Coming up as a TV and not a movie executive finally seems to have caught up to Jennifer Salke at Amazon MGM Studios. Her inability to mesh with the gatekeepers of the James Bond movies might well have sealed her fate. While her exit from the executive suites officially is being regarded as an exit by…

Will Amazon's 007 franchise ever take center stage again? Thinking about this, I flashed back to a conversation with an actor friend telling me, "I've just been offered a big payday as the next James Bond but I can't get over the feeling that his…

Timothy Dalton has revealed he is “sad” at the prospect of James Bond falling into the hands of Amazon. In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Dalton, who played 007 in The Living Daylights and Licence To Kill, lamented the idea of a British icon being under the creative control of an…

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EXCLUSIVE: Barbara Broccoli began making the calls Thursday, London time, to her most frequent and trusted collaborators to tell them news would soon ricochet around the world like a bullet fired from a Walther PPK, the only weapon used by every actor to play James Bond in the Eon film…

EXCLUSIVE: It’s taking around $1 billion to have 007 stewards Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson cede creative oversight of their family’s storied James Bond franchise to Amazon MGM Studios, sources tell us. Amazon originally overpaid on its purchase of MGM in a deal orchestrated by then-MGM…

In news that will send shock waves through the industry, longtime James Bond producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli are relinquishing control of the beloved spy franchise and handing the reins to Amazon MGM Studios. As part of the arrangement revealed Thursday, Amazon and the producers…

EXCLUSIVE: Playtone partners Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman have teamed with Eon Productions' Barbara Broccoli to acquire screen rights for An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s. That is the book historian Doris Kearns Goodwin wrote that debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times…

Although Daniel Craig couldn’t care less about the next James Bond actor, Gemma Arterton just hopes the franchise doesn’t stray too far from its source material. After appearing in Quantum of Solace (2008), the BAFTA nominee gave her opinion on the idea of a woman playing the next 007 amid…

If you had any doubt that the awards season was in full swing, Sunday night’s 15th Annual Governors Awards ceremony answered it. If you are, or in any way think you might have a shot at an Oscar nomination this year, and were in Los Angeles, it…

With Daniel Craig out of the picture, the 007 producers have “a big decision” to make about the future of the 62-year franchise. While discussing the legacy and future of the franchise, Barbara Broccoli gave an update on the search for the next James Bond, whom she noted will be a man, likely in…

Although the James Bond torch has yet to be passed, the franchise will have to Die Another Day. Amazon MGM Studios global head Jennifer Salke recently gave an update on the franchise after Daniel Craig took his final bow as 007 in No Time to Die (2021), as the UK’s EON Productions continues to…