Jennifer Salke, the top of Amazon MGM Studios, is stepping down from her position and can as an alternative deal with producing, in response to an inside memo obtained by Deadline. Within the memo, Mike Hopkins, Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios head, tells staff that the corporate won’t fill Salke’s position as a part of efforts to “flatten our management construction.”
“As I’ve been contemplating my subsequent chapter, I’ve all the time been trying to find that second the place I used to be constructive that our work had arrange Amazon MGM Studios for much more success in the long run,” Salke says within the memo. “After I take a look at the groups we’ve put in place, our superb leaders, and the unimaginable slate of movies and exhibits we’ve obtained within the pipeline, I spotted now could be that second.”
Nonetheless, a separate report from Deadline paints the state of affairs in a different way, saying Salke’s “incapability to mesh with the gatekeepers of the James Bond films may properly have sealed her destiny.” Amazon had been locked in a stalemate with Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson following its acquisition of MGM, however the duo agreed to surrender artistic management of the franchise in February. As famous by Deadline, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos “took discover” following The Wall Street Journal’s report suggesting that Broccoli clashed with Salke.
Amazon didn’t instantly reply to The Verge’s request for remark.