Here’s why Billie Eilish’s Bond theme commission has hit a sour note

Donald Clarke: A 19-year-old electropop sensation is to write and sing the next Bond theme and Twitter is not amused

Next James Bond will not be a woman, Broccoli confirms

Daniel Craig’s successor as 007 ‘can be of any colour, but he is male’, producer says

James Bond: Pierce Brosnan says next 007 should be played by a woman

Irish actor also backs Roman Polanski and Woody Allen at Deauville Film Festival

James Bond: Is a black female actor really the ‘new 007’?

Reports that Lashana Lynch is to take on the 007 code name should be approached with caution

Pierce Brosnan: ‘It was a great irony playing a British cultural icon as an Irishman’

Irish actor recalls his James Bond debut in GoldenEye: crazy stunts and thigh-crushings from Xenia Onatopp

James Bond: How a potentially radical film became a far safer movie

Swapping Danny Boyle for Cary Fukunaga looks like a cautious move by the producers

James Bond: Cary Joji Fukunaga to direct next 007 film

Director of Netflix series Maniac takes over after departure of Danny Boyle

Veteran 007 writers Purvis and Wade rehired to salvage Bond 25

Neal Purvis and Robert Wade returning to James Bond after Danny Boyle’s departure

High-flying Antoine Fuqua at home making films that are grounded

US director says his heart lies with action movies like The Equalizer 2

The next James Bond might be black, but he won’t be Idris Elba

Elba is already too old, but a black, Asian or female actor could succeed Daniel Craig

Damascus Cover: Jonathan Rhys Meyers can't save this spy thriller

Jonathan Rhys Meyers is sauve and calculating but it’s not enough amid clanging dialogue

Actor who played first ever Bond girl dies aged 90

Eunice Gayson starred as Sylvia Trench alongside Sean Connery in ‘ Dr No’ and ‘From Russia With Love’

James Bond: Daniel Craig with Danny Boyle directing confirmed for 007’s latest mission

The ‘Trainspotting’ director will take the reins on 25th James Bond film – and Craig’s fifth

British film director Lewis Gilbert dies aged 97

Tributes paid to the Oscar-nominated maker of three James Bond films

‘There’s no way they’re going to let me take Tom Cruise camping in the jungle’

Doug Liman on his guerilla filmmaking techniques in American Made

Never say never: Daniel Craig confirms one more Bond film

And when he's finished as 007? Clondalkin man Aidan Turner looks nicely positioned

Is Christopher Nolan directing the next Bond film?

He made sense of Batman. He is bossing Dunkirk. Is Nolan signed up for Bond 25?

The Silent Storm review: wind swept, well-chewed scenery

Everything about The Silent Storm suggests a screenplay was written entirely IN CAPITAL LETTERS. No “r” goes unrolled, no piece of furniture is unpounded

Sam Smith to sing ‘quickest song I’ve written’ in new Bond film

Sam Smith says he wrote the theme song for the new James Bond film ‘Spectre’ in just 20 minutes – ‘and they loved it!’

A Fiennes romance

Ralph Fiennes talks about his childhood in Ireland, the great Bond conundrum, and dipping into the complicated private life of a fellow English celebrity – Charles Dickens

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