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Daniel Craig made a surprise appearance at the Nurburgring at the weekend where he drove the Skyfall Aston Martin DB5 on a lap to celebrate Aston Martin’s centenary. Craig reportedly climbed into the DB5, with licence plate BMT 216A, after arriving by helicopter and joined a parade of 100 Aston Martins for a lap of [...]

Sony posted its first annual profit in five years, it was announced on Wednesday, helped in part by the massive success of Skyfall. Profits were pegged at $458 million for the year ending March 31st compared with a loss of $5.7 billion the previous year. The turnaround in Sony’s fortunes have come about from the [...]

Barbara Broccoli recently spoke to The Times about how she “decompresses” between Bond films by working on stage productions. Although she says little about Bond 24, she does admit that topping Skyfall will be a challenge. The article notes that she and Michael G Wilson wield a lot of power in what is “traditionally a [...]

Figures released by British satellite broadcaster Sky, which is part-owned by Rupert Murdock’s Newscorp, reveal Skyfall led a 37 percent increase in the number of rentals from Sky Movies in the first three months of 2013 compared with the same period last year. The company says 400,000 customers have rented Skyfall from Sky Movies so far, with [...]

A bottle of a whisky that appeared in Skyfall and signed by Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem and Bérénice Marlohe sold at auction for £9,635 at Sotheby’s. The bottle of The Macallan 1962 was donated to the charity auction by the owners of the Scotch distillery and is similar to the bottle seen on screen in [...]

Being James Bond have published an interesting article about M’s name, following the revelation of the name of Judi Dench’s M at the end of Skyfall. The article notes that M’s full name was not revealed by Ian Fleming until The Man With The Golden Gun, his last novel, but takes us through each incarnation [...]

A bottle of a rare Scotch whisky that appeared in Skyfall and signed by the cast is to be auctioned to raise money for former and serving members of GCHQ. The bottle of The Macallan 1962 is signed by Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem and Bérénice Marlohe and was seen on screen in the scene where [...]

Skyfall picked up more awards on Sunday night when the red carpet was laid for the Jameson Empire Awards on Sunday night at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London. As well as picking up the award for best picture Sam Mendes was named best director and also picked up the Empire Inspiration award. Source: Empire [...]

Royal Dalton’s “Jack” bulldog figurine that appeared in Skyfall is back in stock and selling for £50. Jack is based on an iconic bulldog, originally modelled by Royal Doulton’s great art director Charles Noke in 1941. An original Jack features on M’s desk in the 23rd James Bond Movie, Skyfall. Buy direct from Royal Doulton [...]

Skyfall and The Hobbit helped lift MGM’s revenues by 97 percent compared with the previous year, a huge turnaround considering the perilous state of the company in 2009. Total revenue for the year was $1.38 billion, with net income for 2012 standing at $129 million. That just shows how reliant on successful blockbusters the studios [...]