Amazon Studios has acquired the SXSW indie “Creative Control,” Variety has learned, slating it for a theatrical and streaming release. The film, directed by Benjamin Dickinson, tells the story of an…
Amazon Studios this fall will debut six pilots — including comedies from Louis C.K. and Sacha Baron Cohen — from which it will select shows to greenlight as full series. The new half-hour pilots…
By Grabthar’s hammer, Amazon Studios has signed on to develop a TV series based on “Galaxy Quest.” The 1999 sci-fi movie starred Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver and Alan Rickman as actors who once…
Amazon.com reached a multiyear content-licensing agreement with midsize film distributor Open Road Films giving the e-commerce giant’s Prime Instant Video exclusive streaming rights to Open Road’s…
In a pre-Toronto Film Festival move, fast-growing Amazon Studios has hired veteran executive Julie Rapaport from The Weinstein Company to be a development executive in their feature film department…
Amazon Studios next week will launch its two newest drama pilots: “Sneaky Pete,” starring Giovanni Ribisi as an ex-con, from David Shore and Bryan Cranston; and period piece “Casanova,” about the…
Scott Foundas, who has served as Variety's chief film critic for the past two years, will be leaving the publication and the journalism business to join Amazon Studios as a film acquisitions and…
Amazon Studios announced that Spike Lee's “Chi-Raq,” a drama about inner-city gun violence in Chicago, will be its first original movie production with plans to debut the pic in theaters later this…
Amazon Studios renewed award-winning dramedy “Transparent” for a third season, to be available in 2016, and inked an overall deal with series creator Jill Soloway to develop TV projects…
After weeks of haggling following the Cannes Film Festival, Amazon Studios is in final negotiations for the drama “Elvis & Nixon,” Variety has learned. The film will debut in theaters only, and the…
“Sneaky Pete” may rise again. Amazon is in negotiations with Sony Pictures TV to pick up the busted CBS drama pilot that has high-profile auspices in co-writers and exec producers Bryan Cranston and…
