Recently, Amazon, which acquired Metro-Goldwyn Mayer for $8.45 billion, has been taking control over the home studio of the James Bond film franchise.
Examples:
–Deadline: Hollywood acquired internal emails showing that Jennifer Salke, chief of Amazon Studios, is now formally in charge of MGM.
Salke now is in charge of Amazon Studios and MGM. Christopher Brearton, who had been chief operating officer of MGM, now has a new executive job.
Before the Amazon deal, MGM’s film division was headed by Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy. Eon liked the duo and said they wished they’d stay. But they departed earlier and landed at Warner Bros.
–Mark Burnett, who had created Survivor The Apprentice and other “reality” shows and who had headed MGM’s TV division, is gone, noted The Hollywood Reporter.
Back in 2018, THR reported that Burnett was instrumental in having then MGM CEO Gary Barber fired. What goes around, comes around, one supposes.
To be sure, anytime there’s an acquisition, executive changes occur.
The main question — from the perspective of James Bond fans — is whether any of this affects the 007 franchise. Eon and its parent company Danjaq control the creative rights to the franchise. But Danjaq/Eon relies on its studio partner to finance the films.
Filed under: James Bond Films | Tagged: Amazon, Christopher Brearton, Danjaq LLC, Deadline: Hollywood, Eon Productions, Gary Barber, Jennifer Salke, Mark Burnett, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Michael De Luca, Pamela Abdy |
The Spy Command 
Shortly before he passed away, Albert R. Broccoli spent about 6 whole years (following the release of “License To Kill”) in intense LEGAL battles over control of his “007” series. After all that, I doubt anyone at Eon would ever consider giving up anything in any possible future disputes.