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 [...]

While the drink most often associated with James Bond is the vodka martini, in the books he much preferred whisky. While the whisky is often scotch we first find him drinking bourbon in Live And Let Die (although he drinks scotch a few times too) and from that point on he tends towards bourbon in [...]

Daniel Craig is planning a return to the stage in Broadway alongside his wife Rachel Weisz, according to an article in the Daily Mail. The article states that if the negotiations are finalised it will be for a limited run though, as Craig will have to start pre-production on Bond 24 “next year”. While no [...]

Skyfall picked up the award for Outstanding British Film at the BAFTA film awards last night, beating Les Miserables, which bookies were tipping to win the prize. Skyfall had been nominated in a total of eight categories, including Judi Dench for best supporting actress and Javier Bardem for best supporting actor, but in the end Thomas Newman [...]

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 [...]

One of James Bond’s steamiest encounters in Skyfall takes place when Eve arrives at 007’s hotel room and finds him about to use a cutthroat razor to remove the beard he has grown since going MIA in Turkey. After being interrupted by his visitor as they flirt he hands over the razor and lets her to shave [...]

Sam Mendes is likely to return to directing duties on Bond 24 if an article published by the Daily Mail is to be believed. He is waiting to see a completed script before committing, which currently exists as two plot outlines by screenwriter John Logan. The only people to have seen this, says the article, [...]

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 [...]

Ian Fleming Publications used the release of Skyfall on Blu-Ray and DVD yesterday to piggyback some news of their own. The literary copyright holders announced the release date for William Boyd’s continuation novel and launched a new website and a dummy cover image to the book’s Amazon listing was also added, although they did not [...]

Ben Whishaw has said that he expects be start filming with Daniel Craig in just ten months time, according to a report on Digital Spy. And if that information is correct it looks like Bond 24 is due in 2014, which also means that the producers will be looking to get the script into good [...]

Adele won the award for Best British Single at the Brit Awards last night, although the singer was unable to attend in person due to being in Los Angeles to rehearse for the forthcoming Oscars and instead a video message was played. In the message she thanked her fans and, and jokingly referred to her [...]

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With Skyfall released on DVD and Blu-Ray recently the publicity machine is in overdrive to push as many units into our homes as possible despite most Bond fans not needing much encouragement anyway. Perhaps curiously, given that Skyfall was once again lacking the traditionally place gun barrel sequence, the home release is being promoted on [...]

Skyfall had been nominated for the original song (Adele and Paul Epworth), cinematography (Roger Deakins), original score (Thomas Newman), sound editing (Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers), and sound mixing (Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell and Stuart Wilson), but in the end  walked away with just two, and one of those was shared. Adele received [...]

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 [...]

In a previous article I discussed how the screenwriters for the James Bond series have, particularly in recent years, sometimes plundered Ian Fleming’s books for ideas that have been integrated into original stories. Some examples of this are small elements from Casino Royale making their way into The World Is Not Enough, and while most of the plot of Live And Let [...]