I' m not all that sure it's easy to make many arguments in favour of the conglomeration of media brands that we're in the middle of right now – every time one studio or streamer buys another, it feels like the outcomes tend to be bad for creativity and viewers. Still, Amazon owning MGM does at least mean that the latter's movies go on Prime Video pretty sharpish most of the time, so that's a silver lining, eh?
A great case in point came on the first of this month, in the form of Crime 101, a well-reviewed and good-looking crime caper starring Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo and Halle Berry. It's streaming now on Prime Video and I'm extremely confident it's going to go on to do some very tidy numbers for Amazon.
