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The only other places I've found it is on the blurb on this Sock Company page and this 007 interactive game, with much the same phrasing.
So what's London Operations LLC? Do they own James Bond?
EDIT: one more result, it looks like they own the trademark for 007 First Light, and London Operations LLC is given as Culver City Studios, which is where Amazon MGM is based. So my guess is London Operations LLC is the name of the new venture which owns Bond?
You may have found the new holdings company for all the James Bond rights @mtm
https://uspto.report/company/London-Operations-L-L-C
London Operations LLC are based at:
9336 W. Washington Blvd. Culver City, CALIFORNIA UNITED STATES 90232
Culver City is where (shocker) Amazon Studios are based:
https://www.hackmancapital.com/michael-hackman-on-his-major-culver-city-buys-and-landing-dream-tenant-amazon/
Nice find!
I think you're right, I guess this is the new venture which MGM and Broccoli/Wilson co-own...?
As you say, I guess it's a holding company, much like Danjaq was, and MGM licence James Bond from London Operations, much like Eon presumably licensed James Bond from Danjaq previously.
The Delaware LLC lookup service says it was formed on 8th November 2024, but not who the registered owners are, which is a shame.
So unless I'm misreading this, that means this holding company was set up a good while before the official announcement of Amazon taking the creative rights to Bond? As I've said a while after the announcement, I think this was all a long time in the making anyway, and it'd put the PR wars with the WSJ article and even Salke's bizarre comments during an interview (and to some extent her firing) into perspective about the ins and outs of these negotiations.
Brosnan as Dikko Henderson and Dalton as Blofeld in the faithful adaptation of YOLT we all want. Throw in Janssen as Irma Bunt.
+1.
Negativity based on nothing other than speculation.
I love Dalton's first reading of "Bond, James Bond." He's a man on a mission, first and foremost. And it ties with his characterization soon after the PTS: "If he fires me, I'll thank him for it."
You know, as if Dalton was intentionally playing the Bond character consistently throughout the film.
What about this?
Yeah, the sale was probably in the pipeline for years really, it's a lot of money and an awfully big thing to do. Some folks have said they were looking to do it since a couple of years after Spectre, but I wouldn't have thought it would be a great deal for anyone but MGM (as anyone else buying out the Brocs would be partnered with MGM), and they were really only in a position to do it after Amazon bought them.
On a smaller level I'm wondering why this London thing has taken so long to appear. Maybe the ownership has taken a little while to transfer in some way.
Yes, but I adjust my opinion depending on the information that we receive from Amazon. Knight is a particularly good sign.
If that’s the case then I think EON were much more savvy with their PR than many of us believe - ie. saying publicly since 2022 ‘we’re the custodians of this franchise for better or worse’, about how Bond should be a cinema release, how Bond is best played by a 30+ year old in their experience, how they should be contemporary films, and even the tentative deadline of a Bond film being 2 years away. It also puts the WSJ article into perspective with little quotes like ‘Broccoli doesn’t believe Amazon is the best home for Bond’. It gives the criticisms of Amazon a whole new meaning if you go into it believing a deal was underway and the conditions of which were being ironed out. As I’ve said before I think they won more than most believe.
It also means Jennifer Salke is a complete idiot who either knew nothing of all this (which is highly unlikely) or inadvertently set off a very bad reaction from EON and may have given them a lot of what they wanted (ie. Saying ‘we’ll wait for them’ when all this was going down, making it seem like EON were the ones holding a new Bond film back, and of course making way for that WSJ article the following month. Again, either that’s ignorant or extraordinarily stupid and antagonistic of her to say in public).
And I'll adjust mine as more info comes in, same as you.
https://screenrant.com/marvel-studios-leaving-georgia-filming-location/
On the flipside, wasn't there some handwringing (by me. My hands were wrung) that Disney has booked out most of the blockbuster level studio space in the UK for decades to come? I seem to remember that we tried to include that in our calculations on a Bond26 timeline.
I know what you mean. But First Light is a video game. Dennis Villeneuve won't make a video game-like James Bond film, rest assured. Nor will Knight write one. To ease your concerns, I advise you to watch the making off video for Blade Runner 2049. I get really excited each time I revisit it. Top notch artists, those were. And now, with a proper writer, we'll get something special. Patrick Gibson would also never be Bond in a film made by these fellas, IMO. It'll all be special, in that I truly believe. If...no one drops out in the meantime ;)
I'd say the odds of that are about 50/50.
We're on a James Bond fan site, and even we have only from one page worth of things to talk about regarding Bond 26 in the past 2 weeks! Development is moving at a snails pace, I would not be surprised if Villeneuve decides he can't wait on making his other projects and leaves the production. Simply put, there's no way they are going to make the film on the schedule they originally planned for.
Always worth saying we don’t know anything about their development or what’s going on behind the scenes. They appear to be moving on with it though. Let’s just see. Anyway, if it turns out someone drops out I’m sure there’ll be a suitable replacement.
They haven't announced a schedule. You really should find something else to worry about.