“…Amazon Studios reputedly invested US$465 million on the first season of Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power, after acquiring the rights from the Tolkien estate for an estimated US$250 million (Hibberd, 2021). Two years later, the studio sank US$300 million in Citadel, a six-episode spy-thriller which received a mixed bag of reviews (Armstrong, 2023). In between these two series, Amazon had cash left for further investments and acquired MGM, a Hollywood major, for US$ 8.5 billion in March 2022.…”