Amazon has announced this week that Jennifer Salak is retiring as the head of Amazon MGM Studios. This is a move that can indicate high -level dissatisfaction with the company’s streaming strategy over the past few years.
Clearly, Boss Mike Hopkins (head of Amazon MGM Studios and Prime Video) praised his work An email to employees And called its departure a one that allows the company to “flatten our leadership structure a bit”. Once a repeated walk theme Get rid of the recent tech company.
In other words, Amazon does not intend to fill the role of the year. Instead, the heads of her film and TV studios directly report to Hopkins.
But reporting about the departure of the year highlights Amazon’s series of frustrations and challenges under his leadership. A hanging in the NBC before, Seeker joined Amazon Studios in 2018Since the company wanted to expand the mainstream hit films beyond critical admirable films and shows.
Since then, the streamer has been involved in his achievements, including “Reacher,” “Jack Ryan,” “Fallout,” and “Boys”. He also made a great bet on “The Lord of the Rings: Power’s ring”, whose premiere Developed a record audience for AmazonBut which has not proved globally controversial trends that you hope An Notification Budget over $ 1 billion.
And then there is a “fort”, a spy show designed as a fantasy universe of the World Spin Office like “Studel: Diana” and “Studel: Honey Bani”. Allegedly turned into a “fortress” wide The second most expensive show so far (Just behind the “power circles”), but it has been welcome. Hollywood reporter says The second season delayed from the fall of 2025 to Spring 2026Stop with more spin office.
Amazon has also struggled to bring another James Bond film into production, followed by The pursuit of MGM in 2022. Producers Michael Wilson and Barbara Brooklyn (the descendants of the long -standing Bond Producer Albert “Cobby” Brooklyn) maintained the franchise’s creative control, and A report of the Wall Street Journal In December it was suggested that Barbara Broccoli was particularly unhappy with Amazon – she was apparently angry at the initial meeting when the seeker called the bond “content”, and even reported to the Tech Dev team as “stupid”.
Another source said that the founder of Amazon Jeff Bezos was in return, So Broccoli got angry with the WSJ story about That he announced, “I don’t care what happens to him, get rid of it,” the company later paid to Wilson and Broccoli to give up control.
Was the name of the year Bond Dell’s Amazon’s winning announcement disappears significantly. However, she will start a new film and TV production company with a first look in Amazon.