Author Profile: David Leigh

A new crane made its debut on Skyfall recently, when it was used to shoot a night scene at Pinewood Studios.  Technocrane’s Supertechno 100 was chosen as its 100-foot reach made it the only camera crane with sufficient height and reach for the shots. According to Below the Line: The Supertechno 100 enabled the camera to […]

An exhibition celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the James Bond films is set to open at London’s Barbican Centre in July. EON Productions has allowed unprecedented access to the Bond archives and will take up two floors of the centre. An article in the Guardian says: Designing 007: 50 Years of Bond Style promises to showcase five […]

A Land Rover Defender is set to feature in a chase sequence involving Naomie Harris, according to Skyfall co-producer Andrew Noakes, who is quoted in an article by Car Magazine Online. ‘We are really going to test that car,’ says Noakes, ‘do things to it it’s not normally designed for. Some of the stuff is so hairy […]

Dame Judi Dench was photographed in Tower Hill again on Saturday while shooting scenes for Skyfall. According to the Mail Online, which also has photos: The actor was wrapped up warm in a big black coat as she stood around between filming shots of the action movie. Daniel Craig, who plays Bond, was not on […]

The latest clapperboard photo from the set of Skyfall was uploaded to the official 007 twitter account today; once again it gives away little.

Press release: Albert R. Broccoli’s EON Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, and Sony Pictures Entertainment today announced that the long-awaited next chapter in the famed James Bond franchise, SKYFALL, will be released in IMAX® theatres simultaneously with the film’s international release on Oct. 26, and its domestic release on Nov. 9, 2012. This is the first IMAX […]

007.com has this morning released a 90 second video blog by Sam Mendes, in which he briefly discusses his relationship with the James bond films through Casino Royale, the Sean Connery era and Skyfall.

The official James Bond website, 007.com, will be posting a worldwide exclusive from 0700 GMT this Wednesday: Sam Mendes’ first SKYFALL videoblog. Says SKYFALL director Mendes in the video: “The roots of my doing this Bond movie start way before anybody approached me because, like everyone else, I have my own personal relationship with Bond […]

Actress Naomie Harris and screenwriter John Logan have recently spoken to the press about their involvement in Skyfall. When Harris was asked by Total Film whether she was a goodie or baddie, she replied: “My character would like to see herself as a female Bond but I don’t think anyone’s really a match for Bond.” […]

The latest Skyfall clapperboard photo has been uploaded to the official 007 twitter account this evening. It is not known where the photo was taken; since Daniel Craig and members of the cast and crew moved to Turkey last week it is likely to be from there. Also, photos from Pinewood have been geotagged; this […]

Yesterday an email was sent out by Matt Sherman who runs The James BondList with some intriguing information. In the email Matt says: I’ve been tipped off that just under $12,500 U.S. will get you one week’s charter on the 56-meter long “Regina,” the fantastic “gulet” (traditional two-mast sailing vessel) reserved by EON Productions for SKYFALL filming in the Turkish Riviera […]

An extra was hit by a car during the filming of a high speed car chase at Millbank on Saturday, according to The Sun, which says: Director Sam Mendes was in the black Mercedes, which had a camera mounted on its roof. He was left “shaken up” by the incident. The injured man was treated […]

Paul Kyriazi’s “How To Live The James Bond Lifestyle” has been extensively updated and released today as a Kindle ebook. Paul has added 110 pages of new content based on the studies and experiences he has had since its last incarnation as an eight CD audio seminar, as well as feedback from other JBLS “agents”. […]

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Photos from filming at Vauxhall Bridge on February 12th 2012.

Skyfall was shooting on location in London today, when Vauxhall Bridge, next to the real life MI6 headquarters, was closed to traffic. The scene involves Judi Dench being chauffeured in a Jaguar driving towards M6 HQ. You can watch a video of the scene on YouTube:

Two photos of a set built for Skyfall on MOD land at Hankley Common were uploaded by a Twitter user yesterday showing a “Scottish Monastery” that seems to fit in with the images from the shoot in Scotland last week. It also tallies with a story we published last month that members of the Skyfall crew had arrived in nearby Elstead.

Daniel Craig was photographed in Scotland yesterday, where the production crew has been located for a few days and two Aston Martin DB5s seen filming on the open road. This was the first time Craig, who was joined by Judi Dench, had been spotted during filming in Scotland, which also involved Ben Collins, formerly The […]

The latest clapperboard photo from the official 007 Twitter account from filming in Scotland today.

The Skyfall second unit was in Scotland yesterday to shoot a chase involving James Bond’s Aston Martin DB5. Two DB5s were driven along the A82 near the peak of Buachaille Etive Mor. The Daily record notes: Staff working on the latest movie in the 007 ­franchise shot on Highland locations in Glencoe and nearby Dalness […]