It Price Amazon ‘Simply’ $20 Million to Personal James Bond

We realized early in 2025 that Amazon had gained creative control over the James Bond franchise, a deal that got here a number of years after Amazon spent $8.5 billion to take possession of MGM Studios, which distributes Bond films and has a listing of hundreds of films and TV exhibits. Whereas there’s ahead momentum on a brand new Bond film finally, with Denis Villeneuve behind the wheel, a brand new report places a surprisingly low (comparatively talking) price ticket on these artistic rights: $20 million.

Deadline is the supply, explaining, “EON Productions, the corporate managed by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, has filed an earnings report within the UK revealing that Amazon MGM Studios paid $20M for its stake in 007.” The commerce notes the deal was beforehand estimated to be a lot increased ($1 billion, based on Deadline), although “the construction of the three way partnership was unknown and will have included Amazon inventory choices.”

Contemplating Amazon famously plunked down an estimated $250 million for the rights to make The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy—a determine that doesn’t issue into the show’s $465 million production budget, by the best way—$20 million feels just like the deal of the century.

In fact, you must assume the corporate will likely be shelling out many occasions that after Villeneuve’s new film is off and working, with an estimated 2027 begin date.

Within the meantime, we’re nonetheless ready to listen to which actor will likely be taking up the enduring character—the $20 million man, if you’ll. In accordance with a recent report, there might not be information on that entrance till Dune: Half Three is accomplished forward of its December 18, 2026, theatrical launch.

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