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lord of the rings
Building on Season 1's epic scope and ambition, Season 2 of Amazon's "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" plunges even its most beloved and vulnerable characters into a rising tide of darkness, challenging each to find their place in a world that is increasingly on the brink of calamity Elves and dwarves,[...]
Warner Bros. Discovery Files Suit Against League to Save NBA Deal
Discovery (WBD) wasn't kidding when it promised to take "appropriate action" after the National Basketball Association rejected its attempt to match the offer on the table from Amazon Prime Video for a broadcasting rights deal – the least expensive one, estimated at $1.8 billion Shortly after, the NBA announced new deals with The Walt Disney[...]
Charles Barkley
And then this week happened… Image: Charles Barkley (Network Screencap) Though the company has promised to take "appropriate action," the NBA rejected WBD's matching offer for the Amazon Prime Deal and moved forward with publically announcing the new broadcast right deals with The Walt Disney Company, NBCUniversal, and Amazon Prime Video – beginning with the 2025-2026 season[...]
the boys
Amazon notes that 60& of the season's viewers were from outside of the U.S – with the UK, Brazil, India, Germany, Canada, France, Mexico, Spain, and Italy showing impressive numbers Now, here's a look at that SDCC 2024 overview: Image: Prime Video "The Boys": Join showrunner and executive producer Eric Kripke and the series' stars for a[...]
Warner Bros. Discovery Challenging NBA: "Will Take Appropriate Action"
Discovery's (WBD) attempt to match the offer on the table from Amazon Prime Video – the least expensive one, estimated at $1.8 billion "Warner Bros Discovery's most recent proposal did not match the terms of Amazon Prime Video's offer and, therefore, we have entered into a long-term arrangement with Amazon," shared the NBA in a[...]
NBA Rejects Warner's Efforts to Match Amazon; Announces New Deals
UPDATE: For their part, the NBA is moving forward – here's a look at the league statement announcing the new 11-year deals with The Walt Disney Company, NBCUniversal, and Amazon Prime Video through the 2035-36 season and sharing specific details on each of the deals. ORIGINAL REPORT: In 2022, Warner Bros Discovery CEO David Zaslav noted[...]
countdown
We've got some more casting news to pass along regarding Derek Haas (NBC's "Chicago" franchise), Jensen Ackles (Supernatural, The Boys), and Amazon MGM Studios' upcoming Countdown Earlier today, The Hollywood Reporter reported exclusively that Violett Bean (Death and Other Details, God Friended Me), Uli Latukefu (Young Rock, MaXXXine), and Elliot Knight (The Boys, Life Sentence) had[...]
NBA Rights Deal: Warner Bros. Discovery Matching $1.8B Amazon Offer
Previously, NBCUniversal, Amazon's Prime Video, and Disney/ESPN were close to finalizing their respective NBA broadcasting rights deals, which could reportedly be (according to sources) for 11 seasons and worth $76 billion (beginning after the 2024-2025 season) Originally, the NBA, NBC, Prime Video, and ESPN were hoping to formally announce the news and enjoy some headline[...]
Gen V Social Media, Star Jaz Sinclair Share "Class in Session" Image
Speaking with The Wrap, Amazon TV head Vernon Sanders addressed the decision to end The Boys with five seasons and how things are going with Gen V Season 2. "This is all about Eric Kripke We've had this incredible success because of his vision and execution, and he's told us for a while that he believes[...]
Tomb Raider
First announced in January 2023, the word came down back in May of this year that archaeologist and adventurer Lara Croft was officially coming to Amazon's Prime Video as a live-action series Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag) is writing & executive-producing the project, based on the popular "Tomb Raider" video game franchise and stemming from a deal[...]
spider-noir
We've got more casting news for Sony Pictures Television and Amazon MGM Studios' upcoming Nicolas Cage-starring "Spider-Man Noir" series (now Spider-Noir) Deadline Hollywood is reporting exclusively that Li Jun Li (Wu Assassins) has joined the streaming series as a series regular – with Li reportedly tapped to play a singer at the premier nightclub in New York[...]
the boys
The Boys is produced by Amazon MGM Studios and Sony Pictures Television, with Kripke Enterprises, Original Film, and Point Grey Pictures. Unless you're a big fan of Homelander's (Antony Starr) – in which case, you probably need some very deep and intense therapy – there weren't a ton of "silver linings" to take from the[...]
god of war
That's when we learned that Sony Pictures Television, Amazon Studios, and PlayStation Productions were teaming up for a live-action series adaptation of PlayStation's ancient mythology-based video game franchise God of War As we inch closer to the two-year mark since that news was first announced, Amazon MGM Studios chief Jennifer Salke and head of TV Vernon[...]
Fallout Star Ella Purnell Doesn’t Want “Cannibalism Chick” Typecast
Three months after the news hit that Amazon's Prime Video would be bringing back EPs Jonathan Nolan & Lisa Joy and showrunners Geneva Robertson-Dworet (Captain Marvel) & Graham Wagner's (Silicon Valley) Fallout, the series made some headlines this week with an impressive 17 Emmy nominations But that's not the only good news that we have to pass[...]
NBA
Last week, Andrew Marchand from The Athletic/The New York Times reported that NBCUniversal, Amazon's Prime Video, and Disney/ESPN were close to finalizing their respective NBA broadcasting rights deals, which could reportedly be (according to sources) for 11 seasons and worth $76 billion – beginning after the 2024-2025 season On Tuesday night, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver confirmed[...]
Gen V Social Media, Star Jaz Sinclair Share "Class in Session" Image
Byrne reprising their respective roles from the main series. Gen V: A Look at "The Boys" Spinoff Series Before classes were officially in session, the official "RED BAND" trailer for Amazon's Prime Video spinoff series was unleashed upon our unsuspecting lives Along with the series overview, we have both the "RED BAND" & original versions of the[...]