Author Profile: David Leigh

Sky Movies recently grabbed the rights to show all the James Bond films in HD, breaking ITV’s monopoly on the franchise going back to 1975. However, Sky has just announced that it will launch a dedicated 007 channel in October to show all 22 films without breaks. Sky has secured the rights for just a […]

Marvin Hamlisch, composer of many film scores including The Spy Who Loved Me, has died in Los Angeles on Monday following a short illness, according to his family. In addition to Roger Moore’s third outing as James Bond, for which he penned “Nobody Does It Better”, Hamlisch worked on more than 40 film scores including The Sting. […]

Back in May when the Skyfall teaser trailer was released I felt rather disappointed, rather at odds with much of the James Bond fan base, who were overwhelmingly positive about it. However, the new trailer gives us much more to go on and my reservations of the time have now been replaced with something much more positive, so here I’m going to take a look at the thoughts that come to mind.

The new Skyfall trailer is now available to watch online.

EON Productions has granted publisher Taschen access to their archives to produce a book to celebrate 50 years of cinematic James Bond. Editor Paul Duncan spent two years sifting theough EON’s immense archive, which amounts to more than a million images and 100 filing cabinets worth of documents. EON descibes the 600 page book, which collects […]

It had been strongly rumoured for several months that Daniel Craig would appear in a short film alongside the Queen that would be screened at the opening of the London Olympics. While many of the rumours turned out to be spot on, the film turned out to be rather surreal in many respects.

While there was much discussion about Daniel Craig’s rumoured involvement in the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics, much of which turned out to be correct, there was the added bonus for US viewers who were treated to a 30 second TV spot on Friday.

The British Board of Film Classification has today passed a new trailer for Skyfall with a running time of 2 minutes 28 seconds. This is shorter than the previous 3 min 2 sec IMAX trailer, which appears not yet to have been screened the UK yet as expected. The new trailer matches the run time […]

Co-producer Michael G Wilson and director Sam Mendes talk about the Aston Martin DB5 in Skyfall in this video posted to YouTube today. The video also includes some scenes from the film as well as behind the scenes footage.

It has been confirmed by Marketing Magazine (via Skyfall007Fan) that Coke Zero will once again run a 007 themed campaign to coincide with the release of Skyfall. The article says that the campaign is expected to start in September and involve digital and online activity. White Stripes frontman Jack White caused some controversy back in […]

Anyone who followed the filming of Skyfall is probably aware that 007 will be seen once more on two wheels, but it was only yesterday that Honda revealed that the machine he’ll be riding is their CRF250R model, when they unvealed the bikes used in filming at the National Motor Museum in Beaulieu. Twenty modified […]

Although not entirely without unnecessary gadgets,the juvenile humour that is so evident in the Moore era is largely gone, and the film relies upon a good story rather than disconnected set pieces and is backed by a John Barry score that really makes The Living Daylights feel like a 007 film. Although the pre-titles sequence […]

MI6 picked up a story published by High Def Digest, which states that Skyfall‘s pre-dub sound mixing will take place at Technicolor’s Paramount post-production facility in Hollywood, before being completed in the UK. The 90,000 square foot facility openeed last September with 62,000 square feet exclusively dedicated to audio and is designed to accommodate film and […]

The  British Board of Film Classification last week passed the IMAX Skyfall trailer for release in the UK, which has revealed the running time to be 3 minutes and one second. The trailer was classified last Thursday, July 12th, the same day it was debuted at Comic Con. The report on the BBFC website reveals that […]

A new trailer for Skyfall was debuted at Comic Con according to a report published by CinemaBlend.com. The report gives a description of the trailer, which appears to add quite substantially to the teaser trailer released in May and includes footage of the train sequence shot in Turkey and other action shots. The trailer also […]

Finally it has been confirmed that Ben Whishaw is playing Q in the forthcoming James Bond film, Skyfall.

According to a report on MI6, attendees of Comic Con will be given a sneak preview of Skyfall this month. Although it had previously been announced that Sony would not be showing anything from the film, the IMAX twitter feed confirmed the details for Thursday. Read “IMAX to showcase Skyfall sneak preview at Comic-Con this […]

When 007 retrieves a microchip capable of withstanding an electromagnetic pulse from Siberia, soon identified as being produced by Zorin Industries, he is sent to investigate the company’s owner, Max Zorin. The assignment takes Bond from Ascot racecourse to Zorin’s French estate where he breeds horse. Bond discovers that Zorin’s lab is producing chips designed […]

Back in April much of the media hysterically reported that James Bond would drink Heineken in Skyfall and was ditching his traditional looking martini. As we reported at time, just because of the Heineken product placement deal, it was unlikely that he wouldn’t drink a vodka martini too. Now director Sam Mendes has gone on […]

Ian Fleming Publications has today revealed the covers of the first seven books in the forthcoming Vintage paperback series, due to be published on 2nd August. The paperbacks are said to “tap into the deeper and more human side of our hero, including his isolation and vulnerability”, a side well know by fans of Fleming’s […]