Amazon Now Controls James Bond, Kathleen Kennedy Stepping Down at Lucasfilm, DC Update From James Gunn & Peter Safran, and More
/Film Weekly
SlashFilm.com
4.4 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
On the February 25, 2025 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film editor Brad Oman to talk about the latest film and TV news.
In The News:
- James Bond Is Now Owned By Amazon – Here's Why That's So Shocking
- New Martin Scorsese Crime Movie Will Star Leonardo DiCaprio And, Uh, The Rock?!
- Star Wars Boss Kathleen Kennedy Expected To Leave Lucasfilm By The End Of 2025
- First Andor Season 2 Trailer Brings The Revolution Back To Star Wars
- An Extraction TV Series Is Coming To Netflix, But Without Chris Hemsworth
- Take a break
- James Gunn & Peter Safran's DC Studios Vision Is The Ambitious Antidote To Superhero Fatigue
- Will Robert Pattinson's Batman Join The New DCU? James Gunn Has The Final Answer
- Clayface Is An R-Rated 'Pure' Body Horror Movie Set In The DC Universe - But Which One?
- DC's Clayface Movie Officially Coming Courtesy Of A Director With Proper Horror Movie Bonafides
- James Gunn Responds To Concerns That Superman Is An Ensemble Movie After First Trailer
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| 1:00.1 | 2025. On today's episode of the show, we're going to be talking about the latest film and TV |
| 1:03.9 | news. My name is Ben Pearson. I'm an editor at slashfilm.com, and I'm joined on today's episode by Slashfilm Editor Brad Oman. Hey, that's me. All right, Brad, |
| 1:12.1 | we have to start today by talking about the big James Bond news that broke the last week. So I'm |
| 1:17.7 | going to provide some context and then I want to hear what you think about all of this. So the James |
| 1:22.6 | Bond franchise has been controlled for decades by essentially one family. Barbara Broccoli and Michael |
| 1:27.8 | G. Wilson, who are half siblings and offspring of Cubby Broccoli, one of the key producers |
| 1:32.5 | of the original Bond movies, they took over from their father decades ago and have been |
| 1:38.6 | behind every creative decision involving this franchise ever since. Until last week, when word |
| 1:44.1 | came out that broccoli |
| 1:45.5 | and Wilson have now officially stepped back and relinquished control of James Bond to Amazon, |
| 1:51.1 | who wanted Bond so badly that they paid $8.5 billion for MGM a couple years ago. But that deal |
| 1:59.6 | did not give Amazon exactly what they wanted. The |
| 2:02.7 | broccoli's were still there and were still controlling every aspect of bond and clashing hard |
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