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I just want Jeff bezos to save Stargate like he saved the expanse. I can only hope that Amazon will protect The Stargate franchise from coming to the same fate as Star wars and Star trek.
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how many originals can they pump out at 9B though?
Owning proven stuff is probably a more reliable investment than hoping one of your darts in the wall develops the cultural cachet of any of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer_f... How many Netflix productions come even close for all the tens of billions they've poured into it? Reliable names mean customer retention.
> Amazon.com Inc. is nearing a deal to buy the Hollywood studio MGM Holdings for almost $9 billion including debt, said people familiar with the matter, a pact that would turn a film operation founded in the silent era into a streaming asset for the e-commerce giant. What surprises me is that at $9 Billion, why hasn’t it been acquired by now? Right now, video streaming is pretty much a solved problem, and it is conte…
I imagine that's the complication, you buy MGM but don't really have full control over the crown jewel so to speak.
I just want Jeff bezos to save Stargate like he saved the expanse. I can only hope that Amazon will protect The Stargate franchise from coming to the same fate as Star wars and Star trek.
The Expanse was cancelled and then saved by Amazon within a year, Stargate has essentially been a dead property for 10 years.
I just want Jeff bezos to save Stargate like he saved the expanse. I can only hope that Amazon will protect The Stargate franchise from coming to the same fate as Star wars and Star trek.
The Expanse was cancelled and then saved by Amazon within a year, Stargate has essentially been a dead property for 10 years.
The Star Trek movies saved the franchise which lead to TNG, DS9 and Voyager, they didn’t save the original series tho.
I only hope is that they won’t turn Stargate into Discovery like show.
What does Amazon get if they buy a Hollywood studio, besides the content library? Is MGM just a holder of copyright for various popular franchises or does the company actually make things?
What does Amazon get if they buy a Hollywood studio, besides the content library? Is MGM just a holder of copyright for various popular franchises or does the company actually make things?
The Bond franchise alone probably is worth half of what this deal is gonna cost.
So when are we going to break up Amazon?
So when are we going to break up Amazon?
This purchase should be illegal yesterday
These megacorps shouldn't be allowed to enter fifteen different industries and kill off the incumbents. This is absurd.
Amazon is internet services infra, shopping, logistics, fulfillment, consumer hardware, networking, a payments stack, publisher, grocery store, and now a fucking entertainment company.
They track us, turn us into non-owner subscribers, and prevent us from building companies that can compete with their scale. We're eternally subservient. It's not healthy for innovation!
Break up Apple.
Break up Amazon.
Break up Google.