Author Profile: David Leigh

Bérénice Marlohe, who plays Severine in the forthcoming 007 movie Skyfall, has said that she gets to keep her clothes on in Skyfall and that nude scenes are “boring” anyway. An article on the website of the Belfast Telegraph quotes an interview with GQ, in which she says that nudity is so widespread that it […]

Belgium playing card manufacturer Carta Mundi supplied casino chips for use in Skyfall, according to an article published by our friends at MI6 via a translated press release issued by the company. Carta Mundi supplied cards and chips for Casino Royale and have provided licenced 007 products for a number of years, including 50th anniversary […]

The July edition of The Journal, a monthly online magazine published by online clothing retailer Mr Porter, is entitled “The Bond Issue” and has several good articles about James Bond’s style.

MI6 has confirmed that Daniel Kleinman is directing the Skyfall title sequence. Although the article does not name a source, the site is usually reliable (there is a similar article on CommanderBond.net that is also without a source – presumably it was MI6). MI6 writes: He first worked on the 007 series when Pierce Brosnan […]

A week or so ago I was thinking about which James Bond pre-titles would make it onto my list and decided to ask what other people thought using social media channels. The idea wasn’t to poll followers for a definitive list of their favourite PTS, rather to remind me of any that I might overlook otherwise.

Costume designer Lindy Hemming and a number of tailor’s involved with outfitting 007 talk about his style.

Ken Adam, the makers of Scaramanga’s Golden Gun and others talk in this short documentary, Designing Bond’s World.

Playing card manufacturer Cartamundi has launched three new poker sets to tie in with the 50th anniversary of Dr No. The three sets are a compact poker set containing 150 chips, a wooden poker set with 200 chips (shown below) and a luxury aluminium set with 500 chips, all of which are available from Amazon.co.uk and […]

Mobile Today published an article yesterday in which they claimed, somewhat unsurprisingly, that Sony plans on a promotional campaign tied in to Skyfall  to push its new smartphone in conjunction with a (presumably) UK network operator:  Sources claim that the manufacturer has linked up with Sony Pictures and inked an exclusive deal with a network operator that could see the new […]

During principal photography for Skyfall a number of clapperboard photos were shared via the official 007 social media channels. In fact, unless we’ve missed any, Bond 23 had a total of 23 clapperboard photos released either intentionally, or (more likely) by coincidence. Anyway, we haven’t seen anyone else do this, so I thought it would be […]

According to an article in Variety (Savvy lawyers rock the biz), EON Productions is already working on signing writers for Bond 24 and Bond 25, which may tie in with Sony Pictures desire to release new films every two years from now on. The article takes a look at “50 attorneys whose recent deals and […]

The official 007 website has announced that Corgi will be releasing a new version of its famous model Aston Martin DB5 to coincide with both the 50th anniversary of Dr No and the release of Skyfall later in the year. The 1:36 scale replica has remained a constant favourite with collectors since the original version, […]

Bérénice Marlohe appeared in Barcelona yesterday while attending CineEurope, where new footage of Skyfall was shown. The Hollywood Reporter writes: Marlohe, who described landing the role as Bond girl Severine as “a dream come true” introduced four minutes of specially-prepped footage from Sam Mendes’ Skyfall during this year’s CineEurope. Skyfall is billed as the first […]

 After agent 009 is found dead at the British Embassy in East Berlin dressed as a clown and carrying a Fabergé egg that turns out to be fake, James Bond is ordered to investigate. After a bidding war at auction in London against an exiled Afghan prince, Kamal Khan, 007 finds himself travelling to India […]

A video above released via 007.com last night showing photographer Greg Williams behind the scenes on a shoot for the “official James Bond fragrence for men” to be produced to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the James Bond films.

For Your Ears Only… Bond is back with an all-star cast from the cream of British acting talent

When the film is released on October 26th in the UK and November 9th in the US all will finally be revealed but I am confident that this will be the best of the series so far and a hell of a way to celebrate the momentous 50th Anniversary. That’s the conclusion made by a […]

How product placement in the James Bond movies is not a modern phenomenon

When the Royal Navy’s ability to coordinate the Polaris submarine fleet is compromised, it becomes a race against time to find retrieve the Automatic Targeting Attack Communicator (ATAC) in the Ionian Sea before the Russians get hold of it. When a marine biologist employed by the British to find the ATAC is murdered by a Cuban […]

Next month sees the opening of an exhibition at the Barbican to commemorate fifty years of James Bond on the big screen. The exhibition’s curaters, Bronwyn Cosgrave and Lindy Hemming, who was costume designer on several of the Bond films, have had unprecidented access to the archives of EON Productions and exhibits include “original outfits, […]