James Bond News

The late John Barry, long term composer of the James Bond series and the man responsible for the Bond sound was honoured last Friday at a ceremony at Pinewood Studios, when Theatre 7 was renamed the John Barry Theatre. As pointed out by Edward Biddulph on Twitter, it may be no coincidence that Theatre 7 […]

It has just been announced that former James Bond stuntman Terry Richards passed away earlier this month at the age of 81. Richards had a long career as a stuntman in the Bond films and many others, working on From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, You Only Live Twice, Tomorrow Never Dies […]

Mattel is to launch a number of premium Hot Wheels cars and has revealed plans at prior to the launch at Comic Con next month. Everyone remembers playing with these cars with the bright orange track as a kid, but these new cars seem to be aimed firmly at collectors; the Aston Martin DB5 from […]

Pinewood Studios is well known as the film studio most associated with 007. Most of the Bond movies have filmed on the soundstages at Pinewood starting with Dr No in 1962. Although the producers have sometimes used other studios for reasons of budget, such as Moonraker, which except for special effects work was filmed in France and Casino Royale, […]

An original British quad poster for the first James Bond film, Dr No, is expected to fetch between £5,000 and £7,000 in an online auction run by Christie’s. The poster, designed by Mitchell Hooks and in excellent condition and backed on linen, measures by 76 by 102 cm and has a starting bid of £4,800 and is part […]

Our friends at MI6 are reporting that Bond 24 is to be shot on film rather than digitally as was Skyfall. The report comes via their forums, where one user repeated the claim from a user on Skyfall cinematographer Roger Deakins’ own forum that the filmmakers were returning to film for Bond 24, stating “I know […]

This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the release of one of the most iconic Bond films of all, Goldfinger, and to help celebrate its half century the film is being released as a special limited edition Steelbook version. As yet there are few details, but the cover artwork shown above and below makes it […]

A first edition copy of Ian Fleming’s sixth James Bond novel, Doctor No, is now available for sale from Oxfam’s website. The first edition, first copy of the book is one of 20,000 copies printed in 1958 and although it is in poor condition and without a dust jacket, proceeds of the sale go to a good […]

Designing 007: 50 years of James Bond Style has just opened in Moscow, running from 11th June through to 7th September at the city’s Multimedia Arts Museum. The exhibition, which started out life at the London’s Barbican Centre on the South Bank and has toured the world since takes a look at all the films, from […]

Matt Sherman, who runs the James Bond List on Google Groups and the man behind Spyfest and the organiser of 007 Tours has started a crowdfunding campaign to finance publication and marketing of a new book of James Bond’s food. Eating James Bond: OO7’s Every Last Meal will cover 56 novels and short stories and all the James Bond […]