Takeover of MGM studio: Amazon moves closer to Hollywood

Big maneuvers are rife in the global television landscape.

This time, it's Amazon that goes on the offensive.

After the marriage announced a few days ago between Warner and Discovery, Amazon is tackling Hollywood in turn and is preparing to buy the legendary MGM studio, to which we owe the "James Bond", "The Pink Panther "and series like" Fargo "or" Stargate ".

So certainly the roaring lion of Hollywood has lost a little of its splendor but Amazon is still ready to put nine billion dollars to afford it.

It would be the second biggest purchase in history for Jeff Bezos' group.

Its goal is to pull the rug out from under its competitors.

This is one more episode in the war that major platforms like Netflix for Disney are waging to conquer available brain time on a global scale.

By getting its hands on the Metro Goldwyn Meyer, Amazon is targeting a whole catalog of films likely to feed its Prime Video streaming service, a direct competitor of Netflix, Disney or Apple TV.

Make no mistake, the battle for television is being played out between these American giants.

To give you an idea, what Amazon is willing to pay to buy back the MGM is more than four times the value of TF1 and twice the whole M6 + TF1.

Suddenly, we wonder what could stop Amazon.

The antitrust, the guardians of competition. This Tuesday, for example, the city of Washington filed a complaint against the e-commerce giant, which it accuses of abusing its dominant position in the commerce sector. The European Union has already taken legal action on the same basis. But that doesn't stop the Amazon steamroller from continuing to move forward. It has the means to become a major player in television worldwide and to compete with Netflix and its 200 million subscribers. And it is clear that in the face of these giants, we weigh little.