PARIS, France — Amazon MGM Studios will take creative control of the "James Bond" franchise in a landmark joint venture agreement with longtime producers Michael Wilson and Barbara Broccoli. It marks ...

On Thursday, Amazon MGM Studios — which owns the long-running James Bond franchise — announced the studio would be taking over creative control of the series. The franchise has been creatively managed ...

The announcement that creative control of 007 would be ceded to Amazon came following reports that the Broccoli-controlled film franchise had been in 'crisis' since Daniel Craig's No Time To Die.

Amazon now fully owns the rights to James Bond after the original owners, Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, stepped ...

A big piece of that is because James Bond has been shepherded by a very exclusive group of people since he hit the screen.

Craig played the character for 15 years, and his departure spurred years of speculation about what its future might be.