Author Profile: David Leigh

We’re at the end of another week and so it’s time to take a look at the social media highlights of the week, this time staring Quentin Tarantino, Adele, Sean Connery and Judi Dench, while Aston Martin celebrates 100 years. Skyfall Shoots Ahead As The Critics’ Choice For Best Action Movie Quentin Tarantino: Why Skyfall […]

Sky Atlantic is planning a drama based on the life of Ian Fleming, according to the Radio Times and other media sources. The series, titled simply Fleming, will be in four parts and star Dominic Cooper as the author and journalist who worked in Naval Intelligence during the second world war and spent every winter […]

In this video we take a look at The Book of Bond, written by Kingsley Amis and published in 1965 under the pseudonym Lt-Col William Tanner.

Judi Dench’s role in Skyfall was her biggest of all her Bond appearances and she seems to have relished her action scenes including using a firearm for the first time ever judging by a report appearing on the Mail Online.  Although Skyfall will be her last Bond film she kept the shell casings she fired in […]

Sit down with the drink of your choice and watch this 37 minute interview with Greg Russell who has been nominated, along with Scott Millan and Stuart Wilson, for the sound mixing Oscar. He discusses hearing about the nomination and working on Skyfall, his first Bond movie.

Adele was last night awarded the Golden Globe trophy for Best Original Song for Skyfall at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles. Expressing surprise at the award, she thanked a whole list of people including Sam Mendes, Daniel Craig and boyfriend Simon Konecki. You can watch a video of Adele’s acceptance speach on MTV by clicking […]

Skyfall closed the weekend just short of $300 million in the US market, with a worldwide box office of $1,032,863,000, according to figures from Box Office Mojo. The film is coming to the end of its big screen run as the DVD and Blu-Ray release date of February 18th approaches, and worldwide the only major market remaining […]

Here are the week’s top picks we’ve shared on our social media channels, judged by response from followers or own personal interest. This week much of the talk was about the Oscars and other showbiz awards: Oscars ceremony to pay tribute to 50 years of James Bond films A special sequence will be shown during […]

Just before Christmas I received a review copy of All About Bond, with contributions by a variety of people such as Godfrey Smith, who worked with Ian Fleming at the Sunday Times, Goldfinger actress Honor Blackman and GQ Editor Dylan Jones.

Daniel Craig’s three James Bond films are to be released in the UK as a Blu-Ray triple pack collection on February 18th, according to information on Amazon.co.uk.

I’ve been a fan of Timothy Ferriss ever since he published The 4-Hour Work Week back in 2007, and while I can understand why he might not be to everyone’s taste, his books do actually make you stop and think about things that you may have been taking granted for years; that can never be […]

Skyfall has been nominated for Oscars in five different categories it was revealed earlier today, which according to our friends at HMSS beats the previous Bond record; The Spy Who Loved Me was nominated in three categories. The Oscars website reveals that Skyfall was nominated in the following categories: Original song Adele  Cinematography Roger Deakins   […]

Skyfall has been nominated in nine categories for the BAFTA awards, which will take place at the Royal Opea House in London on February 10th. The categories Skyfall has been nominated are as follows: Outstanding British Film Sam Mendes, Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, John Logan  Supporting Actor Javier Bardem Supporting […]

Amazon recently recommended to me a new book by The Ipcress File author Len Deighton, writing about the James Bond phenomenon from his own personal experince of knowing both Ian Fleming and Kevin McClory, which was a little bit of a surprise since its publication doesn’t seem to have been announced at all. The book, […]

Skyfall‘s latest figures are estimated to be $1,023,300,000 worldwide according to the latest update from Box Office Mojo. The update includes the first weekend of 2013, with the US figure now standing at $296,900,000 and the rest of the world contributing $726,400,000. When ticket price inflation is taken into account Skyfall falls into third place in […]

After taking a weeklong break from “Picks of the Week” due to the holidays combined with me simply forgetting, here are the best stories shared through social media: GQ names Daniel Craig the year’s most stylish man Javier Bardem on how he brought a personal touch to Skyfall villain Former Bond Timothy Dalton: ‘Skyfall Deserves […]

Skyfall has finally exceeded the one billion dollar mark at the box office this weekend, according to a tweet by the official 007 twitter account. While I am not personally a huge fan of the film, it has certainly been a hit with the majority of 007 fans and the wider cinema going public, and […]

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It seems no time at all since Skyfall landed, but already we are looking forward to its release on DVD and Blu-Ray. Originally planned to be released in March, Bond fans will be able to own the latest Bond blockbuster on February 18th and can pre-order it now from Amazon. Order DVD from Amazon.co.uk Order DVD […]

Skyfall is just short of taking $975 million worldwide according to the latest estimates from Box Office Mojo. According to the figures Skyfall had taken $974,272,000 by the end of the weekend, with $279,972,000 from the United States and $694,300,000 from all other territories. The big question now is when ans if the film will […]