Louise Bernard, with Ophélie Artaud 10:44 a.m., November 24, 2022
The American giant would consider producing films for the cinema, according to the American media Bloomberg.
Amazon would even be willing to shell out more than a billion dollars each year, with the aim of producing 12 to 15 films a year.
What give a boost to the film industry, in difficulty since the pandemic.
The American giant Amazon soon to produce films in the cinema?
This is according to the American media Bloomberg.
The Amazon company would be ready to spend more than a billion dollars each year, to produce 12 to 15 films per year.
What's interesting is that it's roughly equivalent to what big companies like Universal, Paramount or Warner Bros. produce.
A passage in theaters via the MGM studio
Very good financial news for the cinema industry, which has been in difficulty since the pandemic.
And which also suffers from competition with streaming platforms like Amazon Prime Video.
Even if Amazon was already more open to the idea of making films for the cinema than its rivals, like Netflix.
But unlike the latter, which produces a hundred films each year, Amazon only produces a few dozen original creations each year.
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To embark on a production of such magnitude, Amazon will rely on the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) studio, bought last year.
This is the historic American studio which notably produced the films of the
James Bond
saga .