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 Amazon Bought Metro Goldwyn Mayer


The multinational technology company Amazon, founded by Jeff Bezos in the USA in 1994, bought the media company Metro Goldwn Mayer, which was founded in 1924 and one of the largest film-series and program studios in the world, for 8.45 billion dollars.


The rights of the television series and the program, which totaled 17 thousand hours with an average of 4 thousand films produced by the company, passed to Amazon. Among the films produced by the film company, which brought important and popular films to world cinema history, the most well-known examples are: The Wizard of Oz, Singin' in the Rain, Rain Man, An American in Paris, Ben Hur, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Rain Man, Thelma & Louise, Hannibal, Robocop and Rocky, James Bond and the Hobbit series. In addition, among the productions produced by the company, there are also watched television series such as Fargo, The Handmaid's Tale and Vikings. After the deal, moviegoers are waiting to watch this and many more productions on Prime Video, Amazon's TV series and movie viewing platform.