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EON Productions is a film production company known for producing the James Bond film series. The company is based in London's Piccadilly and also operates from Pinewood Studios in England. It is a subsidiary of Danjaq LLC, the holding company responsible for the copyright and trademarks to the Bond characters and elements on screen.

Contents 1 Bond films 2 Other production 3 Video games 4 James Bond series 5 Other films 6 See also 7 External links

EON was started by film producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman in 1961. In 1975 after nine Bond films, Harry Saltzman sold his shares of Danjaq to United Artists (the then-current Bond series distributor). In 1996 Albert R. Broccoli died, although EON Productions is still owned by the Broccoli family, specifically Albert R. Broccoli's daughter, Barbara Broccoli, and his stepson, Michael G. Wilson, who are the current producers of the James Bond films.

The trademarks for the film properties (beginning with Dr. No) are copyrighted by Danjaq and United Artists Corporation, although the 2006 version of Casino Royale is co-copyrighted with Columbia Pictures.

Since their first film, Dr. No in 1962, there has only been one film made by EON Productions that wasn't a part of the Bond series: Call Me Bwana, starring Bob Hope. (Though Saltzman and Broccoli produced other films separately and jointly - including the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, also based on a book by Ian Fleming.

In 2000, EON productions served a cease-and-desist letter to Cheapass Games to stop them from using the name "Mr. Bond" in the title of their game Before I Kill You, Mr. Bond. In 2004, the game was reissued under the title James Ernest's Totally Renamed Spy Game.

In 2004 Electronic Arts developed a video game with the James Bond licence titled Everything or Nothing, which was thought to be named after the production company. Up until his death, Albert R. Broccoli had always denied that "EON" stood for anything specifically.

1. Dr. No (1962)
2. From Russia with Love (1963)
3. Goldfinger (1964)
4. Thunderball (1965)
5. You Only Live Twice (1967)
6. On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
7. Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
8. Live and Let Die (1973)
9. The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
10. The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
11. Moonraker (1979)
12. For Your Eyes Only (1981)
13. Octopussy (1983)
14. A View to a Kill (1985)
15. The Living Daylights (1987)
16. Licence to Kill (1989)
17. GoldenEye (1995)
18. Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
19. The World Is Not Enough (1999)
20. Die Another Day (2002)
21. Casino Royale (2006)
22. Bond 22 (working title) (2008)

• Call Me Bwana (1963)

• James Bond games - list of games authorised by EON Productions and MGM Interactive
• Ian Fleming Publications - administers all of Ian Fleming's literary oeuvre as well as continuation novels by other authors