On This Day

RichardTheBruce

October 15th

1955: Tanya Roberts is born--The Bronx, New York City, New York.
1964: Kinematograph Weekly (an early doubter of Bond, later reporting on the success of From Russia With Love) hails "staggering figures" for Goldfinger's box office.
1975: Bond comic strip The Torch-Time Affair begins its run in The Daily Express. (Ends 15 January 1976.2984-3060.)
Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

1987: The Living Daylights released in Peru.
2005: Rik Van Nutter dies at age 76--West Palm Beach, Florida. (Born 1 May 1929--Los Angeles, California.)
2017: Pinewood Studios designates The Roger Moore Stage in honor of the late Bond actor.

RichardTheBruce

October 16th

1924: Alan Hume is born--London, England. (He dies at age 85--Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire, England.)
1967: Sólo se vive dos veces released in Spain.

1992: Vladek Sheybal dies at age 69--London, England. (Born 12 March 1923--Zgierz, Lódzkie, Poland.)
2012: Eurocom's North American release of first-person shooter video game 007 Legends, published by Activision.

2012: Bond On Bond by Roger Moore published by Globe Pequot Press.

RichardTheBruce

October 17th

1962: A review of Dr. No in Variety says "As a screen hero James Bond is clearly here to stay. He will win no Oscars but a heck of a lot of enthusiastic followers."
1983: People Magazine features Sean Connery promoting Never Say Never Again.

After a 12-Year Leave, Sean Connery Is
Back as 007 but Willing to Say Never Again
https://people.com/archive/after-a-12-year-leave-sean-connery-is-back-as-007-but-willing-to-say-never-again-vol-20-no-16/
Jesse Birnbaum
October 17, 1983 12:00 PM

His name is Bond. James Bond. And he has a problem: lower back pain and a slight paunch. It’s mid-life crisis for 007. And now—of all times—his superiors want to pluck him form semiretirement for the toupee-raising assignment of saving the world from nuclear holocaust. Dispatched ingloriously to a health clinic, he must work out, lift weights and sweat himself into top spy form. Is he getting older, or better?

This clever, thoroughly ingratiating setup for Never Say Never Again is pointedly ironic: The real high-stakes issue is whether the star, after 12 years in retirement from the high-tech spy biz, can carry the film. His name is Connery. Sean Connery. And he has a problem. At 53, Connery is no longer the slim young Scot who began it all with Dr. No in 1962 and five more through Diamonds Are Forever in 1971. Still, he is back as Bond for one last hurrah.

“I may be 20 years older,” admits Connery, who once aspired to the Mr. Universe title. But, he adds confidently, “The age factor is no crisis.”

Not now, anyway. Onscreen he rides horseback, fights live sharks in scuba gear and mauls all manner of assailants in hand-to-hand combat. In bed (with girlie magazine co-stars Kim Basinger and Barbara Carrera), he proves that if he’s gained a pound or two across his brawny torso, he hasn’t lost a step on his bygone Bonds.

The thing is—it didn’t come easy. Connery trained hard, keeping barbells in his location trailers through the grueling eight-month shoot in England, France and the Bahamas. He did many stunts and most fight scenes himself, he says. Somehow, his short-cropped toupee never budged. “He was fabulous underwater,” says a very impressed Basinger, who also did her own swimming stunts. “You couldn’t tell Sean from the stunt divers.” She says Connery helped production on land as well. “He took things lightly, instead of panicking. He would tell jokes all day.”

Some stunts were no joke. “I dived 50 feet underwater into a sunken wreck,” says Sean. “I hated that; it’s claustrophobic.”

So why do it at all? That Connery has long expressed his boredom with the character he created and helped make into the longest-running major series in movie history is the joke behind the film’s title. Connery will only say that his wife encouraged him to do it. Other reasons might be the lack of success of his last films (Wrong Is Right, Five Days One Summer).

But pride is also at stake. Connery’s disenchantment with the series began when his character began to give way to gimmickry and gags. But Roger Moore’s six flashy Bonds have been huge hits anyway, eclipsing the memory of Connery in some quarters. Never’s producer Jack Schwartzman thinks audiences might want to see a 007 who is “not a cardboard figure.”

Connery won’t compare himself to Moore, 55, a longtime pal. But some criticism does slip in. “I think the trap with Roger’s way is that one is a bit overwhelmed with the hardware,” says Connery. “You get the feeling they dream up the stunt first, then write the story around it. I try for a more realistic, credible film, within the realm of possibility.”

To keep his life the same way, Connery and his second wife, Micheline Roquebrune, 48, a French artist he married in 1975, shuttle in tax exile between a villa in Marbella, on Spain’s southern coast, and a home in the Bahamas, where he golfs (eight handicap) and plays tennis. British tax laws make it impossible to spend more than 90 days a year in his homeland without going broke. His proudest investment may well be son Jason, 20, by his first wife, actress Diane (Tom Jones) Cilento. The lad made his film debut in Lords of Discipline this year. Though Connery’s own truckdriver father is deceased and his mother bedridden, Sean is atypically emotional about home and hearth. His suntanned arms are emblazoned with two tattoos: One says, “Scotland Forever,” the other, “Mum and Dad.”

Still, coming home to Bond is another matter. For Connery, Never Say Never Again is a movie title, not a promise. “Why do it again,” he says. “I’m too old.”

2004: Julius Harris dies at age 81--Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California.
(Born 17 August 1923--Philadalphia, Pennsylvania.)
2008: David Arnold's Quantum of Solace soundtrack album released by J.

RichardTheBruce

October 18th

1898: Lotte Lenya (Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blaumauer) is born--Vienna-Penzing, Austria Hungary.
(She dies 27 November 1981 at age 83--New York City, New York.)
1916: Anthony Dawson is born--Edinburgh, Scotland. (He dies 8 January 1992 at age 75--Sussex, England.)
1939: Roy Stewart is born--Houston, Texas. (He dies 24 August 2006 at age 66--Las Vegas, Nevada.)
1979: Moonraker released in Belgium.
1985: Od nišana do smrti (Serbian, Croatian) and Od tarče do smrti (Slovenian) released in Yugoslavia.

2017: Dynamite Comics publishes James Bond Kill Chain #4.

RichardTheBruce

October 19th

1964: Comic strip for Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang begins it run in The Daily Express, Monday the 19th through Friday 23 October.
2008: BBC airs the documentary Ian Fleming: Where Bond Began.
2009: Joseph Wiseman dies at age 91--Manhattan, New York City, New York.
(Born 15 May 1918--Montreal, Quebec, Canada.)
2010: During pre-production, writer Peter Morgan exits the BOND 23 project leaving an unfinished film treatment.
2019: Q The Music Show scheduled for the Princess Royal Theater, Port Talbot, Wales. A Saturday.

https://npttheatres.co.uk/princessroyal/events/james-bond-spectacular-prt/
The popular Q The Music Show
is coming Princess Royal
Theatre…


James Bond Spectacular

Guest Compere: Caroline Munro – The Spy Who Loved Me

The popular Q The Music Show is coming Princess Royal Theatre, Port Talbot and they will be bringing the fabulous and iconic music of James Bond to you in a stunning concert. This show has been a huge success all around the World with its energetic and exciting performance by some of the UK’s leading musicians. The show will be compered the lovely Caroline Munro who played Naomi in The Spy Who Loved Me.

Featuring all the songs from the 007 movies, you can hear the greats like Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever, Skyfall, Thunderball, Live And Let Die, Goldeneye and Licence To Kill amongst all the others. With top musicians, stunning dancers and an informative compere – who appeared in the films herself, this show has everything you could want for a fabulous night out – and one that you will be talking about for years to come.

Formed in 2004, Q The Music Show have established a worldwide reputation for their authentic covers, orchestral sound and fabulous hair-raising vocalists. The show has been popular abroad at events in Monte Carlo, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Guernsey, Prague and many others.

In 2017 they were asked to perform at Sir Roger Moore’s official memorial event in front of Royalty and the who’s who of the British film industry including Sir Michael Caine, Dame Joan Collins and David Walliams.

Don’t miss this superb evening as…Nobody Does It Better!
Date - Saturday 19/10/2019
Time - 19:30

RichardTheBruce

October 20th

1955: Thomas Newman is born--Los Angeles, California.
1956: Danny Boyle is born--Radcliffe, Bury, Greater Manchester, England.
1957: The Sunday Times ends its six week serialization of Ian Fleming's The Diamond Smugglers, started 15 September.
1999: Garbage introduces "The World Is Not Enough" during a University of Denver concert.
2001: Geoffrey Boothroyd dies--UK. (Born 1925--Blackpool, England.)
2008: "Another Way to Die" single released in Europe.
2012: "Skyfall" single enters the Billboard Hot 100 at #8.

RichardTheBruce

October 21st

1945: Everett McGill is born--Miami Beach, Florida.
1954: The CBS anthology series Climax! airs the live television production of Casino Royale.

Casino Royale
William H. Brown... Director
Ian Fleming ... source novel
Antony Ellis, Charles Bennett... writers for television

Cast
Barry Nelson ... James Bond
Peter Lorre ... Le Chiffre
Linda Christian ... Valerie Mathis
Michael Pate ... Clarence Leiter
William Lundigan ... Himself - Host
Music by Jerry Goldsmith

1959: Ian Fleming writes a second film treatment called James Bond of the Secret Service.
1968: Principal photography begins at Piz Gloria, Canton of Bern, Switzerland. With the restaurant still under construction, the production paid for electricity, airlifts, and the construction of the helipad.
1972: James Bond comic strip Isle of Condors finishes its run.
(Started 12 June 1972. 1952–2065)

http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no-28-1974/

https://www.popoptiq.com/isle-of-condors/

https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/ioc.php3

1976: Andrew Scott is born--Dublin, Ireland.
1987: Bob Simmons dies at age 65--Fullham, London, England. (Born 31 March 1922.)

Bob Simmons (stunt man)

Bob Simmons as James Bond 007 in the gun
barrel sequence featured in the movies Dr. No,
From Russia with Love, and Goldfinger

Bob Simmons (Fulham, London, England, 31 March 1922 – 21 October 1987) was an English actor and stunt man, best known for his work in many British made films, most notably the James Bond series.

Biography
Simmons was a former Army Physical Training Instructor at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst who had initially planned to be an actor, but thought a career in performing stunts would be more lucrative and interesting. Simmons first worked for Albert R. Broccoli and Irving Allen's Warwick Films on the film The Red Beret, that included future Bond film regulars director Terence Young, screenwriter Richard Maibaum and cameraman, later director of photography Ted Moore. Simmons later worked in many other Warwick Films, and worked for Allen in his The Long Ships and Genghis Khan, where he had his eye injured when kicked by a horse.

When Albert R. Broccoli began to produce the James Bond films, Simmons tested as an actor for the Bond role, but until his death in 1987, he became the stunt coordinator for every Bond film except From Russia with Love, which he joined later in the production, On Her Majesty's Secret Service and The Man with the Golden Gun. He appeared in the gun barrel sequence for Sean Connery in three James Bond films: Dr. No, From Russia with Love, and Goldfinger. Simmons is the only person to officially perform the scene, while not starring in the main role as James Bond. Simmons also had a role as SPECTRE agent Jacques Bouvar in the pre-title sequence of the fourth film, Thunderball.

Simmons developed a stunt technique involving trampolines, first used in You Only Live Twice, whereby stuntmen would bounce off a trampoline in concert with a triggered explosion so as to simulate being blown into the air. This was used in many other films, including by Simmons again in The Wild Geese, where Simmons also doubled for Richard Burton.

Upon retirement, Simmons wrote an autobiography entitled Nobody Does It Better titled after the theme song for the 1977 Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me.

Filmography

Ivanhoe (1952)
The Great Van Robbery (1957) - Peters
The Guns of Navarone (1961) - German Officer (uncredited)
Dr. No (1962) - James Bond in Gunbarrel Sequence (uncredited)
From Russia with Love (1963) - James Bond in Gunbarrel Sequence (uncredited)
The Long Ships (1964)
Goldfinger (1964) - James Bond in Gunbarrel Sequence (uncredited)
Thunderball (1965) - Colonel Jacque Bouvar - SPECTRE #6 (uncredited)
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966)
You Only Live Twice (1967)
Shalako (1968)
The Adventurers (1969)
When Eight Bells Toll (1971)
Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
Live and Let Die (1973)
The Next Man (1976) - London Assassin
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) - Ivan, KGB Thug (uncredited)
The Wild Geese (1978) - Pilot (uncredited)
For Your Eyes Only (1981) - Henchman Lotus Explosion Victim (uncredited)
A View to a Kill (1985)

RichardTheBruce

October 22nd

1964: Jonathan Cape publishes Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang: The Magical Car, the first of three volumes, illustrated by John Burningham. Ian Fleming writes this for son Caspar.

1964: From Russia With Love released in Uruguay.
1981: Τζέημς Μποντ, πράκτωρ 007: Για τα μάτια σου μόνο released in Greece.
1995: Kinglsey Amis dies at age 73--London, England. (Born 16 April 1922--Clapham, London, England.)
2002: Warner Bros. releases the "Die Another Day" single (delayed from 10 October due to a radio station leak). The video premieres worldwide on MTV the same day--a first for the music channel.

2012: The Italian Cultural Institute at St. George’s Square, Valletta opposite The Palace (Malta’s Parliament house, next door to the Attorney General’s Office) hosts The Science of James Bond. Free.

The Science of James Bond (22 Oct.)
https://www.um.edu.mt/newsoncampus/eventscommunity/archive/the_science_of_james_bond_22_oct.

To celebrate James Bond's fiftieth anniversary and in anticipation of the forthcoming SkyFall in local cinemas, Euro Media Forum, Science is Culture in conjunction with Eden Cinemas are organising The Science of James Bond event taking place on Monday 22 October at 1900hrs at the Italian Cultural Institute, St George’s Square, Valletta opposite The Palace (Malta’s Parliament house) and next door to the Attorney General’s Office. Entrance is free.

Are 007’s gadgets science fact or fiction? From Bond’s first gadget – the stylish briefcase that featured hidden ammunition, gold coins and an AR7 folding sniper’s rifle with infrared telescopic sight, a teargas cartridge disguised as a tin of talcum powder. The lethal luggage was only the prelude to the world’s most famous car - the sleek Aston Martin DB5 that shoots bullets, has revolving number plates, a rear bullet proof screen and had Connery’s Bond in awe with its ejector seat that’s handy at disposing of passengers at the push of a button. The science and technology of Q’s gadgets played by the late Desmond Llewellyn, the legendary gadget master of MI6 has thrilled movie audiences and kept gadget enthusiasts guessing for five decades as to whether these gadgets are indeed truly possible.

The Science of James Bond will take the audience on a fascinating journey through the science that underlies Bond’s most fantastic missions. Bond Gadget enthusiast, scientist David Pace and film researcher Justin Camilleri will provide a highly entertaining, informative look at the real-world science behind Bond’s gadgets, such as the Omega Seamaster laser watch that cuts through steel, the White Lotus Esprit car that turns into a submarine, the ever popular rocket firing cigarette and last but not least the Aston Martin Vanquish that turns invisible. Bond villains’ gadgets will also be examined such as how the first watch gadget in From Russia With Love was not issued to Bond but Robert Shaw’s villain Red Grant. Whether Jaws’ (Richard Kiel) steel teeth qualify as a gadget and how Rosa Klebb’s dagger shoe was so influential that it would be used by Heath Ledger’s Joker in The Dark Knight. The late Q’s ingenious inventions which have accompanied Bond through his astonishing battles beneath the earth, sea, skies and outer space, will be analysed ,as well as the new Q for the Facebook generation played by Ben Whishaw who supplies Daniel Craig’s Bond with his first ever fingerprint recognition Walter PPK in the upcoming SkyFall.

The audience is invited to participate and put forward to the panel their questions regarding their favourite James Bond or villain gadget. The speakers promise an interesting debate and fantastic entertainment, seeking to answer the questions about the limits of science and technology in James Bond movies, the laws of nature, and the future of gadget spy technology.

To spice up the evening there will also be James Bond memorabilia exhibition on display and a 007 quiz, where the first winner will win an all inclusive package – two cinema tickets, a bowling game for two persons and free parking. The second winner will win two cinema tickets and free parking. The third winner will win two cinema tickets. So quiz participants keep your eyes open on the clues behind the science, gadgets, exploits, and enemies of the world's greatest spy!

2012: University of Leeds Political and International Studies (POLIS) hosts a workshop discussion of The Politics of James Bond.

For Staff
Research and innovation news archive - October 2012
https://www.leeds.ac.uk/forstaff/news?mmyyyy=102012&categoryID=30389&page=2
The politics of James Bond
22 October 2012

James Bond matters! As the films enter their 50th year, POLIS is hosting a half-day workshop to discuss the Politics of James Bond (in the broadest sense of the word).

Posted in: Research and innovation

2012: Sky launches a James Bond HD channel in Belgrade, Serbia.
2012: David Arnold and Thomas Newman are interviewed at Classic FM Studios, London.

James Bond: The Music of 007

22 October 2012, 12:35

Listen to James Bond's music and get to know the challenges of writing a 007 soundtrack in our exclusive interview with Bond score composers Thomas Newman and David Arnold.

It's not every evening we see two Hollywood legends spend the evening at the Classic FM studios. Thomas Newman, composer of the soundtrack to the new Bond film, Skyfall, was joined by David Arnold, who wrote the scores for the last five Bond films, for a live interview with movie music expert Tommy Pearson. This special programme was recorded in front of a live studio audience a little earlier this month – and you can listen to it again below.

With such a massive film franchise, there's a lot of pressure on soundtrack composers to deliver, but Arnold revealed it's an honour to be able to use the iconic Bond theme: "It's a moment of great joy. Whenever we did the Bond theme at a recording session that was the one where everyone wanted to attend, the one where we had the most people and everyone sat on the edge of their seats a little bit more."

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3:25 excerpt

2015: The Sydney Morning Herald reports unanimous raves in the UK for Spectre.

EntertainmentMovies

Spectre movie reviews: James Bond's latest gets unanimous raves in the UK

https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/spectre-movie-reviews-james-bonds-latest-gets-unanimous-raves-in-the-uk-20151022-gkfmkk.html
By Karl Quinn - 22 October 2015 — 9:01pm, first published at 1:06pm

The first reviews of Spectre have landed from the UK, and they are uniformly raves.

The Times, The Telegraph and The Guardian have all lavished the 24th James Bond film with five-star ratings, while The Sun and the London Evening Standard raved without rating the film, dubbing their assessments "first impressions".

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Monica Bellucci with Daniel Craig in Spectre.

At any rate, the unanimous praise almost guarantees a monster opening in the UK for the fourth film starring Daniel Craig as 007 this weekend.

In Spectre, Bond comes face to face with a ghost from his past in the form of Christoph Waltz's Franz Oberhauser, head of the secretive and up-to-no-good organisation SPECTRE (the Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion).

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Cool as cucumber, sharp as ice: Daniel Craig in the 24th Bond film Spectre.

In The Telegraph, Robbie Collin wrote that "ghosts of Bond films past come gliding through the film, trailing shivers of pleasure in their wake". He praised the film's director Sam Mendes, who also made 2012's Skyfall, the most successful film in the long-running franchise with global box office of more than $US1.1 billion ($A1.38 billion), for what he described as "a swaggering show of confidence".

Kate Muir of The Times said the fourth outing for Daniel Craig as James Bond "is achingly cool, as sleek and powerful as the silver Aston Martin DB10 that races through the movie".

She added that Mendes and Craig now seemed so comfortable with the terrain "that a relaxed wit percolates almost every scene. Their recipe, like the car, now seems to be bulletproof".

For The Guardian, Peter Bradshaw described the film as "pure action mayhem with a real sense of style" and called it "a terrifically exciting, spectacular, almost operatically delirious 007 adventure".


Could the latest Bond film shatter the record set by the last, 2012's Skyfall?

The Evening Standard's Ben Travis said "director Sam Mendes has, against all the odds, delivered a film that at least matches, and perhaps even betters, Skyfall", while The Sun's showbiz reporter Ed Dyson effused that "all the classic elements fans expect from Bond await in Spectre – and then some", adding that "we were expecting you to deliver Mr Bond... and you certainly didn't disappoint".

What does disappoint, though, is the fact that Australia will have to wait until November 12 for its chance to similarly froth in collective excitement.

Hurry up, Mr Bond. We've been expecting you.

RichardTheBruce

October 23rd

2012: Skyfall premieres at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

2015: Universal Music Classics releases the Spectre soundtrack by Thomas Newman in the UK.
2015: Capital releases "Writing's on the Wall" as a CD single.

RichardTheBruce

October 24th

1943: Martin Campbell is born--Hastings, New Zealand.
2005: The Design Museum showcases iconic Robert Brownjohn contributions.

Robert Brownjohn at the Design Museum
http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/1804

Many of the most memorable images of the Sixties are on show as part of
the Design Museum's Robert Brownjohn restrospective.



From the top floor windows of the museum on the exhibition's opening day it was possible to watch Daniel Craig arrive by speed boat on the far bank where he was revealed as the latest actor to play James Bond.

In the exhibition we learn that it was Brownjohn's work which helped to make the James Bond legend so enduring. His opening title sequences for the 1963 Bond film From Russia With Love and the 1964 Bond film Goldfinger, which required exacting attention to detail in a pre-digital age, can be enjoyed on a screen. Almost as important is the poster depicting Sean Connery and Honor Blackman which had such impact.

Also playing are his Midland Bank cinema commercials which received standing ovations at the Cannes Film Festival.

Brownjohn's arresting Fifties' graphic art includes a Harper's cover drawing featuring red skull caps surrounding a single white one. This was to illustrate the article on the new Pope John XXIII who was the first pontiff to make a global impact.

Other early work, before the artist's move from New York to Britain in 1960, is a pleasing use of letterpress for festival posters. In America he had come under the influence of Andy Warhol as his collection of slides confirms.

Two years before his death in London he designed the artwork for the Rolling Stones' album Let It Bleed.



The exhibition is curated by Emily King who to coincide with the Design Museum show has written a book Robert Brownjohn: Sex and Typography (Laurence King Publishing £25). This is closely related to the exhibition making it both a worthwhile souvenir as well as a fascinating overview of Robert Brownjohn's work and influence.

In a foreword Alan Fletcher of Pentagram writes: "Bj was the right man, in the right job, in the right place."

Robert Brownjohn is at the Design Museum, Shad Thames, daily 10am-5.45pm until Sunday 26 February; admission £7 (conc £4; child under 12 free)

2005: John Murray publishes James Bond: The Man And His World by Henry Chancellor.

http://commanderbond.net/2831/james-bond-the-man-and-his-world.html

2018: Dynamite releases James Bond: The Body Vol. 1, including Parts One through Four (The Body, The Gut, The Brain, The Heart).

https://www.comixology.co.uk/James-Bond-The-Body-2018-Vol-1/digital-comic/704425?ref=Y29taWMvdmlldy9kZXNrdG9wL3NsaWRlckxpc3Qvc2VyaWVz

RichardTheBruce

October 25th

1965: Mathieu Amalric is born--Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France.
1972: James Bond comic The League of Vampires begins its run in The Daily Express.
(Ends 28 February 1973. 2066–2172) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/tlov.php3



https://www.popoptiq.com/the-league-of-vampires/




https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1982.php3

2019: The original planned release date for BOND 25.

RichardTheBruce

October 26th

2012: Skyfall released in the UK, United Arab Emirates, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bahrain, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, UK, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Iraq, Iceland, Jordan, South Korea, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Malta, Norway, Oman, Poland, Palestine, Qatar, Sweden, and Slovakia.
2012: 007 - Operação Skyfall released in Brazil.

2012: 007 Skyfall released in France and Portugal. Bérénice Marlohe promotes the premiere in France.
2012: 007: Coordonata Skyfall released in Romania.
2012: 007: Координаты Скайфолл released in Russia.

2015: Spectre London premiere at Royal Albert Hall.

2015: Spectre general release for the UK and Ireland.
2015: BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime airs the first installment of Trigger Mortis, read by Rupert Penry-Jones.

RichardTheBruce

October 27th

1915: Harry Saltzman is born--Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.
(He dies 28 September 1994 at age 78-- Paris, France.)
1939: John Cleese is born--Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, England.
1967: Men leeft slechts twee maal (Flemish title) released in Belgium.

Also On ne vit que deux fois (French title).

1977: La espía que me amó released in Argentina.

1977: De spion die me liefhad released in Belgium.

1983: Octopussy released in Colombia.
1983: 007 - Operação Tentáculo released in Portugal.
2012: Skyfall released in Switzerland.

RichardTheBruce

October 28th

1994: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills screens Goldfinger on its 30th anniversary.

RichardTheBruce

October 29th

1943: Margaret Nolan is born--Hampstead, London, England.
1974: Cecilie Thomsen is born--Bogø, Denmark.
1995: Fox television airs The World of 007 with host Elizabeth Hurley.

Opening excerpt

1996: Propellerheads and composer David Arnold record "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" for Tomorrow Never Dies. A remix is released in 1997, becoming the only top ten hit for the Propellerheads.

2008: Quantum of Solace UK premieres at the Odeon Theater, Leicester Square, London.

2008: The Scotsman prints A Quantum Leap regarding the latest Bond film.

A Quantum leap
https://www.scotsman.com/news/a-quantum-leap-1-1144678
Published: 18:38 Updated: 19:07 Wednesday 29 October 2008

DANIEL CRAIG bounds into the room, his arm in a sling. "Damn, I was hoping you wouldn't notice," he says. Wound up like a coil from talking all day, he's eager to cut the crap when it comes to his interpretation of Bond. "I genuinely just nicked a lot of stuff from Ian Fleming," he says. "His Bond is very psychological: he thinks, he's morally ambiguous, he's an assassin, he kills people for a living; at the same time he always gets his man and goes after the bad guys. But there's no deep and meaningful thing here. I don't approach it like some big dramatic piece."

He's reluctant to claim any ownership over the character, though. "I think I'm only borrowing it, don't you? This is all great, but I think someone else is going to come along and hopefully do a better job than I've done. It's not mine. It's Ian Fleming's, it's the Broccolis' – I could say I'm the caretaker, but that's a really naff thing to say."

Director Marc Forster also understands his relationship with Bond could be temporary. "If this film doesn't become a commercial success, I'm going to be on a very long vacation," laughs the German-born, Swiss-raised filmmaker.

Craig and Forster probably don't have much to worry about, but such is the pressure of following up Casino Royale, the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed (albeit bafflingly so) Bond film to date, that even though they're holed up in five-star luxury at London's Dorchester Hotel before the world premiere of Quantum of Solace, they'd rather crack self-deprecating gags than pat themselves on the back.

That's unsurprising, though. Before Bond, Forster was an art-house filmmaker in the enviable position of being able to make modestly budgeted pictures such as The Kite Runner, Monster's Ball and Finding Neverland with complete artistic freedom. It's little wonder, then, that he considers his move into the blockbuster arena something of a risk. According to producers Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli (the step-son and daughter of the late Bond producer Albert "Cubby" Broccoli), he took a lot of persuading, not least because when they approached him 18 months ago there was no script, no title, just Daniel Craig and a release date.

"Yeah, that's true," says Forster. "It was only when I met Daniel that I was inspired enough to take it. I thought he was incredible. Then I got on a plane to Italy and I thought, what am I doing? Am I crazy? I started thinking maybe I should talk to Barbara and Michael and pull out because I was frightened. There was no script and suddenly I was scouting the world for Bond locations, going, OK, we could shoot here, here, here and here, and all I had was a release date in my head. It was intense."

Nevertheless, he was soon buoyed by the realisation that doing action was not as difficult as "doing intense psychological scenes with actors". Which may be why, despite a CV that suggests he was brought on board to deliver a talkier, more character-driven Bond film, Forster has actually made the most action-packed instalment to date. Kicking off just moments after the end of Casino Royale it barely stops for breath as 007 traverses the globe to find those responsible for the death of his lover Vesper Lynd. Indeed it's a film that cuts so ruthlessly to the chase it has already received flack for being a little too pared down, with rumours circulating that some of the performances – particularly Gemma Arterton's Bond girl, Agent Fields – are lying on a cutting-room floor somewhere.

Not so, says Forster. Aside from a 45-second sequence involving Craig, everything that was scripted ended up in the movie. "I just wanted this to be a much shorter film. Casino Royale was way too long for my taste; that poker game was really slow, so I wanted to make this a really tight and fast film. It should be like a bullet."

Still, even though Quantum of Solace is not the touchy-feely Bond film that was threatened, its makers make it sound as if they've shot a three-hankey-weepie. Ask Forster about Bond's relationship with M (played once again by Judi Dench) and he refers to 007 as an emotionally dysfunctional orphan in search of a parental figure. Get Broccoli on the subject of the film's relationship to Casino Royale and she expounds at length about how Lynd's betrayal of Bond in the previous film has left him broken-hearted and wondering if she ever really loved him. Blimey.

It's a relief, then, when Craig finally bounds into the room, and a reminder that it is his bruising, brutal and brooding take on 007 that has really made Bond relevant again, especially in a cinematic landscape dominated by Jason Bourne. Bring up this comparison (which is even more pronounced this time out) to Forster, Wilson or Broccoli and you'll be treated to a weary, resigned acknowledgement that, yes, stylistically there is some overlap, especially in the use of handheld cameras to make the action more realistic and emotionally intense. But, says Wilson: "If you look at the character and the storylines they're really different. Bond has a kind of sophistication and a different approach."

"Just having the Bond girls and the villains makes it different. There are certain things that are said in a Bond film that are iconic and you want to keep them in there," Forster says.

A faster, more intense Bond is certainly preferable to another jump-the-shark moment such as the invisible car in Die Another Day. "That idea was based on real technology," protests Broccoli sheepishly.

"Unfortunately it just looked a bit too science fiction-like when we executed it," Wilson chips in. "But that happens a lot in Bond films. Moonraker was another point where we went a bit too far and had to bring things back down to Earth with For Your Eyes Only. It's a constant cycle and if the Brosnan films got a little fanciful, these ones have given us the chance to strip them back again."

Finally acquiring the rights to Casino Royale was actually the real motivation for the current reboot, says Wilson, though Craig reckons there was another good reason for starting again from scratch. "It's hard to believe, but there is a generation of people who don't know the Bond movies. They haven't watched them the way I watched them growing up, so just saying the lines and introducing the characters and expecting them to understand who these people are would have been the wrong thing to do. But I do think that means we can do anything in the next Bond movie. We can introduce Moneypenny and Q back into it, I think we've just got to get the best actors we can find, and ask them to do the best job."

So, he'll definitely return as James Bond? "I don't know. I'd love to do another one. Maybe I'm just superstitious – or stupidly pessimistic. I just want to see how it goes and if I get the chance, I'll do it." • Quantum of Solace is in cinemas tomorrow. Read Alistair Harkness's full review of the film in tomorrow's Scotsman Review

Read more at: https://www.scotsman.com/news/a-quantum-leap-1-1144678

2009: Puffin Books publishes Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier by Charlie Higson, with the short story "A Hard Man to Kill".

2012: Skyfall breaks existing UK box office records for a 007 opening weekend.
2012: Sony Classical releases the Skyfall soundtrack in the UK, recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London. Thomas Newman's score is nominated for an Oscar and wins a BAFTA.
2015: Spectre released in The Netherlands.

RichardTheBruce

October 30th

1943: Maud Russell writes about Ian Fleming in her diary.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/spies-affairs-james-bond-secret-diary-ian-flemings-wartime-mistress/

Saturday 30 October, 1943

Day in bed with cold in spite of four anti-catarrhal injections. Got up
to have dinner with I. Talked about every kind of thing as usual:
Admiralty, personalities, happenings, the funeral, love, death,
marriage, houses, Tahiti – or any escape island – and the formidable
future till after 12.

1963: The Desert Sun prints a short article Hero or Creator--James Bond? Nope, Only Ian Fleming.

HERO OR CREATOR
James Bond? Nope,
Only lan Fleming
https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DS19631030.2.34&e

LONDON (UPI - As he stood there, bemused in Fleet Street, the tall man m the dark blue suit with cuffs on its sleeves did not look like secret agent James Bond, holder of; the rare double-cipher number 007, which entitles its bearer to kill in the performance of duty.

His suit fitted well, too well in fact for even an extra-flat Beretta automatic in a chamois skin holster hidden under the armpit. His shoes were certainly hand-made but on close examination too soft in the toes to be steel-tipped (for kicking out in emergencies, naturally).

His bow tie? Now that might have been whipped off and used for a garrote in the event of a sudden confrontation with an assassin from SMERSH A Soviet agency set up to eliminate counterspies or "double” agents. And the hard grey-blue eyes in the battered handsome face would probably not flinch from such a routine encounter (or, for that matter, a duel with cyanide guns, throwing knives or poisoned brass knuckles.)

But this was definitely not James Bond for the good reason that it was lan Fleming, the British journalist who created a fictional secret agent and gained a world wide audience that includes President Kennedy.

All Things Possible
In the world Fleming has created with the skill of his pen all things are possible, all characters are believable at least for the moment no matter how bizarre. This is a tribute to the sure instinct of his writing and to a trick of weaving the improbable within a solid framework of solid, practical information.

Some interpreters of the Fleming cult allege that Bond is the way he sees his mirror-image. He was a commander in the Royal Navy. So is Bond. He was engaged in a highly secret work during the war. Bond is an agent of the British Secret Service. They dress alike, insist on the same drinks, smoke the same cigarettes, buy their clothes in the same stores and frequent the same restaurants.

With three homes, a wife who is one of London’s leading hostesses, one of the fastest private automobiles in Europe and all the luxuries that royalties can provide, Fleming is willing to let the public think what it wants as long as it continue* to buy his books and patronize the series of films now being made from them.

Millions Sold
The James Bond novels have sold more than 14 million copies and the first film. "Dr. No,” was a box office smash.

The second, “From Russia With Love" has now opened to equally enthusiastic notices. Fleming approved the star who portrays Bond, Sean Connery. But they do not resemble each other in any way. Fleming’s nose looks as though he had started his career with a left hook in his face instead of a silver spoon in his mouth. It is not, to be tactful, film-star photogenic, although at 55, Fleming has rugged good looks of his own.

Fleming was born to a member of parliament and a mother who was regarded as the reigning beauty of England. He had a typically upper-class education at Eton, which he disliked, and later Sandhurst Military Academy the West Point of Britain. From there he went to the universities of Munich and Geneva where he learned fluent German and French.

Later in his career, as manager of the Moscow bureau of Reuters, he added fluent Russian.

But along came the war and someone remembered that he was a linguist, widely traveled, a man of many interests from golf to gambling. This added up to an invitation to join naval intelligence.

Much of his war work is still secret although he had a staff under him assigned to moving in with the advance troops to seize codes and special equipment. He insists that he has never had to draw from his personal experience for his plots but the contracts he made then must be invaluable when it comes to checking accuracy or possibilities.

1973: Thomas Wright calls Live and Let Die “the poorest of the lot so far, though there were some great moments during the speed-boat chase”. He dismisses the idea the film was “insulting to black people."
2012: Skyfall premieres in Berlin, Germany.

2015: Spectre released in Denmark and Sweden.
2015: 007 Spectre released in Finland.
2015: James Bond: Spectre released in Norway.
2018: British auction house Fellows puts the last Rolex screen-worn by Bond up for sale.

https://www.classicdriver.com/en/article/watches/rolex-submariner-may-or-may-not-grant-you-a-licence-kill

https://www.fellows.co.uk/james_bond_watch

RichardTheBruce

October 31st

1948: Michael Kitchen is born--Leicester, Leicestershire, England.
1968: 007: Sólo se vive dos veces released in Mexico.

1976: US television premiere of Live and Let Die on ABC.

An awesome Sunday.

1977: 007: O Espião que me Amava released in Brazil.

2006: MTV video premiere of "You Know My Name". Director Michael Haussman's approach was to contrast "the lives of a professional spy and a rock star".

MTV's Making the Video 2006 - You Know My Name by Chris Cornell

2008: Quantum of Solace released in the UK, Ireland, France, Sweden.
2008: EU release of the video game Quantum of Solace.

2012: Skyfall released in Spain, Italy, The Netherlands, and The Philippines.
2012: Skajfol released in Serbia.

RichardTheBruce

November 1st

1945: Lani Hall is born--Chicago, Illinois.
1964: The Sunday Gleaner reports Kingston cinemas still showing Dr No as they anticipate Goldfinger.
1999: Garbage performs "The World Is Not Enough" on the Late Show with David Letterman.

2002: 007 Ice Racer video game developed published by Vodafone, using the Die Another Day ice chase.
2012: Skyfall released in Austria, Bolivia, Switzerland, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Croatia, Indonesia, India, Malaysia, Singapore, Slovenia, El Salvador, Thailand.
2012: Skaifoli released in Georgia.
2012: Operacija Skyfall released in Lithuania.
2012: 007: Operación Skyfall released in Argentina, Chile, Peru and Uruguay.
2012: 007: Координати Скайфолл released in Ukraine.

RichardTheBruce

November 2nd

1961: Kathryn Dawn (K.D.) Lang is born--Consort, Alberta, Canada.
2006: John Murray publishes Secret Servant: The Moneypenny Diaries by Kate Westbrook (Samantha Weinberg).

2010: Activision releases GoldenEye 007 in North America.

2012: Skyfall released in Colombia. Ecuador, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Panama, Turkey, Taiwan, and Vietnam.
2012: 007: Skyfall released in Estonia.
2012: 007: Operación Skyfall released in Mexico. And Venezuela.

2015: 007: Spectre premieres in Mexico.

RichardTheBruce

November 3

1933: John Barry Prendergast is born--York, North Yorkshire England.
(He dies 30 January 2011 at age 77--Oyster Bay, New York.)

John Barry obituary
Composer most closely associated with the golden age of James Bond but whose scores ranged from Midnight Cowboy to Dances With Wolves
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/jan/31/john-barry-obituary
Adam Sweeting - Mon 31 Jan 2011 13.31 EST


John Barry in the recording studio, 1965. Photograph: Dezo Hoffmann / Rex Features

John Barry, who has died aged 77 following a heart attack, will always be associated with the golden age of James Bond, but though much of his most famous music was written to accompany the outlandish adventures of 007, his work covered a huge variety of moods and styles. Barry wrote epic, sweeping film scores for Zulu (1964), Born Free (1966) and Out of Africa (1985), introduced blues and jazz themes into The Chase (1966) and The Cotton Club (1984), and conceived the shivery, sinister music for The Ipcress File (1965). He even became something of a pop star in his own right.

He was born John Barry Prendergast in York, where his father ran a chain of cinemas. His mother was a talented musician, but had abandoned the attempt to establish herself as a concert pianist. "My father had seven or eight cinemas, so I was brought up in the cinema," he recalled. "I remember my dad carrying me through the foyer of the Rialto in York and pushing the swing doors open at a matinee. I was looking at this big black-and-white mouse on the screen, and he'd taken me to see a Mickey Mouse cartoon."

Barry cherished an early ambition to join the family business and become a projectionist, but the combination of film and music made a deep impression on him. He began taking piano lessons with Francis Jackson, master of the music at York Minster, and studied with the jazz arranger Bill Russo, who had worked with Stan Kenton's orchestra. His father was a jazz fan, and would present concerts by such stars as Kenton and Count Basie.

After national service with the army, Barry formed his own jazz combo, the John Barry Seven, and scored a string of pop hits during the late 50s and early 60s, including Hit and Miss (the theme from TV's Juke Box Jury), Walk Don't Run and Black Stockings.
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Barry thrived on the feverish wave of creativity that made London the world's most fascinating city at the time. He socialised with Michael Caine and Terence Stamp, collaborated with the pop stars Adam Faith and Nina & Frederik, and guaranteed himself the attention of gossip columnists by marrying the actress Jane Birkin. In 1960 he was asked to write music for the Peter Sellers/Richard Todd vehicle Never Let Go and then for the Faith comedy Beat Girl.

In 1962, he was signed up to work on the first Bond film, Dr No, although only as back-up to the composer Monty Norman, for a fee of £250. The official story is that Barry merely arranged Norman's famous James Bond Theme, and when Barry claimed in a Sunday Times interview many years later that he had written it himself, Norman successfully sued for libel and was awarded £30,000 in damages.

Subsequently there was no such ambiguity, as Barry's scores for From Russia With Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964) and [n]Thunderball[/b] (1965) became popular the world over. Such was the potency of the Bond mystique that Barry's soundtrack album for Goldfinger knocked the Beatles' A Hard Day's Night off the top of the American charts in 1964, and earned the composer his first gold disc. He scored 10 consecutive Bond films and decided he had had enough after The Living Daylights (1987) because "all the good books had been done". 

In 1969, he scored John Schlesinger's Midnight Cowboy, one of the first movies to use a selection of pop songs on the soundtrack. It was a technique that would be copied by countless imitators. "That movie is still shown at the cinema school at UCLA as the epitome of how songs should be used in the movies," Barry said in 1997. "We only bought in a couple of songs, Everybody's Talkin', sung by Harry Nilsson, and a John Lennon song, and for the rest we got young songwriters to score the scenes with songs. The songs work because they were written for the movie."

However, Barry always gave credit to the great classically influenced Hollywood film composers, such as Bernard Herrmann or Max Steiner, and echoes of their work would frequently bubble up in his own. Barry's music was used on the soundtracks of many other films – The Knack (1965), The Quiller Memorandum (1966), The Lion in Winter (1968), Murphy's War (1971), The Day of the Locust (1975), Raise the Titanic (1980), Body Heat (1981), Jagged Edge (1985), Chaplin (1992), Dances With Wolves (1990) and Indecent Proposal (1993) – and he was a natural choice to write the theme for the Roger Moore/Tony Curtis TV series, The Persuaders!

He won five Oscars, including two for Born Free and one each for The Lion in Winter, Out of Africa and Dances With Wolves. He also won Bafta's Anthony Asquith award for The Lion in Winter, and a Grammy for Dances With Wolves. In 1998 he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Barry had never needed a career boost, but during the 1990s he found himself being feted by a younger generation of artists, including David Arnold, who had stepped into the role of James Bond's personal composer for Tomorrow Never Dies (1997). Arnold masterminded the Shaken and Stirred album in homage to Barry's Bond music, and commented that "for me the success of the Bond series was 50% Sean Connery and 50% John Barry". Barry was delighted by Arnold's enthusiasm. "I think Shaken and Stirred is terrific. David Arnold has kept all the essence of the originals, and he's cast it beautifully with all the different performers. It has a real freshness and rhythmic impetus, which sounds very now."

A throat cancer scare in 1989 slowed Barry's work rate, but his ambition remained undimmed. In 1998 he released The Beyondness of Things, a "tone poem" unconnected to any film and which he presented as a concert piece. "It's amazing to work without film or without a director or producer," commented Barry, who was appointed OBE in 1999. "I love doing films, but it's been refreshing to work with such total freedom."

It was rumoured that Beyondness … had been derived from his rejected score for The Horse Whisperer, and a certain sameness of mood could be discerned creeping into his compositions. Perhaps recognising the need for fresh stimulus, he signed up to collaborate with the lyricist Don Black and director Michael Attenborough on a stage musical version of Graham Greene's Brighton Rock, which had a short run in London in 2004. "I don't mind people going on about my past as long as I've still got a future," said Barry, "and I've got plenty of things coming up."

In 2006, Barry was executive producer on the album Here's to the Heroes by the Australian group the Ten Tenors. It featured several songs he had written with Black. The duo also wrote a new song, Our Time Is Now, for Shirley Bassey's 2009 album The Performance, their first for her since Diamonds Are Forever.

Barry, who had lived in Oyster Bay, New York state, since 1980, is survived by his fourth wife Laurie, their son Jonpatrick, and three daughters, Susie, Sian and Kate.

Eddi Fiegel writes: I wrote to John Barry in 1997 telling him I had been commissioned to write his biography. I heard nothing for months but then, just at the point when I had almost given up hope of a reply, I got a message on my answerphone saying, "This is John Barry. I'm in London working at Abbey Road studios. Why don't you come in and we can meet?"

He immediately put me at ease with a dry, self-deprecating humour and extraordinary personal charm. A few days later we had the first of many epic lunches at his favourite London restaurant, Rules, in Covent Garden.

He had an excellent memory and was a superb raconteur – a gift for a biographer. Like many artists he could also veer between insecurity and supreme confidence. When he arranged to play his first British concert in decades at the Albert Hall, he asked me: "Do you think people will come?"

Another day, however, I mentioned to him that an electronic dance act had recently recorded what they described as a tribute to his television theme to The Persuaders! I played it to him, curious to know what he would make of it. He listened in silence. Then after a pause, he said: "It's not as good as The Persuaders!, is it?"

• John Barry (John Barry Prendergast), composer and songwriter, born 3 November 1933; died 30 January 2011
• The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Thursday 10 February 2011. In this article, we said that John Barry scored 10 consecutive Bond films; in fact he scored six consecutively, 11 in all. We quoted Barry as saying that the Midnight Cowboy soundtrack included a John Lennon song. It contained two songs by Elephants Memory, who worked with Lennon, but none written by him. Barry had a ruptured oesophagus in the late 80s, rather than a throat cancer scare. The film Beat Girl is not a comedy, although Halliwell's film guide describes it as risible melodrama.

• This obituary was further amended on 24 February 2015. Earlier versions said that Barry was born Jonathan, rather than John, Barry Prendergast.

1948: Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie (Lulu) is born--Glasgow, Scotland.
1957: Dolph Lundgren is born--Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden.
1961: The Daily Cinema announces Sean Connery in the James Bond role.
2002: "Die Another Day" charts in the UK at #3.

2011: EON Productions announces the start to filming for Skyfall at the Corinthia Hotel, London. Locations confirmed: London, Shanghai, Istanbul, Scotland. Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Ben Wishaw, Naomie Harris, Javier Bardem.

RichardTheBruce

November 4th

1976: James Bond comic strip Nightbird ends it run in The Daily Express. (Started 2 June 1976. 3179-3312)
Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

2015: Dynamite Entertainment publishes Vargr #1.

https://comicvine.gamespot.com/james-bond-1-vargr/4000-504958/

RichardTheBruce

November 5th

1912: Paul Dehn is born--Manchester, England. (He dies 30 September 1976 at age 63.)
1935: Christopher Hovelle Wood is born--Lambeth, London, England. (He dies 9 May 2015--France.)
1964: Famke Janssen is born--Amstelveen, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.
1977: James Bond comic strip Ape of Diamonds begins its run in The Daily Express. (November 5, 1976 - January 22, 1977. 3313-3437)
Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/aod.php3

2010: With MGM refinanced and under the control of Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum, they announce Peter Jackson's production of "The Hobbit" and the November 2012 release of BOND 23.

RichardTheBruce

November 6th

1973: Location filming at the RMS Queen Elizabeth, Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong.
2008: Quantum of Solace released in Bahrain, Bolivia, Chile, Czech Republic, Greece, Hong Kong, Croatia, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Republic of Macedonia (Skopje), Malaysia, Netherlands, Oman, Qatar, Slovakia, Syria, Switzerland, and United Arab Emirates.
2008: 007 Quantum of Solace released in Argentina and Portugal.
2008: James Bond 007 - Ein Quantum Trost released in Germany

2008: Kvantum sočutja released in Slovenia.

2008: Quantum shel nehama released in Israel.
2008: Zrno utehe released in Serbia.
2008: Квант милосердия released in Russia.
2008: 007: Квант милосердя released in Ukraine.

2008: BBC Audiobooks releases Ian Fleming's 'Quantum of Solace' on CD, collecting all the Bond short stories.

2012: Thomas Newman's Skyfall soundtrack, recorded the London Abbey Road Studios, released in the US. It wins the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music, and is nominated for an Oscar.
2014: Random House publishes Steven Cole's Young Bond novel Shoot to Kill.

2015: Thomas Newman's Spectre soundtrack, recorded the London Abbey Road Studios, released in the US.
2015: Spectre released in Austria, Belarus, Canada, Spain, Hong Kong, Croatia, Indonesia, Iraq, Iceland, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Philippines, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Turkey, Venezuela, and USA.
Vietnam.
2015: 007: Spectre released in Estonia.
2015: Спектър released in Bulgaria.

2015: Speqtri released in Georgia.
2015: Spektras released in Lithuania.
2015: 007: Spektrs released in Latvia.

Latvia premiere 5 November.

2015: 007: Спектр released in Russia.

2017: Karin Dor dies at age 79--Munich, Bavaria, Germany. (Born 22 February 1938--Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany.)

RichardTheBruce

November 7th

1924: Wolf Mankowitz is born--Bethnal Green, London, England. (He dies 20 May 1998 at age 73--County Cork, Ireland.)
1932: Yuri Borienko is born--Russia.
1995: Parlaphone and Virgin release the "GoldenEye" single.

2002: Coronet Books publishes Raymond Benson's Die Another Day novelization.

2008: "Another Way to Die" released as a download for Guitar Hero World Tour.

2008: Quantum of Solace released in Austria, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Iceland, Latvia, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, El Salvador, Switzerland, Turkey, and Taiwan. (Original planned released date for UK and US.)
2008: 007 - Quantum of Solace released in Brazil, Italy, and Poland.
2008: Спектър на утехата released in Bulgaria.

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007: Veidi lohutust released in Estonia.

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Paguodos kvantas released in Lithuania.

DVD ad

007: Partea lui de consolare released in Romania
2011: Principal photography for BOND 23 begins in London.
2012: Skyfall released in Jamaica.

2018: Dynamite releases James Bond 007 #1. Marc Laming, artist. Greg Pak, writer.

RichardTheBruce

November 8th

1945: Angela Scoular is born--London, England. (She dies 11 April 2011 at age 65--Maida Vale, London, England.)
1969: Insan Iki Kere Yasar (You Only Live Twice) released in Turkey.
1999: The World Is Not Enough Los Angeles premiere.

2012: Skyfall IMAX premiere in the US.

2019: Planned BOND 25 release date (confirmed by an official announcement 24 July 2017).

RichardTheBruce

November 9th

1977: The Spy Who Loved Me released in Colombia.
1983: Octopussy - Operazione piovra released in Italy.

1999: Radioactive/MCA label releases the soundtrack for The World Is Not Enough in the US.
2012: Skyfall released in Albania, Canada, Pakistan, and the US.

RichardTheBruce

November 10th

1953: James Bond is born--so says his Die Another Day passport.

1959: Jack Whittingham's outline for a first film is called "James Bond of the Secret Service".
1968: Daphne Deckers is born--Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands.
1974: The US network premiere of Dr. No on ABC-TV.

RichardTheBruce

I want to pause here and thank @SirHilaryBray for the thought to start this thread and allowing me to contribute as I have. Obviously I enjoy seeking out these details, aligned with available sources. With this activity reaching one year in time, I will combine existing posts with new information and make corrections where needed.

November 11th

1920: James Bond's birthday according to John Pearson's James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007.
1921: James Bond's birthday according to Bond scholar John Griswold.

1963: Dr. No released in Uruguay.
1966: Donald Pleasence takes over the Blofeld role from Czech actor Jan Werich. A decision by director Gilbert and producer Broccoli--however, publicly the change is blamed on illness.
1966: Alison Doody is born--Dublin, Ireland.
1999: "The World Is Not Enough" music video airs before the MTV Europe Music Awards, part of heavy promotion for the film including a BMW Z8 giveaway.

2003: Robert Brown dies at age 82--Swanage, Dorset, England. (Born 23 July 1921--Swanage, Dorset, England.)
2015: Spectre released in Switzerland and France.
2015: 스백터 released in the Republic of Korea.

peter

I didn't know Pleasance was a replacement as Blofeld. Looking it up now, Broccoli and Gilbert thought original Blofeld, Jan Werich, looked like a poor Santa Claus!

I love this thread @RichardTheBruce !

RichardTheBruce

November 12th

1929: Peter Lamont is born--England.
1943: Julie Ege is born--Sandnes, Norway. (She dies 29 April 2008 at age 64--Oslo, Norway.)
1943: Valerie Leon is born--Islington, London, England.
1966: James Bond comic strip The Living Daylights completes its run in The Daily Express.
(Started 12 September 1966. 210-263)

https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/tld.php3

1995: GoldenEye cast including Pierce Brosnan attend the Second Annual James Bond Convention, New York.

1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Singapore.
2002: Warner Bros. Records releases David Arnold's Die Another Day soundtrack.

Now expanded.

2015: Spectre released in Australia, Greece, and Uruguay.