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They don't make 'em like they used to -- at least according to the guy who played James Bond in 1969, who's pissed the new Bond film has axed 007's signature martini ... in favor of a corporate-sponsored beer.

Without further ado, ladies and gentlemen, the man in the tuxedo with the shaken-not-stirred martini (or maybe it's a Heineken?) is back: James Bond has returned with the first official teaser trailer for "Skyfall," his first big-screen adventure since 2008's "Quantum of Solace."

know, I know. I haven’t kept up with the James Bond series I started last year for Big Hollywood. I had to take a hiatus because I just couldn’t face the Horrendous Trifecta listed below and lose six hours of my life in the process. I finally gave in.

"Source Code" helmer Duncan Jones has signed on to direct a biopic about James Bond author Ian Fleming, whose life was as exciting as the hero he created. K5 Film's Oliver Simon and Daniel Baur, PalmStar Media Capital's Kevin Frakes and Liberty Films' Stuart Fenegan will produce the pic, with the working title "Fleming," in association with Jim Young and Robert Laycock of the Ian Fleming Estate. K5, which is fully financing the pic with PalmStar, will handle worldwide sales rights via its K5 Intl.

Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes said on Sunday he would not have made the latest James Bond film "Skyfall" without Daniel Craig playing the MI6 agent because of the complexity the British actor has brought to the character. Mendes, who won an Academy Award for directing "American Beauty" in 1999, has depicted troubled men with ordinary lives -a far cry from 007, the ultimate action hero.

Amazon is now the proud owner of North America licensing rights to Ian Fleming's James Bond series. The online company announced yesterday that it now has a 10-year license to sell all 14 of Fleming's classic James Bond titles, including "Casino Royale," "Dr. No," and "The Spy Who Loved Me." The company will start publishing the titles this summer under its mysteries and thrillers imprint, Thomas & Mercer. In addition, Amazon says that it will offer the books in digital form in its Kindle Store.

Not shaken, not stirred: James Bond will be drinking beer—not his signature martini—in a scene in the next big-screen 007 installment starring Daniel Craig. As part of a global ad campaign, Craig will be throwing back a Heineken in the upcoming "Skyfall" as well as on globally-run television spots, according to an Ad Age report. Yahoo! Movies reached out to its audience to gauge reaction to Bond's Heiney. And it is news the Dutch beer company may want to sit down for: "D**** you, Product Placement," Doug wrote on Twitter in response to our update on @YahooMovies. Davey C simply...

William Boyd, the award-winning and bestselling author of Restless and Any Human Heart, is to write the next James Bond novel. The novel, which is yet to be titled, will be published in the UK and Commonwealth in autumn 2013 by Jonathan Cape - Ian Fleming's original publisher and an imprint of Vintage Publishing - and simultaneously by HarperCollins Publishers in USA & Canada. Rights were sold in the English language by Jonny Geller of Curtis Brown, on behalf of Ian Fleming Publications Ltd. William Boyd is the third author in recent years to be invited by the Ian Fleming...

Bell Lightbox is to celebrate the British film franchise's 50 years with a blockbuster showcase of movie sets, gadgets and cars.

James Bond may no longer be ordering his signature Martini, "shaken, not stirred." Reports say Bond is switching to Heineken. Ad Age reports that Daniel Craig will reach for a Heineken rather than his trademark cocktail in a scene from the upcoming Bond movie "Skyfall," thanks to a deal Heineken USA has struck with the spy film franchise. Craig will additionally star in a commercial for the brew to run globally, created by Wieden & Kennedy Amsterdam with "Skyfall" director Sam Mendes serving as a consultant. Craig will also appear as Bond on special packaging for the beer

Rumors have been floating for quite some time that Adele will record the theme song for the next James Bond movie, "Skyfall" (out in theaters Nov. 9). Now the Grammy-winning singer has all but confirmed this, as she recently revealed in an interview that she'll have a new single out by year's end — but we'll have to wait awhile longer for a full album.

The cast of the new James Bond film Skyfall took over the streets of London for an action packed day of shooting that included police officers armed to the nines. As the crew swarmed a neighbourhood in Whitehall, they focused the cameras on Javier Bardem. The Spaniard made his first appearance in the film today as the villain Silva who turned up disguised as a member of the Metropolitan Police.

We technically already got our first look at Daniel Craig reprising the role of James Bond in Skyfall. A few weeks back an image popped online showing off Bond sporting a pair of blue swim trunks while sitting next to a swimming pool. The picture, however, wasn't all that great. It's taken from behind so we don't even really get to see Bond's face and he's just kind of relaxing, rather than looking like he's ready to take action. That changes now.

Thomas Newman had his first feature job as an Orchestrator on Return of the Jedi, and has since crafted a career scoring more movies than you can shake a stick at (go ahead, try it). His most recent work includes moving music for Wall-E, The Help, Revolutionary Road and Little Children. He’s got a moderate spectrum of style, but it’s clear he focuses on dramatic, sweeping work.

Screenwriter John Logan discusses what it was like to be asked to work on the Skyfall script, comments on the rumors that the movie will be a standalone picture and reveals just how much of a role action set pieces will play...

If you get bored and want to watch a James Bond, tune into the Scify network this weekend.

This morning in London, Sony Pictures had a big press conference about the next James Bond movie, the one that has been rumored and delayed and speculated about for months upon years.

'The title of the 23rd James Bond film has been confirmed as Skyfall. The latest 007 adventure will star Daniel Craig for the third time. Leading ladies have been confirmed as French actress Berenice Marlohe and Naomie Harris. Skyfall is being directed by Sam Mendes, who won an Oscar for 1999's American Beauty. Mendes said the storyline will take the secret agent to London, China, Turkey and Scotland. The movie, which sees the return of Dame Judi Dench as M, will also star Ralph Fiennes, Albert Finney and Javier Bardem - as the villain of the piece. It will be...

Sir Roger Moore has revealed he does not think Daniel Craig or Sean Connery were as good as him at playing 007. Sir Roger slammed Craig's latest offering Quantum of Solace and said he had struggled to decipher Connery's Scottish accent, in a speech at Cambridge University. 'Sean is a good actor, it’s a pity I can’t understand what he’s saying,' he said, according to the Daily Mirror.

<p>A Virginia-based trucker was arrested by Port Authority police after an officer noticed his front license plate rotate and snap back into position after going through an EZ Pass toll collection booth at the George Washington Bridge.</p>

Roger George Moore was born in Stockwell, south London on October 14, 1927, the son of a policeman.

George Baker - who rose to fame in 'The Dam Busters', was adored by millions as Inspector Wexford, and even had a dalliance with Brigitte Bardot - had the luck of the Bulgarians, says Robbie Collin It takes a great deal of talent, and no short supply of luck, for an actor to find a role for which he will not just be remembered, but celebrated. George Baker found himself two. It’s hard to imagine two characters more different from each other than the rumpled, kindly Chief Inspector Reg Wexford from The Ruth Rendell Mysteries, and the corrupt, embittered Tiberius...

The new James Bond movie will reportedly shoot its finale at Scotland's Duntrune Castle. The building, situated 95 miles from Glasgow near Lochgilphead in Argyll, will double as 007's ancestral home and be the location for his final showdown with the movie's villains

Ok, so we should probably remind ourselves that we have entered silly season with potential, proposed and fake titles regarding the 23rd James Bond movie and it’ll be like this until Daniel Craig or EON Productions, MGM or Sony Pictures announce with a press release just what the hell the film will actually be called.

Look out, Halle Berry -- there's a new Bond girl burning up the screen. French actress Bérénice Marlohe will co-star with Daniel Craig in "Bond 23," Twitchfilm.com reports.

The first set of John Gardner 007 continuation novel trade paperbacks out on Tuesday in the US and the UK. The first three novels shall be License Renewed, Icebreaker, For Special Services and Two more shall be released in May. US Covers UK Covers

Beautiful, smart, and often deadly, the Bond girl — other than 007 himself — is the most highly anticipated role in the James Bond series. There have been a lot of rumors about who will be playing Bond's latest lady for Sam Mendes' Bond 23, which hits theaters next November. Twitch is reporting that Daniel Craig will be starring alongside French actress Bérénice Marlohe for the new film.

As a strapping, dapper actor with an English accent, Idris Elba is an obvious choice to play James Bond. But the actor tells NPR that talk of him potentially landing the part is nothing more than gossip. "It's a rumor," he said on "Morning Edition." "It's a very old rumor. My dad and I were talking about this the other day. I would do it, but I don't want to be called the first black James Bond. Do you understand what I 'm saying? Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So...

20 Bond Bloopers

For Your Eyes Only is unquestionably the best film in the Roger Moore Bond series. It has just about everything I want in a Bond movie. Despite a few missteps here and there, the film is totally engaging, featuring Mr. Moore’s best performance, plenty of great characters and locations, the most classically beautiful Bond girl ever, and an outstanding script. The film also contains numerous recalls of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.

What would happen if Philip Marlowe met James Bond over drinks? It's fun to think about, but we'll probably never know. Now, however, we can know what happened when their two creators, the American Raymond Chandler and the British Ian Fleming, met in 1958 and recorded this interview/discussion about their craft. A transcript is available via PDF, or fans can listen to a recording of the 24-minute interview.

The next James Bond movie doesn't hit theaters till next November, but singer Adele may be the voice behind its theme music -- according to ... Adele. The "Rolling in the Deep" singer appeared on The Jonathan Ross Show over the weekend (scroll down for the video), and might've been a little too unsubtle when talking about her "next project

Brazilian model Ana Araujo has been tipped to become Daniel Craig's leading lady in Bond 23, the 23rd instalment of the 007 franchise. "Ana is really excited. It's all very new to her and she is optimistic about the prospect of landing the role. It's very much a case of watch this space," a source from the production house said.

George Robert Lazenby was born on September 5, 1939 in Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia.

The composer of the theme tune to Bond 23 may have inadvertently revealed the name of 007's latest movie. Serbian musician Jelena Mihailovic - who is writing the theme song - seemed to spill the beans during a recent interview with blic.com. The website reports: "At one of the many concerts [Mihailovic] held in France during the Cannes Film Festival, the producers and the director of the next Bond film were in the audience, who were staggered by what they had heard and on the spot offered Jelena a chance to write the opening score for the new James Bond...

Sittin here waitin for the race to start, (doesn't look good) and started thinking about all the different actors who played 007. Question, who, in your opinion, played the best Bond and what was his best movie?

Apart from the behind-the-scenes stuff like who the screenwriters are, when it may be shooting, and rumors of who the villain might be, we havenÂ’t heard anything about Bond 23 (as itÂ’s being dubbed until we get wind of an actual title) on the story front. That is until now. Bond fansite MI6 [CORRECTION] reposted an interview that screenwriter Peter Morgan (The Queen, Frost/Nixon) did with Austrian newspaper Kurier, regarding his work on the next Bond film. We first heard about Morgan some months ago when he was brought on-board to write the script with Bond regulars Neal Purvis and...

James Bond actor Daniel Craig has recently admitted he believes the script for the latest Bond film is far better than Casino Royale. The Cowboys & Aliens actor said he was excited to reunite with Road to Perdition director Sam Mendes for the upcoming Bond 23, where he will be reprising his role as secret agent James Bond. During an interview, the actor told Cowboys & Aliens director Jon Favreau: "I think it's a great choice because Sam has a fervour and energy to really direct a Bond movie, with a capital B."

I almost didn’t write this film up, not wanting to waste another minute of my life on it. Moonraker is, regrettably, a misfire in almost every respect. The film feels like a cynical attempt to cash in on Star Wars, a clumsy and clunky plot, delivered without any regard for reality. It’s a mish-mash of scenes thrown together in an attempt to substitute substance for spectacle.

Beautiful? Tick. Relatively unknown? Tick. Comes with own ready made Bond girl name? Tick. She may not be big news at the moment, but stunning actress Margarita Levieva surely has all the ingredients to ensure she soon is. The Russian actress, 31, has appeared in minor roles opposite Matthew McConaughey in The Lincoln Lawyer last year, and played Ashton Kuchter's love interest in 2009's Spread.

The first screen adaptation of a James Bond book was telecast on October 21, 1954 on the anthology series, Climax!. Barry Nelson played CIA agent Jimmy Bond. Wikipedia article IMDb article Casino Royale (1954) The Curious Legacy of Casino Royale In spite of the YouTube titles, this was shown in 1954, not 1953. You may have to crank up the volume a bit: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6

The Spy Who Loved Me is an entertaining jaunt in the world of James Bond, though neither the most or least satisfying. It is perhaps most notable as being the film where many of the exotic locales and impressive stunts become de rigeur for the series.

Linda Christian, a 1940s Hollywood actress nicknamed "anatomic bomb" by Life magazine for her stunning looks and famous for her marriage to actor Tyrone Power, has died aged 87, her daughter said here Saturday... She was also the first James Bond girl in the 1954 television adaptation of "Casino Royale"...

Daniel Craig has been ordered to put on weight in order to reprise his role as James Bond. Craig reprises his role as 007 in the still untitled Bond 23, but bosses are unhappy with him, having lost a stone in weight for his most recent film, Cowboys and Aliens. Craig told the Daily Mirror of his role in Jon Favreau's film: "I didn't want to be big, I wanted to be scrawny. That's kind of the cowboy characters I always liked, Lucky Luke, kind of scrawny."

A Bond girl actress who had suffered from bowel cancer ended her life by drinking a corrosive cleaning liquid, Westminster Coroner's Court has heard. Angela Scoular, 65, who starred in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, died in April. The actress, who lived in Maida Vale, west London, was battling alcoholism and depression and worried about debts

After all these years, George Lazenby is still the only actor to do only one James Bond movie, that being "On Her Majesty's Secret Service." While not as respected as Sean Connery, he still has his share of fans who gave him a standing ovation when he appeared at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. The evening's moderator Stephen Rubin proclaimed George was a "terrific James Bond," and if he had to do just one Bond movie, he picked the right one.

After a short, quiet courtship, Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz have pulled off a near-impossibility in Hollywood: A secret wedding! A rep for Weisz confirms to PEOPLE that the actress has wed the James Bond actor. As the Daily Mail first reported, the couple married in front of just four people in New York last Wednesday. The lucky guests? Daniel's daughter Ella, 18, and Weisz's son Henry, 4, and two friends, the Mail reports.

The James Bond film series ended the 1970s with one of its most extravagent entries, Moonraker, where James Bond went into outer space. For the first Bond film of a new decade, producer Albert R. Broccoli opted to bring the gentleman agent back down to earth in For Your Eyes Only. Moonraker hadn’t used much of Ian Fleming. For Your Eyes Only would tap the plots of two Fleming short stories, For Your Eyes Only and Risico. Both had been published in the same 1960 collection of short stories by Fleming. Broccoli brought back screenwriter Richard Maibaum, who hadn’t been...

My Name is…. We begin as we always do, with James Bond himself. The producers apparently wanted to reverse direction a bit following Live and Let Die’s portrayal of Bond as a playboy buffoon. This time, Roger Moore’s Bond is more akin to the Bond we saw in Goldfinger. He’s more on the ball, more conscious of each situation, more serious in his work, not so easily fooled, and he even smacks Maud Adams around a bit to get information. There is still a bit of regrettable goofiness, but it’s downplayed. Bond’s seductive powers are used to advance the plot...

British actor Sean Bean was stabbed in the arm following a spat over a Playboy model outside a bar in London. The "Lord Of The Rings" and "Game of Thrones" star was apparently attacked outside the Hill Bar and Brasserie in Camden, northwest London late Sunday, British newspaper The Daily Mail reported Tuesday.