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31 July 2010 - OBITUARY |
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Tom
Mankiewicz 1942-2010
Screenwriter
Tom Mankiewicz passed away in Los Angeles on 31st July at the
age of 68. The acclaimed screenwriter co-wrote Sean Connery's
comeback as 007 Diamonds Are Forever (1971) with Bond
veteran Richard Maibaum and was the sole writer on Roger Moore's
007 debut Live And Let Die (1973). Collaborating
once more with Richard Maibaum for 1974's The Man With The
Golden Gun, Mankiewicz also worked uncredited on The Spy
Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979). Tom was the
son of multi Oscar-winning writer-director Joseph L. Mankiewicz
(All About Eve [1950] and Sleuth [1972] and nephew
of screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz, who co-wrote Citizen Kane
with Orson Welles in 1941. |
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'THE MOST FAMOUS CAR IN THE WORLD' TO BE AUCTIONED |
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1964 Aston
Martin DB5
Chassis No.
DB5/1486/R
1964 ASTON MARTIN DB5 ‘THE REAL JAMES BOND MOVIE CAR’
RM Auctions is proud to represent the one of only two - and only
known remaining - original 007 Aston Martin DB5 movie car at its
October 27, 2010 'Automobiles of London' auction at Battersea
Evolution, London.
Chassis: DB5/1486/R; Engine: 400/1469/V; Original UK Reg: FMP 7B
FMP 7B and its movie history:
Two Aston Martin DB5s were used on screen for the production
of the timeless 1960’s James Bond classics, Goldfinger
and Thunderball. One of those two cars was reported
stolen in 1997 and is believed to have been destroyed. The other
is FMP 7B.
Bond’s Aston Martin DB5 and its gadgets were the brainchild of
Oscar-award-winning special effects expert John Stears, also of
Star Wars and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang fame.
FMP 7B was the 'Road Car' used in Goldfinger. Featured in
various locations and intended for the fast driving sequences,
FMP 7B was given substantial screen time, most notably the
scenes at the Stoke Park Club and, even more recognizably, when
Bond is spying on Mr. Goldfinger from the picturesque Furka Pass
in Switzerland
For Thunderball, FMP 7B was to have most of the screen
time, so it was fitted with the full complement of gadgets which
it carries to this day.
FMP 7B, the only remaining Bond DB5 movie car in existence, is
extremely original. Its specification has not changed since its
appearance in Thunderball and virtually all its
distinctive gadgets remain intact - a remarkable discovery.
INTERACTIVE WEBSITE |
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January 2010 - OBITUARY |
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Peter
Murton
The acclaimed
Production Designer passed away in December 2009.
Peter Murton
joined the James Bond series in the early 1960s serving as Art
Director on Goldfinger (1964) and Thunderball
(1965). Working closely with Ken Adam on such Sixties classics
as Dr Strangelove (1964), The Ipcress File
(1965) and Funeral in Berlin (1966), Murton eventually
progressed to Production Designer of The Man With The
Golden Gun in 1974. Later films as Production Designer
include the popular thriller The Eagle Has Landed
(1976) and the 1979 version of Dracula starring Frank
Langella. |
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January 2010 - OBITUARY |
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Martin
Grace 1942-2010
The Irish
born stuntman, who doubled Roger Moore as James Bond, has died
at the age of 67.
Martin Grace
died in Spain after being hospitalised following a cycling
accident in which he fractured his pelvis. This injury was
originally sustained whilst doubling for Roger Moore in
Octopussy during the train sequences filmed on the Nene
Valley Railway in 1983.
Joining the
series in 1966 (along with every available stuntman in
England), he performed stunts during the climactic volcano
battle in You Only Live Twice. Grace first doubled
Roger Moore in The Spy Who Loved Me and again in
subsequent films until A View To A Kill in 1985. |
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November 2009 - AUCTION NEWS |
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Vintage Film
Posters and Film Memorabilia
24 November 2009
London, South Kensington
A unique
piece of concept artwork from Kevin McClory's aborted
Warhead project of 1978 comes up for auction at CHRISTIE'S
next week. Expected to sell for £3000-£5000, this rare item
was identified by 007 MAGAZINE Editor & Publisher Graham Rye.
[UPDATE: SOLD FOR £3,500] |
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Lot 455 / Sale 582 James Bond
Warhead, 1978
Maurice George Carter (1913-2000)
Very rare original concept artwork, watercolour, titled on
mount, Int. Statue of Liberty. Underground Chamber 'BOND',
artwork signed and dated M.G. Carter. 78; the artwork
depicts a chamber containing a dock within which there is a
submarine, and a robot 'Hammerhead' shark hanging above on a
simple pulley-system |
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October 2009 - OBITUARY |
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Joseph
Wiseman (1918-2009)
The Canadian
born actor who played the title character in the first James
Bond Film Dr. No (1962) has died aged 91.
The veteran
stage actor is best remembered today as the first in a long
line of Bond villains, but began his career on Broadway in the
chorus of Abe Lincoln in Illinois in 1938.
Joseph Wiseman's film
credits include Detective Story (1951) starring Kirk
Douglas, Viva Zapata! (1952) playing against Marlon
Brando, and The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968) with
future Bond Girl Britt Ekland.
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July 2009 - OBITUARY |
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Zena
Marshall (1927-2009)
Born in
Nairobi in 1927, the actress most famous for her role as Miss
Taro opposite Sean Connery in the first James Bond film Dr.
No (1962), has died at the age of 82.
Her film
career dates back to 1945 when she had a bit part in Caesar
and Cleopatra
starring Claude Rains and Vivien Leigh. Her exotic looks
resulted in her being cast in ethnic roles, often playing
Continental or Asian characters. |
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July 2009 - The original James
Bond watch coming to America |
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Ian Fleming’s character James Bond has always been associated
with the finest of everything; cars, clothes and, of course,
watches.
The National Watch & Clock Museum will be presenting an exhibit
opening in the summer of 2010 that will explore the subject of
the watches of James Bond.
The exhibit, Watches, James Bond Watches, will feature
the watch that provided the inspiration for James Bond’s
wristwatch: Ian Fleming’s own Rolex Explorer.
FULL DETAILS |
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July 2009 - AUCTION NEWS |
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For
Your Eyes Only Lotus Esprit and Octopussy Tuk-Tuk
up for auction at Blenheim Palace on 18th July 2009
Among the James Bond items offered for sale by Coys is the
bronze Lotus Esprit driven by Roger Moore in For Your Eyes
Only (1981). Prior to it’s starring role alongside cinemas
favourite Englishman, the car was actually the personal
transport of Lotus boss Colin Chapman and is actually the
original production car, chassis Number 1.
UPDATE: SOLD FOR £105,000
The Tuk-Tuk being
offered is the one used by Gobinda, who sat in the forward
facing rear seat, firing at Bond using a most impressive
vintage blunderbuss, whilst Bond shot back prior to blocking
his assailant’s passage by scattering his gambling winnings in
the air to cause the marketgoers to swarm into the road.
Full auction details
For Your Eyes Only Lotus Esprit
Octopussy Tuk-Tuk |
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LIMITED EDITION Thunderball PRINTS FOR SALE |
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In 1959, an
Irish entrepreneur called Kevin McClory, envisioned the making of a
movie with Ian Fleming featuring James Bond. |
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At a time when the
first seven Fleming novels had been turned down by the top film
studios of the day, for being too violent, sadistic, and
unbelievable, successful novelist, Ian Fleming had wearied of
writing; was ‘bereft of new ideas’, and wanted to kill Bond off and
go travelling.
British screenwriter, Jack Whittingham who had just gone freelance
from the Ealing Studios team, was commissioned to write a film that
would be acceptable to the British public and, with Ian Fleming’s
permission, took the character of James Bond and created the very
first original 007 screenplay entitled Thunderball.
Thunderball, therefore, was the very first screenplay of the
movie series, and should have been the first produced film, however,
the making of it was halted and held up by long drawn out legal
complications, and, eventually, it came out as the fourth Bond film,
and the biggest in box office terms.
The series of unique pre-production storyboard drawings by Steven
Grimes, John Huston’s Art Director, that adorn the walls of Fulham’s
newest ‘In Place’, The Fulham Grill, were originally created for
Thunderball. They are presented on canvas by local photographer
Sylvan Mason, Jack Whittingham’s daughter and are a representation
of the ‘First Imaginings’ of what a Bond film could look like long
before production commenced on any of them. They were shown at the
1959 Venice Film Festival in a bid to raise interest for the
proposed new project.
CLICK HERE FOR FULL DETAILS |
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April 2009 - FILM NEWS |
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3rd April
2009
Bond is Back at BFI Southbank in April!
The BFI and EON Productions are excited to announce a very
special season of films and events to mark the centenary of
Albert R ‘Cubby’ Broccoli – the man who brought James Bond to
the big screen.
BOND at the BFI
BOND at BFI IMAX
SPECIAL EVENTS |
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COLLECTING NEWS |
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