Nate Spidgewood
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Maybe you're right, I think the Annapurna/MGM joint venture should only cover self-financed movies and co-productions between the two, while other movies would be handled by the larger studios, mainly the ones that require co-financing.
Didn't MGM just expand their slate to almost fourteen to sixteen movies a year though?
I haven't seen anything saying that the partnership with Annapurna has to be exclusive, so yes, I think that MGM would be able to take Bond elsewhere if they chose. Creed remains unclear. As this announcement yesterday was the first mention ever of a release date for Creed 2, and it was buried in the announcement of the new venture, I would think there will be a more formal release coming from WB and MGM about that soon.
It's also worth noting that Wednesday, November 21 is only a few days after the previous Friday, November 16 sees WB launch the Fantastic Beasts sequel. Whether they would want to release two films in that close proximity to each other is an open question (although there would not necessarily be a huge overlap in audience for those properties if they did -- some, of course, but those are clearly going to be marketed differently toward different audience segments anyway.)
Maybe you're right, I think the Annapurna/MGM joint venture should only cover self-financed movies and co-productions between the two, while other movies would be handled by the larger studios, mainly the ones that require co-financing.
Didn't MGM just expand their slate to almost fourteen to sixteen movies a year though?