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Martin Campbell to Direct Blakes 7 Remake

Bond director Martin Campbell (age 70) will be directing the remake of cult classic Blakes 7 for the SyFy channel. Some of our staff are not so sure about remaking this series,  how do you feel about the potential Battlestar Galactica treatment for Blakes 7?  discuss in our forum. Deadline.com—FremantleMedia is launching sales here in Cannes on the…

Classic Bond 50th Anniversary Blu-ray Collection Sets A Record For MGM

MGM proudly announced the Bond 50 Blu-ray sales set a record becoming the bestselling Blu-ray box set of 2012 with worldwide sales totaling $50 million (so far). Many of these sets are at this moment wrapped under the tree or in “Santa’s” bag waiting to be opened over the holidays. While we do not know how  many set were sold the…

Tapatalk Service Added.

Good news everyone!! Now you can take the DCinB Classic Bond forum with you on the go thanks to the Tapatalk app for Android and Apple! You can find us by searching for keyword “Classic Bond Forum”!

Skyfall Teaser Poster and Trailer Released

  The makers of Spyfall promised it would be one of the year funniest films, perhaps unintentionally so if we are meant to judge by the teaser poster and melancholy trailer just release. Incidentally the teaser trailer at no point told the audience it was an advert for a Bond film. Truth in advertising finally…

Are You Ready for Jimmy Bond Beer?

The internet is awash with people outraged by EON selling out Bond to Heineken. So much so EON is dedicating valuable time and energy to try and put down these open acts of rebellion. So far the lukewarm rebuttals have only added to the aggravation, the mainline of defense (or chief excuse) is the ballooning…

Maud Adams Unhappy With 007’S Beer

The Bond Heineken controversy refuses to ‘just be a good boy and die’. While we have not had a lot to say about this issue… yet (problems with consume rental and hiring  a marching band for the press conference), Maud Adams (Octopussy) has weighed in. She like many other fans have a big problem with…

Skyfall Stuntman Crashes in Istanbul Bazaar

  Like bulls in a china shop the Skyfall team come to town. While shooting a chase scene for the upcoming Bourne Redux..errr.. we mean Skyfai.l..err.. Spyfall..er..Skyfall, a stuntman riding a motorcycle crashed through the store front of 330 year old shop in Istanbul. The stuntman lost control after swerving to avoid extras on set.…

William Boyd New Bond Author

Yes we are all about the books today. Ian Fleming Publications announced William Boyd as the new Bond novelist. Boyd will be taking Bond back to the sixtys, supposedly with they style and flare of Ian Fleming. OK, at this point a lot of you are wondering a.) haven’t we already been down this road…

Fleming Bond Elimination Game Final Results

  The Classic Bond forum had an elimination game featuring everybody’s favorite author and his alter ego. The final results: 21 – Agent 007 in New York 20 – Quantum of Solace 19 – Live and Let Die 18 – The Hildebrand Rarity 17 – The Man With the Golden Gun 16 – Casino Royale…

No Skyfall Novelization

Oh noes! The sky is falling!!! No Skyfall novelization. What has the world come to!?!?!  Not that this should come as much of a surprise, the current neo-Bourne reboot has not had novelizations for either entry. The last Bond movie to have a tiein book was Die Another Day ten years ago. There are various…

SPOILER: A Farewell To? and other possible spoilers

It’s a  M related spoiler which most paying attention to the development of Bond 23 have suspected for a long time. Fist a little bit of casting news The Daily Mail reports the lovely Tonia Sotiropoulou is being touted as a new Bond Girl, she had tired out for the role of Severn, for which…

Another Adele Bond Theme Rumour

Historically the Bond producers leave the theme until the last minute so it is very hard to tell if there is anything to these rumours in the first place. After the April Fools Day gag by the Sun about Craig supposedly opening the Olympics was taken so seriously by the rest of the medial blindly…

Spoiler: Skyfall lodge is destroyed in a huge explosion.

Oops! Our mistake. That  picture is from Harry Potter. And here I was about to say at least EON is being original. Essentially imagine the same picture except substitute Skyfall Lodge. You can follow this link for more spoilers and pictures Special Thanks to “Kristatos” Discuss this in our forum  

James Bond movie set infiltrated by Turkish teens!

After all the trouble with a certain wildlife photographer you’d think EON would be a little more cautious in Turkey. As it turns out a group of Turkish High Schoolers easily bypassed security and got close enough to film part of the fight scene. The teens were apparently caught when one of them tried to…

First James Bond franchise title is headed to Imax screens

  It seem sos far EON productions has resisted the urge to jump on the 3D Money  train, however they will be submitting Spyfail  to IMAX theaters to be digitally remastered for a release. Beyond our cynical nature it is a smart movie because IMAX release have demonstrated again and agian how valuable their contributions…