cole was recently interviewed in the Adventures With Words podcast, where he revealed new information about his forthcoming Young Bond debut, Shoot To Kill. One interesting fact was that he was given the opportunity to modernise Young Bond instead of following the timeline started by Charlie Higson’s books and set the […]
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July 2nd, 2014
by David Leigh
Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer, the studio behind the James Bond films that went through bankruptcy proceedings at the end of 2010, last week raised $300 million in debt for “general corporate purposes”. MGM raised $300 million, $100 million more than it had been seeking, through the six year loan arranged by JP Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs, suggesting that confidence in the […]
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