A British 00 number needed to be much more. 1960: Ian Fleming, British author and creator of James Bond, smoking with a cigarette holder. ... [+] (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images ...

Creative control over the future of James Bond has been handed over to Amazon in ‘a new joint venture’ between the now co-owners. Amazon Studios officially purchased MGM for $8.45billion (£6.7billion) ...

Sir Roger Moore taught his co-stars on 'The Man with the Golden Gun' how to smoke cigars on the set of the James Bond film.