MTV To Host James Bond Part At Cannes

Ananova has reported that MTV will host a special James Bond 40th anniversary party at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Recently CommanderBond.net reported on the possibility of a teaser poster and trailer being revealed at Cannes.

The event will take place on May 18 at Le Palais Bulles on the Cote d'Azur, France.

According to Ananova On display will be the Aston Martin Vanquish, Jaguar XKR and Range Rover cars from the current 007 film Die Another Day. It seems strange to have Range Rovers in Die Another Day. Rover is owned by BMW, hence the vehicles appeared in Tomorrow Never Dies. We'll see!

Organisers are planning to offer guests vodka martinis – shaken, not stirred – and the chance to gamble in a special Bond-style casino.

The MTV Cannes Movie Special will premiere on MTV UK on Friday May 31 at 7pm.

The Cannes Film Festival begins on May 15.

If anyone can send in details of the MTV special or they are going to Cannes and can send in details please contact me.

Update:

Rob has written in to let me know I got something wrong. Range Rover is no longer owned by BMW, but it was during the production of Tomorrow Never Dies as it was sold about 18 months ago. BMW sold Land Rover to Ford before selling Rover to private investors, which became MG Rover. So Land Rover, which manufactures the Range Rover model, is NOT a part of the new Rover company called MG Rover.

Hence, Land Drover (which is owned the Premier Automotive Group company, which is owned by Ford, and owns Aston Martin and Jaguar) will feature their vehicle, the Range Rover, in Die Another Day.

Confused? Hope not!

Bond Spoof Night on Turner Classic

Kyle has written in to inform us Turner Classic will be hosting a "Bond Spoof Night" on Tuesday night, April 30th.

The night kicks off with Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery at 7:00 p.m. That's then followed by the 1967 version of Casino Royale at 8:30pm.

Thanks for sending that in Kyle!

TNN Promise To Air Bond Series Unedited

In brief news, US media network TNN have promised to air the James Bond films they own the rights to, unedited. The decision was revealed by TNN general manager Diane Robina in an interview with the New York Daily News.

Robina said, "James Bond deserves some respect and there's really nothing in these movies that can't be seen."

Someone should have told ABC that before they made a mockery of the films they recently aired.

Thanks to Barbara for the tip-off!

Brosnan to lead Queen's celebrations…

Pierce Brosnan has agreed to host the Queen's Golden Jubilee pop gig.

Brosnan personally rang Buckingham Palace to offer the organisers his services for the concert which is to be televised on June 3rd, in the United Kingdom.

When Pierce comes on stage (within the Palace gardens), he will be responcible for introducing; Sir. Paul McCartney, Shirley Bassey, and Tom Jones, to the 12,000 fans who will be present. All three of these singers are to perform famous songs from the 007 films.

A Palace inside revealed the following to SkyNews; "Pierce rang up the palace asking about tickets. When we suggested he take part he jumped at the chance."

Pierce was also responcible for leading a two-minute silence after the death of the Queen Mother, while filming in Cadiz.

Join SpyGuise At The The James Bond Reunion

Spy Guise will be attending the Chiller Theatre film memorabilia convention in New Jersey April 16-18, 2002! We'll have a fantastic selection of exciting new limited edition artwork of Bond stars appearing at the show. These terrific new portraits by artist Jeff Marshall will be available for only $10 each, first come, first serve. Get them signed by the stars for the ultimate collectible!

Guests from the James Bond films scheduled to appear are:

– George Lazenby
– Maud Adams
– Lois Chiles
– Richard Kiel (Promoting his new autobiography!)
– David Hedison
– Caroline Munro
– Barbara Bouchet
– Robert Vaughn
– Bond Artist Jeff Marshall
– "Essential Bond" Authors Lee Pfeiffer And Dave Worrall

Stars will be available to sign autographs. (Fees vary by star). Hundreds of dealers will be on hand with rare movie and TV memorabilia. Spy Guise will also be debuting it's new limited edition "The Spy Who Loved Me" Corgi Lotus Esprit (only 500 individually numbered cars will be released by special approval of Corgi and Eon Productions. $75 per car). We'll also be debuting our new "Casino Royale" limited edition lithograph by Jeff Marshall, commemorating the 1954 first screen appearance of James Bond. Each 16in x 20in print is personally signed by actor Barry Nelson, who played 007! (Limited edition of 500 pieces, $100 each).

WHERE:
Sheraton Meadowlands Hotel, Rt. 3 East, East Rutherford, NJ (Across from Giants Stadium, minutes from Mid-town Manhattan). For directions, call the hotel at 201/896-0500.

HOURS:
Friday, April 16: 6pm – 11pm
Saturday, April 17: 11am – 7pm
Sunday, April 18: 11am – 5pm

General admission is $15 per day. We suggest you pre-register to avoid the lines. Go to http://www.chillertheatre.com/ If you would like Spy Guise to bring a specific collectible for you, email us at [email protected].

And for those of you not in the United States you can be sure you'll get pictures of the event from CommanderBond.net!

Exclusive: More Pictures From Bradford Exhibition

On Tuesday we featured several images from the James Bond Exhibition currently being held in the United Kingdom. Today, thanks to John we're back with more images.

They're all the images for now, but you can be sure we'll be back with more soon! Thanks to John for sending them all in!

Sean Connery To Lead New York Parade…

On April 6th, former 007-actor; Sean Connery will be leading a parade of bag-pipers through New York City. The event should really "hit-home" with the actors Scottish roots. He hopes to break a world-record, by having 10,000 pipers in attendance at the event.

The parade of Scots-men (and women) will begin on West 42nd Street, and up Sixth Avenue, where it will go on to Central Park. Alan Cumming who played Boris Grishenko, in "GoldenEye" will also be in attendance, along with Roger Moore's favourite "potential Bond"; Ewan McGregor

007-Fans from New York, can be sure to catch a glimpse Sean himself, although, I would suggest arriving early to attain "front row status", to avoid crowds, which could prove to be very large. As Tim007 has announced on the CBn Forums, a start-time has yet to be announced, however New Yorker's will no doubt be informed nearer the event.

Exclusive: Pictures From The James Bond Exhibition

Over the next few days we'll have some articles on the James Bond Exhibition which is currently being held in the UK. To start off we have some pictures from the exhibition thanks to John. We have plenty more pictures to come so keep an eye on CommanderBond.net!

There are all the pictures for now, but we'll have more soon!

An interesting thing to note. The plaque for the Aston Martin DB5 says that it was the car used in GoldenEye. However, the registration plate is clearly BMT 214A. Correct me if I'm wrong but that's Bond's registration plate in Goldfinger. In GoldenEye it's BMT 216A!

A big thanks to John for providing the images!

Three Bond Movies On UK TV

Three James Bond films (Goldfinger, On Her Majesty's Secret Service and Casino Royale) will be shown on ITV1 starting Easter Sunday.

Goldfinger will be first off the block, showing on ITV1 at 15:00.

On Easter Monday at 13:15 ITV1 will show On Her Majesty's Secret Service. At the same time on Channel 5 the spoof James Bond film Casino Royale will be shown at 14:35.

'Tanger', who sent in the news, tells us that both Goldfinger and On Her Majesty's Secret Service are likely to be edited due to the time slot. When shown in Christmas 2000 the pre-titles of Goldfinger were heavily edited.

Thanks to 'Tanger' for letting us know!

US ABC Cancels Bond Picture Show

ABC has cancelled the Saturday Night 'Bond Picture Show' four weeks before it was due to finish. The network claimed poor ratings as the reason for the move accorting to 'Variety'. Each show averaged 6 million viewers, while From Russia With Love topped all the films with 7.1 million.

ABC did get off to a bad start with the films. Not only were they poorly edited and manipulated (for instance the addition of a bra to Plenty O'Toole in Diamonds Are Forever) but they also refused to show On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

Later this year the rights to the Bond films will move from ABC to the Viacomm Network.