Casino Royale Epix
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We know people are burning through their Netflix queues at a cracking pace right now, bingeing the buzziest movies and series as they drop and finally getting to those things you’ve been putting on the backburner for months. To help out – and calm the stress that you could run out of things to. Casino Royale is a worthy exception to the rule that reboots are pointless and underwhelming, delivering just the sort of reinvention that the franchise needed. It may even be the best film in the.
MGM, who still haven't got a theatrical distribution arm and fumbled all last year with an attempted buyout by Chinese investors, managed to find over $1 billion of funding to buy out their partners in the Epix pay TV channel in the USA. Viacom and Lionsgate got $1.031 billion to give control to the lion.
Epix consists of four pay-tv channels in the USA, and as part of the deal, Paramount Pictures and Lionsgate have committed first-runs of their new movies on the platform in a multi-year deal.
Casino Royal was a spoof of the James Bond series featuring an all star cast of Peter Sellers, David Niven, Ursula Andress, Woody Allen, plus a bunch of cameos by Orson Wells, William Holden, John Houston, and others. Casino Royale, novel by British writer Ian Fleming, published in 1953, which is the first of his 12 blockbuster novels about the suave and supercompetent British spy James Bond. The book is packed with violent action, hairbreadth escapes, international espionage, and clever spy gadgets. Other content at launch will include a 1950s black-and-white series about a CIA agent named 'Jimmy Bond,' originally adapted by CBS from Ian Fleming's 'Casino Royale.' Also on the slate will be.
'The addition of Epix provides MGM with a premier distribution platform that complements our strong stable of new and library content in both film and television,' Gary Barber, chairman and CEO of MGM, said Wednesday in a statement.
Since MGM has shrunk in size and can't fund the budgets of major new films by itself, its revenues have skewed towards television production and milking its back-catalog. The Epix deal is another sign of where the studio's focus is.
Meanwhile, EON can't start production on Bond 25 until MGM find a co-financier and distributor for 007, or MGM sells it's 50% ownership of the Bond rights to someone else.
MGM, who still haven't got a theatrical distribution arm and fumbled all last year with an attempted buyout by Chinese investors, managed to find over $1 billion of funding to buy out their partners in the Epix pay TV channel in the USA. Viacom and Lionsgate got $1.031 billion to give control to the lion.
Epix consists of four pay-tv channels in the USA, and as part of the deal, Paramount Pictures and Lionsgate have committed first-runs of their new movies on the platform in a multi-year deal.
'The addition of Epix provides MGM with a premier distribution platform that complements our strong stable of new and library content in both film and television,' Gary Barber, chairman and CEO of MGM, said Wednesday in a statement.
Since MGM has shrunk in size and can't fund the budgets of major new films by itself, its revenues have skewed towards television production and milking its back-catalog. The Epix deal is another sign of where the studio's focus is.
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Meanwhile, EON can't start production on Bond 25 until MGM find a co-financier and distributor for 007, or MGM sells it's 50% ownership of the Bond rights to someone else.