Tag archive: James Bond

Armed with his famous Walther PPK and license to kill, James Bond will make his twenty-third motion picture appearance when the latest 007 blockbuster releases later this year. The release of Skyfall will mark the film franchise’s 50th anniversary for the iconic secret agent and will be the third time British actor Daniel Craig reprises his role as Bond. Of course we all know what the Bond films are famous for: beautiful women,… Read More

For such a hugely popular franchise, James Bond has never been very well treated on Blu-ray. While Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace received timely releases, the back catalog has never been issued in its entirety. Except, that is, until now, as MGM and 20th Century Fox has announced Bond 50, a box set containing all 22 films, that's ready for pre-order today. Unveiled during a Director's Panel discussion held at Panasonic's… Read More

Despite the greatest threat James Bond has ever faced—the near collapse of its distributor MGM—the franchise is back on track, and yesterday filming began on Bond 23, now officially known as Skyfall. The film will once again star Daniel Craig as Bond, and while it will be a spiritual sequel to Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Away We Go) has said that Skyfall will not be a direct sequel. The… Read More

Is it a remake of a reboot, or a reboot of a remake? One day shy of a year ago, Eurocom dared to do the unthinkable by taking one of the most beloved games of all-time, and release a remake of GoldenEye 007 for the Wii. While it upset some purists that decried the possible dilution of their beloved nostalgia-drenched memories, most people were just curious if the developer could come up with a good game. For the most part, the game did a decent… Read More

Way back in 1964, the BBC aired a short film about Geoffrey Boothroyd, the pistol expert whose letter to James Bond franchise author Ian Fleming forever changed the super spy's preferred weaponry and resulted in him being immortalized in the series as Bond's chief weapons expert, Q. The short film was also included on the 2007 Dr. No DVD, but it's now available on the BBC Archives website, too. In a segment from the film that… Read More

GoldenEye is back and oh so pretty. Earlier this week Santa Monica, California based game publisher Activision announced that fans of GoldenEye 007:Reloaded will soon be able to play the game on Xbox 360 and the Playstation 3 consoles. The new launch of the game, formerly exclusive to the Wii, will have the visual upgrade previously hinted at as well as several new features. The original Nintendo 64 game holds a tender spot in gamer's… Read More

The remake of GoldenEye 007 may be getting a revamp and relaunch on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, if a new round of speculation is to be believed. Yesterday, Twitter user Superannuation discovered that Activision has registered several new domain names that hint at an upcoming “GoldeneEye 007 Reloaded” game. goldeneye007gamereloaded.com goldeneyereloadedgame.com goldeneyereloaded007.com goldeneye007reloaded.com These domains… Read More

Many of us go about our day, logging into online accounts from home, work, the library, the Apple store, and wherever else in order to read that inspirational story Mom e-mailed us about a kitten befriending a dog, and everything is hunky dory. Someone, on the other hand, is currently becoming the person you read about who had their password stolen, and their bank account hacked using the information they e-mailed themselves “that one time.”… Read More

Javier Bardem is on fire right now. Coming off his third Oscar nomination, this time for the film Biutiful, the Spanish actor has been given the unofficial golden ticket to Hollywood, and he is in the enviable position of being able to pick and choose what projects he wants to be part of. That also means that he is, and will continue to receive offers to be part of some of the biggest projects around. According to a report from Deadline, the… Read More

It's official: Daniel Craig is returning as James Bond in the upcoming, still unnamed, Bond 23. The film will begin shooting toward the end of this year and hit theaters on Nov. 9, 2012, according to MGM and EON, the companies responsible for the film. Production on Bond was resumed in November 2010, and director Sam Mendes confirmed he would still helm the film in early December. It has been a long road for Bond 23. Production on the… Read More

So imagine this: you decide to sell your 52-year-old watch on eBay for $9.95 and when the auction is over you end up with $66,100. Not bad, right? That's what happened to Bob. The retired Navy doctor decided to sell a few of his old things and put his Rolex Submariner Ref 5510 dive watch up for auction on eBay. He bought the watch from a Navy Exchange 52 years ago and wore it almost every day for more than 35 years. To his shock, a few… Read More

It was never a question of if James Bond would return, just when and how. Following the success of Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace, a third film with Daniel Craig as Bond was never doubted, and things were moving along at a good pace when it was first announced that Oscar winning director Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Away We Go) had agreed to direct the 23rd Bond film. Then MGM happened. The studio’s financial woes have been painfully well… Read More

Fans of James Bond have been having their emotions toyed with over the past few months, primarily due to the legal and financial shenanigans that have gripped MGM, the studio that owns the rights to James Bond. Things were looking good for the franchise following the two Daniel Craig movies, and a third film with Craig had lined up Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes to helm it — all was good in the Bondiverse.  Then someone at MGM forgot to… Read More

GoldenEye 007 is one of those games where almost every person that ever played it not only remembers it fondly, but is absolutely convinced that they were the best player to ever touch a Nintendo 64 controller. They were godlike in their rose tinted remembrances, with each game that was played simply being a step up on the Ziggurat of their awesomeness. Of course, if even a tenth of the people who thought they were golden(eye) gods were even… Read More

Good news for fans of James Bond — MGM sucks a little less! If you have managed to skip all the ridiculousness going on at MGM, things were looking bleak for the next film in the James Bond franchise, despite the fact that the film itself was ready to go and the franchise was doing extremely well following the Daniel-Craig-led reboot. Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Away We Go) was on board to direct, and the cast… Read More