More than four months after announcing original comedy TV content, Amazon’s TV production leg now wants you to watch pilot episodes created by Amazon Studios and pick your favorite ones. Eight comedy and six children’s pilots are now available to watch on Amazon. Once the Seattle online giant analyzes feedback via comments, ratings and other… Read More…
Amazon Studios is piloting its eighth comedy, and this is one that tech geeks may really enjoy — unless it ends up anything like Bravo’s “Startups: Silicon Valley,” of course. Directed by Michael Lehmann (Dexter, 40 Days and 40 Nights, True Blood), the show is called called Betas. Here’s Amazon’s description: Set in the land of Silicon… Read More…
Amazon tends to do things in non-traditional ways, and that fact is on full display with the debut this morning of the first installment of Blackburn Burrow, a digital comic book from the company’s Amazon Studios original content group. The free comic book, produced by 12 Gauge Comics, is actually a test for a feature film… Read More…
Word has quietly been leaking out over the past few weeks that Amazon.com plans to expand into original video content, following the path of Hulu, Netflix, YouTube and other Web video giants. Today, the company announced a key move in that arena. Amazon Studios has begun taking submission for video Web series in the comedy… Read More…
Newly surfaced Amazon.com job postings provide some interesting clues about the company’s push into original programming. An Amazon unit called the People’s Production Company, an extension of its crowd-sourced Amazon Studios initiative, is seeking creative executives to develop half-hour comedy and kids shows “for online and traditional distribution.” As noted by AllThingsD’s John Paczkowski, that… Read More…
Amazon Studios has lined up three well-known Hollywood producers for three movies that have emerged from its unique public development process, taking a key step toward debuting its first feature films. Denise Di Novi (known for Crazy, Stupid, Love) will produce Touching Blue, from a script by Scott Mullen; Bill Gerber (Gran Torino) is on board for… Read More…
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