Amazon has announced this week that Jennifer Salke is resigning as head of Amazon MGM Studios-a move that could indicate a high-level dissatisfaction with the company’s flow strategy in recent years.
To be clear, the head of Salke Mike Hopkins (the head of Amazon MGM Studios and Prime Video) praised her work An email to employees and described its departure as one that allows the company to “level the structure of our leadership a little” – a repetitive issue in the recent layoffs of the technology company.
In other words, Amazon does not intend to fill the role of Salke. Instead, the heads of the film and the studios report directly to Hopkins.
But the reference to Salke’s departure highlights Amazon’s frustrations and challenges, under its leadership. Earlier an Exec on the NBC, Salke joined Amazon Studios in 2018, as the company was trying to expand beyond films and broadcasts to more successes.
The streamer has had its share of successes since then, including “Reacher”, “Jack Ryan”, “Fallout” and “The Boys”. He also made a big bet on “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power”, a performance of which the premiere drew a record for Amazonbut that has not been proven worldwide that you would hope for Reported budget of more than $ 1 billion.
And then there is a “Acropolis”, a spy show designed as the focus of a fantastic universe of world spinoffs such as “Acropolis: Diana” and “Citadel: Honey Bunny”. Extensive redesign was converted into “Acropolis” The second most accurate appearance ever made (Back only “the rings of power”), but its reception was even more sluggish. Hollywood reporter says The second season has been delayed from autumn 2025 to spring 2026with further spinoffs put on waiting.
Amazon also struggled to get another James Bond film in production, after acquiring MGM in 2022. Producers Michael Wilson and Barbara Broccoli (the long -term bond producer Albert “Cubby” was their father) A Wall Street Journal exhibition In December, he suggested that Barbara Broccoli was very unhappy with Amazon – apparently disturbed at an early meeting when Salke referred to Bond as “content” and also mentioned that he described Tech Giant’s team as “idiots”.
Another source said that the founder of Amazon Jeff Bezos was, in turn So angry by the story of WSJ for broccoli That he said: “I don’t care what we need to get rid of it,” with the company then paying Wilson and Broccoli to abandon control.
Salke’s name was Certainly missing from Amazon’s triumphant announcement on bond agreement. However, a new film and television production company will launch with a first appearance deal on Amazon.
