James Bond News

Renowned photographer Rankin takes us from script to screen in Blood, Sweat and Bond: Behind the Scenes of SPECTRE, released today. The book features a curated selection of exclusive photography and interviews with cast and crew interviews, featuring contributions from celebrity photographers such as Mary McCartney, Graciela Iturbide, Anderson & Low and Brigitte Lacombe. This hardcover is […]

One of the 10 Aston Martin DB10s made exclusively for SPECTRE is to be auctioned for charity. The Aston Martin DB10 was made exclusively for use in SPECTRE and, so far, has been unavailable to buy. Ten cars were supplied to the filmmakers of which two were written off while filming in Rome and five more badly […]

Last night saw the first public screening of SPECTRE at the Odeon Leicester Square. Although The James Bond Dossier was not lucky enough to be invited to the screening, here we’ve rounded up a number of reviews. MI6 The first review is by our friends at MI6. I’ve read it in full and it contains no […]

Today the British Board of Film Classification confirmed the runtime and rating for SPECTRE on their website. The BBFC notes that the film makers were given advice during post-production in order to secure a 12A rating. An early cut was likely to have received a 15 rating and so some changes were made to secure the 12A […]

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SPECTRE is the longest James Bond movie to date according to an invitation for a media preview screening on Wednesday.   Although the British Board of Film Certification website still has no information about the certification or running time, the invitation reveals SPECTRE has been rated 12A and runs for 148 minutes, or 2 hours […]

On Saturday morning Roger Moore announced on twitter the death of screenwriter and novelist Christopher Wood.  Wood wrote the screenplay for two of Moore’s Bond films, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977, which he wrote with Richard Maibaum) and Moonraker (1979). He also wrote novelisations of the two films. As well as his work on Bond, Wood’s […]

There has been a lot of press over the last few days since Daniel Craig said in an interview that he would “slash his wrists” before making another Bond movie and if he did another he would only be doing it for the money. The criticisms have been various. That he is biting the hand […]

A modified Rolex Submariner worn by Roger Moore in Live And Let Die is to be auctioned in Geneva by Phillips on 7th and 8th November. Photo: Phillips Auctioneers. The watch is a 1972 Rolex Submariner 5513 in stainless steel modified by art director Syd Cain to include a buzzsaw bezel. With an estimate of CHF 150,000 […]

Steve Cole announces the title of his second Young Bond novel. Speaking at the the Cheltenham Literature Festival on Saturday, Young Bond author Steve Cole announced his second book in the series was to be titled Heads You Die. The book will be published in the UK on 5th May 2016by Red Fox Publishing, an imprint of Random House and […]