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Report: Media another growing generational divide

There was a significant drop in the correlation between how the younger and older generations spent their time with commercial media during lockdown 2020, highlighting the need to deploy diverse media plans, according to the findings a new TouchPoints report from the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA). The report, Making sense. The commercial media […]

February 9, 2021

Amazon Studios orders The Summer I Turned Pretty

Amazon Studios has ordered a TV adaptation of Jenny Han’s series of young adult novers The Summer I Turned Pretty. The eight-episode season will launch exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide on a date TBC, and is a co-production of Amazon Studios and wiip. The Summer I Turned Pretty […]

February 9, 2021By Nik Roseveare

Jordan’s Outlier signs content real with Amazon

Amazon and Michael B. Jordan’s production banner, Outlier Society, have enhanced their partnership, signing the Hollywood actor and his company into a first-look film deal and an overall television deal. Amazon said the deal will see Outlier “produce and acquire elevated films showcasing diverse, bold filmmakers and talent for the studio’s ever-growing original movies slate.” […]

February 8, 2021

Freeman, Hathaway, Mirren star in Amazon’s Solos

New Amazon Original dramatic anthology series Solos, from executive producer and showrunner David Weil (Hunters), will boast a heavyweight A-list cast comprising of Morgan Freeman, Anne Hathaway, Helen Mirren, Uzo Aduba, Nicole Beharie, Anthony Mackie, Dan Stevens and Constance Wu Solos will launch later in 2021 exclusively on Amazon Prime Video in over 240 countries […]

February 2, 2021By Nik Roseveare

Amazon announces FC Bayern Munich doc

Amazon has announced a behind-the-scenes documentary on FC Bayern Munich, which will launch exclusively on Prime Video in Autumn 2021, giving Prime members front row seats to the German record champions, treble winners and current most successful club in the world, as well as an insight into the inner workings at Säbener Straße. Produced by […]

February 2, 2021

Stephens, Ayola, Chandran join Alex Rider Season 2

Eleventh Hour Films has announced that stage and screen actor Toby Stephens (Die Another Day, Jane Eyre, Lost In Space, Black Sails), Rakie Ayola (Holby City, Hermione Granger in Harry Potter And The Cursed Child) and newcomer Charithra Chandran are among the names joining the cast of season two of Alex Rider. Stephens will be […]

February 1, 2021

Data: Amazon half of new UK SVoD sign-ups in Q4

Kantar, the data, insights and consulting company has published Q4 2020 results from its Entertainment On Demand service in the UK. With 12.9 million subscriptions taken out last year, the service reveals the following consumer behaviours in the three months to December 2020: Amazon Prime membership jumped again in Q4, with 53.5 per cent of […]

January 21, 2021

Son Heung-Min doc on Prime Video UK

Zig Zag productions’ new Sonsational feature will premiere on Amazon Prime Video on January 18th. The documentary follows Tottenham Hotspur footballer Son Heung-Min who has become one of the leading players internationally and a bonafide superstar in his home country of South Korea. The feature focuses on Son’s life in 2019 and features testimonials by teammates […]

January 18, 2021By Nik Roseveare

I Care a Lot heading to Prime Video UK

Following its critically acclaimed debut at the 2020 Toronto Film Festival, the dark comic thriller I Care a Lot, starring Rosamund Pike and Peter Dinklage will launch exclusively on Amazon Prime Video in the UK on February 19th. The film is a Black Bear Pictures production, written and directed J Blakeson. STXinternational acquired international rights […]

January 15, 2021By Nik Roseveare