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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. Phoebe[...]

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 fan[...]

The Goldfinch is a boring slog of a film where it non-linear storytelling somehow makes it even more incoherent.

Amazon Studios and the BBC would love another series Waller-Bridge joked that she might wait till she's 50 years old to tell a story about an older Fleabag. Slight spoiler: the play tells the same story as the first season of the TV series It does not cover the story of the second season, so don't[...]

Photo by Atsushi Nishijima. Similar to Netflix giving The Irishman a shorter theatrical window before launching on streaming, Amazon Studios' The Report is also having a shorter window before going straight to Prime Video I first saw this film during Sundance and I believe it's one of the most essential films this year Not only is[...]

Amazon Studios has already spent a quarter of a billion dollars for the rights to produce a Lord of the Rings series – and that's not adding in what they spent for the rights to make a Wheel of Time series. Amazon Prime costs $119 a year Subscribers get free two-day shipping for their Amazon orders[...]

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.

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[...]

He wnet on to direct A Monster Calls, The Impossible, and the first two episodes of Penny Dreadful for Showtime, which were stunning. Here's Jennifer Salke, Head of Amazon Studios: "The scope and breadth of J.A.'s world-building is exactly the right fit for our ambitions for The Lord of the Rings He's a passionate and collaborative director who[...]

Where streaming services like Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Studios pay massively for prestigious and desired shows, Spectrum seems content to settle for horribly mediocre shows like L.A.'s Finest and this one. Photographer: Gareth Gatrell © Tiger Aspect Productions Limited 2018 The Decadent Stage of the Streaming Era This show wouldn't have been quite so bad if it was[...]

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 for her portrayal of the fictional, boundary-busting New York comedienne. Editorial credit: lev radin / Shutterstock.com Rachel Brosnahan will be bringing the feature film I'm Your Woman[...]

I recently discovered "Crashing," the "forgotten" sitcom that "Fleabag" creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge created and wrote that's definitely worth a look...

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[...]

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. Actor Greg KinnearPhoto by Everett Collection / Shutterstock.com Good People is also being produced by Amazon Studios and Fox 21 Television Studios. Cummings and Daniels are currently writing the pilot, which revolves around the Ombudsman's office at a[...]

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 HBO[...]

Good People is being developed by Empire co-creator Lee Daniels and Whitney Cummings, who co-created 2 Broke Girls on CBS. Lisa KudrowPhoto by DFree / Shutterstock.com Good People is also being produced by Amazon Studios and Fox 21 Television Studios. Cummings and Daniels are currently writing the pilot, which revolves around the Ombudsman's office at a liberal arts[...]

As the month of May draws to a close, the various streaming services are announcing their offerings of titles in June 2019. Here are Amazon's upcoming

Brown announced just a little bit ago that his next tv project will be a little something with Amazon Studios- The Marvelous Mrs Maisel! THIS IS US — "The Last Seven Weeks" Episode 310 — Pictured: Sterling K Brown as Randall Pearson — (Photo by: Ron Batzdorff/NBC) While he doesn't reveal which season he'll be in, you can[...]

It sounds like one of the locations for Amazon Studios' upcoming Lord of the Rings tv series might just be in Scotland, at least according to a report from The Daily Record. The site says that a 3-month production run will begin in Leith, Edinburgh in the country's brand-new state of the art studio facility that is set[...]

Fans of Amazon and Jill Soloway's series 'Transparent' have speculated about the fate of Jeffrey Tambor’s character, Maura - and now it's been confirmed.

Amazon Studios and Oscar-winning writer/director Jordan Peele are bringing aboard six more cast members to join their vengeance-driven, Nazi-hunting series The Hunt Kate Mulvany joins as a series regular, with James Le Gros, Ebony Obsidian, Caleb Emery, Henry Hunter Hall, and Jeannie Berlin set for recurring roles The new additions joins The Perks of Being a Wallflower's[...]

One of our favorite power couple wife and husband teams Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan have just signed a deal with Amazon Studios to create new series(eseseses) This is pretty exciting seeing as the pair have said they "can't wait to dive in to make some batshit crazy television together," especially since we know exactly what[...]

And…someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist. https://youtu.be/BsrPO8qslBEVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Good Omens – Exclusive: Opening Title Sequence | Prime Video (https://youtu.be/BsrPO8qslBE) Directed and executive produced by Douglas Mackinnon (Sherlock, Doctor Who), the cast of Good Omens  includes: David Tennant, Michael Sheen, Jon Hamm, Miranda Richardson, Nick Offerman, Adria Arjona, Nina Sosanya, Jack Whitehall, Michael McKean, Ned Dennehy, Ariyon[...]

Gone Girl author/screenwriter Gillian Flynn's upcoming Amazon Studios adaptation of British series Utopia has a new name to add to The Deep State's "list," with The Office's Rainn Wilson joining Sasha Lane (American Honey) on the nine-episode series With Flynn serving as the project's creator, executive producer, writer, and showrunner, the conspiracy-thriller received a straight-to-series order[...]

We are sad to report that the upcoming 4th season of Amazon Studios' alternative history series based on the seminal work by Philip K Dick The Man In The High Castle will be the last for the show. According to Deadline, word of the cancellation reached cast and crew over the weekend, with reactions coming in from Executive[...]

Amazon Studios has greenlit a 10-episode TV series based on Naomi Alderman's award-winning 2016 novel The Power Reed Moreno will direct the series, which will be shot in several countries across the world The last show to do that was the Wachowskis' postmodernist Science Fiction LGBTQ telenovela Sens8 on Netflix.   The novel is about a drastic[...]

When Amazon Studios purchased the rights and announced their intentions to create tv series about J R R Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings", we started wondering what stories might be told, and where they might be filmed We're not really any closer to knowing the real answer to those thoughts, but, there is chatter that perhaps[...]

Amazon Studios and Oscar-winning writer/director Jordan Peele have signed Grey's Anatomy alum Jerrika Hinton to join their vengeance-driven Nazi-hunting series The Hunt Hinton joins The Perks of Being a Wallflower's Logan Lerman (Jack & Bobby) and Oscar winner Al Pacino on the 10-episode project. Based on an original idea but also drawing on real historical events, The Hunt follows a diverse band of Nazi Hunters living in[...]

pic.twitter.com/8HuaLBoCjV — Amazon Studios (@AmazonStudios) January 18, 2019 Great hashtag, guys, really nailed the marketing this season #amazonshitcarshow @thegrandtour pic.twitter.com/epAopE437f — Amazon Studios (@AmazonStudios) January 18, 2019 Legal loved the hashtag, in case you were wondering #amazonshitcarshow — Amazon Studios (@AmazonStudios) January 18, 2019 Many were quick to point out on Twitter that the hashtag could be read as either "Amazon's[...]

Although there is still no word on casting, production start, or air date, we do have some news on the Amazon Studios Wheel of Time front. Showrunner and head writer Rafe Judkins posted this update today, proclaiming that two new writers have joined the team–The Clarkson Twins, Mike P Clarkson and Paul T[...]