Bond 50

EON Productions today announced that October 5th will be Global James Bond Day, celebrated by a full day’s 007 related events. Events announced include a charity auction run by Christie’s of London, a global survey to discover which are the favourite James Bond films worldwide, and a film retrospective by New York’s Museum of Modern […]

To celebrate both the release of Skyfall in October, as well as the 50th anniversary of James Bond on the big screen, Auto Express is asking readers to vote for their favourite car from the Bond movies ever. They have compiled a short list of 20 of the most popular cars from the films, naturally […]

Back in November 2011 at the Skyfall press conference held in London, producer Michael G Wilson mentioned that a new documentary would be released as part of the 50th anniversary celebrations of cinematic James Bond. Until now no details have been forthcoming, however yesterday a press release was issued that covers the documentary, entitled “Everything […]

The current producers of the James Bond films talk about how the imminent Blu-ray release of the entire Bond catalogue is good for the fans and viewable in the best possible quality at the present moment. Broccoli talks about some of the iconic moments in Dr No and how they try and bring similar iconic […]

London auction house Christie’s is planning an auction of James Bond memorabilia donated by EON Productions and former cast and crew to benefit UNICEF. Forty lots will be offered for auction between September 28th and October 8th in an online auction, while an invitation only off-line auction will take place on October 5th, the 50th […]

Edward Biddulph who is behind James Bond memes and has contributed to this website recently visited “Designing 007”, the exhibition currently taking place at the Barbican in London celebrating 50 years of cinematic James Bond. He comments that Ian Fleming has not been left out of the exhibition, although the area devoted to him and […]

Sky Movies recently grabbed the rights to show all the James Bond films in HD, breaking ITV’s monopoly on the franchise going back to 1975. However, Sky has just announced that it will launch a dedicated 007 channel in October to show all 22 films without breaks. Sky has secured the rights for just a […]

EON Productions has granted publisher Taschen access to their archives to produce a book to celebrate 50 years of cinematic James Bond. Editor Paul Duncan spent two years sifting theough EON’s immense archive, which amounts to more than a million images and 100 filing cabinets worth of documents. EON descibes the 600 page book, which collects […]

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.

Costume designer Lindy Hemming and a number of tailor’s involved with outfitting 007 talk about his style. The opinions expressed in the article are those of the author. They do not necessarily reflect the views of the website owner.