I’ve spent a few years here at Lifehacker writing up or editing lists of all the movies coming to the biggest streaming services every month, and one thing I’ve taken note of, as a fan of the James Bond films, is how annoying it is to figure out where (and if) you can stream all 25 of the iconic spy films.
It’s rare for any one streamer to have more than a handful of them at a time, a situation that has persisted even after Amazon bought MGM, the film studio that owns the rights to the franchise, in 2021. As a customer in the modern streaming marketplace, it’s frustrating, but certainly not unprecedented state of affairs—though Paramount+ bills itself as the streaming home of the Star Trek franchise, for example, you can currently only stream three of the big-screen Trek films there.
There’s a simple reason for this, and it
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