MGM’s top shareholder is Anchorage Capital, run by former Goldman Sachs executive Kevin Ulrich, who leads the studio’s board of directors.
MGM also boasts one of the largest collections of classic Hollywood titles, including 1980’s Raging Bull, 1987’s Moonstruck, and 1991’s Thelma & Louise and Silence of the Lambs. (In unveiling the buy, Amazon stated that MGM’s film catalog “complements the work of Amazon Studios, which has primarily focused on producing TV show programming.”) Wilson and Barbara Broccoli.) Additionally planned for this year is Ridley Scott’s House of Gucci, starring Lady Gaga, and animated sequel The Addams Family 2. (The Bond franchise rights are co-owned by Eon Productions, run by Michael G. 8, 2021, as the pandemic has slowed a box office recovery.
The 25th installment in the Bond series, No Time to Die, was delayed multiple times to Oct. MGM boasts a film library of around 4,000 titles and 17,000 hours of TV programming, including the Bond, Rocky/Creed and The Hobbit film franchises. Now, it will add a vast collection of Hollywood classics and franchises to its mix. Last year alone, Amazon spent $11 billion on video and music content for Prime Video and Amazon Music. The studio has picked up films like Eddie Murphy comedy Coming 2 America (Paramount) and the upcoming Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (New Regency) and aggressively moved to nab live NFL rights, including Thursday Night Football, from Fox beginning in 2022. Amazon earned Oscar nominations this year with Sound of Metal, One Night in Miami and sequel Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, among other titles.
Maisel is a perennial Emmy nominee and its biggest upcoming bet is a pricey The Lord of the Rings series.
Among its original scripted fare, Amazon launched Barry Jenkins’ limited series The Underground Railroad this month, its The Marvelous Mrs. Amazon, led by CEO Andy Jassy and founder Jeff Bezos - who has pushed the tech giant further into Hollywood - recently enlisted Jeff Blackburn to rejoin the Seattle-based company as head of global media and entertainment, overseeing divisions from games to audio and video, with a June 7 start date.Īmazon - which disclosed in April that 175 million Prime members have viewed movies and TV shows on its platform in the past year - is battling Netflix (207 million global subs) and Disney+ (103 million subs) for global supremacy among top streamers. The acquisition, revealed just days after AT&T announced a $43 billion plan on May 17 to spin off its WarnerMedia division, including HBO and Warner Bros., to Discovery, marks the latest major consolidation to rattle the entertainment industry.
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