Amazon looking to buy MGM

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  1. OmegaScourge

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    Amazon in Talks to Buy MGM For $9 Billion

     
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    That will be a massive permanent addition to their streaming library. I'm not sure I want Amazon eating anymore companies though.
     
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    No thanks. Let MGM, be MGM.
     
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    On one hand, Stargate reboot. On another, Amazon gets more companies. Yeah, I hope it fails.
     
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    Broke and impotent? They're dead broke and have had offers to buy their library and IPs. They're holding out for a sale like this, where the new owners get everything.
     
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    As long as new Stargate shows get made.
     
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    I think they also own the Pink Panther.
     
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    Better Amazon than Disney
     
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    Look the bright side, it could be better than Disney.
     
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    I don't think Disney can even buy anything anymore. But again, they can rewrite the laws can't they?
     
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    I'm sure they are going to try again when Mickey Mouse is once again on the verge of being pubic domain.
     
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    There are too few independent companies that own all of media now, I think the pond needs to be replenished before anymore fish eat each other.

    Too few people control what we watch on TV and in Movies now as it is.
     
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    The government would have to step in and break up these monopolies but they won't evil because a lot of film are being paid to look the other way or that you really don't care what company owns a movie studio when they are busy trying to pass health care reform or something like that.
     
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    If they do this then they need to turn James Bond into an Amazon Prime TV series that does a 100% accurate adaptation fo Fleming's novels set in the period they were written in and do all of them in order. THey could easily pull off two episodes per book, three for a few of the longer ones while the story stories could work as one episode.
     
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    MGM doesn’t have the bond rights. They are just licensing them. They can’t do anything without the approval of the Broccoli family who still have most of the rights and approval control over everything .

    They would get stargate Robocop, Rocky, and Fargo, the pink panther rights though. MGM doesn’t have many properties it owns outright.
     
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    But actually, doesn't EON only hold the film rights? Do they also hold the rights to original television productions?
     
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    Also don't forget mgm no longer has many of their older films as they sold them to wb long ago.

    MGM is the ones making the addams family films now as well right?
     
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