Posted on 03/30/2025 9:23:48 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Jennifer Salke, the head of Amazon MGM Studios, is stepping down from her role amid alleged clashes between her and co-owners of the James Bond film franchise regarding the streaming service's acquisition of the film rights.
Amazon bought creative control of the James Bond franchise earlier this year in a deal with Bond franchise owners Michael G Wilson and his half-sister Barbara Broccoli. While Wilson and Broccoli are still owners, Amazon MGM Studios has the creative control.
Salke's step down was announced on Thursday, March 27, according to an internal Amazon memo that was obtained by Deadline. The same publication noted that while Salke is officially stepping down to focus on producing, inside sources compare it "closer to a firing" - with hints that Salke butting heads with James Bond co-owners.
Amazon exec Mike Hopkins stated that the streamer wouldn't be replaced. "We’ve decided to flatten our leadership structure a bit and not fill the head of studios role. In line with Amazon’s recent work to streamline reporting lines and accelerate decision-making, we felt this was the best direction for our studio, which will now operate as distinct film and television studios," he said.
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Agree the Bond franchise is dead as a doornail. It has run its course it’s time to retire it. Good grief the original Bond was a WWII vet! Dream up some other name and appropriate woke persona for a MI6 operative. Show some creativity Hollyweird!
No Time to Die should be the last movie.
But Amazon is going to try to make money out of the franchise. It won't work.
Agree!
I understand there are some unemployed dwarf actors in Hollywood that Disney wouldn’t hire...
Great idea........Bond needs a cute nickname, too.
Will it be Doc, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Bashful, Sneezy, or Dopey?
Nah.....probably will be “Shorty.”
Amazon hired Salke in 2018 to oversee its movie and television unit, and under
her leadership, the company became a bigger player in the entertainment industry.
The buzz is Amazon will not replace Salke as it
reorganizes the leadership structure of the division
White,straight,male and from the UK.
That’s telling that her hand felt like holding air! What strength! And yet too many in authority feel it’s fine to let biological males compete in women’s sports.
I wonder sometimes how wise it is to even have female police officers working patrols because they can come across some mean drugged up thugs, and an interaction can end up being a hand-to-hand struggle to make the arrest.
I like Elba acting too
Make him a new platform then
Why always usurp a traditional white role
We never ever do the opposite
Ever
Do u know how silly it looks to see blacks in 1200s period euro pieces?
Or at Agincourt etc
And to watch folks try to rationalize it
Amazon hates Lord of the Rings, Disney the same with Indiana Jones and Star Wars, Snow White etc. and Paramount hates Star Trek.
BILLIONS in losses and yet they still make lousy versions of the originals.
Bond is NOT introspective examining his own thoughts and feelings.
He just says: “That’s a Smith & Wesson and you’ve had your six.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ono-pu9ON6I
I noticed that too many leading men are gym rats and they do not look tough. Just pretty. Also stop killing off original characters.
Daniel Craig and the lady “M” always were pouting or pursing their lips.
Craig has stated he does not like guns and he said he frequent gay bars. His last 2 movies he played a gay man.
He wore clothes too tight. Dress Bond in nice clothes and not shrink wrap him.
Have a great story and good pacing and not frantic and sound not too loud and filmed in technicolor and not washed out colors to be moody.
Great music makes a picture as well.
One more thing... hire actors who at least like the movie!!
They should write new scripts with a woke plot.
At least, it'll be original.
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