Author Profile: David Leigh

Our friends at Archivo 007, the Spanish website dedicated to all things James Bond, are just about to start their third annual convention in Madrid this weekend. The convention is organised by the Asociación Club Archivo 007, the Spanish non-profit fan club, and will take place at the Hotel NH Alonso Martinez. The weekend will feature chats, […]

Recently I crunched box office numbers for all the James Bond movies released by Eon Productions to date. The idea was to go beyond the inflation-adjusted figures that have been reported before and to find out the most successful Bond films based on other than simply the box-office take. Skyfall was the first Bond film to earn […]

After the release of the SPECTRE trailer yesterday, the official 007 Twitter account began sharing a number of new photos of the cast, some of which appeared on the USA Today website earlier in the week. Take a look below:

Today the eagerly awaited trailer for SPECTRE was released online. Click the play button to watch it above and then leave a comment below to let me know what you think of it.  

On August 20, seven of the most beautiful and glamorous James Bond ladies will be in Oslo for one unforgettable event entitled Bond Girls Are Forever. The Bond Girls will bring classic charm and glamour to a 007-themed dinner and charity auction for UNICEF in the Kino Victoria, paired with an exclusive screening of the […]

Sam Mendes was recently interviewed by the BBC for a programme about cricket, in which he also talked about James Bond and SPECTRE. The programme, View from the Boundary: Sam Mendes, was broadcast on BBC 5 Live radio and for another 28 days you can listen online or download it as a podcast. In the interview he […]

Today it was announced that the World Première of SPECTRE will take place in London on Monday 26th October. The film will also hit cinemas in the UK and Ireland, the first time a Bond movie has gone on general release the same day as being premièred. Worldwide, SPECTRE will begin its rollout on 6th November in […]

If you thought Blofeld owned a nice cuddly white moggie then think again! This book presents the true world view of Blofeld’s cat as he takes aim at just about everything possible in the modern world. Full of laughs and great drawings, including a diagram of a volcano lair. You can buy The World According […]

An all-new line-up of special edition 007 Blu-Rays, DVDs and box-sets is due to be released on 15th September. The theme of the new release is SPECTRE, with six films featuring the shadowy organization headed by Ernst Stavro Blofeld, plus the three Daniel Craig movies to date, receiving a limited edition Steelbook release. These are […]

The CEO of Omega Watches has confirmed that Daniel Craig will be wearing an Omega Aqua Terra is SPECTRE. Interviewed by WatchTime magazine, Stephen Urquhart says: In the last film… Bond started off wearing a Planet Ocean and later wore a blue Aqua Terra, so we and Daniel Craig … agreed that he would wear another Aqua Terra in the new […]

After the rich visual look of Skyfall, shot digitally by Roger Deakins on the ARRI Alexa, it was slightly surprising to learn that SPECTRE would be returning to 35 mm film under cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema. However, according to the Hollywood Reporter, some portions of SPECTRE were shot using the Alexa 65, a larger format version of […]

A new trailer for SPECTRE is due imminently after it was yesterday passed uncut by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC). The trailer has received a 12A rating and runs for 2 minutes 30 seconds, considerably longer than the teaser trailers released so far. Looking back at Skyfall, the BBFC passed the trailer on 23rd […]

Press release: Dynamite proudly announces that fan-favorite author Warren Ellis will be writing the James Bond 007 ongoing comic book series, the first to appear in over two decades. James Bond 007 is scheduled for release in November 2015, featuring interior artwork by Jason Masters (Batman Incorporated, Guardians of the Galaxy). The news of the high-profile […]

Details of a new James Bond comic have been revealed by Dynamite Entertainment today. The 10 year deal between Ian Fleming Publications and Dynamite was made public in October 2014, but today it was announced that the first stories will be written by Warren Ellis with artwork by Jason Marsters and timed to coincide with the release of SPECTRE in November. Ellis […]

Although there has been no official word yet from the official 007 social media channels, SPECTRE finished shooting on Saturday and now enters the post-production stage. Over the next few months Sam Mendes will concentrate of editing the footage, special effects will be added, sound dubbed, music composed, the title sequence designed and a theme song […]

In the last few days Amazon started listing a new book collecting Ian Fleming’s letters. The Man with the Golden Typewriter: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters, collects letters to his wife, friends, publishers and fans to paint a picture of Fleming at the height of his fame and the beginning of Bondmania. Although there has […]

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Today we received the sad news that Patrick Macnee, who appeared alongside Roger Moore in A View To A Kill (1985), has died at the age of 93. Macnee is best remembered for the role of John Steed in British TV show The Avengers, but it is as Sir Godfrey Tibbett that many Bond fans will […]

Sunday once again saw the second unit of SPECTRE shooting on the Thames near MI6 headquarters at Vauxhall Cross. Meanwhile the main unit is now in Morocco, where they are expected to remain for a around 10 days. Filming is scheduled for the maze of streets of Tangier’s Medina and in Erfoud, near the border with Algerian. Sam […]

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