The clashes James Bond and more

On Tuesday, Amazon MGM Studios announced that producers Amy Pascal and David Heyman will produce the upcoming James Bond movie for the company. But it was too late, the press statement may have been noticeable for what it did not include: a quote from Jennifer Salik, head of the Amazon MGM Studios Department. Instead, it was the president of the movie Courtenay Valenti who announced the deal.

Hollywood may have been shaken, but it was not moved, by news this week that Salik had left after seven years in Amazon – and how James Bond may have been among the issues that lead to her departure. The talk about Salik’s departure was amid power struggle with Mike Hopkins, President of Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios, revolving for a while – and last month the deal was put in the creative Amazon hands was another indication that Hopkins was about to make a change.

Salik and Parbra Brocoli, Steward Brund Bond long ago, have not seen the fate of the privilege from the moment Amazon acquired MGM-including those valuable property-for $ 8.5 billion in 2022. He was developing Hopkins, an inactive executive who had been organized since joining Amazon in 2020, which was instead of that.

like diverse Recently, it is believed that the broccoli told others that she did not feel inspiring from working with SALKE. Things reached her head when WSJ published an article in December about bonds. This caused a great alert inside the studio. Salik’s relationship on the side of the film was lacking in and that she had not had the creative pieces of landing on the plane on one of the largest privileges in Hollywood history. (This also helped accelerate the Amazon deal to buy cauliflower, after negotiations began in early 2024.)

The sources said that Salik wanted to make the association in a broader and less dangerous character that could be caused by television programs and carrying video games. But her desire to make 007 in a lover of Central America made Brukley, according to multiple sources. The informed that Salik Bond’s vision suggested that he was a rebellious spy on cookies from NBC drama, and not a dangerous IP that a handful of the most respectable managers can be treated.

Last month, Broccoli and her half-brother, Michael Wilson, eventually fell on that deal that gives Amazon control of concession-but they may also have a hint that the structure inside the company was about to change.

Salik has always enjoyed a good reputation in having a sharp eye for creative talent. This is what kept her in place for seven years as a creative pioneer for a more well -known technology company with more free shipping than free expression.

But in Amazon, it became clear that the world was not sufficient for Hopkins-and that speculation was already in the air when he announced in a memorandum of employees on Thursday that Salik would move from her job to a first production deal.

Of course, talent was seen as a weak Hopkins link, while the list of increasing achievements was constantly since it reached the technology giant. But if Salake is not able to make him work with what is now seen in the end as the most important brand that she exploits in the Amazon MGM world, this was the last straw needed for Hopkins to do it.

Diamonds may be forever, but these functions are not so – the problem of the Salake’s James Bond is ultimately to leave, but it was not the only reason. Certainly, for Amazon Andy Jassy CEO, Jeff Bezos and Seattle Management Team, Talent is fun and Hollywood is nice. But this is not the summary. Although Hollywood fluctuations mean that Salik and her team spend large dollars on the fluctuations that do not always work, Hopkins wins fans in the north to develop live sports works, expand its international arrival and enhance the Amazon channels. Recently, Hopkins scored a great victory by bringing Apple TV+ to Prime Video as an addition. For Sayattle, the seal deals like this are where the money reaches.

The relationship between Hopkins and Salik is always weak-but it succeeded for a while because Salik had creative goods, which is lacking in a button suit like Hopkins, even with his previous work at Sony Pictures TV, Hulu and Fox Networks Group. I took what was traveling with a hurry while making a specialized TV, independently-and struggled to recover after allegations of sexual harassment against his head at that time, and turned him into a big player, who programs both broad procedures such as “Bush” and the science fiction chain with surprising prizes such as “boys” and “Fallout”. She also managed to move in Pesus’s personal obsession, “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power”, which has become the most expensive TV series in history (cost more than a billion dollars).

“Power Episode” was fine, although it is worth it will be discussed forever – it does not matter, as long as Bezos is happy. Amazon’s great stab wound to create a great world world, and “Castle” from Rousseau Prades, and everyone is still talking about, and what may also be about the tide against Salik in the Hopkins world.

Consider second The idea was the most expensive idea (with a limited budget due to re -sales), the idea looked great on paper: a large spy series (Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Richard Madden) which will then call it by competitions in regions all over the world. To date, the mother was broadcast in 2023 and she was renewed for the second season, while Italian follow -up (“Citadel: Diana”) and Hindi (“Citadel: Honey Bunny”). But it is certain that it is not the phenomenon of pop culture that Amazon expected, and there is no sign of whether any of this follow -up will witness light today or when

During the SXSW committee earlier this month, the MPA Charlie Rivkin President hosted it, SALKE treated the balance between creative risks but he is familiar with budgets: “Creative condemnation truly rules the rules per day, but you have to be right, which is another principle of Amazon,” she said. “If you have got a lot of conviction and you are wrong all the time, I don’t think we will sit in our jobs for a long time. You may be wrong at times, because you want to adopt the risks.”

According to Talk about Hollywood, as the return on investment in many large budget Amazon projects, Hopkins removed Greenlight Power from SALKE last year. Then the last passion came with Bond.

However, Hopkins may have felt ready to be the Exec that Amazon MGM Studios was directly informed, and that layer spends between him and creativity. Timing is not a coincidence: it comes just a few days before Cinemacon, where Amazon MGM Studios will present on the main stage for the first time to inspect its theatrical list. Hopkins wants to be this Messenger.

For this reason, Salake was not replaced, along with savings in the costs that remove the head of the well -assumed studio. “Simplification” is how Hopkins put it for actors all over the city on Thursday when he made calls to explain this step, how TV (under Vernon Sanders) and the film (led by Courtina Valnte) will now be informed.

However, there may be more changes in full swing, as Hopkins referred to in his memoirs to the employees, “We will take two weeks to conduct studied conversations with the glex gene and other finishing touches on the ideal structure in the long -term Amazon MGM Studios as a whole, and we will share more in this work soon.”

As for the following Salik, the sources all over the city indicated that the new Amazon’s first production deal is actually setting it for a new chapter that would somewhat liberate it from the creative restrictions that come with the answer to technology heads. They notice that the practice that was common in production deals is very rare these days, and the fact that Salik is still comfortable for this new role, perhaps a testimony to the influence that he had in making Amazon a real player in Hollywood.

Hopkins gave that list in his memo: “” Power “,” Fallout “,” Reacher “,” Red One “,” Maxton Hall “,” Your Idea “,” The Master and Mrs. Smith “,” Solsen “,” Road House “,” Beast Games “,” Culpa Mia/Tuya “and”. Families … only this list covers the past 18 months. ”In fact, given its impressive record in Amazon, the sources say in the program suppliers that they hope that Salake’s exit will be an indication that creativity takes the back seat in the flowing giant.

Salik was also praised because of its aggressive push in putting more voices and talent on the screen. “When I got to Amazon, I felt that we were doing a great job with what everyone calls” cranes ” -” Jack Ryan “, Jack,” she said during the SXSW session. “We really felt that we are a female leadership team … for us it is related to the audience’s representation. I felt that we were not really doing a good job for creativity and an addiction destination for women … This team put an amazing list directed towards women, not to give up” Abna TV “. So the crossed fingers come in large numbers, and make more content in movies and television for women.”

As a product, SALKE will continue to get this opportunity to do this – and perhaps, to leave after seven fruitful in Amazon, which would give her a quantity of solace.