Ian Fleming, James Bond's creator, advocated for EVs in 1959

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Cover to Charlie Higson’s King Zero novel Author Charlie Higson said he’s working on a second James Bond continuation novel as his first “adult Bond” novel is going on sale.…

How does James Bond survive in a world of smartphones, surveillance and ever more powerful technology?

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Cover to Charlie Higson’s King Zero novel Author Charlie Higson said he’s working on a second James Bond continuation novel as his first “adult Bond” novel is going on sale.…

Podcast Episode · The 007 Files · September 22 · 1h 4m

In 2015, there will be two movies featuring two spy characters Ian Fleming helped to create. The one with the most publicity is SPECTRE, the 24th James Bond film. The other is The Man From U.N.C.L.…

One in a series about unsung figures of television. Writer-producer Allan Balter (1925-1981) died before his time because his physical heart wasn’t up to the task of powering his talent. Balt…

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No Time to Die poster The most recent James Bond movie, No Time to Die, is approaching its fifth anniversary. For many fans, it was awful. James Bond is not supposed to be killed off. For others, i…

Gary Oldman has reflected playfully on creating headlines around the world with his comments about the James Bond casting process.

James Bond gunbarrel logo Steven Knight, screenwriter for Amazon’s first James Bond movie, says the first draft is finished, according to Variety, citing a U.K. radio show. Here’s an ex…

Jack Davis promotional art for Get Smart from the 1960s The Baby Boomers will not go into the night quietly. We may yet new versions of Get Smart and Hawaii Five-O This week, entertainment news sit…

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Gary Oldman promoting the Slow Horses TV show The latest Bond actor speculation involves a prominent actor who’s not part of casting the next 007 film. That would be Gary Oldman, an excellent…

Five months before the debut of Dr. No, the final Bob Hope-Bing Crosby “Road” movie came out, The Road to Hong Kong. The film, we suspect by coincidence, provided a road map to the futu…

The blog got around to reading the shooting script for On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. While very close to the finished film, there were still a few surprises, including a rail coach full of…

Blofeld (?) menaces 007 at the start of For Your Eyes Only Updated from previous posts. Audiences got something in June 1981 they hadn’t seen in a while — a James Bond film with much of…

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Still of Eric Braeden and Susan Clark from Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) In the last year, I had a chance to catch up with Robert Sellers’ The Search for Bond: How the 007 Role Was Won …

Hail to the King! Aug. 28, 2017 is the 100th anniversary of the birth of comic book artist Jack Kirby. “Comic book artist” actually is an inadequate description. Comic book creator is m…

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On March 24, 2025, Amazon completed a transaction with Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson where the retail tech giant gained creative control over the James Bond film franchise. What follows is…

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The Bond Experience logo The Bond Experience, a 007-orientated YouTube channel, is moving to Switzerland from the United States. The announcement was made a video posted Tuesday. The face of the ch…

James Bond gunbarrel You can get a lot mileage from the words “I hear.” Certainly, that’s true when it comes to the first James Bond movie made under Amazon’s creative contr…

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Leslie Parrish in The Man From U.N.C.L.E. episode “The Master’s Touch Affair” Leslie Parrish, who had a long acting career, has died at age 90, according to The Hollywood Reporter…

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Thanks to .@JB_UnivEx on Twitter, the blog was reminded of a major U.S. sports writer, Jimmy Cannon (1909-73). In the novel Diamonds Are Forever, Bond hangs around quite a bit with former CIA agent…

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Cover to a 1966 issue of The New Yorker h/t Delmo Walters Jr. Underdog, once a staple of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade in New York City, is scheduled to make a return. Macy’s put o…

Cover to a 1966 issue of The New Yorker h/t Delmo Walters Jr. Underdog, once a staple of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade in New York City, is scheduled to make a return. Macy’s put o…

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James Bond gunbarrel logo Amazon MGM has yet to select its choice for a new James Bond actor. The internet’s outrage machine can’t wait. The outrage machine works like this: Algorithms …

Amy Pascal tells Deadline a new James Bond announcement by end of 2026 is "a good bet" and says the next 007 has to be "something really different."

Dick Locher, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and the third primary artist on the Dick Tracy comic strip, died earlier this month at 88, according to an obituary posted by the Chicago Tribune. T…

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Poster for The Glass Bottom Boat In the 1960s, the spycraze attracted stars to all sorts of projects. So it was with Doris Day and 1966’s The Glass Bottom Boat. The actress and singer was bus…