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From James Bond to Jason Bourne, Hitchcock classics to Mr. & Mrs. Smith, spies have long sparked the imagination of movie makers. The trend shows no sign of letting up, with a steady stream of new Bond movies as well as one-offs, parodies like Austin Powers, revivals like Get Smart and kid-oriented flicks like Spy Kids. Not to mention wildly popular TV shows (think 24) and a slew of video games. Where to keep track of it all? Right here – your source for spy entertainment intel.
A film festival concentrating solely on espionage cinema is now underway at Zeughaus Kino in Berlin. “The Celluloid Curtain: Europe’s Cold War in Film” presents rare and widely unknown spy films from Iron Curtain countries. The festival was created by Claudia Amthor-Croft of the Goethe Institute’s London chapter as a means to observe the 50th anniversary…
New AMC Spy Show: Seriously Smart Stuff
If you’re on the prowl for a new action-packed, fast-paced spy series, this is not the one for you. However, if you’re curious about what sort of person, with what sort of past and psychology, goes into the spy line of work anyhow, AMC’s Rubicon might just be up your alley.
A word of caution: The pace is what…
New spies for film “Knockout”
The latest in spy movie news is all about the star-studded cast of Steven Soderbergh’s new revenge espionage flick “Knockout.” The film, which starts shooting next month, is about a spy who works for a security contractor not…
Cruise and Diaz start filming new spy thriller
Looking for the next big blockbuster spy film? Well, 2010’s got a couple coming your way. First, there’s Salt, in which a CIA agent played by the sultry Angelina Jolie is accused of being a Russian spy and has to jump through…
New spy show to air on FX
Don’t expect another typical spy show here, folks. “Archer,” an animated half-hour comedy launching this fall on FX, may be set at an international spy agency (ISIS), but you’ll find it’s more about the relationships between the agents than the spy missions. It seems that when global…
Spy school: girls only!
Alright, ladies, this is it – your chance to pick up the skills that’ll leave you as seductive and spy-tastic as any of the Bond girls. The Stiletto Spy School, with training sessions in New York and Vegas, plus custom events if…
Guinea pig spy flick flops
G-Force reviews are out and the consensus is: cool idea, great visual execution, star-studded cast, but the movie falls short of real innovation and interest. Just in case you’re not familiar with the concept: A team of three guinea pigs plus one mole are trained as federal spies. They are given…
S. Korea spy agency launches educational ‘spot th ...
The National Intelligence Service (NIS) in South Korea has decided it’s time to educate the country’s youth about the Northern spies in their midst. And the ‘spot the spy’ flash video game is how they plan to do it. The game marks the 59th anniversary of the start of…
New spy drama: The Spy and the Sparrow
Here’s something of note – an espionage thriller that doesn’t have the stamp of Hollywood all over it. The Spy and the Sparrow, part spy movie part intense family drama, premiered recently at the Seattle International Film Festival, which makes sense…
Spy flick to feature Chanel head designer
It’s not often that folks mention spies and haute couture in the same sentence, but here it is: Haute Couture icon Karl Lagerfeld (the designer at the helm of the fashion house Chanel) has agreed to voice for one of the characters in…
New Chinese Spy Museum: No Foreigners Allowed
China’s just opened a new spy museum, but it shouldn’t be on any foreign tourist’s agenda. Why? Because all foreigners are barred entry, lest the spying secrets on display…
Russia Accuses U.S. Base of Spying
This Friday, April 3, the United States was accused by the Russian state television channel Rossiya of using its only air base in Central Asia as a cover for a big espionage operation whose focus is China and Russia. The accusation came with the teaser of a documentary about U.S. intelligence ops at Manas base in…
Real Spies: The Champagne Spy Documentary
We all love the thrill of James Bond, but if your fascination for the world of espionage extends beyond the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, you’ll want to check out the Israeli Academy Award winning documentary – The Champagne Spy. It was released in Israel in 2007, but it was just screened in Montreal for the…
New 007 Museum Opens in April
Starting next month, diehard James Bond fans will have good reason to pay a visit to the legendary spy’s home country. On April 5, 2009, the Bond Museum – situated in England’s lush Lake District – will open its doors for the first time.
It was avid James Bond paraphernalia collector Peter Nelson who came up with…
Upon the release of the third installment in the Dan Gordon Intelligence Thriller series, Israeli American author and international lawyer Haggai Carmon is scheduled to speak this Thursday, March 26 in Long Island, New York. He will be discussing not only his new novel, The Chameleon Conspiracy, but also the two decades of undercover adventures that…
The namesake of this spy club is up to his eyes in new espionage adventures, and you can read all about them in the just-released third installment of the Dan Gordon Intelligence Thriller series – The Chameleon Conspiracy.
Gordon’s still working for the U.S. Department of Justice, but he’s on loan to the CIA to investigate a…
Brad Pitt to Produce Spy Thriller
This just in: Turns out Angelina’s role in spy thriller Salt (to be released in 2010) may be inspiring husband Brad to take a stab at the espionage movie genre from a production side. News on the street has Pitt’s production company, Plan B, teaming up with Paramount to adapt author John LeCarre’s spy novel The Night…
CIA Spy Angelina Jolie Spotted in NYC
Nothing quite like spotting sexy Angelina Jolie pretending to be an undercover agent on the streets of Manhattan. Last week, the actress was seen dangling, barefoot and a little bloody, from the side of an apartment building in Washington Heights, New York.
Of course, she was in the middle of filming for the new spy flick Salt,…
CIA Wanted Gloria Estefan
Turns out your favorite Cuban-American singer could have been not very famous at all…if she had accepted an offer to join the CIA back when she was working as an interpreter for U.S. Customs at Miami’s international airport.
She recently shared the story of her alternate career path in the shadowy world of international espionage and intelligence…
Boyle to Direct Next Bond?!
The movieland rumor mill has been turning at warp speed yet again, this time getting every Slumdog Millionaire fan out there (and heavens knows there are a lot of us) signing up to purchase über-advanced tickets to the next 007 flick.
That’s right, tabloids and e-zines on both sides of the Atlantic had British director Danny Boyle lined…
Sexspionage: Talking about Wonder Women Spies
Former spies and spy lovers alike will converge in Raleigh, North Carolina from March 25 to 27, 2009 for the sixth annual International Spy Conference. This year’s intriguing conference theme “Sexspionage: Famous Women Spies and the Ancient Art of Seduction” will explore the careers of some of the most successful female spies in the world.
Speakers will include…
One Truth Prevails for Wii in 2009
Following in the wake of the wildly popular anime TV series that came to the US from Japan in 2004 is Case Closed: One Truth Prevails for Nintendo Wii.
The premise of the TV Series ‘Case Closed’ (or ‘Detective Conan’ as it’s known in Japan) is as follows: Young detective Shichi (Jimmy) Kudo is administered a supposedly fatal…
Angelina Jolie to Play CIA Agent / Russian Spy in M ...
Can’t get enough of those CIA agent spy dramas? Well, you’ve already got something to look forward to in 2010, when Columbia Pictures’ espionage thriller Salt is due to hit the big screen. There’s already been a lot of chatter about this movie, and it hasn’t even started shooting. Filming’s due to begin on Long Island, NY…
Feb/March Spy Movie Roundup
Push
Don’t be put off by the title – this film has nothing to do with giving birth. It’s Summit Entertainment’s latest action thriller starring Chris Evans and Dakota Fanning; it opened in theaters Friday 6, 2009.
Quickie Summary: Paranormal agents touting powers like telekinesis, predicting the future, creating alternate dimensions and eliminating rivals without so much a…