Amazon’s desire to be an even bigger player in Hollywood could involve the acquisition of MGM, according to an exclusive report by The Information on Monday. The report cites a… Read More
Russell Wilson and Ciara are getting into the film and television production business with Amazon Studios. The Seattle Seahawks quarterback and his Grammy-winning entertainer wife have signed a first-look deal to… Read More
Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh is returning to Seattle to shoot scenes for a thriller called “KIMI,” starring Zoe Kravitz. According to The Seattle Times, crews could be in town this… Read More
Amazon picked up two Oscars Sunday night during the 93rd Academy Awards as the annual celebration of the best in film took on a more subdued approach because of the… Read More
Throughout his long career as a venture capitalist, Steve Hall has learned plenty about how that business works and what markers are used to define success. In the short time… Read More
After a year in which most moviegoers had to avoid theaters and catch films at home, streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon cleaned up Monday in nominations for the… Read More
Just a few weeks after taking top honors at the Sundance Film Festival for one of its latest films, the curtain closed for good on Vulcan Productions. The storytelling venture… Read More
If a film was going to capture the modern American landscape authentically, it’s hard to imagine doing so without including Amazon’s vast fulfillment operations as a supporting character. “Nomadland,” which… Read More
Amazon captured another three Golden Globe awards Sunday night as the annual celebration of film and television took on the look of a long-running Zoom meeting from the homes of… Read More
Amazon is headed to the 78th Golden Globe Awards later this month on the strength of 10 nominations, the most the company’s studio division has received since 2017. With more… Read More
Microsoft is putting together a heck of a team to get kids interested in coding, and the stars are LeBron James and Bugs Bunny. The tech giant announced Monday that… Read More
Seattle, Microsoft and the field of artificial intelligence come in for their share of the spotlight in “Superintelligence” — an HBO Max movie starring Melissa McCarthy as the rom-com heroine,… Read More
Scener, the platform that allows streaming media viewers to watch and chat together in a virtual movie theater setting, has raised $2.1 million in seed funding, the Seattle startup announced… Read More
Scener, the RealNetworks spinoff that lets people connect and interact virtually while watching their favorite streaming content, is expanding its platform as it experiences substantial growth during the coronavirus pandemic.… Read More
As Seattle waits to see what the future holds for the beloved Cinerama movie theater, an interesting development in Los Angeles lends credence to the theory that Amazon could someday… Read More
Seattleites love coming in out of the rain for a movie. Especially if there is chocolate popcorn. So when news hit Wednesday that Seattle’s beloved Cinerama — owned by the… Read More
We’re all looking for some sort of distraction from the daily deluge of coronavirus news and stress, and ways to occupy ourselves while stuck at home during the lockdown. For… Read More
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has confirmed in a tweet that the space agency is working with movie star Tom Cruise on a project that involves shooting a film on the… Read More
Update, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2 p.m.: This story has been updated to reflect news about employee layoffs. Seattle’s Cinerama, the high-tech movie theater owned and operated by the late Paul… Read More
Amazon continued its winning ways at major awards shows on Sunday night, taking home two Golden Globes for the comedy series “Fleabag.” The show, which ran for two seasons on… Read More
Over the past 42 years, filmgoers have seen exotic worlds come to life in a succession of Star Wars movies — a series that is now coming to a climax… Read More
There’s apparently a reason everyone wants in on the streaming game: because the services keep putting on a strong showing when awards season rolls around. Monday’s announcement of the Golden… Read More
Funko has always been a bit Hollywood, with a product line nodding to some of the biggest franchises in pop culture. Now the Everett, Wash.-based company has actually gone Hollywood,… Read More
He promised he’d be back — and 35 years after Arnold Schwarzenegger created what’s now a cliche for artificial intelligence gone wrong in the first “Terminator” movie, the cinematic nightmares… Read More
Imagine the taglines in the movie ads: “Really good” portrayal of zero-gravity! “Absolutely” better than George Clooney! There’d be some justification for Brad Pitt’s space movie, “Ad Astra,” to use… Read More
Maria Semple’s best-selling 2012 novel “Where’d You Go, Bernadette” has been championed for its hilarious take on Seattle as well as its painstakingly accurate portrayal of Microsoft and the tech… Read More
There’s a sweeping view of the Seattle skyline, a bustling downtown street, Mount Rainier, a fancy house and a slick Tesla Model X. It all looks like a picture of… Read More
The Millennium Falcon may have made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs, but a trailer combing bits of all 10 of the Star Wars films will make your… Read More
“Captain Marvel,” the latest action flick from Marvel Studios, will arrive in theaters next month, but fans looking forward to the movie can already catch a glimpse of the female… Read More
Netflix will not only be representing the streaming services at this year’s Academy Awards, it will be leading the way among all contenders as it picked up 10 Oscar nominations… Read More