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The South China Morning Post reported this weekend that Wong Kar Wai's Amazon TV series Tong Wars has been quietly cancelled. Amazon Studios originally announced Tong Wars in 2017. The series would have been about the Triad wars that tore through San Francisco's Chinatown in the early 20th Century. Wong planned to film the show […]

Earlier this week, it was announced that Amazon Studios was passing on the series pilot for Stephen King's The Dark Tower series of novels, with initial reports being that Amazon executives did not feel it was as strong as other big-ticket pilots that were given greelights like Wheel Of Time and The Lord Of the Rings. […]

Daisy Jones and the Six, a fictional rock series set up at Amazon, has found its star. Riley Keough will star as the lead singer of a fictional rock band in the 1970's. The show went straight to series at Amazon for twelve episodes, and will be produced by Reese Witherspoon, Will Graham, Lauren Neustadter, […]

Remember when Good Omens premiered on Amazon Prime earlier this year? A whole bunch of people got upset about it. The original novel by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman is a long-beloved and cherished fantasy-comedy, but apparently fanatical Christians aren't fans. Over 20,000 people apparently signed a petition condemning the show for taking "another step […]

Fresh off her multiple wins at the Emmy Awards, Phoebe Waller-Bridge has signed an overall production deal with Amazon Studios. This is no surprise considering Fleabag has been a huge hit and cultural touchstone. It and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel have won Amazon Studios multiple Emmys and helped define the identity of the streaming service. […]

The Vast of Night was acquired by Amazon Studios ahead of the film's Canadian premiere during the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. This is the first film in years–if not ever–to premiere during the Slamdance Film Festival and go on to screen during Toronto. The film, directed by Andrew Patterson, would go onto become a […]

The Goldfinch is a boring slog of a film where it non-linear storytelling somehow makes it even more incoherent. Director: John Crowley A boy in New York is taken in by a wealthy Upper East Side family after his mother is killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. There is a lot […]

We're all fans of Phoebe Waller-Bridge and her breakthrough BBC show Fleabag around here. Uberfans know that Fleabag began life as a one-woman play Waller-Bridge wrote and performed at the Edinburgh Festival back in 2013. Now Waller-Bridge is going back to perform the original play one last time in London's West End. Some fans are […]

Netflix is unable to give Martin Scorsese's The Irishman a wide theatrical release before hitting their platform as agreements haven't been reached. Martin Scorsese is a big-name director with multiple Oscar nominations under his belt. Moreover, the production budget for the film is well north of $150 million because of the visual effects. Because of […]

Last night, Bloomberg reported that Apple would launch the Apple TV+ streaming service in November with a $9.99 monthly subscription fee. There will be five shows available at launch: The Morning News, See, Amazing Stories, Truth be Told and documentary series Home. According to Bloomberg, there will probably be a free trial before credit cards […]

At San Diego Comic-Con 2019 we caught up with Orlando Bloom as he discussed what drew him to his role as Rycroft Philostrate in Amazon's new fantasy show Carnival Row. So who is Rycroft? According to Bloom, he is "a man of secrets. That plays in the shadows a bit but he has this really […]

Amazon Studios released a new teaser trailer and clip from the 4th season of The Expanse today. Adapted from the novels by the pseudonymous James S.A. Corey, the show originally aired on SyFy for three seasons. After it was canceled, Amazon Studios picked up the series after a fan campaign to save it. Amazon CEO […]

Deadline is reporting that Amazon has hired Juan Antonio (J.A.) Bayona to direct the first two episodes of their The Lord of the Rings television series, which is being created to run on their Prime Video service. Bayona recently directed Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. The series will explore new areas of the story-lines surrounding the […]

I stumbled on Spectrum's exclusive streaming Science Fiction show Curfew, and it's the worst show I've seen this year. But the interesting thing is, it made me consider a number of questions. Curfew is a British dystopian Science Fiction show, the only type of Science Fiction show the UK ever makes these days. Britain is […]

Amazon knows a good thing when they see it- in this case, a really good working relationship with The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel star Rachel Brosnahan. The mega-corporation just signed a pretty big first-look deal with the rising star, who has already won an Emmy, two Golden Globes, two Critics Choice Awards, and a SAG Award […]

I recently discovered Crashing, the forgotten sitcom that Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge created and wrote. Most of us are familiar with Waller-Bridge as the insanely talented writer and actor responsible for the brilliant series Fleabag and Killing Eve. The former's premiere on BBC3 in 2016 heralded Waller-Bridge's arrival as a singular talent. She displayed a […]

Amazon Studios and Oscar-winning writer/director Jordan Peele (Get Out) have signed five key recurring cast members to its vengeance-driven Nazi-hunting series The Hunt: Julissa Bermudez (BET's 106 & Park), Becky Ann Baker (Men in Black), Josh Mostel (Big Daddy), Miles G. Jackson (The Last O.G.), and Jonno Davies (Spotless). The Perks of Being a Wallflower's […]

Greg Kinnear will be joining Lisa Kudrow on the pilot for Amazon's Good People as the male lead. Good People is being developed for Amazon by Empire's Lee Daniels, and 2 Broke Girls co-creator Whitney Cummings, who also stars in the pilot. Good People is also being produced by Amazon Studios and Fox 21 Television Studios. Cummings and Daniels […]

While we're waiting for official confirmation, it sounds like former Game of Thrones writer and third-head of the creative dragon for the HBO series Bryan Cogman will be leading Amazon's upcoming Lord of the Rings series. Cogman was loremaster for 8 seasons on Game of Thrones, and was the favorite to head the first Westeros spinoff series on […]

Amazon Prime Video has a Friend coming to the streaming service, with Lisa Kudrow now signed on to star and executive produce a new half hour comedy pilot. Good People is being developed by Empire co-creator Lee Daniels and Whitney Cummings, who co-created 2 Broke Girls on CBS. Good People is also being produced by […]