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Jen Salke Lived and Let Die at Amazon

The Amazon MGM Studios chief, one of the great survivors of the streaming era, was already on borrowed time after a series of big-budget flops and the James Bond debacle sealed her fate. Now, with a new org chart, the heat’s on Prime Video’s Mike Hopkins, who no longer has Salke as a shield.

Jennifer Salke
Like many of the exec firings lately, Jen Salke's ousting from Amazon MGM Studios seems simultaneously abrupt and long overdue. Photo: Earl Gibson III/Getty Images
Matthew Belloni
March 28, 2025

Well, at least Jen Salke doesn’t have to peddle the $40 million Melania Trump movie. That’s a silver lining, I guess, amid yesterday’s unceremonious ouster of Amazon MGM Studios’ top content executive, steward of a $9 billion+ annual programming budget and one of the most powerful figures of the past decade in Hollywood. Like many of the exec firings lately, this one seems simultaneously abrupt and long overdue.