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Amazon-MGM

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Amazon MGM is involved in the production and distribution of film and television content, and is owned by Amazon following Amazon's acquisition of MGM.

We dig behind Amazon-MGM's stated narrative to unravel the real strategy — the calls that actually shaped it, and why they played out the way they did.

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Film and television production
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Owned by Amazon following acquisition of MGM

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The Adjacency Expansion · Growth & Portfolio
Amazon Bought MGM for James Bond. It Didn't Get James Bond.
Everyone says Amazon paid $8.45B for MGM's catalog and the Bond franchise. Its own SEC filing values the library at $3.4B and the rest as $4.9B of goodwill — and at closing, Amazon got Bond's distribution rights, not creative control. That took three more years.
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