Amazon Paid Just $20 Million for the James Bond Franchise

Amazon, 1 of the wealthiest corporations successful the world, paid a comparative pittance for power of the James Bond franchise: $20 million.

That means Amazon paid little than the $25 cardinal that Daniel Craig was reportedly paid for his last Bond film, No Time to Die.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, this revelation comes from a U.K. taxation filing made by EON Productions, the erstwhile 007 franchise accumulation institution tally by Barbara Broccoli and her stepbrother, Michael G. Wilson.

The duo sold the rights to the Bond franchise to Amazon successful February, granting the tech elephantine implicit originative power implicit each James Bond intelligence property, a stunning determination that rankled immoderate Bond fans and Amazon critics.

“On 20 February 2025, the institution entered into an statement for the merchantability of its involvement successful the Bond franchise, each associated assets arsenic good arsenic its subsidiary companies, B24 Limited and B25 Limited. The full information for the merchantability amounted to $20 cardinal (USD),” according to EON’s filing.

But, arsenic THR notes, it’s apt Broccoli and Wilson volition yet marque acold much than a specified $20 cardinal disconnected the franchise that their household had tally since the 1960s.

According to the trade, “the Broccoli household volition proceed to person economical vulnerability to the Bond franchise done the associated task operation of the deal. It is besides imaginable that determination are different elements similar earnouts oregon banal options that could interaction the worth of the last merchantability price. Sources said astatine the clip that the full worth could beryllium person to $1 billion.”

Amazon MGM Studios is actively processing the 26th James Bond movie with Dune’s Denis Villeneuve directing, David Heyman and Amy Pascal producing, and Peaky Blinders’ Steven Knight penning the screenplay.

The filmmakers are reportedly looking to formed a “fresh face” arsenic 007, specifically an chartless antheral British histrion successful their precocious 20s to aboriginal 30s.

James Bond 26 begins filming successful 2027 for a 2028 merchandise date.