Mendes, Arnold to participate in 007 music programs

Sam Mendes

This month, Royal Albert Hall in London will be the site of music programs for Casino Royale, Skyfall and SPECTRE. Composer David Arnold and director Sam Mendes are scheduled to participate.

Here are the descriptions

Casino Royale in Concert

Thu 17 Nov

Daniel Craig makes his debut as the one and only 007. Featuring an in-person introduction from Casino Royale composer David Arnold.

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Skyfall in Concert

Fri 18 Nov

Bond looks back to his family roots in this roaring espionage adventure. Featuring an in-person introduction from director Sam Mendes.

For more information, CLICK HERE.

SPECTRE in Concert

Sat 19 – Sun 20 Nov

Watch Bond infiltrate a mysterious criminal organization known as Spectre. Saturday’s evening performance will feature an in-person introduction by director Sam Mendes. For more information, CLICK HERE.

The programs feature the Hall Philharmonic Orchestra. The score for Casino Royale was composed by Arnold. Thomas Newman, Mendes’ choice for composer, worked on the scores for Skyfall and SPECTRE.

Just one more thing, as Lt. Columbo used to say, Daniel Craig was “the one and only 007”? I realize the hall needs to sell tickets, but really?

The celebration of the Daniel Craig era of Bond continues.

UPDATE: A reader suggests the Casino Royale event referring to “the one and only 007” means Bond the character rather than Craig the actor. Perhaps so. But Eon Productions, which makes the Bond films, has made clear Craig is the best film Bond.

Bond concert scheduled for Oct. 4 in London

Logo for James Bond concert

A charity concert featuring songs from the James Bond film series has been scheduled for Oct. 4 at Royal Albert Hall in London, according to the venue’s website.

Here are the details.

Celebrate 60 years of the James Bond film franchise with a charity concert that will showcase the iconic music of Bond, headlined by the legendary Dame Shirley Bassey.

Curated by five-time Bond composer David Arnold and produced by EON Productions, the concert will feature Bond soundtrack artists including Garbage, as well as special guests including Celeste, putting their own interpretation on classic theme songs, backed by the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, conducted by Nicholas Dodd.

The date marks the anniversary of the world premiere of the first 007 film, Dr. No held on 5 October 1962.

More special guests to be announced

Bassey’s Twitter account helped announce the news.

To celebrate 60 years of Bond, I will be joining some other wonderful artistes to perform, for one night only, at the Royal Albert Hall!

The Sound of 007 In Concert is taking place on Tuesday, October 4th.https://t.co/yjbHBDWpaO

— Dame Shirley Bassey (@shirleybassey) July 28, 2022

Shirley Bassey performed the title songs for Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever and Moonraker. All had music by John Barry with Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley, Don Black and and Hal David doing the lyrics.

David Arnold composed the scores for Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough, Die Another Day, Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace.

Ticket site says NTTD’s premiere is Sept. 28

No Time to Die U.S. poster

h/t to James Bond Club Deutschland, which posted a link and screen grab on Facebook.

The Sincura Group, whose businesses include a company which acquires event tickets and resells them, says on its tickets website that No Time to Die’s world premiere will be Sept. 28 at Royal Albert Hall in London.

The item had this additional information:

Postponed – released in cinemas on the 30th September 2021; premiere now confirmed for 28th September 2021 – with the afterparty at the Natural History Museum.
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The item carried a piece of promotional art from SPECTRE with Daniel Craig and Lea Seydoux. Seydoux is in No Time to Die reprising the role of Dr. Madeline Swann.

The question is whether this really is locked in or not. No Time to Die has been postponed five times previously, three times because of COVID-19.

UPDATE: This has been circulating for a bit. See the tweet below.

Seems we called that one right on our call the other day @TheSpyCommand https://t.co/SxydK0hsXj

— James Bond Lexicon – jamesbondlexicon.online (@BondLexicon) August 10, 2021

No Time to Die reaches the home stretch

No Time to Die logo

No Time to Die, the 25th James Bond film made by Eon Productions, is in the home stretch.

In a about three months from now, the latest James Bond film will have its world premiere at Royal Albert Hall in London.

Whatever No Time to Die’s final version emerges, the latest Bond film is, more or less done. There may be a few differences here and there. But, essentially, No Time to Die is, more or less, finished.

Cary Fukunaga, No Time to Die’s director, has posted a few videos on his Instagram account.

Looking at it as a business, the latest Bond film will be out in 2020’s first quarter (the world premiere). Most Bond fans will view it a few days later. Whatever tweaks take place from here now, the movie is mostly done.

No Time to Die world premiere set for March 31

No Time to Die teaser poster

No Time to Die’s world premiere will be March 31 in London, Eon Productions announced today.

The premiere showing will be at Royal Albert Hall, according to the announcement.

The 25th James Bond film will have its U.K. release two days later on April 2. It won’t arrive in the U.S. until an official release of April 10 (although there will be likely “preview showings” on the night of April 9.)

Royal Albert Hall previously hosted the world premieres of Skyfall and SPECTRE.

No Time to Die finished principal photography in October, with some pickup shots being filmed since then.

The movie is in post-production. Last week, it was announced that Hans Zimmer is scoring the movie and that Billie Eilish is co-writing and performing the title song.

The MI6 James Bond website reported Jan. 7 that recording sessions for the score were underway. The website was the first to report that Eilish would perform the title song.