Amazon shakes and stirs the streaming wars with MGM deal Jeff Bezos turns to James Bond owner MGM in latest push to boost his streaming and retail empire 18 May 2021 • 5:24pm Amazon is in talks over a $9bn (£6.4bn) deal to buy MGM, the Hollywood business behind the James Bond series James Bond and Jeff Bezos may soon share a little more than initials. After forging the world's biggest online retailer, pushing into grocery sales and creating a multi-billion dollar cloud computing business, the world's richest man now has ambitions to take over film. James Bond series and a welter of classic films spanning