We reported back in May that Amazon’s hit dramedy Transparent would be ending after a fifth season, with the decision to end the show most likely having a lot to do with the sexual harassment allegations that have been raised against star Jeffrey Tambor—who has since left the show, either because he chose to or …
Oscar winner Barry Jenkins has revealed some new details about his latest project, with Amazon announcing that the Moonlight helmer has signed on to direct all 11 episodes of its upcoming limited series The Underground Railroad. Jenkins was previously attached to the project last year, but has now committed to…
Less than a week after we reported on the efforts to revive Syfy’s The Expanse, including an airplane banner that was flown above Amazon Studios’ headquarters in California, Amazon Studios has reportedly decided to revive the space drama for a fourth season. That’s according to The Hollywood Reporter, which says that…
After some gentle prodding from series creator Amy Sherman-Palladino—who addressed Amazon executives while accepting a Peabody award for the show last night, saying, “You’re going to give [another season] to us because we’re bringing home the fancy thing, right?”—Amazon Studios has confirmed that The Marvelous Mrs.…
A lot of TV shows have been canceled over the past week or so, but Brooklyn Nine-Nine and (to a lesser extent) Last Man Standing have recently proven that a cancellation isn’t necessarily the end of a TV series. With those two shows having already been saved, fans of Syfy’s The Expanse are trying to kickstart a…
The legal odyssey of rapper Meek Mill has been a long and tortured one, built out of parole violations, judges under federal investigation, and the occasional hopeful highlight, as when Mill was released on bail just a few weeks ago. Now, the rapper’s long-time supporter, JAY-Z, is committing to bringing this long,…
According to Deadline, Amazon has picked up a four-hour miniseries called Cortes about Hernan Cortes, the Spanish conquistador who helped dismantle the Aztec Empire and won Mexico for Spain. The series comes from Steven Spielberg and Amblin Television, and though the current incarnation comes from Spielberg’s …
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…
According to Variety, BoJack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg and producers Kate Purdy, Noel Bright, and Steven A. Cohen are teaming up with A Scanner Darkly producer Tommy Pallota for Undone, a new animated series for Amazon. The show is described as a “dramedy”—which makes sense since it comes from the BoJack …
Amazon just picked up The Tick for a second season this morning, but it looks like those extra episodes of Peter Serafinowicz fighting crime as a blue bug guy have necessitated some cuts elsewhere in Amazon’s library of original shows. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Amazon has canceled Jean-Claude Van Johnson, I…
One fun aspect of Amazon’s video streaming platform is that, unlike literally every other TV network and streaming service, it releases the pilots for its potential new shows to the public, giving the filthy normal people a chance to vote on which shows move forward and which get banished to the land of wind and…
In the wake of sexual harassment allegations against Transparent star Jeffrey Tambor, Amazon is reportedly looking into reworking the show without him.
Less than a week ago, Amazon Studios president Roy Price was placed on a leave of absence after The Man In The High Castle producer Isa Dick Hackett—who happens to be the daughter of Philip K. Dick—accused him of having “repeatedly and insistently propositioned her” at a company party in 2015. Hackett turned him down,…
Carnival Row, a weird “fantasy noir” series about the mysterious murder of a fairy in a futuristic version of Victorian London has been in the works for a while now, but Amazon formally gave the series a greenlight back in May and now things are continuing to move forward for the series. As announced in a press…
Amazon Prime doesn’t always get as many new movies and TV shows added to its streaming library as its competitors do every month, but Prime tends to make up for that with a more reliable selection of exclusive and original content. September will be no different, with Prime subscribers getting season two of Tig…
Just a few days after adding Christina Hendricks and John Slattery from Mad Men and Isabelle Huppert from Elle to the cast of his Amazon series The Romanoffs, Matthew Weiner has added Aaron Eckhart to the series as well. We don’t really know anything about their characters, but the basic setup of the show is that it’s…
At their core, a lot of movies are about characters trying to maintain relationships with their close friends, like Captain America: Civil War, Bridesmaids, or Toy Story. But those movies rarely end with one of the friends completely and thoroughly ruining another friend’s life—although Civil War actually comes pretty…
According to a press release sent out today by Amazon Studios, it has given an eight-episode series order to “neo-Victorian fantasy” show Carnival Row. The show comes from Legendary Pictures and Rene Evevarria, and it’s a fantasy-noir show about mythological creatures living together in a futuristic Victorian city in…
In what seems like an overdue payment for subjecting its poor citizens to a lifetime of hearing people say “oh, I didn’t know that was a real place,” The Hollywood Reporter says that Amazon is giving everyone in the real Manchester-By-The-Sea a free year of Amazon Prime. Kennth Lonergan’s Manchester By The Sea movie…
If only because she’s going to play Captain Marvel and occasionally tweets about The Legend Of Zelda, Brie Larson has already proven that she’s a lot more likable than our current president, so now she’s going to put on an American flag pin and see if she really has what it takes to run for president…in a movie. …