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Mark O'Connell
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Writer. Author. Bond Fan.

CATCHING BULLETS - MEMOIRS OF A BOND FAN (Prelude by Barbara Broccoli)

WATCHING SKIES - STAR WARS SPIELBERG AND US

Rep'd by Vivienne Clore

#JamesBond #CatchingBullets #WatchingSkies #Bond26

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Mark O'Connell @markoconnell.bsky.social · Mar 22
Welcome to a veritable Double-O show of 007 related missions, interviews, curios and exclusive insight. The best MI6 office for CATCHING BULLETS' video treats, insights and interviews is on YouTube so subscribe another day with love...

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#JamesBond #Bond26 #IanFleming
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Catching DARKER THAN THE SUN'S London launch at Stanfords Covent Garden with various geo-pins of Bond talent on call for their insight to mark a great new 007 atlas... www.instagram.com/p/DRfMpW1jSs...

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#DarkerThanTheSun #JamesBond
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markoconnellwriterMAPPING BOND'S WANDERLUST - DARKER THAN THE SUN'S London launch at Stanfords Covent Garden! To mark the launch of the sterling 007 tome DARKER THAN THE SUN - AN ATLAS OF JAMES BOND MOVIE LOCATIONS, authors Matthew Field and Ajay Chowdhury hosted a special night at travel bookstore at Stanfords in Covent Garden - with various geo-pins of Bond talent on call for their launch night insight and chat.With Bond producer Anthony Waye and stunt maestro Vic Armstrong and actors Caroline Munro (THE SPY WHO LOVED ME) and Martine Beswick (THUNDERBALL, FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE) as special guests, Chowdhury and Field celebrated their experience of Bond travel, Bond location work and the global adventure of a spy. DARKER THAN THE SUN - AN ATLAS OF JAMES BOND MOVIE LOCATIONS by Matthew Field and Ajay ChowdhuryIvy PressHardback£25 / $30To get your copy:https://www.amazon.co.uk/Darker-than-Sun-Movie-Atlas/dp/0711293260All photos © Mark O'Connell#DarkerThanTheSun #JamesBond #AjayChowdhury #MatthewField #IvyPress #MarkOConnell #Quarto
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November 25, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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A big Soviet well done to the agent of audio adventure and all round Bond sage, Mr. Mark Gatiss for winning Best Performance - Narrator for his narration for FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE at The Speakies!!

#FromRussiawithLove #MarkGatiss #TheSpeakies #IanFleming
November 25, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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To mark DARKER THAN THE SUN - AN ATLAS OF JAMES BOND MOVIE LOCATIONS, authors Matthew Field & Ajay Chowdhury hosted a London launch with Vic Armstrong recalling shooting in London with Pierce Brosnan...
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#DarkerThanTheSun #JamesBond #PierceBrosnan #TheWorldIsNotEnough
MAPPING BOND’S WANDERLUST – Reviewing DARKER THAN THE SUN – AN ATLAS OF JAMES BOND MOVIE LOCATIONS – MARK O'CONNELL
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November 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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THE OTHER OTHELLO as EON Productions announce a unique new movie collaboration between Barbara Broccoli's production house and Qatar's recently launched Film Committee starring David Oyelowo, Rachel Brosnahan and Cynthia Erivo!
#Othello #DavidOyelowo, #RachelBrosnahan #CynthiaErivo #BarbaraBroccoli
November 23, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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THUNDERPALL MALL as top Bond book SPY OCTANE: THE VEHICLES OF JAMES BOND - VOLUME ONE is privately celebrated by a bespoke and insightful evening at the RAC Club on London's Pall Mall...

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#SpyOctane #JamesBond #AstonMartin #DB5
November 23, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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On His Majesty's Automobile Service.

#OHMSS #JamesBond
November 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Gram. Instagram.

This bullet catcher is bullet catching on IG and some new, big and shiny Bond shaped things are coming from this agent...

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#JamesBond #MarkOConnell #2026 #Bond26
November 16, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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As THUNDERBALL hits 60, @spyhards.bsky.social are hosting a screening & Q&A.

SPYHARDS PODCAST presents
THUNDERBALL 60th Anniversary Screening
+ Live Q&A with Martine Beswick
£17 / Sat 13 Dec 2025
Hammersmith Studios

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#Thunderball #JamesBond #SeanConnery
Thunderball 60th Anniversary Screening + Live Q&A with Martine Beswick - Riverside Studios
SpyHards Podcast presents: Spies on Screen is a exciting new programming strand at Riverside Studios! SpyHards is the world’s leading podcast focused exclusively on spy movies and television. Hosted b...
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November 14, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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'Whilst CASINO ROYALE is regarded as the leaping Bond reboot of record, it is Brosnan’s debut that was the franchise’s real guarantor.'

As GOLDENEYE hits thirty years old today, I explore its successes and achievements...
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#GoldenEye30 #PierceBrosnan #JamesBond
November 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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'Whilst CASINO ROYALE (2006) is regarded as the leaping Bond reboot of record, it is Brosnan’s debut that was the franchise’s real guarantor.'

30 years ago tonight a major notch on Bond's movie bedpost premiered in NYC:
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#GoldenEye #PierceBrosnan #JamesBond
'GoldenEye' at 25: The silver legacy of Bond's most important reboot
As it reaches its twenty-fifth anniversary, what is the franchise legacy and movie consequence of GoldenEye?
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November 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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The year is 30 years ago. Mothers would give their student offspring BT GOLDENEYE 'phonecards' hoping they'd walk to a glass box in the street, step inside & insert a Brosnan card into a machine, lift a plastic receiver & make a phone call to mother
#GoldenEye30 #GoldenEye #PierceBrosnan #JamesBond
November 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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With Ian Fleming Publications enjoying a great new era of Bond world stories, publications & merch glories, IPF have just given a slick makeover to their own cyber 'hurricane room' - and all bullet catchers should report for duty immediately...

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#IanFleming #JamesBond
November 13, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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SPINRAKER as the expanded soundtrack to BOND '79 gets a vinyl overhaul! A year since @lalalandrecords.bsky.social published their great MOONRAKER soundtrack release they've now issued a limited vinyl release!
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#Moonraker #JohnBarry #JamesBond #ShirleyBassey #vinyl
November 12, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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To mark DARKER THAN THE SUN - AN ATLAS OF JAMES BOND MOVIE LOCATIONS, authors Matthew Field & Ajay Chowdhury are hosting an event at Stanford's London store with various geo-pins of Bond talent taking part...

For tickets:
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#DarkerThanTheSun #JamesBond
Celebrate - Darker Than The Sun: An Atlas of James Bond Movie Locations
This is a Stanfords, London event
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November 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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'Always be original. Never duplicate what you’ve seen another actor do. Be true to the character that you’ve been given, and the rest will come easy.’

ONCE A BOND WARRIOR - RIP Lee Tamahori...
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#RIPLeeTamahori #JamesBond #DieAnotherDay
November 9, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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This GREMLINS obsessed sky kid promises to now never eat after midnight or turn on a bright light until Nov 19th 2027, but the real news of GREMLINS 3 directed by Chris Columbus & produced by Spielberg does get me a bit wet...

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#Gremlins #Gremlins3 #WatchingSkies
November 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Following rather aptly in the footsteps of Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, 007's newest producer Amy Pascal will receive the PGA's David O. Selznick Award for Producing in February 2026.
#PGA #AmyPascal #DavidHeyman #DavidOSelznickAward #Bond26 #JamesBond #AmazonMGMStudios
November 3, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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PLANES, TRAINS AND BOND AUTOMOBILES as bespoke publishing house Assouline park up their third 007 coffee table epic in the road-worthy guise of the slick JAMES BOND CARS by Chris Corbould...

JAMES BOND CARS
by Chris Corbould
Assouline
£100

#JamesBondCars #Assouline #JamesBond
November 3, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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'Things were about to turn video nasty!'
- Timothy Dalton, LICENCE TO KILL / 1989

HAPPY HALLOWEEN to all Bond agents, allies and pals!

#Halloween #JamesBond
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October 31, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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To help launch a brilliant new London arts space and venue in Hampstead, Bond composer David Arnold is showcasing an intimate event celebrating his work...

DAVID ARNOLD - SCORES & STORIES: THE ART OF FILM MUSIC
The Circle & Star Theatre
Fri 12th Dec / £30

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October 30, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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'Field and Chowdhury have crafted both a vital satnav and historical compass to the global choices of a spy.'

MAPPING BOND’S WANDERLUST – Reviewing DARKER THAN THE SUN – AN ATLAS OF JAMES BOND MOVIES...

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#DarkerThanTheSun #JamesBond #AjayChowdhury #MatthewField
October 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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REY OF FIRST LIGHT as a music world rumour suggests Lana Del Rey might be performing the next Bond title anthem.

With Bond game 007 FIRST LIGHT readying itself on the starter grid for its March 2026 launch, might Rey be finally getting her Bond song mission?!

#LanaDelRey #007FirstLight #JamesBond
October 22, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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With a pop-culture wink at more than just Bond, Ian Fleming Publications reveal the title of the second instalment in their imminent THE Q MYSTERIES series by author @vaseemkhanuk.bsky.social to be THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN COMPASS!
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#TheQMysteries #VaseemKhan
October 16, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Remembering my childhood hero, my childhood fashion guru & my childhood Bond on what would have been his 98th birthday.

The world is still a bit less fun, a bit less charming & a bit less sauve without Sir Roger Moore.

Art/Siegfried Groß.

#RogerMoore #JamesBond #SirRogerMoore #TheSpyWhoLovedMe
October 14, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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As we recognise her centenary today, this happy, thriving & very inalienable gay is delighted and thankful that vicious, withered witch has been rotting dead in her grave for the same twelve years she told me & my childhood we had no future, rights or place in society.
#MargaretThatcher100
#LGBTQ 🏳️‍🌈
October 13, 2025 at 8:57 AM