007 heading to streaming? Amazon buys MGM for $8.45 billion!

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  • LucknFateLucknFate 007 In New York
    edited February 6 Posts: 1,646
    peter wrote: »
    peter wrote: »
    @DEKE_RIVERS ... Pretty sure the Wilson and Broccoli family could live a few lifetimes, and still never be without a small fortune.

    You really have your finger on the pulse, don't you?

    Yeah, I know but Bezos fortune is bigger.

    Anyway, It's a good news. Bond is not that important to Amazon/MGM. We are not in the 90's

    Uh... Okay...

    People have jobs. The people who make the financial decisions at Amazon have to justify those decisions to likely keep their jobs. Whoever is responsible for buying the Bond movies probably now has a responsibility to deliver a new one if they want to keep their job, at the very least. That's how the world works, I think. Just because the entire conglomerate is sitting pretty does not mean individual divisions don't have their own budgets, their own requirements, their own goals, their own expectations, and their own set of consequences. They bought the Bond franchise because it's a reliable, big brand that helps Amazon, more than anything, make a big splash and get their name out there on a big project.

    We'll get a movie. We'll get it in theaters. Amazon will want it to be the biggest Bond movie ever, to make a big splash in an established market. That should have us all excited.
  • peterpeter Toronto
    Posts: 9,509
    LucknFate wrote: »
    peter wrote: »
    peter wrote: »
    @DEKE_RIVERS ... Pretty sure the Wilson and Broccoli family could live a few lifetimes, and still never be without a small fortune.

    You really have your finger on the pulse, don't you?

    Yeah, I know but Bezos fortune is bigger.

    Anyway, It's a good news. Bond is not that important to Amazon/MGM. We are not in the 90's

    Uh... Okay...

    People have jobs. The people who make the financial decisions at Amazon have to justify those decisions to likely keep their jobs. Whoever is responsible for buying the Bond movies probably now has a responsibility to deliver a new one if they want to keep their job, at the very least. That's how the world works, I think. Just because the entire conglomerate is sitting pretty does not mean individual divisions don't have their own budgets, their own requirements, their own goals, their own expectations, and their own set of consequences. They bought the Bond franchise because it's a reliable, big brand that helps Amazon, more than anything, make a big splash and get their name out there on a big project.

    We'll get a movie. We'll get it in theaters. Amazon will want it to be the biggest Bond movie ever, to make a big splash in an established market. That should have us all excited.

    Careful @LucknFate .. this kind of common sense has been known to make heads spontaneously explode, 😂
  • Posts: 1,340
    LucknFate wrote: »
    peter wrote: »
    peter wrote: »
    @DEKE_RIVERS ... Pretty sure the Wilson and Broccoli family could live a few lifetimes, and still never be without a small fortune.

    You really have your finger on the pulse, don't you?

    Yeah, I know but Bezos fortune is bigger.

    Anyway, It's a good news. Bond is not that important to Amazon/MGM. We are not in the 90's

    Uh... Okay...

    People have jobs. The people who make the financial decisions at Amazon have to justify those decisions to likely keep their jobs. Whoever is responsible for buying the Bond movies probably now has a responsibility to deliver a new one if they want to keep their job, at the very least. That's how the world works, I think. Just because the entire conglomerate is sitting pretty does not mean individual divisions don't have their own budgets, their own requirements, their own goals, their own expectations, and their own set of consequences. They bought the Bond franchise because it's a reliable, big brand that helps Amazon, more than anything, make a big splash and get their name out there on a big project.

    We'll get a movie. We'll get it in theaters. Amazon will want it to be the biggest Bond movie ever, to make a big splash in an established market. That should have us all excited.

    Well, they bought MGM. The guy can be busy with other things.
  • LucknFateLucknFate 007 In New York
    edited February 6 Posts: 1,646
    LucknFate wrote: »
    peter wrote: »
    peter wrote: »
    @DEKE_RIVERS ... Pretty sure the Wilson and Broccoli family could live a few lifetimes, and still never be without a small fortune.

    You really have your finger on the pulse, don't you?

    Yeah, I know but Bezos fortune is bigger.

    Anyway, It's a good news. Bond is not that important to Amazon/MGM. We are not in the 90's

    Uh... Okay...

    People have jobs. The people who make the financial decisions at Amazon have to justify those decisions to likely keep their jobs. Whoever is responsible for buying the Bond movies probably now has a responsibility to deliver a new one if they want to keep their job, at the very least. That's how the world works, I think. Just because the entire conglomerate is sitting pretty does not mean individual divisions don't have their own budgets, their own requirements, their own goals, their own expectations, and their own set of consequences. They bought the Bond franchise because it's a reliable, big brand that helps Amazon, more than anything, make a big splash and get their name out there on a big project.

    We'll get a movie. We'll get it in theaters. Amazon will want it to be the biggest Bond movie ever, to make a big splash in an established market. That should have us all excited.

    Well, they bought MGM. The guy can be busy with other things.

    Well the way it works at MGM is BB and MGW are that "guy" and there's nothing really stopping them.
  • Posts: 1,340
    LucknFate wrote: »
    LucknFate wrote: »
    peter wrote: »
    peter wrote: »
    @DEKE_RIVERS ... Pretty sure the Wilson and Broccoli family could live a few lifetimes, and still never be without a small fortune.

    You really have your finger on the pulse, don't you?

    Yeah, I know but Bezos fortune is bigger.

    Anyway, It's a good news. Bond is not that important to Amazon/MGM. We are not in the 90's

    Uh... Okay...

    People have jobs. The people who make the financial decisions at Amazon have to justify those decisions to likely keep their jobs. Whoever is responsible for buying the Bond movies probably now has a responsibility to deliver a new one if they want to keep their job, at the very least. That's how the world works, I think. Just because the entire conglomerate is sitting pretty does not mean individual divisions don't have their own budgets, their own requirements, their own goals, their own expectations, and their own set of consequences. They bought the Bond franchise because it's a reliable, big brand that helps Amazon, more than anything, make a big splash and get their name out there on a big project.

    We'll get a movie. We'll get it in theaters. Amazon will want it to be the biggest Bond movie ever, to make a big splash in an established market. That should have us all excited.

    Well, they bought MGM. The guy can be busy with other things.

    Well the way it works at MGM is BB and MGW are that "guy" and there's nothing really stopping them.

    We are not in the 90's. MGM has financial muscles now.
  • MakeshiftPythonMakeshiftPython “Baja?!”
    Posts: 8,183
    LucknFate wrote: »
    LucknFate wrote: »
    peter wrote: »
    peter wrote: »
    @DEKE_RIVERS ... Pretty sure the Wilson and Broccoli family could live a few lifetimes, and still never be without a small fortune.

    You really have your finger on the pulse, don't you?

    Yeah, I know but Bezos fortune is bigger.

    Anyway, It's a good news. Bond is not that important to Amazon/MGM. We are not in the 90's

    Uh... Okay...

    People have jobs. The people who make the financial decisions at Amazon have to justify those decisions to likely keep their jobs. Whoever is responsible for buying the Bond movies probably now has a responsibility to deliver a new one if they want to keep their job, at the very least. That's how the world works, I think. Just because the entire conglomerate is sitting pretty does not mean individual divisions don't have their own budgets, their own requirements, their own goals, their own expectations, and their own set of consequences. They bought the Bond franchise because it's a reliable, big brand that helps Amazon, more than anything, make a big splash and get their name out there on a big project.

    We'll get a movie. We'll get it in theaters. Amazon will want it to be the biggest Bond movie ever, to make a big splash in an established market. That should have us all excited.

    Well, they bought MGM. The guy can be busy with other things.

    Well the way it works at MGM is BB and MGW are that "guy" and there's nothing really stopping them.

    We are not in the 90's. MGM has financial muscles now.

    They can flex those muscles like so many impotent beach boys, it’s not going to get them anywhere without Broccoli and Wilson.
  • edited February 6 Posts: 1,340
    LucknFate wrote: »
    LucknFate wrote: »
    peter wrote: »
    peter wrote: »
    @DEKE_RIVERS ... Pretty sure the Wilson and Broccoli family could live a few lifetimes, and still never be without a small fortune.

    You really have your finger on the pulse, don't you?

    Yeah, I know but Bezos fortune is bigger.

    Anyway, It's a good news. Bond is not that important to Amazon/MGM. We are not in the 90's

    Uh... Okay...

    People have jobs. The people who make the financial decisions at Amazon have to justify those decisions to likely keep their jobs. Whoever is responsible for buying the Bond movies probably now has a responsibility to deliver a new one if they want to keep their job, at the very least. That's how the world works, I think. Just because the entire conglomerate is sitting pretty does not mean individual divisions don't have their own budgets, their own requirements, their own goals, their own expectations, and their own set of consequences. They bought the Bond franchise because it's a reliable, big brand that helps Amazon, more than anything, make a big splash and get their name out there on a big project.

    We'll get a movie. We'll get it in theaters. Amazon will want it to be the biggest Bond movie ever, to make a big splash in an established market. That should have us all excited.

    Well, they bought MGM. The guy can be busy with other things.

    Well the way it works at MGM is BB and MGW are that "guy" and there's nothing really stopping them.

    We are not in the 90's. MGM has financial muscles now.

    They can flex those muscles like so many impotent beach boys, it’s not going to get them anywhere without Broccoli and Wilson.

    Sure and Broccoli and Wilson need Bond more than Amazon.

  • MakeshiftPythonMakeshiftPython “Baja?!”
    Posts: 8,183
    LucknFate wrote: »
    LucknFate wrote: »
    peter wrote: »
    peter wrote: »
    @DEKE_RIVERS ... Pretty sure the Wilson and Broccoli family could live a few lifetimes, and still never be without a small fortune.

    You really have your finger on the pulse, don't you?

    Yeah, I know but Bezos fortune is bigger.

    Anyway, It's a good news. Bond is not that important to Amazon/MGM. We are not in the 90's

    Uh... Okay...

    People have jobs. The people who make the financial decisions at Amazon have to justify those decisions to likely keep their jobs. Whoever is responsible for buying the Bond movies probably now has a responsibility to deliver a new one if they want to keep their job, at the very least. That's how the world works, I think. Just because the entire conglomerate is sitting pretty does not mean individual divisions don't have their own budgets, their own requirements, their own goals, their own expectations, and their own set of consequences. They bought the Bond franchise because it's a reliable, big brand that helps Amazon, more than anything, make a big splash and get their name out there on a big project.

    We'll get a movie. We'll get it in theaters. Amazon will want it to be the biggest Bond movie ever, to make a big splash in an established market. That should have us all excited.

    Well, they bought MGM. The guy can be busy with other things.

    Well the way it works at MGM is BB and MGW are that "guy" and there's nothing really stopping them.

    We are not in the 90's. MGM has financial muscles now.

    They can flex those muscles like so many impotent beach boys, it’s not going to get them anywhere without Broccoli and Wilson.

    Sure and Broccoli and Wilson need Bond more than Amazon.

    They’ll make a Bond film when they want to, not when they need to.
  • Posts: 1,340
    LucknFate wrote: »
    LucknFate wrote: »
    peter wrote: »
    peter wrote: »
    @DEKE_RIVERS ... Pretty sure the Wilson and Broccoli family could live a few lifetimes, and still never be without a small fortune.

    You really have your finger on the pulse, don't you?

    Yeah, I know but Bezos fortune is bigger.

    Anyway, It's a good news. Bond is not that important to Amazon/MGM. We are not in the 90's

    Uh... Okay...

    People have jobs. The people who make the financial decisions at Amazon have to justify those decisions to likely keep their jobs. Whoever is responsible for buying the Bond movies probably now has a responsibility to deliver a new one if they want to keep their job, at the very least. That's how the world works, I think. Just because the entire conglomerate is sitting pretty does not mean individual divisions don't have their own budgets, their own requirements, their own goals, their own expectations, and their own set of consequences. They bought the Bond franchise because it's a reliable, big brand that helps Amazon, more than anything, make a big splash and get their name out there on a big project.

    We'll get a movie. We'll get it in theaters. Amazon will want it to be the biggest Bond movie ever, to make a big splash in an established market. That should have us all excited.

    Well, they bought MGM. The guy can be busy with other things.

    Well the way it works at MGM is BB and MGW are that "guy" and there's nothing really stopping them.

    We are not in the 90's. MGM has financial muscles now.

    They can flex those muscles like so many impotent beach boys, it’s not going to get them anywhere without Broccoli and Wilson.

    Sure and Broccoli and Wilson need Bond more than Amazon.

    They’ll make a Bond film when they want to, not when they need to.

    Amazon/MGM are more busy than EON, that's for sure.
  • MakeshiftPythonMakeshiftPython “Baja?!”
    Posts: 8,183
    Of course, they have a lot more on their plate than Bond.
  • peterpeter Toronto
    Posts: 9,509
    @MakeshiftPython and @LucknFate are far more patient and kind than I am… I just never understand what exactly you’re trying to get at, @DEKE_RIVERS … maybe you could use more than one line statements that are delivered as absolute facts (I mean, you fire off beauties like such and such an actor won’t work as Bond because “he’s too ugly”… and that’s all you say. Why don’t you participate on who you’d think would make a good Bond, and maybe an added line as to why…).

    What are you trying to say about Amazon and Eon? Are you suggesting that Bezos and crew are playing a game of “chicken” with EoN because “they need Bond more” than Amazon does?

    Seriously, try and expand on your thoughts. Who knows, you may be the catalyst to an interesting discussion…

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    Nah, Bond is not that important. That's my point.

    If Bond 26 goes to theaters it's because Bezos doesn't care.
  • peterpeter Toronto
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    Nah, Bond is not that important. That's my point.

    If Bond 26 goes to theaters it's because Bezos doesn't care.

    Cool. And falling trees may or may not make a sound if someone is there, maybe 🤔. But maybe not. But, yah, maybe., but then again, maybe not…

  • MakeshiftPythonMakeshiftPython “Baja?!”
    Posts: 8,183
    Deke’s just folding his arms and going “humph!” at this point. We’re not going to have adult conversations at this rate.
  • edited February 6 Posts: 1,340
    Deke’s just folding his arms and going “humph!” at this point. We’re not going to have adult conversations at this rate.

    No, this is what I think. Amazon doesn't need Bond that much. There's not going to be a war over Bond.
  • peterpeter Toronto
    Posts: 9,509
    Deke’s just folding his arms and going “humph!” at this point. We’re not going to have adult conversations at this rate.

    No, this is what I think. Amazon doesn't need Bond that much. There's not going to be a war over Bond.

    No one was saying there would be, 😂
  • MakeshiftPythonMakeshiftPython “Baja?!”
    Posts: 8,183
    Deke’s just folding his arms and going “humph!” at this point. We’re not going to have adult conversations at this rate.

    No, this is what I think. Amazon doesn't need Bond that much. There's not going to be a war over Bond.

    Of course. When Eon feels like making a Bond film they’ll make a Bond film and MGM/Amazon will oblige.
  • Posts: 1,340
    peter wrote: »
    Deke’s just folding his arms and going “humph!” at this point. We’re not going to have adult conversations at this rate.

    No, this is what I think. Amazon doesn't need Bond that much. There's not going to be a war over Bond.

    No one was saying there would be, 😂

    No one?
  • peterpeter Toronto
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    Who said there was going to be a war between Amazon and EoN @DEKE_RIVERS ???
    You know what? Don’t answer that; it’s clear you’re not here to expand on discussions, to debate, even. You’re here to fire off vague one line posts that you seemingly state as fact.

    At first I was curious. I mean, it’s not too hard to see that you’re trolling, but I was curious to see the end game.

    Well, there seems to be no point to any of this, and all I can assume is that you’re just really bored.

    I’d suggest a hobby of some kind, 🤷‍♂️.

    Anyways, keep winning at life, and best of luck to you!
  • I remember the Amazon/EON war like it was yesterday. We on the EON side thought we had them outnumbered. I mean no normal man can substain endless repeats of Die Another Day by Madonna. But Ernst Stavro Bezos had a different idea; from his secret lair hidden inside an Amazon Warehouse, Bezos launched powerful Nanobots which, when in the target area of an opponents ear, triggered an endless loop of “Never Say Never Again” by Lani Hall. It was a massacre.
  • DwayneDwayne New York City
    Posts: 2,841
    I remember the Amazon/EON war like it was yesterday. We on the EON side thought we had them outnumbered. I mean no normal man can substain endless repeats of Die Another Day by Madonna. But Ernst Stavro Bezos had a different idea; from his secret lair hidden inside an Amazon Warehouse, Bezos launched powerful Nanobots which, when in the target area of an opponents ear, triggered an endless loop of “Never Say Never Again” by Lani Hall. It was a massacre.

    A post of the year contender. Thanks for cheering me up. =)) =))
    PS. I had a crush of Ms. Lani Hall when I was younger, so maybe "The Writings On the Wall" is a better example.
  • edited February 6 Posts: 1,340
    peter wrote: »
    Who said there was going to be a war between Amazon and EoN @DEKE_RIVERS ???
    You know what? Don’t answer that; it’s clear you’re not here to expand on discussions, to debate, even. You’re here to fire off vague one line posts that you seemingly state as fact.

    At first I was curious. I mean, it’s not too hard to see that you’re trolling, but I was curious to see the end game.

    Well, there seems to be no point to any of this, and all I can assume is that you’re just really bored.

    I’d suggest a hobby of some kind, 🤷‍♂️.

    Anyways, keep winning at life, and best of luck to you!

    Well, we are talking about how strong EON is and how Amazon can't do anything. The fear is clear.
  • MakeshiftPythonMakeshiftPython “Baja?!”
    Posts: 8,183
    It’s the same dynamic as it’s always been with MGM and Eon, one cannot make a Bond movie without the other. Have we learned nothing from the early 90s?
  • LucknFateLucknFate 007 In New York
    Posts: 1,646
    Obviously the point is that Amazon is so rich James Bond no longer matters. Or something. Because the only reason anybody bothers to make a movie is to try to make money, and not because they want to, or got bored, or had an idea, or anything like that.
  • VenutiusVenutius Yorkshire
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    Or because they want to be associated with a 'brand' like Bond.
  • M_BaljeM_Balje Amsterdam, Netherlands
    Posts: 4,516
    https://www.darkhorizons.com/nolan-up-for-horror-007-future-stalled/
    .Also in attendance at the event was none other than James Bond franchise and EON Productions chief Barbara Broccoli. Speaking with Baz Bamigboye, Broccoli says the project is still years away and is effectively stalled as there’s nothing happening on it yet:

    “There’s nothing I can tell you about the next Bond film. There’s nothing. Nothing is happening yet.”
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    Posts: 16,383
    So Amazon have ordered a series of Young Sherlock Holmes (directed by Guy Richie), based on the YA novel series by Andy Lane, which itself was inspired by the success of the Young Bond series.
    Just a theory, but I wonder if they tried to get a Young Bond TV show going and, when turned down by Eon, went for the next best thing...?

    https://www.geektown.co.uk/2024/05/29/prime-video-orders-young-sherlock-series-starring-hero-fiennes-tiffin-from-guy-ritchie/
  • meshypushymeshypushy Ireland
    Posts: 142
    mtm wrote: »
    So Amazon have ordered a series of Young Sherlock Holmes (directed by Guy Richie), based on the YA novel series by Andy Lane, which itself was inspired by the success of the Young Bond series.
    Just a theory, but I wonder if they tried to get a Young Bond TV show going and, when turned down by Eon, went for the next best thing...?

    https://www.geektown.co.uk/2024/05/29/prime-video-orders-young-sherlock-series-starring-hero-fiennes-tiffin-from-guy-ritchie/
    Wow - a very honest question but how the hell does Guy Ritchie get work? He makes Michael Winner look like Brian De Palma. Amazon funding more Ritchie nonsense could not make me less optimistic about the future of Bond under their stewardship.
  • Posts: 2,164
    meshypushy wrote: »
    mtm wrote: »
    So Amazon have ordered a series of Young Sherlock Holmes (directed by Guy Richie), based on the YA novel series by Andy Lane, which itself was inspired by the success of the Young Bond series.
    Just a theory, but I wonder if they tried to get a Young Bond TV show going and, when turned down by Eon, went for the next best thing...?

    https://www.geektown.co.uk/2024/05/29/prime-video-orders-young-sherlock-series-starring-hero-fiennes-tiffin-from-guy-ritchie/
    Wow - a very honest question but how the hell does Guy Ritchie get work? He makes Michael Winner look like Brian De Palma. Amazon funding more Ritchie nonsense could not make me less optimistic about the future of Bond under their stewardship.

    Why? Ritchie is clearly a trusted person to work with, has a strong work ethic, and delivers critically decently to well received films, working with mid size budgets. It's fine to not like the work he puts out, but he has an audience and has a solid track record. It's not hard to see why Amazon want to (and have) built a solid working relationship between him and his team.
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