In May, Amazon made a deal to buy Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to supercharge its content pipeline even further. Last year, Amazon spent $11 billion on entertainment programming, a 41 percent increase from a year earlier. And you thought Amazon’s ambitions in Hollywood were limited to a single streaming service.Īmazon Prime Video, of course, ranks as one of the world’s pre-eminent subscription providers of on-demand films and television shows.