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December 2010 - MEDIA NEWS |
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16 December
2010
BBC Archive today released a collection of television and radio
items examining the Bond phenomenon through the eyes of those
who helped shape the world’s most popular secret agent in both
print and film. Items in the collection reveal the origins,
development, and more recent literary revival of the suave spy
figure at the heart of the longest-running and most
financially-successful English-language film franchise to date.
The collection also features rare behind-the-scenes material
providing fans with a window into the world of Bond on film: an
episode of Whicker’s
World – made available for the first time since its
initial broadcast in 1967, a must-see for fans – provides a
unique glimpse of the personalities and production processes of
You Only Live Twice, and a photo gallery provides
snapshots of life on the set of 1977 classic The Spy Who
Loved Me.
In another radio item, we hear from Ian Fleming himself as he
discusses with fellow ex-journalist Raymond Chandler – pioneer
of the modern private detective story and creator of protagonist
Philip Marlowe, later played by Humphrey Bogart – the
ingredients which make up the perfect thriller.
View the full collection here
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COLLECTING NEWS |
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GE Fabbri are
re-launching a new partwork model magazine giving James Bond fans the
opportunity to build a perfect 1:8 scale replica of the iconic Aston
Martin DB5 from Goldfinger. The James Bond’s DB5 magazine is the
first model to be fully authorised by EON Productions and Aston Martin and
has been precision engineered to make it as accurate as possible.
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November 2010 - OBITUARY |
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Irvin
Kershner (1923-2010)
Director Irvin
Kershner has passed away in Los Angeles at the age of 87.
Most famous as the director of
the Star Wars sequel The Empire Strikes Back
(1980), Kershner is best known to Bond fans as the director of
Sean Connery's 1983 comeback as 007 Never Say Never Again.
Kershner was chosen by the actor to helm the Thunderball
remake after previously directing the star in his 1966 comedy
A Fine Madness which co-starred Joanne Woodward.
THE DIRECTOR STRIKES BACK
Subscribers to 007 MAGAZINE OnLine can read an
exclusive interview with Irvin Kershner as part of our
definitive look at the making of Never Say Never Again.
First published in 007 MAGAZINE issue #40 together with the
ultimate look at the other ‘rogue’ Bond movie Casino Royale
in January 2002. This edition was one of our fastest
selling issues and has been unavailable in print since 2003.
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Irvin Kershner
(left) with producer Kevin McClory at the Never Say Never
Again Royal Charity premiere at London's Warner West End
on 14th December 1983. |
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Jamaica airport to be renamed after James Bond author |
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KINGSTON,
Jamaica, 19 November 2010
The Boscobel Aerodrome in Jamaica is be renamed the Ian Fleming
International Airport in honour of the late James Bond author
who lived in the north-eastern parish of St. Mary where the
facility is located.
Minister with responsibility for Information, Telecommunications
and Special Projects, Daryl Vaz said Cabinet has approved the
recommendation for the name change.
The late Ian Fleming lived at 'Goldeneye' in Oracabessa, St. Mary.
There, he wrote all 14 of his novels on which the famous James
Bond series of movies are based.
"The Airports Authority of Jamaica is of the view that the new
name will significantly enhance the marketing of the airport and
the area to the international aviation community and, therefore
should prove to be a 'value-added' asset," Vaz said.
He said that the use of the late author's name has been approved
by the Fleming family. |
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November 2010 - NEW PRODUCTS |
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Ian Fleming’s classic
James Bond novels are to be published for the first time in the UK as eBooks on 4 November 2010.
The fourteen books, which include CASINO ROYALE, LIVE AND LET DIE, FROM RUSSIA,
WITH LOVE and DR. NO, will be sold under the Ian Fleming Publications Ltd
imprint and will be available through major retailers including Amazon and
Waterstone’s. The eBooks will be priced in line with the lowest-priced
Bond paperback editions available on the market.
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October 2010 - AUCTION NEWS |
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On Monday, October 4th,
Winter Associates offered for sale the John Griswold Ian Fleming-James
Bond Collection. Griswold is the author of the 2005 publication, Ian
Fleming's James Bond: Annotations and Chronologies for Ian Fleming's
Bond Stories. In 1963, the release of Dr. No, the first James
Bond movie, sparked John’s Griswold’s passion for Bond.
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October 2010 - 'THE MOST FAMOUS CAR IN THE WORLD' |
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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.
*** UPDATE*** SOLD FOR £2,912,000
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.
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August 2010 - EVENT NEWS |
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1964’s Goldfinger
was shown as part of this year’s Somerset House Summer Screen
event in association with Film4, and director Guy Hamilton and
golden girl Shirley Eaton were on hand for a question and answer
session on stage after the screening. Composer David Arnold was
also in attendance to spin a few tunes prior to the film.
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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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July 2010 - VIDEOGAME NEWS |
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Award winning
artist Joss Stone is set to debut as the newest Bond girl in
Activision Publishing, Inc.'s (Nasdaq: ATVI) James Bond 007:
Blood Stone, an original Bond experience from legendary
screenwriter Bruce Feirstein. In addition to stepping into a leading
role, Grammy and BRIT Award winner Joss Stone will create original
music for the game, luring players into an explosive third-person
action adventure where they will unravel an international conspiracy
across exotic locales. Players will experience full-throttle,
behind-the-wheel action on land and sea while using the most high
tech gadgetry known to James Bond 007, the world's most skilled
secret agent.
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May
2010 - LITERARY NEWS |
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Ian Fleming Publications
Ltd has chosen international bestselling thriller writer, Jeffery Deaver,
to write a new James Bond book.
The novel, currently known as Project X, will be published one year
from today for Ian Fleming’s birthday – 28 May 2011. It will be published
by Jeffery Deaver’s publishers Hodder & Stoughton in the UK and Simon &
Schuster in the US.
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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 on 27 January 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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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
which runs from June 18 2010 to April 30 2011
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.
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COLLECTING NEWS |
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Every wanted to own an
Aston Martin DB5 like the one driven by Sean Connery in the James Bond
films Goldfinger (1964) and Thunderball (1965) ...?
If you can't
afford a full-sized DB5 then Diamond Cars of
Germany have the answer...
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