Jon Wax, YouTube’s head of Drama, Scripted & Current Programming, is in negotiations to join Amazon Studios. He is expected to take over the head of genre drama post recently vacated by Sharon Tal Yguado. Wax, a respected development executive, had been on the market for a new job since YouTube late last year paused…

Salma Hayek and Owen Wilson have been tapped to star in Bliss, an Amazon Studios sci-fi drama written by Mike Cahill, who is also directing the pic which is currently filming in LA. The story follows recently divorced Greg (Wilson) who meets the enchanting Isabel (Hayek), a woman who lives on the streets and is…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios’ Chemical Hearts, the YA romance movie starring and executive produced by Riverdale‘s Lili Reinhart, has notched Euphoria actor Austin Abrams for the lead role of 17-year old Henry Page. In the movie, Henry Page has never been in love. He fancies himself a romantic, but the once in a lifetime…

Riverdale‘s Lili Reinhart is set to star and executive produce Amazon Studios’ coming-of-age and romance drama Chemical Hearts from writer/director Richard Tanne. The project is based on the novel Our Chemical Hearts by Krystal Sutherland. Production is already underway in New Jersey. The pic is an Amazon Original…

As Amazon Studios Head Jennifer Salke promised at TCA, some of the company’s titles will be released ala Netflix’s Roma in a truncated theatrical-streaming combination. We’ll see this on Sept. 27 as Amazon’s $14M Sundance acquisition The Report hits theaters on that date followed by an Amazon Prime Video launch two…

Actor, producer and director Daniel Dae Kim (Always Be My Maybe, The Good Doctor, Hawaii-Five-O) has signed a first-look deal with Amazon Studios. Under the pact, Amazon Studios will have first-look rights to projects developed and adapted by Kim and his 3AD production company, to premiere exclusively on Amazon Prime…

EXCLUSIVE: Disney franchises like Avengers: Endgame and Aladdin have feasibly conquered the summer box office, leaving a string of recent female comedies — Long Shot, The Hustle and Booksmart — as collateral damage. However, Amazon Studios is hoping that its $13 million Sundance acquisition Late Night becomes an…

Amazon Studios showcased its first major entry into British television by making Good Omens one of the first TV series to receive a glitzy world premiere in Leicester Square – a feat usually reserved for big-budget superhero movies (or The Crown). The A-list cast and crew of the supernatural drama, which is based on Ne…

Amazon Studios has picked up to series young adult drama pilot The Wilds from writer-executive producer Sarah Streicher (Daredevil) and ABC Signature Studios, part of Disney Television Studios. Amy B. Harris has come on board as executive producer/showrunner of The Wilds, which marks ABC Signature’s first series for…

Damages and Bloodline co-creator Glenn Kessler has signed an overall deal for TV and film with Amazon Studios. Under the pact, the Emmy-nominated writer-producer will create, develop and produce original series and films to premiere exclusively on Amazon Prime Video worldwide in more than 200 countries and…

Amazon Studios has picked up to series YA drama pilot Panic, from writer Lauren Oliver based on her best-selling book and producers Joe Roth and Jeff Kirschenbaum. Ramping up a YA slate was one of the first major programming initiatives of Amazon Studios head Jennifer Salke after she joined the company last year. The…

In the first venture between Amazon Studios and Imax, The Aeronauts, directed by Tom Harper and starring Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones, will be released exclusively in Imax theaters nationwide for a one-week run beginning October 25. The pic will then expand nationally for a full theatrical run in additional…