March 18th, 2015
by David Leigh
As SPECTRE moves to Mexico City, several streets in the centre of the city gave will be closed in order to allow the film-makers to get on with their job. According to CNN, sections of Donceles, Filomeno Mata, Héroes de 57, Callejón de Condessa and Tacuba will be closed from 19th March to 24th, while Plaza de Constitución and roads […]
>>
read article
March 17th, 2015
by David Leigh
A new teaser poster for SPECTRE has just been unveiled on the official 007 social media channels. Because of an apparent misunderstanding over times Sony Argentina and Sony France announced the wrong times, leaving 007 fans on edge for an hour while they waited.
>>
read article
March 17th, 2015
by David Leigh
Legendary Bond director and editor John Glen will be exclusively interviewed at Brighton’s Space event to be held on Thursday 4th June at Emporium. With five Bond films to his credit, Glen has directed more Bond films than anyone else (For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, A View to a Kill, The Living Daylights and Licence to Kill) […]
>>
read article
March 17th, 2015
by David Leigh
Following the locations shoots in Austria and Rome, this week sees the main unit of SPECTRE arrive in Mexico City for several weeks of filming. According to our friends at MI6 a press conference is scheduled for Wednesday with Michael G Wilson and recently announced signing Stephanie Sigman, who plays Mexican Bond Girl Estrella, so […]
>>
read article
March 16th, 2015
by David Leigh
The 007 social media channels have toning announced that a SPECTRE teaser poster will be revealed tomorrow. Our friends at The Spy Command wondered how long it would be for some good news to emerge from Eon/MGM/Sony to counter the stories that the script was altered (slightly) in order to secure up to $20 […]
>>
read article
March 14th, 2015
by David Leigh
Mexican authorities asked for changes to the SPECTRE script in exchange for up to $20 million in tax incentives, according to the website Tax Analysts, citing memos leaked during last year’s Sony hack. The Mexico government requested several elements rewritten and the casting of a known Mexican actress in one of the roles; it has recently been […]
>>
read article
March 14th, 2015
by David Leigh
This week it came to light that the Welsh Assembly refused SPECTRE‘s film-makers permission to shoot at the Senedd chamber in Cardiff Bay after an approach was made at the end of 2014. In a statement the assembly said: The Senedd’s Siambr is the home of Welsh democracy and seat of government for Wales. Some […]
>>
read article
March 12th, 2015
by David Leigh
A new clapperboard from SPECTRE was revealed today via the official 007 social media channels, but with no explanatory text whatsoever. The photo does show the book Birds of the West Indies by ornithologist James Bond, which we previously saw in Die Another Day when Bond goes to Cuba. This was a favourite of Ian Fleming and […]
>>
read article
March 12th, 2015
by David Leigh
Official SPECTRE partner Belvedere Vodka has launched a competition in which it invites the world’s best bartenders to submit a short video of them mixing a “legendary” martini made with Belvedere vodka, with the prize a stay at Goldeneye Resort in Jamaica, where Ian Fleming built is holiday home and wrote all the James Bond […]
>>
read article
March 11th, 2015
by David Leigh
The recently released publicity still of Dave Bautista as Mr Hinx (above) revealed a curious choice of weapon, a two barrelled handgun. That weapon is now known to be the Arsenal Firearms AF2011 Dueller Prismatic after the company issued a press release dated 4th March, in which it revealed it had supplied five specially modified pistols for […]
>>
read article