Paying Attention: Embed from Getty Images Perhaps the biggest franchise in movie history is one that started in the 1960s with Dr. No. That would be Bond, James Bond, and now rights to the Bond films are about to be re-evaluated as they go up for sale. Created by writer Ian Fleming–himself once a member …
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Bond. James Bond (by the numbers)
mPaying Attention. I was in junior high school, looking for something to read on a beach trip, when I ran across Ian Fleming’s Casino Royale in the paperback section of a Walgreen’s Drug Store in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. It seem interesting and so, for about a dollar and change, I bought it. Hours later I …
The Art of The Movie Trailer: Spectre
iPaying Attention. The James Bond movie series totals 25 films, 23 of them produced by Eon Productions, who now holds all of the rights to the Ian Fleming novels (and spinoffs) that first popularized James Bond in print. The James Bond movies are the single most successful movie franchise ever created and are justifiably well known for their spectacular …