Author Profile: David Leigh

The latest video featuring scenes from 007: Blood Stone shows some impressive looking driving action in the Aston Martin DB5 and DBS. Click the play button below to see the action for yourself, or you can pre-order the game from Amazon now for home delivery (right). The video also includes interviews with the developers and […]

Video of how to mix James Bond’s vodka martini – shaken, not stirred – using Ian Fleming’s recipe from Live And Let Die

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. (MGM), yesterday distributed a supplement to the solicitation package that was originally distributed to MGM’s secured lenders on October 7, 2010.  The supplement contains additional details to the Company’s financial information included in the original solicitation materials.  In order to provide lenders sufficient time to review the supplemental information, MGM has extended the […]

Carl C. Icahn released the following statement on October 12th: “We are holders of significant positions in both Lions Gate stock and MGM debt. Today, Lions Gate has made a proposal to combine these two companies. We believe that this combination of Lions Gate and MGM would enhance value for all constituencies and we believe […]

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. (MGM) today announced that it has begun a solicitation of votes from its secured lenders for a pre-packaged plan of reorganization (the “Plan”). MGM expects to continue normal business operations throughout the restructuring process. The Plan provides for MGM’s employees, vendors, participants, guilds, and licensees to be unimpaired. The Plan provides for MGM’s […]

For anyone brought up purely on the films, it may come as a surprise that James Bond has a favourite strawberry jam. Buy from Amazon UK or Amazon.com After vodka martinis and the finest vintage Champagnes it doesn’t seem at first glance to be Bond-like at all. But the James Bond books often feature mouth-watering […]

When three MI6 agents watching the dictator of a small Caribbean island are killed in the space of 24 hours M sends James Bond to New York to investigate. 007 soon finds his arrival has been noticed as several attempts are made on his life. Following up a clue in Harlem puts him on Mr […]

First nothing seems to be moving to resolve the crisis at MGM and then it all happens at once. First of all, Spyglass signed a letter of intent to take over the running of the studio; then Sahara entered the picture, with a bid that was rumoured to have the backing of Barbara Broccoli and […]

I’ll start off by saying that I am biased; The Man With The Golden Gun is the very first Bond film I saw (at the cinema, before they had even showed Dr No on television) and so it will always have a special place in my heart. Conventional wisdom has it that The Man With […]

James Bond is sent to investigate a diamond smuggling ring and after following up a contact in Amsterdam ends up in the gambling capital of the world. Investigating the reclusive Willard Whyte, he learns the diamonds are destined for a research laboratory in the Nevada desert where a satellite is being constructed. Breaking into the […]

After saving Tracy Di Vicenzo from drowning herself on a beach, James Bond promises her mobster father, Marc Ange Draco, to carry on seeing her in exchange for details of the whereabouts of Ernst Stavro Blofeld, head of SPECTRE. Directed by Marc Ange to a lawyer in Bern, 007 discovers Blofeld is comminicating with the Royal […]

When an American spacecraft disappears from orbit the United states immediate suspects the Soviet Union. However, since the British tracked the craft to the Sea of Japan they decide to dispatch James Bond to Tokyo to investigate. James Bond, assisted by Tiger Tanaka, as well as Bond girls Aki and Kissy, uncovers a plot by […]

When two atomic bombs are stolen by SPECTRE  countdown begins to locate them before time is up; if a ransom is not paid then the warheads will be used against western targets and all available agents are scrambled into action. James Bond is sent to the Bahamas after spotting a link between pilot Francois Derval and […]

At the start of From Russia With Love (1963) an assassin pulls a length of wire from his watch and silently approaches James Bond from behind. Looping the wire around Bond’s neck, the assassin pulls it tight and holds it there until Bond gasps his last breath. From Russia With Love is the second James […]

Following the disappearance of the head of the local secret service station in Jamaica and his assistant, M send James Bond to investigate. Bond quickly teams up with the CIA’s Felix Leiter and with the help of the CIA man and his local hand, Quarrel, Bond follows up a series of leads. His investigations point […]

At the beginning of Casino Royale we meet James Bond as we’ve never seen him before, involved in the assignment that earns him his double-O status. Gone are the gadgets and gone is the juvenile humour and in its place the film is serious and violent. After international terrorist financier Le Chiffre loses a client’s […]

Jamaica is probably the country that should be associated with 007; it is at his house there named Goldeneye that Ian Fleming wrote all the James Bond stories.

Subsequent to reporting a rumour earlier in the day that – James Bond Producers Said to Join Sahara Bid for MGM Studio – EON Productions has released a statement denying they had ever had any contact with Sahara India Pariwar. “EON Productions tonight confirmed they have never had any contact with Sahara India Pariwar and […]

Just when it looked like MGM’s future might be settled thanks to the potential deal with Spyglass that would take it into pre-packed bankruptcy, India’s Sahara decided to spoil the show with a $2 billion offer. However, it is now rumoured that there is more to this deal than meets the eye, with an article […]

MGM has received yet another debt extension until the end of October while it finalises a deal with Spyglass according to an article published on Reuters, which states: “Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGMYR.UL] said on Wednesday that its lenders agreed to extend a deadline for debt payments as the film studio prepares to be handed over to film […]