Aston Martin celebrates a 60-year partnership with Ian Fleming’s iconic secret agent and the anniversary of the James Bond blockbuster […]
Aston Martin commemorates Goldfinger’s 60th with limited-edition DB12
October 14, 2024/22.27
Tag: Ian Fleming
No Time to Die a fine send-off for Daniel Craig as James Bond
October 7, 2021/8.31
Eon Productions LLC/MGM Header image: Madeleine Swann (Léa Seydoux) and James Bond (Daniel Craig) have their holiday plans upset. Above, from top: Daniel Craig as James Bond in No Time to Die. The Aston Martin V8 from The Living Daylights makes a return. James Bond (Daniel Craig) and Cuban agent Paloma (Ana de Armas) prepare […]
Obituary: Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, 91, dies
September 28, 2017/5.20
Copyright ©2010 by Glenn Francis, www.pacificprodigital.com Above: Hefner photographed in 2010. Playboy founder Hugh Hefner has died at his home, aged 91, according to Playboy Enterprises, Inc., from natural causes. Hugh Marston Hefner was born in Chicago in 1926. He worked as a cartoonist on a US Army newspaper in the 1940s, and graduated […]
Classic and Sports Car—the London Show to celebrate Aston Martin with seven landmark models
October 10, 2015/10.28
Aston Martin might not have the freshest range out there as it readies its next generation of supercars, but its marketing machine is at the top of its game this quarter, with a celebration at Classic & Sports Car—the London Show from October 30 to November 1 at Alexandra Palace—days after its bespoke DB10 gets […]
Fan Phenomena: James Bond gives 007 fans more; while Sugoi invites you to the world of Bill Murray
August 18, 2015/12.09
In the year of a new James Bond movie, many books emerge. Invariably, there’ll be one on the films themselves, taking readers through the 50-plus years of the Eon Productions’ series, and, if it’s very comprehensive, the 1950s CBS TV version of Casino Royale, the 1967 spoof of the same name, and Never Say […]
EON previews Spectre car chase with more Aston Martin DB10 and Jaguar C-X75 glimpses
May 2, 2015/9.48
EON Productions Ltd. has shown off the cars of Spectre, the 24th official James Bond movie to be released later this year, including brief footage from the Roma car chase. Neil Layton, technical coordinator for the action vehicles on the film, explains that the Aston Martin DB10 cars in Spectre are bespoke. As […]
Second Skyfall trailer released—more glimpses of the new James Bond film
July 31, 2012/13.56
The second trailer for the new James Bond film, Skyfall, has been released, initially at 007.com, at 2 p.m. BST. More of the plot emerges in the new trailer, showing Bond falling to his presumed death, and an attack on the SIS building—the MI6 headquarters—at Vauxhall Cross. Another plot point appears to involve the […]
Designing 007 opens at the Barbican in July, covering 50 years of James Bond design
April 7, 2012/2.39
Copyright ©1964 by Danjaq LLC and United Artists Corp. Above Sean Connery as James Bond at the Furka Pass, Switzerland, and the iconic Aston Martin DB5, during the making of Goldfinger (1964). With the 50th anniversary of the cinematic James Bond, exhibitions are being shown around the world to mark the occasion, but the Barbican […]
Bentley to launch £1,000 limited edition of new James Bond book, Carte Blanche
April 26, 2011/13.58
Bentley has created a limited edition of the forthcoming James Bond book, Carte Blanche (for the regular hardback edition, US$15·49 at Amazon; £9·99 at Amazon UK), by Jeffery Deaver, to be released on May 26. It continues a long tie-up between Ian Fleming’s literary super-spy and the Bentley car brand. Bond owned three Bentleys […]
Bond and feminism: our preview of Quantum of Solace
October 30, 2008/12.43
Olga Kurylenko as Camille, entering Medrano’s suite at Perla De Las Dunas, Bolivia, in Eon Productions’ Quantum of Solace. Photographed by Karen Ballard. With the worldwide première of the new James Bond film, Quantum of Solace, almost upon us, we decided to run an article originally destined for the print edition of Lucire online […]
