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Amazon Studios
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Amazon donates €1m to Italian Covid-19 fund to support entertainment biz
Amazon Prime Video and Amazon Studios have pledged €1million to help support the Italian entertainment…
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Amazon acquires Nicole Kidman-starring drama from NBCU’s Matchbox Pictures
Amazon has picked up a Nicole Kidman-starring TV adaptation of Andrew Bovell’s play Things I…
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Amazon reboots ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ with ‘Boys’ prodco
Amazon Studios has ordered a small screen remake of the 1997 movie I Know What…
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Amazon fast-tracks ‘The Boys’ spin-off after global success
A spin-off to Amazon’s comic book series The Boys is in the works, featuring a…
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Amazon teams with Rachel Weisz for ‘Dead Ringers’ series
Amazon has given a straight-to-series order for an adaptation of the David Cronenberg feature film…
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Amazon launches Covid-19 fund to support European screen industry
Amazon Studios and Amazon Prime Video have pledged $6m to support the European TV and…
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News round-up: Amazon extends ‘Hunters’; GRB & Autentic sales; Small World & Joe Lewis link
Amazon extends ‘Hunters’ for second season Amazon Studios has ordered a second season of conspiracy…
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Amazon orders ‘Fallout’ adaptation from ‘Westworld’ team
Amazon Studios has partnered with US video game publisher Bethesda Game Studios to bring the…
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Gaumont adds Amazon’s Michelle Sullivan for animation & family
Narcos producer Gaumont has appointed Amazon Studios’ Michelle Sullivan to work across its animation and…
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Amazon Studios remakes Israeli autism drama ‘On The Spectrum’
Amazon and Jason Katims (Parenthood) have linked up with the Israel producer behind Netflix hit…
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Deals round-up: Amazon signs up Brad Pitt’s prodco; Tricycle bites into Peach; Britbox unveils slate
Amazon Studios has signed an overall deal for TV with Brad Pitt’s production outfit Plan…
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‘Motherland’ prodco Merman TV names London MD, production head
Sharon Horgan and Clelia Mountford’s Merman TV has followed up on its recently agreed funding…
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Amazon Studios strikes first-look deal with Orlando Bloom
Amazon Studios has struck a first-look deal with Carnival Row and Lord Of The Rings…
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Amazon extends animated series ‘Undone’, strikes overall deal with co-creator
Amazon has extended its adult animated series Undone into a second season and secured an…
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Amazon extends ‘Lord Of The Rings’ into second season
Amazon has renewed its mega-budget TV adaptation of Lord Of The Rings, with the first…
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Amazon orders fourth and final season of ‘Goliath’
Amazon is bringing the curtain down on its Billy Bob Thornton-fronted legal drama Goliath. The…
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Amazon takes ITV’s ‘Love Island’ to France, orders drama from ‘Narcos’ prodco
Amazon Prime has unveiled four new French shows including a local reboot of ITV reality…
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News round-up: ITV closes ‘Beecham House’; Amazon returns to ‘Modern Love’; C4’s royal doc deal
ITV moves out of Beecham House UK broadcaster ITV has ended period drama Beecham House…
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Amazon signs up for Clarkson’s ‘Farm’, ‘Walking Dead’ spin-off
Amazon Prime Video has greenlit eight-part Jeremy Clarkson-fronted series I Bought The Farm (working title)…
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Amazon reveals Studios structure in Europe, decries “gobbling up” rights
Amazon Studios’ director of European originals Georgia Brown has outlined the company’s rapidly growing commissioning…
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Amazon partners with Tracy Oliver, Amy Poehler for comedy
Amazon Studios is broadening its comedy offering by ordering a 10-part female-focused series from Tracy…
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Amazon in talks with YouTube’s Wax for drama role
Amazon Studios is in talks to appoint YouTube Premium’s scripted exec Jon Wax following the…
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Amazon orders second YA project to series with ‘The Wilds’
Amazon has ordered its second YA project in recent weeks, picking up The Wilds to…
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Good Omens: Adapting the unadaptable
The creative team behind BBC Studios and Amazon Studios’ Good Omens tells Manori Ravindran how…
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Amazon Studios greenlights James May travel doc
Amazon Studios has commissioned a six-part unscripted series with The Grand Tour presenter James May,…
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TBI Scripted: Deals for Amazon, MGM, BBC Studios & SF Studios
Amazon greenlights The Power, We Children from Bahnhof Zoo Amazon has greenlit a 10-part series based on…
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Berlinale: Amazon will look for “more curation” than competitors
Amazon Studios boss Jennifer Salke has said that while the business has become a global…
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Amazon round up: Prime takes rights for Viacom series, Studio ties up with Blumhouse, Widows returns to UK
Amazon has agreed a deal with Viacom International Studios (VIS) that establishes Prime Video as…
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Amazon to adapt BBC Three’s People Just Do Nothing
Amazon is adapting BBC Three comedy People Just Do Nothing. The global SVOD has ordered…
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Amazon replaces Schuster with Castallo for unscripted post
Amazon Studios has named former CBS head of alternative programming Chris Castallo as its new…