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13 Oct

Coming 2 America to Stream on Amazon Prime Video Per Paramount Deal

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Coming 2 America is set to sow its royal oats on Amazon Prime Video. Paramount has sold the distribution rights to the film, a sequel to star Eddie Murphy’s 1988 signature comedy hit, Coming to America, to Amazon Studios for around $125 million, as sources tell Variety. With the deal reportedly locked, the film is now expected to premiere on the retail giant’s streaming platform, Amazon Prime Video, on December 18. The move, of course, is a response to the stagnant state of a pandemic-era global box office. Indeed, the sequel was originally slated to hit theaters on August 7,…
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01 Oct

Borat 2 Trailer and Release Date on Amazon Prime Confirmed

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Borat 2: Subsequent Moviefilm is coming to Amazon Prime Video on Friday, October 23rd, and a first proper trailer for Sacha Baron Cohen’s hurriedly-filmed project attempts to give us an idea of what we’re in for, but …we probably still aren’t ready for what we’re about to get. The existence of a sequel to Baron Cohen’s 2006 comedy vehicle Borat! Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan was officially confirmed in late September after being produced in relative secret, and was first announced as Borat! Gift of Pornographic Monkey to Vice Premiere Mikhael Pence to Make…
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01 Oct

The Boys and Mulan Bring Amazon and Disney+ into Nielsen’s Streaming Top 10

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Nielsen’s weekly streaming rankings may be a metric category that only started a mere month ago, but the latest report yields a potential bellwether indicator for its heretofore Netflix-dominated Top 10. Indeed, the September numbers for Amazon Prime Video second-season series The Boys and Disney+ premium feature Mulan have cracked a Netflix Nielsen bulwark. The company’s top 10 streaming programs for the week of August 31 to September 6 have arrived via THR, and an initial glance yields good news for Netflix, namely the August-arrived, YouTube-imported series, Cobra Kai, which has come from behind to nab the #1 spot with…
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30 Sep

Amazon Prime Video New Releases: October 2020

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October is here and you know what that means: time for the streaming services to put their spookiest foot forward. Amazon is doing its part for its new releases in October 2020 by rolling out some horror originals and library titles. This is the month that the much-hyped Blumhouse horror anthology series Welcome to the Blumhouse arrives. “Episodes” of that, Black Box and The Lie launch on Oct. 6 and Evil Eye and Nocturne arrive on Oct. 13. Another horror-adjacent release of note is Truth Seekers, a comedy-horror series from Nick Frost and Simon Pegg. That’s about it for notable…
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29 Sep

Lord of the Rings Amazon Series Resumes Production in New Zealand

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Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings television series is, at long last, making its post-COVID comeback, with production having reportedly resumed after the purportedly billion-dollar-budgeted small screen project became just another name on the list of pandemic-pushed shutdowns this past March. The currently-untitled Amazon series, based on the mythology of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth literary works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and the Peter Jackson-directed films adapted from them, has resumed its West Auckland, New Zealand production, reports Deadline. The COVID-caused hiatus ultimately froze progress for six months, leaving things at a point in which the first…
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29 Sep

Borat 2 Picked Up by Amazon, Will Premiere in October

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There is a moment that I will always treasure in Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, and it may not be one that immediately springs to your mind. It’s not when Borat goes into an American religious community, nor is it when he wrestles his husky sidekick in the nude. Rather Sacha Baron Cohen, in his complete Borat regalia on the Upper West Side, squats over a sign that says “Trump International Hotel.” In recent years, the scene provides the occasional cackle, and apparently Baron Cohen is determined to do that again in long-form…
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29 Sep

Greenland Skips Theaters, Lands Amazon Prime Release Date

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It looks like another one-time theatrical release is going to skip theaters altogether after moving out of its initial release date. Buried deep inside a long list of new releases coming out via Amazon Prime Video in October is Greenland, the Gerard Butler vehicle in which the star must try to save his family from a comet hurtling toward the Earth. Originally slated to come out in theaters last Friday (September 25), Greenland was yanked from the schedule literally as the movie’s press junket was underway with a new release date to be determined. Well, now we have it: Greenland…
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25 Sep

The Boys Spinoff Series Ordered at Amazon

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Not entirely unlike a certain all-powerful Vought Corporation, Amazon has decided it quite likes being in the superhero business. The streaming giant (well, everything giant) announced today that it has ordered a spinoff series based on its current dark superhero satire The Boys. This still unnamed spinoff will be set at a college created by Vought that caters exclusively to young superheroes. Per Amazon’s synopsis: “The Untitled Boys Spinoff is an irreverent, R-rated series that explores the lives of hormonal, competitive Supes as they put their physical, sexual, and moral boundaries to the test, competing for the best contracts in…
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24 Sep

Amazon Reveals Luna Cloud Gaming Service

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Amazon has officially revealed the first details for Luna: the company’s long-rumored cloud gaming service. “With Luna and the incredible scale and capability of Amazon Web Services (AWS), it’s easy to stream high-quality, immersive games,” reads a press release from Amazon regarding Luna. “Players can enjoy Luna games on their favorite devices without lengthy downloads or updates, expensive hardware or complicated configuration. They can even start playing on one screen and seamlessly pick up and continue on another.” The basics of Luna will be familiar to anyone who followed the release and development of Google’s Stadia program. That is to…
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18 Sep

PS5 Pre-Orders From Amazon May Not Arrive at Launch

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Some customers who pre-ordered a PlayStation 5 via Amazon are receiving emails that warn them they may not get their console when the PS5 is officially released on November 12. “We’re contacting you about your order of PlayStation 5 Console to let you know in advance that you may not receive this item on the day it is released due to high demand,” reads a copy of the email. “We’ll make every effort to get the item to you as soon as possible once released.” The above text is taken from an email received by an Amazon customer who ordered…
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14 Sep

Best Martial Arts Movies on Amazon Prime Right Now

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Search ‘Martial Arts Movies’ on Amazon Prime and you’ll get over a thousand results ranging from the classics to the campy, to the critically acclaimed. It’s an overwhelming library for the uninitiated and the mother lode for stalwart fans of the genre. There are so many gems buried in Amazon Prime that digging out the favorites is dirty challenging work but extremely rewarding. When it comes to martial arts, Amazon Prime has a killer Kung Fu collection. The ‘80s were the ‘Golden Era’ of Kung Fu films when Hong Kong film studios cranked out films faster than any grindhouse ever.…
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04 Sep

Amazon’s Jack Reacher TV Series Casts Title Character

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With Jack Ryan still awaiting its third season, Amazon’s supply of action heroes named Jack R. was running perilously low. Thankfully, the streamer announced today that it has cast the titular hero in its upcoming Jack Reacher TV series.  Alan Ritchson (Titans) will play the enormous lead in Amazon’s upcoming show based on Lee Child’s bestselling series of books.  We  say “enormous lead” because, in addition to being an ex-Army major in the military police, Jack Reacher’s whole deal is being an absolute unit. Child’s beefy creation is said to be 6’5 and top the scales around 250 pounds. A…
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02 Sep

Welcome to Blumhouse Trailer Arrives Ahead of October Amazon Premiere

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Welcome to Blumhouse is set to unveil an unsettling small screen cinematic experience for Amazon Prime Video subscribers from the safety and (dis)comfort of their own homes. Blumhouse Television and Amazon Studios have teamed up to conjure Welcome to Blumhouse, a collection of all-new, diversely-themed, brand-unified films from the eponymous fabricators of film frights, arriving just in time for a Halloween season that—unprecedentedly—won’t likely involve trick-or-treating. The first four in a total of eight films will have dual premieres on Amazon Prime Video across two weeks, starting on October 6, with Black Box and Evil Eye, followed by The Lie…
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28 Aug

Highfire TV Series Ordered by Amazon, Nicolas Cage to Voice Lead Role of a Dragon

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Eoin Colfer’s irreverent, genre-blending fantasy/crime novel, Highfire, is getting adapted by Amazon as a live-action/animated hybrid television series. Intriguingly, the project will have the services of Nicolas Cage, who’s on tap to provide the voice role of the eponymous character, who happens to be a dragon, one who lives in Louisiana, spending his days sipping vodka. Highfire, a project residing at MGM/UA Television, has been put into development by Amazon, according to Deadline. The would-be series will operate under the creative purview of showrunner Davey Holmes, creator of Epix’s Get Shorty adaptation series, along with producer runs on shows such…
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26 Aug

New World: Hands-on Preview of Amazon’s New MMO

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New World, a new MMO title from Amazon, is the tech company’s second video game offering after its online shooter Crucible had a less than stellar launch earlier this year. With this new take on the well-trodden PC genre, Amazon hopes to put its fledgling game division back on course. Developed by Relentless Studios, the game is set in the 16th century during the “Age of Exploration,” on the mysterious island of Aeturnum. Magic, historical weapons, and firearms coexist in the folkloric setting, as three factions battle it out over territory and resources on the creature-infested island. The game is…
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24 Aug

Iain M. Banks’ Phlebas TV adaptation at Amazon no longer happening

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For obvious reasons, it’s been a year for disappointments and delays to much-anticipated TV and film projects. The frequency of bad news though, never makes it sting any less. Unrelated to the global coronavirus pandemic, it’s been confirmed by writer and Utopia creator Dennis Kelly that Amazon Prime’s planned television adaptation of Iain M. Banks’ The Culture novel series is no longer going ahead.  Speaking to Den of Geek about new experimental Sky Atlantic-HBO drama series The Third Day, Kelly revealed his disappointment that the Banks project, first announced in February 2018, is no longer moving forward.  “We’d talked about it for two or…
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19 Aug

Rachel Weisz To Star In Amazon Reboot Of Dead Ringers

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Rachel Weisz will star in a TV series re-imagining of Dead Ringers, director David Cronenberg’s classic 1988 film, according to The Wrap. Amazon Studios and Annapurna TV are backing the project, which Weisz will also be an executive producer on, along with Normal People lead writer Alice Birch. The series will mark the Oscar-winning actress’ first role for TV. In the original film, Jeremy Irons played successful twin gynecologists named Elliot and Beverly Mantle, who share some of their patients sexually without the women knowing which man is which. But when Beverly becomes emotionally attached to an actress (Genevieve Bujold),…
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18 Aug

Utopia Release Date Revealed by Amazon with New Trailer

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Amazon Prime Video’s American remake of brief-but-beloved British television series Utopia is readying a premiere on the platform this fall—specifically September 25, as the newest trailer for the show has finally announced.   The long-gestated series (originally planned back in 2015 for HBO by David Fincher), involves a group of fans whose obsession with a prophetic graphic novel about biological warfare thrusts them in the middle of a real-life conspiracy involving a pandemic. Now, by some cosmic coincidence, Utopia is set to arrive during a time in which such a plot proved shockingly prescient. Compounding the weirdness, the series showcases…
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14 Aug

Blumhouse Productions Partners with Amazon to Release 8 Horror Films

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Jason Blum’s house of horrors, aka Blumhouse Productions, is preparing to release a slate of new original content exclusively to Amazon. Needless to say this is the greatest treat horror hounds might expect in time for Halloween. The series of eight films, helpfully referred to as “The Blumhouse” by Amazon’s press statement, offers a variety of new voices to audiences eager for fresh blood in their thrills. The first four films in the series will premiere on Amazon beginning on Oct. 6, the other four movies will debut on the streaming service sometime in 2021. “We are excited to launch…
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06 Aug

A League of Their Own Reimagining Gets Series Order at Amazon

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OK, we’ll allow a little bit of crying in baseball. Just this once. Amazon announced today that it has officially picked up to series its previously announced reboot of A League of Their Own. The project was created by Abbi Jacobson (Broad City) and Will Graham (Mozart in the Jungle) and will “reimagine” the 1992 baseball film directed by Penny Marshall. Jacobson will also star. The announcement came along with a first look at some new characters. “Will and Abbi have taken a classic movie, reimagining it for a new generation with new characters and their own fresh, modern vision…
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