No Time to Die and future films will be released exclusively on Amazon’s streaming service.
Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson were quick to dispel any such notion however, promising James Bond will always be a theatrical event.
In a statement to Variety, Broccoli and Wilson said “We are committed to continuing to make
James Bond films for the worldwide theatrical audience.” The pair run Eon Productions and have kept the
Bond franchise going for years after Barbara’s father Albert ‘Cubby’ Broccoli helped launched the film series with
Dr. No in 1962.
While they split the profits with MGM, who finances and distributes the films, Broccoli and Wilson have final say on everything in the way a film is marketed down to who will portray the famous spy when it comes time to recast, a decision that will be made eventually as
What Happens to James Bond Franchise Once Amazon Takes Over MGM? by Beatrice Verhoeven | May 26, 2021 @ 3:58 PM
A streaming giant bought a library with theatrical juggernaut that can be shaken or stirred
What will happen to the billion-dollar James Bond franchise now that the online giant Amazon has bought MGM and its 50% stake in the legendary spy series?
One thing is clear: No matter what Amazon wants to do with the Bond franchise more features, character spinoffs, TV series something only happens when Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, the owners of Eon Productions, want it to happen.
“Nothing majorly will change,” John Cork, an avid Bond fan and director of over 30 Bond documentaries, told TheWrap. “It’ll just be one more studio logo that will appear on James Bond movies.”
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Joanna explained: I can remember on a casting list for a film to be made called Shaft, which eventually became a big hit and one of the great casting directors Maude Spector gave two pages to look at before we went in with the directors.
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