MGM hasn't been much of an "active" studio since the 90s, seemingly on a long slow decline shutting down active projects. After key studio retirements, MGM has

MGM hasn't been much of an "active" studio since the 90s, seemingly on a long slow decline shutting down active projects. After key studio retirements, MGM has seemed to be okay with mostly just being a holding company and surviving off of almost nothing but it's relationship with EON Productions leaving them the distributer of James Bond films and royalties from (re)releases from their back catalog. If Amazon is buying them to be an active studio, they've made entirely the wrong choice. (Amazon is probably buying them entirely for their deep back catalog and IP. Which is why they were up for sale in the first place.)