The film company, which owns the James Bond franchise, had held talks with Netflix and Apple
Amazon is in talks to acquire MGM, the Hollywood studio behind the James Bond and Rocky franchises, in a $9bn (£6.3bn) deal.
MGM, which put itself up for sale in December, is one of the few Hollywood studios with “crown jewel” franchises not to have been snapped up in the recent wave of mega mergers and acquisitions in the media industry.
