MGM: Last News

Variety tradition of blindly forecasting awards season is meant to be fun and expectation-free. Last year’s edition correctly predicted three of the 10 best picture nominees — “Conclave,” “Dune: Part Two” and “Nickel Boys” — but the actual winner, “Anora,” wasn’t even on our radar. That unpredictability is part of the joy of this type of piece.

Selome Hailu Amazon Prime Video has ordered “Octopus!,” a two-part documentary special narrated and executive produced by Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Per the official description, the documentary project “transports viewers into the otherworldly depths of one of the most intelligent and mysterious life forms on Earth as it follows the Giant Pacific Octopus from birth to death.

Raye is paying tribute to James Bond!

Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is adding two new faces for the show’s upcoming third season!

During a TV interview focused on Wednesday’s news about new AI features being added to Amazon‘s Alexa voice assistant, CEO Andy Jassy was asked about the topic du jour in Hollywood: James Bond.

Tatiana Siegel In late January 2024, Barbara Broccoli attended a performance of her stage musical “Buena Vista Social Club” at the Atlantic Theater in New York. The longtime James Bond producer and gatekeeper was joined by three top Amazon MGM Studios executives — Jennifer Salke, Courtenay Valenti and Julie Rapaport — for a night that also included dinner and shop talk. For months, Salke’s boss, Mike Hopkins, had spearheaded discussions with Broccoli about Bond’s future at Amazon.

Timothy Dalton has revealed he is “sad” at the prospect of James Bond falling into the hands of Amazon.

EXCLUSIVE: Lincoln Child’s New York Times bestselling book series Jeremy Logan, is being put into feature development at Amazon MGM Studios with Safehouse Pictures producing.Jeremy Lott and Cory Goodman are writing the script. The film will follow Jeremy Logan who is a self-proclaimed “enigmatologist,” an investigator who works to debunk the paranormal and unexplained using modern science. The Jeremy Logan books include the Child’s novels Deep Storm, Terminal Freeze, The Third Gate, The Forgotten Room, Full Wolf Moon, and Chrysalis. The film will fall under Safehouse Pictures’ first-look film deal with the studio, with Joby Harold and Tory Tunnell producing.Goodman and Lott are currently adapting the comic series Proof for FOX. They have also landed several seven-figure spec deals including Lore for Warner Bros. starring Dwayne Johnson, and Hood for Sony with Jerry Bruckheimer producing. Separately, Goodman wrote Priest and Underworld: Awakening for Screen Gems, The Last Witch Hunter for Lionsgate, and previously collaborated with Safehouse Pictures on The Oberlin Incident for Paramount. Additionally, Lott is executive producing Hannibal for Netflix. This project marks a homecoming for Lott as he worked at MGM until 2012. Goodman is repped by Verve, Aperture, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, et al. Lott is represented by Aperture and Goodman, Genow, Schkenman, Shelkinson, et al.

Scott Foley will star in Amazon Prime Video’s “It’s Not Like That” as a modern-day minister named Malcolm. Prime Video gave a cast contingent series order to the show, from faith-based content studio Wonder Project, in November. This casting lifts the contingency.

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios‘ Verity, based on the #1 New York Times bestseller by Colleen Hoover, has five new cast additions: Ismael Cruz Cordóva (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power), Brady Wagner (Broadway’s Merrily We Roll Along), Irina Dvorovenko (And Just Like That…), K.K. Moggie (The Good Wife), and Michael Abbott Jr. (The Drama).

Katcy Stephan On Thursday morning, Amazon founder and executive chair Jeff Bezos posed a question to his X followers: “Who’d you pick as the next Bond?” Just one day prior, that inquiry may have felt a bit presumptuous: while Amazon’s $8.5 billion MGM acquisition in 2022 gave it the rights to distribute the Bond films, Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson had long been the heads of Eon Productions and the franchise’s custodians.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Emma Knight’s recent coming-of-age bestseller “The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus” has been set up as a TV series at Amazon‘s MGM Television. Based on the book of the same name, the series is described as “a sharp coming-of-age journey set in the glamorous world of high academia, old money and one eccentric upper-class family.” Per the logline for “The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus,” “Arriving at the University of Edinburgh for her first term, Pen knows her divorced parents back in Boston are hiding something from her. She believes she’ll find the answer here in Scotland, where an old friend of her father’s—now a famous writer known as Lord Lennox—lives.

The 2025 NAACP Image Awards honored the best in Black excellence for the past year and we have the full list of winners!

Jack Dunn Timothy Dalton, who played James Bond in 1987’s “The Living Daylights” and 1989’s “Licence to Kill,” is weighing in on the blockbuster deal that saw longtime producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli pass complete creative control of the iconic British super spy franchise to Amazon MGM Studios. “I was very, very surprised and shocked,” Dalton said of the deal in an interview with Radio Times.

One former James Bond has a thing or two to say about the decision by longtime producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli to relinquish control of the franchise to Amazon MGM Studios.

We have confirmed that Gerry Rich, who steered the Bond films going back to Goldeneye, is leaving Amazon MGM Studios. This was an amicable departure, and we understand it was a hard decision for Rich to make. While there’s the coincidence that his exit follows Amazon MGM Studios’ full creative control of Bond from Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson, the two instances are not connected.

Naman Ramachandran The long-running Australian soap opera “Neighbours” is set to end its run once again, with the final episode scheduled to air in December. The announcement comes barely two years after Amazon rescued the series from cancellation, marking a bittersweet end to the show’s 40-year legacy. The beloved series, which launched the careers of global superstars Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan and Margot Robbie, has been chronicling the lives and dramas of Melbourne’s fictional Erinsborough residents since its inception.

Neighbours is coming to an end once again.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic It turns out they were right to kill off James Bond. Three years ago, reviewing the final Daniel Craig Bond film, “No Time to Die,” I praised the filmmakers’ decision to end the movie with the death of Craig’s 007.

David Leitch may be in talks to direct Ocean’s 14 for Warner Bros, as we confirmed just last month. But we’re told that will not be his next project, as he’s currently moving quickly toward production on a new bank heist action flick at Amazon.

Daniel Craig weighed in on huge James Bond news.