However, companies that kicked the tires on MGM when it was being quietly shopped in recent months had expressed shock over the price that Amazon was willing to pay for the studio. They believed the studio was worth more on the order of $5 billion to $6 billion with the assumption of some debt. That was due in part to the fact that MGM shares the rights to the Bond franchise with Eon Productions. That company, which is run by half-siblings Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, has an unusual amount of control over the spy series — the approve everything from marketing to casting to distribution. That means that Amazon will struggle to get their sign off on any move to, say, debut the next Bond film on its streaming service, Amazon Prime.
Ah, yes, contracts, like how Disney+ and HBO Max were missing shows/movies they would normally own due to how the contracts were signed back in the Before Times.
Thank fuck we don’t tax or regulate corporations or the oligarchs who control them in any meaningful way, or we’d endanger the Shadowrun Prophecies and endanger causality itself.
Yeah, that’s my impression as well. MGM may have broadcast rights, but Rob Burnett has control of and possession of any non-broadcast footage, outtakes not packaged for broadcast and such.
Now, if someone from the show has their own copy of the former President saying untoward things in outtakes, that might be an interesting contractual conundrum…though it seems at least fairly likely that Rob Burnett has contractual control over any of that stuff.
I would imagine so…though he’s also as cynical and businesslike as anyone out there, so if he kept a couple of very secret recordings on hand just in case DJT had cause to throw him under the bus at some future point that wouldn’t surprise me either.
But the rumor is that it’s others associated with the show who aren’t Burnett who may have their own recordings that could be out there. At this point though, that seems as much urban legend as reality.
