-The name of the boat that Bond and Sévérine journey on in the film is called "The Chimera" which is from the Greek Mythology and is what co-inspired the Sévérine character. The vessel is in real life called the "SY Regina" and is also known as the "Medyat Regina".
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-The most successful ever James Bond movie at the international box-office in the official franchise's film history.
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-For the first time in the famous gun-barrel sequence Bond is seen wearing a grey suit rather than a black one.
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-When James Bond meets Q for the first time in the National Gallery, they both stare at J.M.W. Turner's "The Fighting Temeraire," and as they stare at the painting, Q's first remark to Bond is "What do you see?" This line was also the opening of "Red," screenwriter John Logan's Tony Award-winning play, which is about modern artist Mark Rothko.
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-There is an implication in this movie that Bond's ancestors were Recusant Catholics. When Kincade shows M the secret escape passage in the chapel at the Bond ancestral estate, he explains that it was originally a hiding place for priests,which strongly refers to the very long period in British history during which Catholicism was illegal, and the families who continued to practice Catholicism, shelter priests, and refuse the authority of the official church (Church of Scotland aka Presbyterianism in this case) were referred to as "Recusants". One such prominent, real-life Recusant family from Dorset, the descendants of whom Ian Fleming had known as a schoolboy, were named "Bond." Their Latin family motto was "Non sufficit orbis," which translates to "Not even the world is enough" - or, more colloquially, "Le monde ne suffit pas (1999)," a used in Fleming's novel On Her Majesty's Secret Service and the title of a later Bond movie. One member of this family, John Bond, was reportedly a spy for Sir Francis Drake during Elizabethan times (despite his family's Catholicism).
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-According to Judi Dench, the secrecy surrounding the details of the film's plot was such, that advance copies of the script were individually stamped so they can be specifically traced to each official recipient in the event of negligent disclosure of plot details.
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-Reportedly, sales of cut-throat razors increased by around 400% in the week following the film's launch. Online retailers of cut-throat razors reported sales increases of 50% to 400% due to the exposure generated by this film. The spike in sales has been attributed to the love scene in 'Skyfall' where Bond Girl Eve (Naomie Harris) gives James Bond (Daniel Craig) an erotic close-shave with an old style straight razor commenting with a classic line, "Sometimes the old ways are the best".
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-MGM announced plans to release Bond 23 in November 2012. Producer Barbara Broccoli has said that the series "will go on to other different stories from now on". This movie is not be a direct follow-on from Quantum of Solace and Casino Royale. Director Sam Mendes said that 'Skyfall' will "not connect" with those two previous Bond movies. Mendes has also stated that the secret criminal organization Quantum from those two films would not feature in 'Skyfall'.
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-The Grand Bazaar in Istanbul is featured prominently during the film's opening chase sequence. The Grand Bazaar is one of the largest and oldest covered markets in the world, with 61 covered streets and over three thousand shops attracting up to 400,000 visitors daily. Due to the hazardous nature of the sequence, access to the location for the film unit could only to be granted on Sunday, when the bazaar is closed. Through a combination of efforts from the locations department, set decoration, art and props teams, the bazaar was dressed overnight on preceding Saturday nights to look like the hive of activity that the one would expect from the location. 500 Turkish extras and stunt background were brought into the Grand Bazaar to provide the location with its usual crowded and buzzing atmosphere. The rooftops of the Bazaar served as a spectacular platform to view Istanbul's ancient and dynamic skyline. The production went to great lengths to protect and preserve the Grand Bazaar's historic architecture, which included floating reinforced steel roof panels over the existing tiles to protect the original structure. The age of the Grand Bazaar shop where a motorbike crashes through its window was around 330 years.
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-Glencoe in Scotland is a filming location that portrays its own setting: Glencoe. In the James Bond novel "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", author Ian Fleming gave Bond a sense of family background, writing that Bond's father Andrew Bond was from Glencoe. The Glencoe region has one of the most iconic landscapes in Scotland, the mountains contain some of the oldest sedimentary and volcanic strata in the world. In 'Skyfall', these mountains served as a beautiful backdrop for Bond and M's drive through Glencoe's scenic roads in the iconic silver-birch Aston Martin DB5.
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-'Skyfall's marketing has been said to have gone to a new level with the actual actor who plays James Bond (Daniel Craig) appearing in a number of commercial television advertisements for product placements seen in the film such as Heineken, Omega Watches and Sony Electronics. However, this has been justified, Daniel Craig has said, "The simple fact is that, without them, we couldn't do it. It's unfortunate but that's how it is. This movie costs a lot of money to make, it costs nearly as much again if not more to promote, so we go where we can."
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-Adele's "Skyfall" is the first Billboard Top 10 hit to win the Academy Award for Best Original Song since Eminem's "Lose Yourself" from 8 Mile (2002), ten years earlier.
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-The Royal World Premiere of Skyfall (2012) marked a rare reunion for the families of James Bond producers Harry Saltzman, Albert R. Broccoli and author Ian Fleming on the 50th anniversary. Since Saltzman was able to secure the film right's for the 007 novels in 1962 from Fleming given both men's shared experience as Intelligence operatives, the unique seating arrangement at Royal Albert Hall reflected that relationship. In the Royal Box adjacent to His Royal Highness Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall (Camilla Parker-Bowles, the surviving family of Ian Fleming, including niece Lucy Fleming and cousin Sir Christopher Lee, who also served in British Intelligence, were seated alongside Saltzman's daughter Hilary Saltzman, son Steven Saltzman, and Canadian print and broadcast journalist David Giammarco, a longtime associate of the James Bond films and author of the book "For Your Eyes Only: Behind the Scenes of the James Bond Films". The Gala Charity Premiere of Skyfall (2012) benefited retired members of Britain's Intelligence agencies, for which HRH Prince Charles is England's Royal Patron.
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-Daniel Craig performed the stunt of leaping and sliding down the escalator rail himself.
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-Second time in the official James Bond series that James Bond is seen with a beard, the first time was Pierce Brosnan in Meurs un autre jour (2002). In both pictures the character only has the beard for a portion of the film.