James Bond News

BBC AMERICA announces Fall Preview

Reeve Carney (Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark), Rory Kinnear (Skyfall) and Harry Treadaway (The Lone Ranger) are the latest stars to join the cast of the highly anticipated Showtime drama series, PENNY DREADFUL, which will begin filming this fall for a 2014 premiere on the network. They join recently announced Josh Hartnett, Timothy Dalton and Eva Green. Reeve Carney will play Dorian Grey in a reprisal of Oscar Wilde's supernaturally attractive and decadent young hero. Rory Kinnear will play a mysterious character of haunting intensity. In an exciting new version of Mary Shelley's inspired and obsessed genius, Harry Treadaway will take on the role of Dr. Victor Frankenstein.

PHILOMENA, starring Dame Judi Dench and Steve Coogan, will premiere In Competition at Venice Film Festival and will be a Special Presentation at Toronto International Film Festival. Check out a new clip from the film below!

The Guardian reports that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been selected as a juror for Europe's Raindance Film Festival. The news was revealed by Festival officials onTwitter.

LA So-Cal Dance Invitational, presented by South Coast Dance Arts Alliance, has been announced tonight, August 31 at 8pm at the Ford Theatres. Five acclaimed Southern California dance companies will perform - Nannette Brodie Dance Theatre, Andy Vaca's Jazzworks-Long Beach, LA Contemporary Dance Company, Luminario Ballet, and Regina Klenjoski Dance Company. More than 55 performers are set to participate.

Noted thespian and screen actor Val Kilmer (currently starring onstage in his show Citizen Twain at the Pasadena Playhouse) Tweeted today: 'Give Ben a chance!'

When abstract expressionist and celebrated bad boy of the art world Mark Rothko lands a commission to create a series of large murals, he hires an assistant - and what takes place between them is a visceral experience that spills off the stage and will forever change the way you see the color red. International City Theatre presents Red, the fiery and fiercely funny Tony, Drama Desk and Drama League Award winner for Best Play by John Logan. Directed by caryn desai [sic] and starring Tony Abatemarco as Rothko and Patrick Stafford as his young assistant, Ken, Red, opens this weekend at International City Theatre in the Long Beach Performing Arts Center.

Renowned film and television star Timothy Dalton (“James Bond” in The Living Daylights and License to Kill) has been cast in the new SHOWTIME drama series PENNY DREADFUL

Deadline reports that Academy Award winner Dustin Hoffman will team with Dane Judi Dench in an upcoming 90-minute adaptation of Roald Dahl's ESIO TROT for the BBC.

The Gala Tribute to Cate Blanchett will take place on Wednesday, October 2, and the Gala Tribute to Ralph Fiennes will take place on Wednesday, October 9

Sam Mendes' Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which opened on June 26th in London's West End, is now playing through May 31, 2014 in the UK, and according to the Washington Post, the show will have a life overseas soon after.

James Bond films have developed a tradition of producing songs which have become major pop hits over the 50 years since the first 007 Movie hit the screen and for the first time you can see some of the finest musical Bond moments on stage at The Athenaeum Theatre, Collins Street Melbourne for two nights only, 8 and 9 November.

Haute Hippie, the brand specializing in what founder and creative director Trish Wescoat Pound calls 'comfortable and sexy clothes to fly in” is heading to Jamaica! The fast growing brand has inked a deal to be the exclusive retailer at Chris Blackwell's GoldenEye resort.

Amphibian Stage Productions today announced an additional offering in its National Theatre Live screening series for 2013, presented in association with the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.

PHILOMENA, starring Dame Judi Dench and Steve Coogan, will premiere In Competition at Venice Film Festival and will be a Special Presentation at Toronto International Film Festival. Get a first look below!

Starz in association with Sony Pictures Television has announced today that Tobias Menzies ('Game of Thrones,' 'Rome,' Casino Royale) will play the roles of both Frank Randall and Jonathan 'Black Jack' Randall in the original series 'Outlander.' The series adapted from Diana Gabaldon's international best-selling books by Ronald D. Moore ('Battlestar Galactica,' 'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,' 'Star Trek: The Next Generation') is set to premiere on Starz in 2014.

Le French Book, a digital-first publisher specialized in translations of top-selling mysteries and thrillers from France, has set an October 30 e-book release date for its upcoming cli-fi spy novel The Greenland Breach. This stylish and fast-paced thriller about climate change catastrophe and its consequences couldn't be more topical. In this tale, espionage, intrigue, and behind-the-scenes struggles for natural resources combine with French freelance spies and Bond-like action for a convincing, beautifully orchestrated tale, 'like a sophisticated manga.'

LA So-Cal Dance Invitational, presented by South Coast Dance Arts Alliance, has been announced for Saturday, August 31 at 8pm at the Ford Theatres. Five acclaimed Southern California dance companies will perform - Nannette Brodie Dance Theatre, Andy Vaca's Jazzworks-Long Beach, LA Contemporary Dance Company, Luminario Ballet, and Regina Klenjoski Dance Company. More than 55 performers are set to participate.

Popular mystery author Anthony Bidulka presents a new detective, Adam Saint of the Canadian Disaster Recovery Agency, in a mystery/thriller of wide-ranging scope

We speak to the legendary lyricist about Bond, Lloyd Webber, and the forthcoming celebration of his work!