Eli Roth Showed Amazonians Their First Movie
Eli Roth has found his people. With his next film, the cannibalism movie The Green Inferno, gearing up to shoot in a remote Amazon village, Roth was surprised to find out that the 200 extras he’d...
View ArticleThe Sh*ttiness That Is ‘Zombieland’ Won’t Be Rewarded With A Spin-Off Series
The Zombieland series is dead on arrival. Creator Rhett Reese took to Twitter last night to report the news that the terrible pilot inspired by the movie would not be picked up by Amazon after all. He...
View ArticleAmazon Picks Up Shows From Jason Schwartzman And Indie Comedy Fave Michael...
Those hipsters just can’t get enough of offbeat comic Michael Strahan, tracing his roots back to the underground Brooklyn world of Subway and Campbell’s Chunky Soup commercials. It’s no surprise that...
View ArticleHelp Cancer Survivors By Playing Metroid With Will Ferrell
How would you like to play video games with Will Ferrell and put cancer flat on its ass at the same time? The comedian is teaming up with Amazon‘s game streaming service Twitch for a crowd-funding...
View Article‘Transparent’ Renewed For Second Season By Amazon
Not so fast there, Netflix. While you may have a big lead on everyone in the streaming/alternative network race, the race isn’t over. Amazon has found itself a credible success in Transparent, a quirky...
View ArticleIn 2015, You Will Be Able To Get HBO Go Without A Cable Subscription
One of the cruel ironies of the very useful HBO Go platform, which allows users to stream most all HBO original fare and non-original films, is that you have to already have HBO in your cable package...
View ArticleAmazon Rolls Out Seven New Shows, Forcing Us To Take It Seriously
Refusing to live in the shadow of Netflix as an also-ran, Amazon, fresh off some critical and commercial acclaim from the sleeper hit Transparent, has bet big on original programming by announcing...
View ArticleAmazon Going To Get Into The Movie Business With Theatrical Releases That...
Following the success of Transparent and the increasing validity of original programming from streaming services, Netflix will be getting into the movie game. Unlike Netflix, who releases films...
View ArticleKanye Will Star In Spike Lee’s Musical ‘Chiraq’
Sounds like two very divisive people will be getting together to make a film in the style of the very-divisive musical. Uh, this might have to be a niche project. Nonetheless, Screen Daily reports...
View ArticleBryan Cranston’s Failed ‘Sneaky Pete’ Pilot May Have A Home At Amazon
Sneaky Pete wasn’t able to get out of the gate at CBS, even with white-hot star Bryan Cranston participating in the project as producer, but it looks like the show may have a home at Amazon if the...
View ArticleKevin Costner Bails On ‘Trial’ From Amazon And David E. Kelley
Amazon might be moving to join the likes of Netflix and HBOGo as a streaming competitor, but it’s going to have to do so without Kevin Costner in the its upcoming exclusive series, Trial from the mind...
View Article‘Hannibal’ Gets No Love From Amazon Or Netflix, May be Dead
Since news of its cancellation circled a couple weeks ago, it was a foregone conclusion/wishful thinking from fans that Hannibal, being a critical darling with a rabid fan base and favorable...
View ArticleThe ‘Top Gear’ Guys Are Heading To Amazon
They had to end up somewhere with a global reach, and in the fight between Amazon and Netflix to secure the former Top Gear stars, it seems that Amazon has won the match. The streaming service will be...
View ArticleAmazon Will Be Home To The ‘Galaxy Quest’ TV Show
Now that producers aren’t just depended on traditional ole’ cable and broadcast outlets, some pretty cool stuff is getting made against what would have been long odds. For instance, the Galaxy Quest TV...
View ArticleTig Notaro Is Getting An Amazon Pilot This Fall
After getting a big HBO special, it looks like Tig Notaro is getting dangerously close to stardom. It seems, according to Vulture, that the aloof comic is getting her very own pilot on Amazon, which...
View Article‘Jack Ryan’ Series From Michael Bay And Carlton Cuse Finds A Home At Amazon
It looks like Amazon’s getting pretty serious about competing with Netflix. A year ago, Transparent was the only show that was really gaining any traction, but today, it seems like they’re matching...
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