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The Bond 25 cast, among them Swedish actor David Dencik, was officially presented at yesterday's press call at GoldenEye in Jamaica, once the home of Ian Fleming where he created the James Bond character in 1952. Ian Fleming wrote 12 novels and two collections of short stories on the island. GoldenEye is owned and operated by Island Outpost, founded by Chris Blackwell who formerly owned Island Records.
Published: 2019-04-26
Producers, Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, today confirmed the start of principal photography on the 25th official James Bond film begins on 28 April 2019. From Albert R. Broccoli’s EON Productions och Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios (MGM), the film is directed by Cary Fukunaga and stars Daniel Craig, who returns for his fifth film as Ian Fleming’s James Bond, agent 007.
Published: 2019-04-25
The official James Bond channels has announced that BIG news on Bond 25 will be presented live from an iconic place in Jamaica on April 25th at 2.10pm CET with actor Daniel Craig, director Cary Fukunaga and producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson in attendance.
Published: 2019-04-24
This week, the world has lost a man of action. Or, at the very least, a man who made action feel like action. Terry Rawlings was known for the James Bond fans as the editor of GoldenEye (1995), the first James Bond film starring Pierce Brosnan, but his career was much more extensive and he was often regarded as one of the best movie editors of all time.
Published: 2019-04-23
Two special screenings of On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) starring George Lazenby takes place at Park Ridge, Illinois on Wednesday, 15th May 2019 with James Bond continuation author Raymond Benson in attendance. The film, often voted the best Bond film of all time, celebrates its 50th Anniversary in 2019.
Published: 2019-04-22
The Bond community took another heavy loss on 20th April 2019 with the passing of influential movie executive David V. Picker, 87, who was part of the management team of United Artists (now operating under the United Artists Releasing banner) from 1962 to 1973. Picker is legendary for having had a major hand in bringing James Bond to the screen.
Published: 2019-04-22
The screenplay for Bond 25 originally written by Neal Purvis & Robert Wade and recently rewritten by reknowned script doctor Scott Z. Burns is now being polished by Phoebe Waller-Bridge. It is a well-known fact that without a great screenplay, no movie, whatever the budget is, can be made without flaws and FSWL strongly supports all decisions to strengthen it.
Published: 2019-04-18
FSWL is – once again – saddened to learn of the passing of another member of the Bond family – lovely Serbian actress, Nadja Regin, aged 87. She was one of the elite few actresses to appear in more than one Bond film – as Kerim Bey’s mistress in From Russia with Love (1963) and as Bonita in the pre-credits sequence of Goldfinger (1964).
Published: 2019-04-08
Five of the six James Bond films that celebrate anniversaries in 2019 will be screened at The Prince Charles Cinema in London this year. (Four of the films scheduled to be screened in London was publicly screened for the first time in 4K during our James Bond festival in Stockholm in 2014.)
Published: 2019-04-06
The No. 1 Sunday Times Bestselling James Bond novel Forever and a Day, the explosive prequel to Ian Fleming's Casino Royale, is the second official 007 novel written by acclaimed British author Anthony Horowitz. The UK paperback edition is published on 4 April 2019.
Published: 2019-04-04
A memorial for the first Bond girl on the big screen, Eunice Gayson, who portrayed Sylvia Trench in Dr. No (1962) and From Russia with Love (1963) directed by Terence Young, was held at BAFTA in London on Sunday 17th March 2019 on what would have been her 91st birthday.
Published: 2019-04-02
Our obituary of Goldfinger girl Tania Mallet written by FSWL contributor Mark Cerulli includes a contribution from Academy Award winner Norman Wanstall and a personal message from fellow Goldfinger girl Caron Gardner.
Published: 2019-04-01
FSWL joins Bond fans worldwide in mourning the passing of veteran Canadian actor Shane Rimmer, 89, with four James Bond films on his resume. As a performer, he worked steadily from the 1950s right through the 2000s, with his final credit now in post-production.
Published: 2019-03-31
After principal photography started on BOND 25 in Norway earlier this week the first on-set photo confirm previous reports that the film will be shot for an IMAX experience. In an exclusive report for IndieWire, FSWL reader Bill Desowitz reports.
Published: 2019-03-30
FSWL previews issue 29 of Casino Royale, a James Bond fanzine in German edited by Roman Fiondella and published by James Bond Club Schweiz. The contents of this issue include a report on Dame Judi Dench's visit to the Zurich Film Festival as well as interviews with Jakob Falker (007 Elements) and Stefan Zürcher.
Published: 2019-03-29
Jump Rocky Jump is the autobiography of legendary British stuntman and stunt coordinator Rocky Taylor co-written with FSWL contributor Jon Auty and a foreword by Ray Winstone. Rocky's much anticipated book will be published on 18th April 2019 by Pegasus Books.
Published: 2019-03-28
Great news for all James Bond fans as acclaimed Britsh actor Ben Whishaw has confirmed in an interview with The Times that he will return as Q in BOND 25 with shooting to commence in April 2019.
Published: 2019-03-24
Between the populist escapades heralded by Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnan came a two-hour apologue detailing the unique propensity of ambiguity an action film displays. Unvarnished, unnerved, unmoved and uncertain, Licence to Kill (1989) subverts villains as heroes, sidekicks as leads, sex as evasion, with addictions more emotional than material.
Published: 2019-03-23
For FSWL readers, Bond is always news... but the opening of SPYSCAPE, New York’s FIRST James Bond exhibit, is BIG news, especially when it promises to “Reveal the secrets of Bond’s DB5”. Luckily, we had an operative in New York, Bond expert and long-time collector Gary J. Firuta.
Published: 2019-03-21
Good news for all James Bond fans as acclaimed Britsh actor Ralph Fiennes has confirmed in an interview on British talkshow host Lorraine Kelly that he will return as Bond's boss, M, in BOND 25 with shooting to commence in May or June 2019.
Published: 2019-03-16
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