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Harrods department store in Knightsbridge currently has a Land Rover used in the filming of Skyfall on display in one of the windows. The Land Rover Defender was driven by Naomie Harris, who plays Eve, in the opening sequence of the forthcoming Bond film. Click here to read the full article

Bond… James Bond. It wasn’t in Quantum of Solace, but it’s certainly back for Skyfall.

Amazon.de has uploaded track previews for the Skyfall soundtrack, composed by Thomas Newman. The thirty each clips include a 30 second snippet of music and gives an idea of what to expect when the film is released. The soundtrack titles give little away, certainly less than some previous titles that have given away the death […]

The first press screening for Skyfall is due to take place on Friday, with early reviews expected on Friday night. Journalists have been tweeting photos of their tickets, such as those here. There seems to be a high level of anticipation for the film among those lucky enough to be invited certainly by Saturday morning […]

Press release: Globe-Trotter are extremely proud to announce its very special involvement in the latest James Bond film, SKYFALL, starring Daniel Craig. This is the biggest partnership Globe-Trotter has ever undertaken in their 115 year history, and who better to partner with than 007 himself, a true British icon. For SKYFALL, the production team required […]

A new 23 second TV spot has been released today after being uploaded to YouTube.

The 50th anniversary music compilation “Best of Bond… James Bond” is now available from iTunes. Including the themes from the first 22 films and musical cues from a number of scores, the compilation totals 50 tracks. Download Best of Bond… James Bond from iTunes

The Kindle version of “The Complete Guide to the Drinks of James Bond” has just been updated, with the word-count increased by more than 80%! If you’d like the chance to win one of 10 copies of this updated book all you need to do is answer the following question correctly: What was James Bond’s […]

Last Friday saw the auction of various pieces of Bondmania up at Christie’s. Entitled “50 Years of James Bond – The Auction”, 40 lots were available online, while 10 more were also available at an invitation charity action at Christie’s on Friday with proceeds going to twelve charitable organisations, which benefited from a total of […]

The cover art and track listing for the Skyfall soundtrack by Thomas Newman have finally been revealed, just a day after music editor Tony Lewis revealed via twitter that work had finally finished. Previously Lewis had said that the soundtrack would be spoiler free, after being lobbied by several prominent Bond tweeters (including @007dossier) to […]

First assistant director, Michael Lerman, talks about the challenges and opportunities of shooting on location for Skyfall. The video is concentrated on Turkey. He explains how the location will often dictate how they change the action from the script.

EPIX, which is premiering “Everything or Nothing” in the US, has released a 10 minute video entitled “The Secrets of Skyfall” on YouTube. It appears that most of the footage has been seen before, including interviews with cast and crew.

The video above on Bloomberg takes a look at some of the locations visited by James Bond in the last 50 years.

Adele looks like she has another hit on her hands after Skyfall went to the number 1 spot on iTunes in just 10 hours. The single was released at 0:07 hours and, coinciding with Global James Bond Day, marking the 50th anniversary of Dr No, has received a massive publicity boost. According to a report […]

Screenwriter John Logan, producers Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, director Sam Mendes, and actors Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Ralph Fiennes and Albert Finney all talk briefly about 50 years of James Bond on the silver screen.

A clip from the pre-titles sequence from Skyfall has been released this morning showing 007 using a digger on the back of a train to cross to a passenger carriage, in some ways similar to the parkour sequence from Casino Royale.

Since a 90 second sample of Adele singing the Skyfall theme was released online earlier in the week many Bond fans were able to listen to part of the song in advance. However, today the song can be heard in its entirety after being released online at 0:07 hours online and available from iTunes.

The Skyfall theme was released at 0:07 hours BST this morning and made available to purchase online from iTunes. Performed by Adele, you can listen to it with the accompanying video above. Click here to buy Skyfall from iTunes

Jay Leno recently got his hands on one of the Toyota GT convertibles used in the filming of You Only Live Twice. Only two convertibles were ever built, making it an exceptionally rare specimen.

Sony is the latest official partner of Skyfall to release a TV ad featuring Daniel Craig as 007. You can watch the YouTube video above.