{"id":1621,"date":"2021-05-26T15:49:44","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T13:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/26\/amazon-buys-hollywood-studio-mgm-in-8-45bn-deal\/"},"modified":"2021-05-26T15:49:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T13:49:44","slug":"amazon-buys-hollywood-studio-mgm-in-8-45bn-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/26\/amazon-buys-hollywood-studio-mgm-in-8-45bn-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon buys Hollywood studio MGM in $8.45bn deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Battle for streaming supremacy hots up after acquisition of studio behind James Bond franchise<\/p>\n<p>Amazon has acquired MGM, the Hollywood studio behind the James Bond and Rocky franchises, in an $8.45bn deal as the battle for global streaming supremacy reaches new heights.<\/p>\n<p>The scale of the deal far exceeds the $5bn (\u00a33.5bn) price tag mooted when the studio put itself up for sale in December, as the fight to secure must-watch franchises fuels fierce bidding wars for owners of increasingly scarce \u201ccrown jewel\u201d content.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/may\/26\/amazon-buys-hollywood-studio-mgm-james-bond\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d38b27e90c116ff7ba23ade2c807fc72cb4e14e7\/41_58_3425_2056\/master\/3425.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d37fd11841e6e97c40bd12766817afc3\" title=\"Amazon buys Hollywood studio MGM in $8.45bn deal\" \/>Battle for streaming supremacy hots up after acquisition of studio behind James Bond franchise<br \/>\nAmazon has acquired MGM, the Hollywood studio behind the James Bond and Rocky franchises, in an $8.45bn deal as the battle for global streaming supremacy reaches new heights.<br \/>\nThe scale of the deal far exceeds the $5bn (\u00a33.5bn) price tag mooted when the studio put itself up for sale in December, as the fight to secure must-watch franchises fuels fierce bidding wars for owners of increasingly scarce \u201ccrown jewel\u201d content. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Battle for streaming supremacy hots up after acquisition of studio behind James Bond franchise Amazon has acquired MGM, the Hollywood studio behind the James Bond and Rocky franchises, in an $8.45bn deal as the battle for global streaming supremacy reaches new heights. The scale of the deal far exceeds the $5bn (\u00a33.5bn) price tag mooted &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/26\/amazon-buys-hollywood-studio-mgm-in-8-45bn-deal\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amazon buys Hollywood studio MGM in $8.45bn deal<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}