A blog about James Bond-007 and The Other Spies
Tom Cruise and Daniel Craig had an enormous impact on Mission: Impossible and James Bond. Who did it better?
Next year's novel where a retired James Bond instructs kid would-be secret agents is generating some interesting reactions.
Ian Fleming Publications has commissioned new novels where a retired James Bond teaches “a new generation of teenage spies,” The Sunday Times reported.
A new 007 video game from IO Interactive is ready to come out. How will it stand up to recent video game efforts?
There have been some false starts since Amazon took creative control of James Bond movies.
Ian Fleming began serializing its new Felix Leiter novel on Tuesday. The IFP website has the first chapter as a free sample.
Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning is projected to come in second at the U.S. box office for the Friday-Sunday weekend.
Mission: Impossible -- The Final Reckoning, despite a long running time, mostly moves quickly and will keep audiences in their seats.
What if Albert R. Broccoli waited for Harry Saltzman's six-month Bond option to expire and try to grab the rights himself? Here are reasons that might not be a good idea.
Alan J. Porter's The James Bond Lexicon has discovered details of another unmade 1950s 007 film project.
Journalist Jeremy Duns has found an Ian Fleming-penned pilot script for a proposed television series to be called James Gunn — Secret Agent.
One of the most unusual entries in the 1960s spy craze, The Prisoner, is available on the Amazon Prime streaming service.
We look back at the family model (Eon) vs the corporate model (Marvel). Neither worked out that well.
An upcoming novel, 221B On Her Majesty's Secret Service by Mark D. Ellis, puts Sherlock Holmes in the employ of British Intelligence.
The book Being James Bond, by Joseph Darlington, will have an expanded version in August.
This year marks the 60th anniversary of Thunderball. Like it or not, it was a significant part of the 1960s spy craze.
With Amazon taking control of the creative control of the cinema 007, Friends of Eon are going away.
Since Amazon gained creative control of the cinema James Bond, 007 social media changes seem to be changing.
Artist Robert McGinnis (1926-2005) sometimes varied with his poster illustrations compared with James Bond movies.
The Oscars plan to introduce a stunt category, beginning with movies released in 2027, Deadline: Hollywood reported.
Robert McGinnis illustrated memorable James Bond movie posters. But he was a lot more than James Bond.
Thunderball will be shown during this month's TCM Classic Film Festival in Los Angeles.
Amazon MGM is getting started on its first James Bond film, the studio said Wednesday night at the CinemaCon gathering in Las Vegas.
For nearly four years, the evidence that something was amiss in plain sight with the cinema James Bond, That evoked a Sherlock Holmes story. The clues were there for those willing to see them
Ian Fleming Publications said it will publish a novel by author Raymond Benson featuring the James Bond supporting character Felix Leiter.
Amazon signaled it's now fully in control of the future of cinema James Bond by naming Amy Pascal and David Heyman as producers of the next 007 movie.
Amazon today named Amy Pascal and David Heyman as the new producers of James Bond movies.
Since March 1, multiple outlets have claimed scoops about who may lead the cinema Bond once Broccoli and Wilson are out of the way.
The Sun (remember those guys?) says Amazon wants Bond 26 by the end of 2027.
With Black Bag, Steven Soderbergh showed again why he is an important cinema voice.
Black Bag, a spy film with a cast including Bond film actors, finished No. 3 at the U.S. box office this weekend with an estimated $7.5 million.
The Feb. 20 announcement that Amazon will soon gain creative control blew out of the water what some James Bond experts have been saying.
Did Eon Productions, and its parent company Danjaq, ever have a succession plan?
Jeff Bezos, chairman and founder of Amazon, intervened personally to ensure the company would gain creative control of the James Bond film franchise, The Hollywood Reporter said.
The Bond film franchise is on the cusp of a major change.
Many Bond fans were unhappy with the Bond tribute at the 2025 Oscars.
Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, $1 billion richer thanks to Amazon, bid adieu to Bond at the 2025 Oscars.
This year marks the 30th anniversary of GoldenEye, a movie that ensured James Bond would continue. The anniversary is ironic given how Amazon is poised to take creative control of the franchise.
Barbara Broccoli of Eon Productions rejected Christopher Nolan directing Bond 26, Variety reported.
Supposedly, Cubby Broccoli told his daughter Barbara to not let temporary people make permanent moves. Daniel Craig did just that.
Two prominent female executives, Barbara Broccoli and Kathleen Kennedy, seem ready to exit around the same time.
Start by appointing a Bond "czar," so 007 film and TV shows have a consistent tone.
The Daily Mail, quoting “insiders” at Eon Productions and Amazon (not identified by name) claims to have details about the decision by Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson to yield creative control of James Bond to Amazon.
We present still more questions about Amazon getting control of the James Bond film franchise.
More questions (and answers) about Bond 26 and the Eon exit from 007
Now that Amazon MGM is getting creative control of the James Bond franchise, here are some unlikely ideas for spinoff streaming shows.
Naturally, the blog has questions about the deal where Amazon MGM will gain creative control over the James Bond film franchise.
Amazon MGM is assuming creative control of the James Bond film franchise, it was announced.
The Dubai-based property developer who has filed for canceling James Bond trademarks says his actions are out of concern for fans, The Guardian reported.
A Dubai-based property developer “has filed a slew of“ trademark “cancellation actions based on non-use” in the U.K. and European Union aimed at the James Bond name, The Guardian reported Friday.
In 1965, the spycraze was underway. Marvel Comics took its World War II character, Nick Fury, and made him the comic company's leading spy.