Amazon Studios' original series productions range from Amy Sherman-Palladino's award-winning The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel to Philip K. Dick's Man in the High Castle.
On the film side, Amazon Studios produces and acquires original movies for theatrical release and early window distribution exclusively for their Amazon Prime members. At the 2017 Academy Awards, Amazon Studios became the first streaming service to win Oscars for Manchester by the Sea.
Bleeding Cool follows Amazon Studios' efforts closely, with their upcoming duo classic fantasy series, Lord of the Rings (based on a young Aragorn), and Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time, you can keep abreast of the latest in news, rumors, and happenings right here.
Looks like Seth Rogen found a great use for all those "f-bombs" leftovers from Preacher and The Boys. Taking to Instagram on Monday to show his support for both the "Black Lives Matter" movement and sentiment in light of the killing George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers last week, the actor/director/producer (and activist) put it […]
Less than a day after word broke that film and television productions were given the green light to resume productions after the UK government and health agencies gave the approval to new coronavirus safety rules and guidelines, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and California Gov. Gavin Newsom are hearing from Hollywood. The Industry-Wide Labor-Management Safety […]
If any upstart company wants to take this on, you can thank me later. Imagine, if you ever wanted to binge one particular genre, but your favorite films and shows are across 5-6 different SVOD services? Why pay $50 or so a month to have access to 5 or 6 services you're largely never going […]
Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max, Peacock, plus whatever Quibi's trying to do: all these streaming services are making my head spin. I mean, really, you're telling me I have to sign up for like seven different streaming services all for a few shows on each (HBO Max the latest)? Yes, companies all want my hard-earned […]
Earlier this year, Amazon Studios passed on the series pilot for Stephen King's The Dark Tower series of novels, with Amazon executives reportedly not feeling it was as strong as other big-ticket pilots that were given greenlights like Wheel Of Time and The Lord Of the Rings. Developed by showrunner/executive producer Glen Mazzara (The Walking Dead), […]
Amazon Studios and Sony Pictures Television are looking to get into business with Lisbeth Salander, with the late author Stieg Larsson's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo character set for her own series. The series is currently going by the title of her literary debut, but Variety is reporting that it will not be a […]
The next Doctor Who Lockdown rewatch episode has been announced, with Doctor Who Magazine writer and BBC Radio editor Emily Cook revealing it would be the horror-tinged episode "Listen" from Series 8, Peter Capaldi's first season as The Doctor. The rewatch will take place on Wednesday, May 20th at 7 pm British Standard Time, which […]
Well, that didn't take long. One day after we shared some very cool Zoom meeting backgrounds from the series to help ease your home lockdown stress, The Boys executive producer Eric Kripke has an update with some good news that fans will want to hear. We knew that Kripke and the team were hard at work […]
When last time we checked in with The Boys executive producer Eric Kripke, he was hard at work (from a healthy distance) editing the second season of Amazon Prime's adaptation of Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson's comic book series. He even took some time to pen a few words on how he believes Butcher (Karl […]
Fans of NBC and Yahoo! Screen series Community have only a few more days to wait until series stars Joel McHale, Gillian Jacobs, Danny Pudi, Yvette Nicole Brown, Alison Brie, Jim Rash, Ken Jeong, and Donald Glover, as well as series creator Dan Harmon, reunite for a charity virtual table read and Q&A of fifth […]
NBC and Yahoo! Screen series Community had fans' heads exploding with delight when word came down that series stars Joel McHale, Gillian Jacobs, Danny Pudi, Yvette Nicole Brown, Alison Brie, Jim Rash, Ken Jeong, and Donald Glover, as well as series creator Dan Harmon, were reuniting for a charity virtual table read and Q&A of […]
Once again Emily Cook, empress of the Doctor Who global lockdown rewatches, has announced the next rewatch event. "The Fires of Pompeii" rewatch will take place on Sunday, May 17th at 7 pm British Standard Time. That's 2 pm US Eastern Time. Joining the livetweet will be episode writer James Moran, producer Tracy Childs, and […]
With the Doctor Who Lockdown global rewatch of "Invasion of the Zygons" and "Inversion of the Zygons" ready to go starting at 7:15 BST/2:15 US EST (delayed by 15 minutes out of respect for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's address to the country over the current coronavirus lockdown situation), fans are being treated to a […]
As the world slowly (and questionably) begins to crawl out of its self-isolating hibernation, Buffy the Vampire Slayer star Sarah Michelle Gellar has been using her social media to connect with her fans with some Buffy-themed posts that. While the posts have us see-sawing between feeling nostalgic for the series and wanting her to return […]
With television series across the pop culture landscape doing their part of COVID-19 relief and with the series finding renewed life after joining Netflix on April 1 (it's also still available on Hulu and on Amazon Prime and other platforms internationally), now seems as good a time as any to get the folks from Community […]
Disney+ and Amazon Studios were presented with some cautiously good news from the Czech Republic on Thursday, with the country's Film Commission announcing that film and television productions can resume in mid-May (expected to be around May 17, the same date the country's state of emergency ends). That means productions on the second season of […]
A little more than a year after Gimlet Pictures and Blumhouse Television announced they were looking to bring writer and director Aaron Mark's podcast The Horror of Dolores Roach to series, the project has found a home at Amazon. Deadline Hollywood reports that a virtual writers' room is being set-up with Dara Resnik (Apple's Home Before Dark) […]
Amazon Prime's fantasy series adaptation of late author Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time" series of novels has found a way to help eager fans deal with being in home lockdown mode while everyone waits for production (and the rumor mill) to resume. As a way of getting newcomers familiar with Jordan's universe, and return readers a […]
Fans of Chris Pratt who enjoyed seeing him back on the small screen for the Parks and Recreation charity special might want to pay attention to this next item. The Everwood and Parks & Rec alum is set to star in and executive produce The Terminal List for Amazon Studios, a series adaptation of Jack […]
Imagine if the afterlife was basically a virtual reality 5-star resort; okay, now imagine that that's the premise of a TV show and it's supposed to be a comedy. Sounds like it could be worth a shot, right? Unfortunately for Upload, it bills itself as a comedy, but it's anything but. I had such high […]
