Excellent analysis! Let’s face it, the bond franchise was so expensive there was no way any other private entity could afford to buy it. In the end, the producers had to go with Amazon. One big upside to this is that they won’t have to worry about budgets anymore, because Amazon has more money than God. And in 2025, it is just no longer viable to have a business strategy that consisted just of putting out a new movie every three years. Like it or not, streaming is the present and the future. It’s a question of whether you want to do streaming the way Disney did with Star Wars and Paramount with Star Trek. That way lies the road to diluting the brand. Amazon is doing a great job with Reacher and an OK job with Jack Ryan. The last two Jack Ryan movies certainly didn’t make the case for continuing with a Movies only strategy. If Amazon handles 007 the same way as they’re doing with the creations of Lee Child and Tom Clancy, 007 will be fine.
How long until we get an eight-episode Moneypenny miniseries?
Excellent analysis! Let’s face it, the bond franchise was so expensive there was no way any other private entity could afford to buy it. In the end, the producers had to go with Amazon. One big upside to this is that they won’t have to worry about budgets anymore, because Amazon has more money than God. And in 2025, it is just no longer viable to have a business strategy that consisted just of putting out a new movie every three years. Like it or not, streaming is the present and the future. It’s a question of whether you want to do streaming the way Disney did with Star Wars and Paramount with Star Trek. That way lies the road to diluting the brand. Amazon is doing a great job with Reacher and an OK job with Jack Ryan. The last two Jack Ryan movies certainly didn’t make the case for continuing with a Movies only strategy. If Amazon handles 007 the same way as they’re doing with the creations of Lee Child and Tom Clancy, 007 will be fine.