Order!
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Lol of course that was the codename
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Another wonderful photo from JamesBond.com - a perfect comment on the current waiting gameâŚ
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Can anyone say how solid this source is?
Given the source- total bollocks.
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Itâs really just what anybody mildly interested in the topic might speculate from whatâs already known by Eonâs comments, mainly a repeat of statements reaching back into the 80s.
About Amazonâs ideas for Bondâs future weâve heard nothing up to now. We can guess they want to monetise but thatâs as far as it goes.
Clickbait.
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Thanks! Letâs move on, then.
Nevertheless, I am a bit surprised that at this stage EON is so firmly speaking about potential TV productions (in reference to an interview for Total Film).
EON will keep veto power.
And thatâs that.
Can you guide me if and where these statements from the 1980s can be found? I am asking because I am in the process of writing an article on this topic for my website.
I think MGW did a couple of statements during the late Moore era - OP/AVTAK - when home entertainment and rival Sony productions were a theme, that variously films and/or tv series. Canât quote the specific words but the gist has always been that Bondâs home was the big screen.
Back then MGM started to squeeze the budget while the box office became an issue, a development that caused concern how to move on with Bond - not so far from where we are today again.
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Thanks a lot!
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We Got This Covered is very hit and miss. Their strategy seem to be âreport everythingâ and by law of averages some of it turns out to be correct.
Iâve gotten to the point where I actively avoid the site as they it irritates me too much.
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True. Weâre at a point where even once respected trade papers like Variety and The Hollywood Reporter increasingly regurgitate rumours from fansites and message boards. So all these âinsider sitesâ like wegotthiscovered, joblo, cinemablend, darkhorizons etc. are not reliable, only once in a while right like a broken clock. Entertaining rumours, nothing one could not come up with by speculating oneself.
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The problem is, FTC cannot just âblockâ the deal - theyâd have to sue and the final decision then rests with the judges. Meaning the entire paperwork - deal, FTC assessment, various particular surveys and advisory opinions in legalese - ends up in court. Where an FTC ruling not just has to cite opinions from one side or the other, but has to give reasons and proof based on actual effects of this deal and established law practice.
If that were easy it would already have happened. But Amazon can comfortably point to previous cases and the simple fact that them buying MGM doesnât create a monopoly, far from. If this actually proceeds to the courts itâs going to be a tough case and the outcome, far from sure for the FTC, wouldnât even affect the part of Amazonâs activities where they indeed may show monopolistic practice. In any case the FTC would have to aim for a shift in constant jurisdiction thatâs going to be nothing less than fundamental.
We shall see how that turns out.
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The âdetailâ that the US government currently pay Amazon for their server use does kind of make this a toothless threat.
yes, Jeff Bezos already has access to all of US intelligenceâŚif the nuclear codes are on those servers, Bezos has graduated to Lewis Gilbert style Bond villain already.
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There is definitely an air of âthis has got to stop/change/improve somehowâ in US politics since both parties have identified big tech as a problem. But the insight comes late and the rationale how to approach this is lacking. The problem is less big tech and its economic boost but the system that allowed these corporations to outgrow the system itself.
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