Most of the new prime video content, that I've seen, seems to have a very safe tone to it. Yes, it's new but it's safe. No one will be surprised or insulted by it. It starts to get boring very quickly.
As new owners, I hope they don't have such a hard hand that they ruin the brand.
I disagree with your premise entirely. I see them trying to unseat HBO as the resource for all the pop culture shows you remember twenty years from now.
I definitely believe them to be bolder than Netflix for their breadth of original libraries.
That might be a little bold, but that’s what I see them trying to do.
It is worth noting that major studios (or the BBC in Fleabag's case) make all of those shows and Amazon buys them.
But I still agree with the general point that it's unfair to argue Amazon "beats the creativity" out of productions it deals with.
Overall I agree with your point and I'm extremely confident Amazon buying MGM will completely and utterly fuck over any creative potential that company has (similar to what's happening with AT&T and HBO), but - if you're looking for something good to watch on Prime, take a look at Invincible. I was actually about to give up on it and then I got to the end of the first episode and I binged the rest of the show in less than a day.
It's the first time in years I've looked forward to the next season of a show that isn't a comedy.
I know amazon paid a fortune for Tolkien's Silmarillion TV rights and we haven't seen a single thing about that situation. My big worry is amazon screws around with the Bond franchise and ruins it, it seems to be doing extremely well with top directors and large blockbuster returns.
Watch Invincible.
Are you sure? I was just watching the first episode of Solos where the character says that Trump has defected/escaped to Russia. I won’t call that a safe line..
Similarly they have Borat 2, again not very safe.
Perhaps you’re referring to some other type of content..
Some newer developments you may have missed:
* Stargate Origins aired in 2018 [1]
* Brad Wright/Joseph Mallozzi are actively working to get a new project off the ground [2] and are looking to tap original cast members (to bootstrap)
* A new Stargate 4X strategy game was just announced [3]
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_Origins
[2] https://www.gateworld.net/news/2021/05/stargate-timekeepers-...
[3] https://www.gateworld.net/news/2021/05/stargate-timekeepers-...
The Star Trek movies saved the franchise which lead to TNG, DS9 and Voyager, they didn’t save the original series tho.
I only hope is that they won’t turn Stargate into Discovery like show.
It started off cheesy, but the universe they built was so detailed and neat.
I'm definitely hoping Amazon buys them out and greenlights Stargate.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/01/new-fed-chairman-says-amazon...
Amazon will make the movies, host them on AWS, stream them to their Firesticks, shows them through Amazon Prime on glowing rectangles bought in their store and monetizes it all with their ad service. How is that not a vertical monopoly?
These megacorps shouldn't be allowed to enter fifteen different industries and kill off the incumbents. This is absurd.
Amazon is internet services infra, shopping, logistics, fulfillment, consumer hardware, networking, a payments stack, publisher, grocery store, and now a fucking entertainment company.
They track us, turn us into non-owner subscribers, and prevent us from building companies that can compete with their scale. We're eternally subservient. It's not healthy for innovation!
Break up Apple.
Break up Amazon.
Break up Google.
What surprises me is that at $9 Billion, why hasn’t it been acquired by now?
Right now, video streaming is pretty much a solved problem, and it is content that differentiates one service from another.
If you are an Internet giant, $9 Billion seems like a pocket change to get access to a huge catalog.
I imagine that's the complication, you buy MGM but don't really have full control over the crown jewel so to speak.
The Bond franchise alone probably is worth half of what this deal is gonna cost.
Probably not. MGM doesn't "own" Bond in the same way that Disney owns Star Wars. There are complicating factors to the Bond movies that reduce the brand's value to MGM and any new prospective owner.