This article says this is the first Big Tech buy of old media, very interesting.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/26/amazons-8point45-billion-deal-for-mgm-is-historic-but-feels-mundane.html
Absolutely grotesque
Disney absorbs Fox. Amazon swallows MGM. WB and Discovery are together now, apparently. Netflix forms a symbiotic relationship with Sony. Apple will probably buy a few movie studios in the coming decade
The film landscape is shifting. All studios will be subsumed within the umbrella of multimedia megacorporation conglomerates. Antitrust laws are cute little modern artifacts of a bygone era, like alcohol sales laws being restricted on Sundays
Some people still own VCRs. Some still own DVD players. Some still own dedicated Blu-Ray players. Some people still subscribe to cable and satellite...
I feel old. Streaming is the future. There is no going back. The film industry is now, and forever will be, a subsidiary of larger tech and media corps. Good or bad, I dunno. Honestly, who cares. It's just weird af to witness the transformation in real time
Just like every dystopian scifi story. Everything owned by just 5 companies. But hey, maybe we'll get a star fleet out of it.
sharewhat would happen if Disney and Amazon merged? that would be nuts.
shareI believe it's unrealistic now (I mean within the next 5 years, I don't have ANY predictive abilities of sociological phenomena beyond that), only because they are both profiting too much currently from their own segregation. But it could happen in the future for sure. Why would FOX sell to Disney? The Avengers franchise, a movie series, literally altered the course of corporate history
Disney gained Aliens, Predators, Planet of the Apes, etc. and w/e other random film franchises. It profited from absorbing its TV shows, Hulu, Sports content, etc. but let's be real, a multibillion dollar merger was largely motivated by gaining comic book rights lol. Fantastic 4 and X-Men. Billions of dollars spent for that. And it will lead to massive profits. Just like it led to massive profits when Disney bought Marvel AFTER the first Avengers film for like 4 billion dollars
Fantastic Four and X-Men films and the crossovers which they enable will probably single-handedly cause this absurd merger to "break even". The Disney conglomerate will continue to rake in massive profits even as its spends obscene amounts to eat up other corporations like an apex-predator anaconda
It is a reflection of the master and slave paradigm where the few control the many, but, it will backfire big time!!! It already does, we're gradually entering the golden age of an unprecedent scale, in terms of art, health, wealth, and so forth, all this is doing at this time is only forming the alternative underground movement of independent spirit. All it takes is to stay away from these corporations, let them die, let them eat themselves alive, they're desperate as it is. Every action from them is about to produce an opposite reaction. We may see many sacrifices in the meantime, but that's to be expected.
shareInteresting article relating to how the take overcoukd benefit bond
https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/amazon-acquisition-mgm-future-james-bond-142556730.html
Thanks for posting this. I wondered how far the deal was.
shareDoes this mean that this movie is coming out at SOME POINT?
share30 Sep for U.K. and 6 Oct for U.S.
shareIt better be really good after all this.
shareI know, I hope it's better than the last 2 or 3 Bonds. If BOTH Bond and Nomi are complete bad-asses it's got a chance to be great.
shareI am DEFINITELY not a fan of Sam Mendes, or his two Bond movies. He just seems so clinical in his direction. There is so little passion behind what he shoots. Craig was made to play Bond in this morose, kind of dead-inside way. Even in the trailers, it seems that Craig is allowed to finally emote for the first time since "Quantum of Solace."
shareI think this new director will bring a lot of action and a style closer to Casino Royale than the last 3 outings. I'm glad they didn't go with streaming I think it's important they try to make NTTD an event. Even with Amazon taking over I believe Bond is still in the hands of Eon's Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson.
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