On the afternoon of Wednesday, 5 August, David Ellison called his twelve-person Executive Leadership Team to a lunch meeting on the Paramount lot. He opened…
In June 1963, Ian Fleming signed away a spy franchise for a single pound. It has been retold ever since as a charming scrap of…
Robert S. Baker had wanted to make a buddy picture for years. While producing The Saint, he tested the idea in “The Ex-King of Diamonds,”…
Sir Sam Neill, the acclaimed New Zealand actor whose remarkable career stretched from arthouse classics to Hollywood blockbusters, has died at the age of 78….
Judi Dench played James Bond’s boss, M, in eight Bond films from GoldenEye (1995) to SPECTRE (2015). Casting a woman as Bond’s boss was a…
In 1994, five people sat down at MGM/UA to settle who would play James Bond next. Two wanted Timothy Dalton back. Two wanted somebody else….
In Bangkok, on the morning of May 21, 1997, the temperature is already climbing toward 110 degrees Fahrenheit. Mark Southwell and Wendy Leech are about…
In Kuala Lumpur, in mid-1996, Vic Armstrong stands beneath the Petronas Towers and looks up. He has a sequence in his head. Two figures —…
In Licence to Kill, James Bond’s best friend and DEA agent Felix Leiter is about to get married. But on the way to the church,…
A martini-glass-shaped dipstick? Really, 007! Ringbrothers’ one-off Octavia turns a 1970s Aston Martin DBS into a carbon-fibre, 805-horsepower nod to Bond’s more playful side. Some…