It's official: Amazon has bought the MGM for $ 8.45 billion

It was announced a few weeks ago that Amazon’s communications with Metro Goldwyn Mayer were well advanced. The lion producer definitely threw in the towel at the beginning of the pandemic (it was already coming from a major crisis) and now this year there was no one who could avoid being food for a large entertainment multinational such as Amazon. The run run has become official this morning, Amazon has bought the MGM for 8450 million dollars, which means that in the very near future, the Amazon prime video streaming service will have in its catalog full control of the franchise of James bond Play that will determine the saga in the future, as it is in a relevant transition period since it is supposedly the last great appearance of actor Daniel Craig as agent 007. Senior Vice President of Prime Video, Mike Hopkins has wanted to pronounce after the purchase, praising the impressive catalog that the legendary production company has: “MGM has an extensive catalog with more than 4000 films; 12 Merciless Men, Basic Instinct, Creed, James Bond, Legally Blonde, Poltergeist, Raging Bull, Robocop, Tomb Raider (…) and many other iconic titles, as well as 17,000 TV shows; Fargo, The Handmaid’s Tale and Vikings, which together add up to more than 180 Academy Awards and 100 Emmys. ” In addition, Hopkins added that the real financial value behind this deal is the intellectual property of a deep catalog that they plan to reinvent and develop together with MGM’s talented creative team.What will happen now with No Time to Die? The latest and highly anticipated installment James Bond’s No Time to Die has its release date planned for October 3 of this year.But if Amazon has bought MGM, does that open the possibility that it may modify the premiere strategy in some way? It seems complicated that Amazon wants to influence the box office with a simultaneous premiere, although Disney, for example, has opted for that in some projects and Warner in its entire catalog for 2021. Be that as it may, what is certain is that Amazon will not take long. to incorporate into its already incredible catalog all the novelties and classics of the production company that was born in 1924. The titles that Amazon will not have will be Gone with the Wind, the Wizard of Oz and Singing in the Rain, since Ted Turner acquired the rights to those films for its TCM channel, which today is owned by the Warner conglomerate.