James Bond News

While Skyfall may currently be in second place behind the latest Twilight film at the UK box office, the latest 007 adventure took  £3.8 million last week to total £89.6 million after five weekends and closing in on Avatar’s record of £93.4 million, according to article on Flickering Myth. As of Monday Skyfall had reached $223 million in the […]

Skyfall received a huge boost over the Thanksgiving weekend thanks to a new box office record for all movies during the US holiday, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The five day period between Wednesday night and Sunday saw the new Bond movie add another $51 for a total of $221.7 million in the US, the […]

High cinema attendances in the United States over the Thanksgiving weekend has boosted the take for Skyfall, which currently lies in second place at the US, between the latest instalment in the Twilight saga and Spielberg’s Lincoln. According to Deadline, the 5 day weekend will put Skyfall on $223 million in the US. The estimated […]

The Blu-Ray and DVD release of Skyfall is due on March 12th 2013 according to an article by The HD Room, who obtained their information from Amazon. Given the enormous success of the film at the cinema the DVD release is sure to be hugely popular. Read the full article here

What could have been an interesting article by Livescience.com – and it does ask an interesting question – seems to have been written by someone who hasn’t actually seen Skyfall and trots out the well worn media cliche that James Bond drinks Heineken instead of vodka martinis in Skyfall. Another cited example of product placement […]

Sam Mendes was recently interviewed about Skyfall and other projects by Collider.com, which you can watch above. The interview is around 20 minutes and, just in case you’re easily offended, contains some swearing. Mendes discusses a variety of topics regarding the film, including cinematography; deleted scenes; finishing post production just two days before the first press screening; the direction changes brought on board for Skyfall; and Javier Bardem’s character.

007 may have hated the porcelain British bulldog bequeathed to him by M in Skyfall, but the figurine has proved to be enormously popular following the release of the film. So popular, in fact, that manufacturer Royal Dalton has sold out thanks to the spike in demand and the £50 bulldog will not be available […]

Skyfall screenwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, who have confirmed they are leaving the series after the success of the current film, have said that John Logan and Sam Mendes have a plot for Bond 24. An article in Total Film speculates that this might mean Mendes comes back for another film. The pair also […]

This weekend saw Skyfall pass Casino Royale as the biggest grossing 007 movie of all time, notching up $669.2 million worldwide compared with $599.2 million for Casino Royale. The box office performance of Skyfall has helped push Sony Pictures past its previous 2009 best according to Jeff Blake, Sony’s chairman of Worldwide Marketing and Distribution for Sony.  However, while the figures appear to […]

Skyfall‘s soundtrack is proving to be the most popular in the United States since A View To A Kill in 1985, according to 411mania.com. The article reports that Skyfall hit the number 100 spot in the Billboard 200 album chart. It goes on to say that it is only the second 007 soundtrack no to […]