{"id":574,"date":"2012-09-20T01:00:07","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T07:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/2012\/09\/20\/james-bond-celebrates-50-years-on-film-with-global-jams-bond-day-on-october-5-2012\/"},"modified":"2012-10-02T10:16:35","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T16:16:35","slug":"james-bond-celebrates-50-years-on-film-with-global-jams-bond-day-on-october-5-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/2012\/james-bond-celebrates-50-years-on-film-with-global-jams-bond-day-on-october-5-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"James Bond Celebrates 50 Years on Film with “Global James Bond Day” on October 5, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the James Bond film franchise on the anniversary of Dr. No, which enjoyed its world film premiere in London on October 5, 1962, and in anticipation of the worldwide release of the 23rd James Bond adventure SKYFALL\u2122, Albert R. Broccoli\u2019s EON Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Sony Pictures Entertainment and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment announced today that October 5, 2012 will be Global James Bond Day, a day-long series of events for Bond fans around the world.<\/p>\n

A new feature documentary from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Passion Pictures and Red Box Films, Everything or Nothing: The Untold Story of 007, will be also be unveiled, country-specific details to follow.\u00a0 Directed by Stevan Riley (Fire In Babylon), Everything or Nothing focuses on three men with a shared dream \u2013 Bond producers Albert R. Broccoli, Harry Saltzman and author Ian Fleming.\u00a0 It\u2019s the thrilling and inspiring narrative behind the longest running film franchise in cinema history which began in 1962.<\/p>\n

Further worldwide events celebrating Bond\u2019s golden anniversary include a global online and live auction charity event of 50 lots to benefit twelve charitable institutions organized by Christie\u00b4s in London (full details at www.christies.com\/bond<\/a>), a global survey to discover the favorite Bond film by country, a film retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, a Music of Bond night in Los Angeles hosted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and an exhibition, \u201cDesigning 007: 50 Years of Bond Style,\u201d at TIFF in Toronto.\u00a0 Leading up to Global James Bond Day, for the first time ever fans can own all 22 films in the franchise on Blu-ray Disc in one comprehensive collection with BOND 50, releasing worldwide beginning September 24.\u00a0 Further updates by country will be announced in due course on 007.com and facebook\/JamesBond007.<\/p>\n

Commenting on Global James Bond Day, Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, producers of SKYFALL, said, \u201cWe are absolutely thrilled to be celebrating James Bond’s golden anniversary on film with this special day of events for Bond fans around the world.\u201d Daniel Craig is back as Ian Fleming\u2019s James Bond 007 in SKYFALL\u2122, the 23rd adventure in the longest-running film franchise of all time.\u00a0 In SKYFALL, Bond\u2019s loyalty to M is tested as her past comes back to haunt her.\u00a0 As MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.\u00a0 The film is from Albert R. Broccoli\u2019s EON Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, and Sony Pictures Entertainment.\u00a0 Directed by Sam Mendes.\u00a0 Produced by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli.\u00a0 Written by Neal Purvis & Robert Wade and John Logan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the James Bond film franchise on the anniversary of Dr. No, which enjoyed its world film premiere in London on October 5, 1962, and in anticipation of the worldwide release of the 23rd James Bond adventure SKYFALL\u2122, Albert R. Broccoli\u2019s EON Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Sony Pictures Entertainment and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSd8M-9g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}