{"id":1665,"date":"2021-05-29T15:37:14","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T13:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/29\/a-view-to-a-killing-how-amazon-will-exploit-bond-and-other-mgm-classics\/"},"modified":"2021-05-29T15:37:14","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T13:37:14","slug":"a-view-to-a-killing-how-amazon-will-exploit-bond-and-other-mgm-classics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/29\/a-view-to-a-killing-how-amazon-will-exploit-bond-and-other-mgm-classics\/","title":{"rendered":"A view to a killing: how Amazon will exploit Bond and other MGM classics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pay-TV giant has the chance to turn popular films into \u2018universes\u2019 of stories \u2013 and steal a march in the content-hungry streaming wars<\/p>\n<p>Amazon\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/may\/26\/amazon-buys-hollywood-studio-mgm-james-bond\" title=\"\">$8.5bn deal to buy MGM<\/a>, the Hollywood studio behind James Bond, <em>The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/em> and <em>Gone With the Wind<\/em>, has secured it the rights to a century\u2019s worth of TV and film titles that the streaming giant intends to exploit with a wave of remakes, reimaginings and spin-offs.<\/p>\n<p>The deal to buy the 97-year-old Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which has an immense library of 4,000 film titles and 17,000 hours of TV programming, is designed to supercharge Amazon\u2019s content pipeline, which is the lifeblood of any competitor in the global battle for streaming supremacy.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2021\/may\/29\/a-view-to-a-killing-how-amazon-will-exploit-bond-and-other-mgm-classics\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/7d4090ab03f09d35ccbd4ef9ac10386f21d19379\/0_0_4500_2700\/master\/4500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ad42e1b8d45266a922c597898d3e82ba\" title=\"A view to a killing: how Amazon will exploit Bond and other MGM classics\" \/>The pay-TV giant has the chance to turn popular films into \u2018universes\u2019 of stories \u2013 and steal a march in the content-hungry streaming wars<br \/>\nAmazon\u2019s $8.5bn deal to buy MGM, the Hollywood studio behind James Bond, The Handmaid\u2019s Tale and Gone With the Wind, has secured it the rights to a century\u2019s worth of TV and film titles that the streaming giant intends to exploit with a wave of remakes, reimaginings and spin-offs.<br \/>\nThe deal to buy the 97-year-old Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which has an immense library of 4,000 film titles and 17,000 hours of TV programming, is designed to supercharge Amazon\u2019s content pipeline, which is the lifeblood of any competitor in the global battle for streaming supremacy. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pay-TV giant has the chance to turn popular films into \u2018universes\u2019 of stories \u2013 and steal a march in the content-hungry streaming wars Amazon\u2019s $8.5bn deal to buy MGM, the Hollywood studio behind James Bond, The Handmaid\u2019s Tale and Gone With the Wind, has secured it the rights to a century\u2019s worth of TV &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/29\/a-view-to-a-killing-how-amazon-will-exploit-bond-and-other-mgm-classics\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A view to a killing: how Amazon will exploit Bond and other MGM classics<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1666,"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\/1665"}],"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=1665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}