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Amazon set to plot course of future James Bond content

Eleven days ago, Amazon MGM Studios [1] struck a deal with producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson [2-3] to assume total creative control of “the James Bond franchise” [4]. As covered by Variety, in “2022, Amazon bought MGM for $8.5 billion, acquiring a vast catalog with more than 4,000 films and 17,000 TV shows alongside the rights to distribute all of the James Bond films.

Further reporting indicates that Amazon “invested an additional … continued

Auction of Licence to Kill “orphan” Bond watch

In 2018, United Kingdom auction house Fellows listed a rather interesting watch with James Bond movie provenance [1-2].

Auctions of screen-worn James Bond watches are hardly uncommon, of course [3]. In the case of this Rolex 5513 Submariner associated with Licence to Kill, however, it made no claim to have been worn by actor Timothy Dalton as Agent 007. Rather, it was on the wrist of stunt double Rodney Pincott — and included documentation … continued