By PTI
LOS ANGELES: The producers of James Bond film “No Time To Die” have made it clear that the much-awaited movie will launch in theatres solely, regardless of Amazon’s current acquisition of studio MGM.
The two studios on Wednesday introduced that they’ve entered right into a definitive merger settlement underneath which Amazon will purchase MGM for a purchase order worth of USD 8.45 billion.
MGM owns the rights to movie productions of the James Bond franchise in addition to common film sequence like “Rocky”, “Legally Blonde” and “Tomb Raider”, and tv exhibits corresponding to “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills”.
Eon Productions’ Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson, who produce the movies within the James Bond franchise, instructed Variety that the newest film in addition to future movies will debut solely in theatres. “We are committed to continuing to make James Bond films for the worldwide theatrical audience,” Broccoli and Wilson stated.
Eon Productions is owned by the Broccoli household, which has shepherded the James Bond franchise of movies relationship all the best way again to the unique 007 movie “Dr No” in 1962.
The studio has a novel deal during which Broccoli and Wilson have closing say on the franchise’s advertising and marketing and distribution plans, in addition to splitting the income with MGM and in choosing who would be the subsequent individual to painting James Bond every time Daniel Craig steps away from the position.
“No Time To Die”, which can mark Craig’s fifth and closing look because the suave British spy, is at present scheduled to be launched within the US on October 8. The Cary Fukunaga-directed film may also function Rami Malek, Lea Seydoux, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Jeffrey Wright, Christoph Waltz, Rory Kinnear and Ralph Fiennes.
