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These Tolkien fans pitched a 50-hour ‘Lord of the Rings’ ‘mega-epic.’ ‘The Rings of Power’ is the result

Patrick McKay and J.D. Payne had been writing screenplays together for two decades when Amazon Studios announced it had acquired the rights to make a TV series based on the fantasy world of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Lord Of The Rings.”

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The Rings of Power release date and how to watch Lord of the Rings prequel in the UK

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is due to be released on Amazon Prime at the beginning of September. Here is everything you need to know, including release date, plot and cast

Daily Mirror

'Lord of the Rings’ series trailer debuts at Comic-Con

Comic-Con audiences got a sneak peek at the new “Lord of the Rings” series “The Rings of Power” Friday in San Diego

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A Minute With: Chris Pratt, Jack Carr and Constance Wu on 'The Terminal List'

Hollywood actor Chris Pratt brings author Jack Carr's best-seller "The Terminal List" to the small screen this week in a new television adaptation of the first novel in the hit book series. The "Jurassic World" star plays Navy SEAL officer James Reece who is trying to find out why his…

Asharq Al-Awsat

A party scene while making Amazon's 'Expats' was followed by a COVID outbreak. Then things got complicated

LOS ANGELES — On a Thursday morning in Long Beach last month, the crew of the Amazon Studios series "Expats" crowded onto a yacht. They were filming a party scene that had shots of a child pushing his way through a forest of adults, followed by star Nicole Kidman's character,…

Los Angeles Times

Netflix is cutting back, but not on LA productions

At the Sunset Bronson Studios in Hollywood on a recent afternoon, teenager Reyn Doi rehearsed lines for the new sitcom "That '90s Show." He was sitting at table in a meticulously designed set that featured a wallpapered kitchen, shelves filled with teacups and bundt pans hanging from the wall.

Los Angeles Times

The Handmaiden to Crazy Rich Asians: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Park Chan-wook takes on Sarah Waters’s erotic thriller, and Constance Wu and Henry Golding lead the all-Asian cast of the opulent romantic comedy

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MGM film leaders leaving company after Amazon deal

LOS ANGELES — Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy, the heads of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios' film business, are leaving the company, in a move that comes shortly after Amazon took over the storied studio.

Los Angeles Times

James Bond: 007 film series has finally made its streaming service debut on Prime Video

Including ‘No Time to Die’

The Independent UK

Dune to All the Old Knives: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Denis Villeneuve turns Frank Herbert’s novel into a sumptuous space opera with Timothée Chalamet as the archetypal hero, while Thandiwe Newton and Chris Pine get tangled up in Janus Metz’s stylish spy thriller

The Guardian - UK

James Bond: Every 007 film to make streaming service debut in April 2022

Including ‘No Time to Die’

The Independent UK

Whoopi Goldberg to star in new adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Anansi Boys

Amazon Studios production is based on Gaiman’s 2005 novel

The Independent UK

James Bond film series to make streaming service debut in April 2022

Including ‘No Time to Die’

The Independent UK

Priyanka Chopra, Anthony Mackie's action thriller 'Ending Things' lands at Amazon

Actors Priyanka Chopra and Anthony Mackie's upcoming action thriller 'Ending Things' has been picked up by Amazon Studios.

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‘All the Old Knives’: Chris Pine, Thandiwe Newton play hot spies revisiting a cold case

Tense thriller brings together the two highly photogenic stars in hunt for a CIA mole.

The Guardian - UK

All the Old Knives review – Chris Pine and Thandiwe Newton add class to CIA spy drama

Pine and Newton play former lovers in this watchable Le Carré-esque tale of personal and patriotic betrayals

Asharq Al-Awsat

Amazon Closes $8.45Bln MGM Studio Acquisition

Amazon.com Inc on Thursday said it had closed its $8.5 billion deal to buy Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) media company, combining the fabled moviemaker with the online retailing giant as it looks to draw consumers through more streaming video A press statement said the storied, nearly century-old studio—with more than 4,000 film…

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Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5 billion

This merger comes shortly after Amazon raised the price of its Prime membership for the first time since 2018

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The new Lord of the Rings prequel, The Rings of Power, is set in the Second Age of Middle-Earth - here's what that means

Amazon Studios is due to launch its Lord of the Rings prequel TV series in September this year. Not much is known about it yet, other than the title – Lord of the Rings: the Rings of Power, some first looks, a teaser-trailer, and that it will be set in…

Los Angeles Times

YouTube scales back original programming

LOS ANGELES — Six years after making big plans to take on Hulu, Amazon Studios and other streamers, YouTube is retreating from the original programming business.

Benzinga

ANALYSIS: Is Amazon's Eddie Murphy Deal Going To Work?

The announcement by Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) that it signed Eddie Murphy to a three-picture deal with its Amazon Studios subsidiary gives the Emmy-winning funnyman a new

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