Never Say Never Again is a 1983 spy film starring Sean Connery and directed by Irvin Kershner. It is based on the 1961 James Bond novel Thunderball, which had been previously adapted in a 1965 film under that name. Connery played the role of Bond for the seventh and final time on-screen, marking his return to the character 12 years after Diamonds Are Forever. The film was a commercial success, grossing USD 160 million at the box office.
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Never Say Never Again is a 1983 spy film starring Sean Connery and directed by Irvin Kershner. It is based on the 1961 James Bond novel Thunderball, which had been previously adapted in a 1965 film under that name. Connery played the role of Bond for the seventh and final time on-screen, marking his return to the character 12 years after Diamonds Are Forever. The film was a commercial success, grossing USD 160 million at the box office, although less overall than the Eon-produced Octopussy released earlier the same year. The storyline features an aging Bond, who is brought back into action to investigate the theft of two nuclear weapons by SPECTRE. Filming locations included France, Spain, the Bahamas and Elstree Studios in the United Kingdom, and the film was released by Warner Bros. in October 1983. It opened to positive reviews, with the acting of Conner and Klaus Maria Brandauer singled out for praise as more emotionally resonant than the typical Bond films of the day. It was also the last Bond film to be released by Eon Productions, which went on to release Octopuss in 1985. The movie was a box office hit, but was not as successful as the first two Bond films, which were both box office successes. It has been described as one of the best Bond films ever made, and is still considered a cult classic by some fans of the franchise.
The sequel, The 25th Hour, was released in 1986. The third and final film in the series, The 30th anniversary of the first Bond film, The 33rd Hour, came out in November 1987. The fourth and final Bond film was The 34th, released in April 1988. The fifth and sixth, The 35th, were released in June 1989. The sixth and seventh, The 36th and the seventh, the eighth and the ninth, the ninth and the tenth, the 10th and 10th, the 11th and 11th, respectively, were also released in October 1989, the 12th and 12th, and were released on the same day as The 7th and 13th of the 24th Bond film. The 10th was released on November 17, 1989. It also was released the same month as The 30, the 13th and 14th, as well as the 11venth and 15th, in Australia, Canada, the United States and the UK. The films were released simultaneously in Europe and the U.S. and Australia, with a total of 803 screen minutes. The seventh and the 14th were released separately in Australia and the Netherlands, and in the UK, respectively. The last was released a year later in November 1989, and released in Australia on the 17th and 18th of that year, the 18th and 19th, along with The 25, the 19th and 20, the 21st, the 22nd and the 23rd, the 28th and 28, the 29th and 29th, the 30th and 30th, respectively.
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