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EXCLUSIVE: Barbara Broccoli began making the calls Thursday, London time, to her most frequent and trusted collaborators to tell them news would soon ricochet around the world like a bullet fired from a Walther PPK, the only weapon used by every actor to play James Bond in the Eon film…

EXCLUSIVE: It’s taking around $1 billion to have 007 stewards Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson cede creative oversight of their family’s storied James Bond franchise to Amazon MGM Studios, sources tell us. Amazon originally overpaid on its purchase of MGM in a deal orchestrated by then-MGM…

With the ink barely dry on a bombshell deal that hands Amazon MGM Studios creative control over James Bond, Jeff Bezos is already canvassing fans about who should play 007. The Amazon founder posted a screenshot of a BBC News story, headlined ‘James Bond’s long-serving producers give control to…

In news that will send shock waves through the industry, longtime James Bond producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli are relinquishing control of the beloved spy franchise and handing the reins to Amazon MGM Studios. As part of the arrangement revealed Thursday, Amazon and the producers…

The name's Bond, James Bond, and it's now the subject of a legal campaign by an Austrian businessman who wants the famous moniker for his luxury property empire in Dubai. The Guardian newspaper reports that Josef Kleindienst, who is building a $6billion compound on six man-made islands in…

In recent months, Josh O’Connor has found himself the subject of some speculation suggesting that he may be our next James Bond. So, what does the actor think about the matter? “I have no thoughts, really,” he told Deadline this afternoon with a smile. “The truth is that … I think in the space…

There will be no shaken martinis in the future for Cosmo Jarvis. Asked by a journalist in the Golden Globes press room Sunday if there was any truth to rumors of him being in contention to play the next James Bond, the actor, who was there with his castmates celebrating four wins on the night…

James Norton, the Happy Valley star who has been heavily linked to James Bond, thinks men should be proactive when confronting the MeToo movement. Norton told the Radio Times magazine that the “modern man” was living in a time where there was an “attempt to rebalance the patriarchal crimes of…

Although Daniel Craig couldn’t care less about the next James Bond actor, Gemma Arterton just hopes the franchise doesn’t stray too far from its source material. After appearing in Quantum of Solace (2008), the BAFTA nominee gave her opinion on the idea of a woman playing the next 007 amid…

Daniel Craig's new film sees him take the role of gay William Lee in Luca Guadagnino's Queer, based on a semi-autobiographical novella by William S. Burroughs, but the former James Bond star has shared he would never have considered taking the role during his time at the helm of the 007…

Daniel Craig has not bought into the societal conception of masculinity, something he noted was among his “biggest reservations” about portraying MI6 secret agent James Bond in five films across 15 years. “I would say one of my biggest reservations about playing [Bond] would be the construct of…