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There is a difference between saving a show and saving a franchise. 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.
Chevron 7 locked "waaaaaaaaaa"
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This purchase should be illegal yesterday
Monopolists are going to downvote you, but they're wrong. 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 pr…
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.
Some newer developments you may have missed:
* Stargate Origins aired in 2018 [1]
* Brad Wright/Joseph Mallozzi are actively working to get a new project off the ground [2] and are looking to tap original cast members (to bootstrap)
* A new Stargate 4X strategy game was just announced [3]
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_Origins
[2] https://www.gateworld.net/news/2021/05/stargate-timekeepers-...
[3] https://www.gateworld.net/news/2021/05/stargate-timekeepers-...
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Monopolists are going to downvote you, but they're wrong. 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 pr…
Competition is great(for innovation, pay, creativity) anything that interferes with competition, is a bad net for society and good for a very small number of incumbent players.
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You’ve just answered your own question. A huge catalog of classics as well as franchises that can be developed into new shows and movies. The Bond franchise alone probably is worth half of what this deal is gonna cost.
>The Bond franchise alone probably is worth half of what this deal is gonna cost. Probably not. MGM doesn't "own" Bond in the same way that Disney owns Star Wars. There are complicating factors to the Bond movies that reduce the brand's value to MGM and any new prospective owner.
So when are we going to break up Amazon?
This purchase should be illegal yesterday
Amazon will make the movies, host them on AWS, stream them to their Firesticks, shows them through Amazon Prime on glowing rectangles bought in their store and monetizes it all with their ad service. How is that not a vertical monopoly?
Amazon tends to beat the creative parts out of the companies they buy. I bet it's related to the financial efficiencies they apply to them. Creativity is expensive without any guaranteed return. Most of the new prime video content, that I've seen, seems to have a very safe tone to it. Yes, it's new but it's safe. No one will be surprised or insulted by it. It starts to get boring very quickly. As new owners, I hope t…
Amazon tends to beat the creative parts out of the companies they buy. I bet it's related to the financial efficiencies they apply to them. Creativity is expensive without any guaranteed return. Most of the new prime video content, that I've seen, seems to have a very safe tone to it. Yes, it's new but it's safe. No one will be surprised or insulted by it. It starts to get boring very quickly. As new owners, I hope t…
> Most of the new prime video content, that I've seen, seems to have a very safe tone to it. Yes, it's new but it's safe. No one will be surprised or insulted by it. It starts to get boring very quickly. Overall I agree with your point and I'm extremely confident Amazon buying MGM will completely and utterly fuck over any creative potential that company has (similar to what's happening with AT&T and HBO), but - if yo…
Amazon tends to beat the creative parts out of the companies they buy. I bet it's related to the financial efficiencies they apply to them. Creativity is expensive without any guaranteed return. Most of the new prime video content, that I've seen, seems to have a very safe tone to it. Yes, it's new but it's safe. No one will be surprised or insulted by it. It starts to get boring very quickly. As new owners, I hope t…
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Competition is great(for innovation, pay, creativity) anything that interferes with competition, is a bad net for society and good for a very small number of incumbent players.
Except that the biggest company buying up other players is highly anticompetitive ?