James Bond News

It has been confirmed that Adele will perform Skyfall at the Oscars, as had been rumoured. The song has been nominated form Best Original Song and the Oscars ceremony will be the first time the singer has performed it live since giving birth. She previously attended the Golden Globes, where she was awarded the trophy […]

Skyfall added another $5.1 million to its box office receipts in Chine on Monday when it went on general release its last remaining major territory, 14% ahead of The Dark Knight Rises. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Sony sources say that films that open on Monday, such as the latest Bond and Batman movies, usually […]

Skyfall broke through $300 million at the US box office this weekend, according to estimates from Box Office Mojo, to end on $300,937,000 to make a total of $1,034,437,000 worldwide, with the film just about to open in China. Worldwide Skyfall is now the eleventh biggest grossing film never, some nine million behind Pirates of […]

A gold plated pen that hides a secret pistol given to Lord Mountbatten, the last viceroy of India, is set to be auctioned in March in by Holt’s Auctioneers of London. It was given to Mountbatten, the uncle of the Duke of Edinburgh, by the Maharaja of Jodhpur in 1948 and is expected to raise […]

Sky Atlantic is planning a drama based on the life of Ian Fleming, according to the Radio Times and other media sources. The series, titled simply Fleming, will be in four parts and star Dominic Cooper as the author and journalist who worked in Naval Intelligence during the second world war and spent every winter […]

Skyfall finally premiered in China on Wednesday, the last major territory for it to conquer. According to a report in Hollywood Reporter the film has a number of cuts, including – for some reason – the removal of the scene that shows Ola Rapace’s character shooting a security guard in the lobby of a Shanghai […]

Thomas Newman deserves to win an Oscar for his Skyfall score, according to Slate. I’d argue that David Arnold is the sound of the modern Bond films and Newman was a mistake for Skyfall; just listen to the sweeping theme of Casino Royale, while Arnold’s score for Quantum of Solace is one of the few […]

Skyfall has been nominated Film of the Year in the Evening Standard British Film Awards. The lack of nominations in any major category at the Oscars and other awards has disappointed many commentators, so this may make up for some of that. The latest Bond film  is up against independent films Sightseers and Berberian Sound […]

Judi Dench’s role in Skyfall was her biggest of all her Bond appearances and she seems to have relished her action scenes including using a firearm for the first time ever judging by a report appearing on the Mail Online.  Although Skyfall will be her last Bond film she kept the shell casings she fired in […]

Sit down with the drink of your choice and watch this 37 minute interview with Greg Russell who has been nominated, along with Scott Millan and Stuart Wilson, for the sound mixing Oscar. He discusses hearing about the nomination and working on Skyfall, his first Bond movie.