Jen Salke to step down from her role at Amazon MGM Studios

Jennifer Salke volition measurement down from her relation arsenic caput of Amazon MGM Studios, the institution said Thursday successful an interior email viewed by the Times.

Salke won’t beryllium going far. She’ll beryllium starting a caller accumulation entity that has a first-look woody with Amazon MGM Studios for some movie and TV, according to the memo from Mike Hopkins, Salke’s boss.

“As I’ve been considering my adjacent chapter, I’ve ever been searching for that infinitesimal wherever I was affirmative that our enactment had acceptable up Amazon MGM Studios for adjacent much occurrence successful the agelong term,” Salke said successful the email sent to staff. “When I look astatine the teams we’ve enactment successful place, our astonishing leaders, and the unthinkable slate of films and shows we’ve got successful the pipeline, I realized present is that moment.”

Salke joined Amazon Studios successful 2018 from NBC Entertainment. At the time, Amazon was looking to marque moves into Hollywood and grow beyond its e-commerce roots.

Its large productions for Amazon’s Prime Video streaming work see “The Rings of Power,” “Fallout” and “Reacher.”

Amazon acquired MGM Studios successful 2022 for $8.5 billion. It precocious secured a woody to instrumentality implicit originative power of the James Bond franchise from the Broccoli family.

The institution does not program to capable Salke’s position. Film caput Courtenay Valenti and TV caput Vernon Sanders volition present study straight to Hopkins, the caput of Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios.