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Figures released by British satellite broadcaster Sky, which is part-owned by Rupert Murdock’s Newscorp, reveal Skyfall led a 37 percent increase in the number of rentals from Sky Movies in the first three months of 2013 compared with the same period last year. The company says 400,000 customers have rented Skyfall from Sky Movies so far, with […]

With MGM’s results for 2012 released yesterday, it has been announced today that Bond 24 will be released within three years and is likely to be released in late 2014. Following the success of both Skyfall and The Hobbit, MGM is experiencing something of a renaissance, with a cash pile and reduced debt. The studio […]

Skyfall and The Hobbit helped lift MGM’s revenues by 97 percent compared with the previous year, a huge turnaround considering the perilous state of the company in 2009. Total revenue for the year was $1.38 billion, with net income for 2012 standing at $129 million. That just shows how reliant on successful blockbusters the studios […]

Earlier today Empire published a new item saying that Sam Mendes would not be back for Bond 24. However, shortly afterwards it was pulled from their website. The news item is now back and, according to Empire, Mendes told them in an exclusive interview that “It has been a very difficult decision not to accept […]

A story appeared on Empire today saying that Sam Mendes has officially turned down Bond 24, saying it had been a difficult decision. However, that story has been pulled (it was here) without comment and so it is unclear at this moment whether the story is incorrect, or that Empire jumped the gun and the […]

Since being released on DVD and Blu-Ray last week in the UK, Skyfall has sold nearly 2 million copies according to the Official Charts Company. A total of 1.986 million copies were sold in the first week, representing 45% of all DVD/Blu-Ray sales, of which 544,000 were sold on the high definition Blu-Ray format, giving […]

It seems like only yesterday that Skyfall opened on the big screen, but after being released last week in the United States on DVD, Blu-Ray and download it has now hit UK stores too. The home release of Skyfall has been huge, with a train painted up in the Skyfall livery used to promote the […]

The James Bond design exhibition that started out at London’s Barbican Centre and that has just finished in Toronto will set to open in Melbourne in November. The exhibition, Designing 007 – Fifty Years of Bond Style will open on November 1st and run for three months at the Melbourne Museum, whose director is reportedly […]

Skyfall was named Film of the Year last night at the London Evening Standard Film Awards, which took place at the London Film Museum, as well as picking up the award for best blockbuster. The award was made to producers Michael G Wilson and Barbara Brocolli and comes ahead of the BAFTAs next Sunday, and […]

Skyfall has now overtaken The Dark Knight Rises at the box office to become the seventh biggest earner of all time according to the latest figures on Box Office Mojo. The figure for the 23rd James Bond film now stands at $1,093.5 million after its opening in China, with The Lord of the Rings: Return […]