Amazon acquires Sundance award winner One Child Nation

The Sundance Film Festival may be over for 2019, but Amazon hasn’t quite finished its spending spree, with one more film on its shopping list: One Child Nation.

The film, directed by Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang, follows Wang’s 2016 … Read More

Amazon’s Brittany Runs a Marathon leads Sundance 2019 Audience Awards

After 10 days and 121 feature films, the 2019 Sundance Film Festival officially draws to a close today, and after a quiet year in 2018, this year has seen the return of major spending sprees from Amazon Studios, Netflix, HBO … Read More

Brittany Runs a Marathon: Amazon races to $14m Sundance deal

Amazon has once again splashed a huge sum on a new indie fresh out of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, acquiring the rights to Brittany Runs a Marathon.

Written and directed by Paul Downs Colaizzo, the comedy-drama stars Jillian … Read More

Isa Dick Hackett inks first-look deal with Amazon

Isa Dick Hackett has inked a first-look deal with Amazon Studios.

The daughter of Philip K. Dick, Hackett is the CEO of Electric Shepherd Productions, a company dedicated to adapting and stewarding the works of the sci-fi author, and also … Read More

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel sweeps 2019 SAG Awards winners

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel swept the 2019 SAG Awards last night, winning all three of the big acting prices for TV. Amazon’s show, which follows housewife Midge Maisel as she moves from an unhappy marriage to a surprising career as … Read More

Amazon acquires Sundance comedy Late Night for record $13m

Amazon Studios has acquired Sundance comedy Late Night for a record-breaking $13 million.

The deal, which was brokered overnight after a heated bidding war and announced by Deadline, gives Amazon the US rights to the movie, which is directed by … Read More

First look: Kate Beckinsale in ITV and Amazon’s The Widow

Kate Beckinsale heads to ITV this spring for new thriller The Widow, and we’ve got our first look at her in action.

Written by Liar and The Missing’s Harry and Jack Williams (Liar, The Missing), the show follows Georgia Wells, … Read More

Charles Burnett to direct Steal Away for Amazon

Charless Burnett will direct Steal Away for Amazon Studios, a new film about the escape of American Robert Smalls from slavery in the 1860s.

Born in 1839 in South Carolina, Smalls was the son of a slave on the estate … Read More

The Expanse Season 1 to 3 arrive on Amazon Prime Video this February

The Expanse Season 3 finally has a UK release date, with all three of the sci-fi show’s seasons touching down on Amazon Prime Video this February.   Based on novels by James S. A. Corey, the critically-acclaimed, award-winning political series … Read More

Melanie Marnich signs overall deal with Amazon and joins The Expatriates

Amazon Studios has inked an overall deal with Melanie Marnich.

The award-winning playwright, who jumped to television with HBO’s Big Love, has racked up an impressive list of shows on her CV. Marnich has been a co-executive producer on The … Read More