{"id":101266,"date":"2025-10-26T01:55:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T01:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/101266\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T01:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T01:55:11","slug":"the-price-amazon-really-paid-for-the-james-bond-franchise-rights-is-shockingly-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/101266\/","title":{"rendered":"The Price Amazon Really Paid For The James Bond Franchise Rights Is Shockingly Low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After initial reports suggested Amazon had forked over $1 billion to gain full creative control of the James Bond franchise, it seems the tech giant actually paid substantially less. According to a recent tax filing, England&#8217;s greatest spy cost <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1757263\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Bezos<\/a> just $20 million \u2014 a steal, if you ask me (though there are caveats).<\/p>\n<p>When Amazon finally wrestled control of the James Bond franchise from stalwart custodians <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0110483\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Barbara Broccoli<\/a> and <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0933865\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael G. Wilson<\/a>, the narrative seemed fairly clear. The producers had guarded 007 as closely as possible ever since Broccoli&#8217;s father, Albert, handed them control in the mid-90s. Nothing could separate these two successors of the Broccoli legacy from their IP. Nothing,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After initial reports suggested Amazon had forked over $1 billion to gain full creative control of the James&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[6946,6947,430,6948,156,434,4223,409,111,43,139,69,5436,417,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-101266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-actors","9":"tag-actresses","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-directors","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-films","14":"tag-hollywood","15":"tag-movies","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-nz","20":"tag-stars","21":"tag-television","22":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}