James Bond News

Back in April much of the media hysterically reported that James Bond would drink Heineken in Skyfall and was ditching his traditional looking martini. As we reported at time, just because of the Heineken product placement deal, it was unlikely that he wouldn’t drink a vodka martini too. Now director Sam Mendes has gone on […]

Ian Fleming Publications has today revealed the covers of the first seven books in the forthcoming Vintage paperback series, due to be published on 2nd August. The paperbacks are said to “tap into the deeper and more human side of our hero, including his isolation and vulnerability”, a side well know by fans of Fleming’s […]

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 […]

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 […]