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75 James Bond's Next Assignment: Amazon Pays $1 Billion for Full Creative Control

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · today 11:34 EDT

James Bond's Next Assignment: Amazon Pays $1 Billion for Full Creative Control

Deadline reports:
It's taking around $1 billion to have 007 stewards Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson cede creative oversight of their family's storied James Bond franchise to Amazon MGM Studios, sources tell us. Amazon originally overpaid on its purchase of MGM in a deal orchestrated by then-MGM board chair Kevin Ulrich. Though valued between $3.5 billion-$4 billion, the legendary motion picture studio was absorbed by the streamer for $8.5 billion, the hefty sum propped up by the potential access of.

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