Consumer Goods: Amazon is About to Start Making Movies

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🗓️ 20 January 2015

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Motley Fool Analyst Nathan Hamilton and Sean O’Reilly discuss Amazon Studios big announcement, Shake Shack’s IPO, and the future of T-Mobile.

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0:00.0	Amazon Goes Hollywood. All that and more on the Consumer Goods Edition of Business Report. Welcome to ShowFools. I'm Nathan Hamilton. Today we are talking
0:15.6	Consumer Goods with Sean O'Reilly.
0:18.3	Hi everybody. So we're talking a little bit about Amazon's Shake Shack,
0:23.3	everything's happening this week.
0:24.4	Yeah, and the first item we're going to talk about
0:26.9	is Amazon's announcement from yesterday
0:29.0	that they are going to start making feature films
0:31.6	that will actually be released in thousands of theaters
0:34.0	nationwide and then get uploaded to Amazon Prime in six to eight weeks after
0:38.0	they're at least in theaters.
0:39.0	Really quick turnaround time. But this just confirms my theory that Jeff Bezos wants to be the next
0:44.6	Stephen Spielberg. Am I correct that in last week's show you did predict that
0:48.3	Bezos would be a Hollywood big wig? Yeah that was his that was his go all along.
0:53.6	Maybe we could make some money off that instead of investing in the stuff.
0:56.4	Yeah, yeah, we, uh, what, open up a movie theater?
0:59.6	I don't know.
1:00.6	I guess.
1:01.6	Yeah. Or be a content producer or so I'm so good.
1:04.2	Yep.
1:05.2	Yeah.
1:06.2	Like Woody, Woody Allen.
1:06.5	He got it.
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