Deadline reports today that Jordan Peele’s Nazi-hunting show—titled, fittingly, The Hunt—has now found a home at Amazon, with the streaming service issuing a 10-episode series order for the show. Peele—still going strong after his first Oscar win for Best Original Screenplay for Get Out—will executive produce,…
There’s been a lot of speculation on what sort of stories Amazon’s extremely expensive new Lord Of The Rings show will offer up for content-hungry Tolkien fans: A recreation of the events of the Peter Jackson films? (Feels redundant.) A wacky roommate sitcom, set in the heaven-esque Grey Havens? (Can’t imagine they’d…
Just in case the lesson from every Black Mirror episode hasn’t sunk in just yet, here it is again: All technology is bad and it will eventually be used to destroy our lives in ways we can’t even imagine. Today, that’s coming in the form of imperceptible musical signals that can be used to take control of smart devices…
Netflix is still in the Jeffrey Tambor business, with the streaming service recently confirming that he’ll return to Arrested Development’s fifth season despite allegations that he sexually harassed a former assistant and one of his Transparent castmates, but Amazon—the home of Transparent—has quietly been cutting all…
Transparent may be moving forward without Jeffrey Tambor, but not very far. Late last year, reports emerged that the actor—who led the Amazon dramedy for the first four seasons—had sexually harassed his co-star Trace Lysette and former personal assistant Van Barnes, both of whom are trans women. Tambor initially…
Have you seen the Brazilian sci-fi thriller 3%? According to Netflix, there’s a good chance you not only saw it, but binged it. The streaming behemoth’s 2017 statistics (at least, the ones it released to the public) included a list of the most-binged shows globally, and coming in at number two—ahead of The OA, …
Because nothing says “Whoo, we posted record profits this year!” like trying to get a little somethin’ more, Variety reports that Amazon has decided to celebrate a banner Q1 2018 for itself by bumping up the prize for its package delivery service/subscription TV plan Amazon Prime. The price for the service—which…
Now that it’s got Blockbuster Horror Director Jon Krasinski on the hook for its upcoming Jack Ryan TV show—and not just boring old regular The Office star John Krasinski, like it used to—Amazon’s making damn sure not to let him get away. Per The Hollywood Reporter, the streaming service announced today that it’s…
The second season of HBO’s twisty sci-fi drama Westworld is just about to premiere, but showrunners Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan aren’t just sitting back and wasting everyone’s time with internet pranks. They’re already developing another twisty sci-fi drama, with Variety reporting that they’re working on a script for…
Okay, quick show of hands: Who remembers Nick Arcade? While never reaching the sheer insanity of other Nickelodeon game shows like Legends Of The Hidden Temple, the Phil Moore-hosted game show was still a boon to video game-obsessed kids in the ’90s, offering a vision of a world in which basic trivia knowledge and…
Back in March, we reported that Amazon’s Lord Of The Rings show had already cost the online retailer $250 million just for the rights, with insiders expecting the number to jump up to “another quarter of a billion dollars” once production formally got under way, but now it looks like that already-huge estimation may…
Amazon killed one of its critical darlings tonight, with Variety reporting that the streaming service has just served up a curtain call for the classical music dramedy Mozart In The Jungle. Showrun by Paul Weitz, the series was a surprise prestige hit for Amazon during the early days of its move into streaming…
Karl Urban is headed back to TV, with Deadline reporting that the Star Trek and Thor: Ragnarok star—who once graced Fox’s short-lived sci-fi cop show Almost Human with his grumpy visage—has signed on as the lead in Amazon’s The Boys. Produced by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, the series is about a group of government…
If you were alive and at least somewhat cognizant of the news in the ‘90s, you probably remember Lorena Bobbitt as a punchline. “Isn’t that the lady who cut off her husband’s dick?,” you may ask with a giggle, recalling the legion of stand-up bits, late-night monologues, SNL sketches, penis-shaped candies, and joke…
Braving—at rough estimate—six million or so jokes about baseball, and if there’s any crying therein, Broad City’s Abbi Jacobson and Mozart In The Jungle’s Will Graham are teaming up to bring the Penny Marshall classic A League Of Their Own back to TV. Specifically to Amazon, as reported by The Hollywood Reporter,…
Last week, reports emerged that Amazon would probably spend closer to half a billion dollars (if not more) to get its Lord Of The Rings prequel series onto our screens, making the adaptation the most expensive show to date. But it looks like the e-commerce giant, which posted a $1.9 billion profit in the last quarter…
Last fall, we reported that Amazon had acquired the rights to J.R.R. Tolkien’s renowned fantasy saga, The Lord Of The Rings, a move that’s seen by many as a bid to establish its own Game Of Thrones-style ratings juggernaut. We also noted the hefty price tag, which Amazon recently confirmed was $250 million. Now, after…
It’s always nice when a streaming service is willing to step up and patch up the gaps in our cinematic résumé. Like, say, if your film critic friends have been telling you for months now that The Florida Project was the best movie of 2017, but you just never quite made your way to theaters to see it; Amazon has your…
If you needed more proof that the rich keep getting richer while the majority of the population scrambles for another side hustle to supplement the income from their full-time jobs, Forbes recently published its annual story on the world’s billionaires, whose earnings have actually increased over the last year.
Despite getting the green light nearly seven months ago, the fifth season of Transparent probably won’t hit Amazon this year. According to The Hollywood Reporter, production isn’t likely to even start until December which means we probably won’t see the Pfeffermans fighting on screen again until 2019.
