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When it comes to creator/EP David Weil’s new Amazon series Hunters, it all goes back to grandma. “My grandmother was a Holocaust survivor and she told me about her experiences during the war,” said Weil, “Hearing this felt like the stuff of comics books and superheros.” Starring Al Pacino and Logan Lerman…

Amazon Studios co-Head of TV Vernon Sanders at TCA today said that they’re conducting “a global search” for the role of Billy Dunne in Reese Witherspoon’s series adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s 1970s rock novel Daisy Jones and the Six. Daisy Jones & The Six centers on a fictional rock band in the 1970s, following…

Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn went from making it work at Project Runway to fusing fashion design and globally-minded ecommerce in Amazon’s forthcoming fashion competition series Making the Cut. The pair, who host and executive produce the series, were joined on the TCA dais by fellow EP Sara Rea and judges Nicole Richie…

While Amazon co-head of TV Vernon Sanders couldn’t give an exact date as to when we’ll finally see the series adaptation of Robert Jordan’s fantasy book series The Wheel of Time, he confirmed today at TCA that “we’re well underway with production. We love what we've seen so far.” “As you know these big world building…

On Tuesday, during the Amazon executive session at TCA, Jennifer Salke gave updates and teases on the slate of projects at the streaming platform. One of them was the Lucille Ball biopic written by Aaron Sorkin and starring Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett as the Hollywood icon. Salke said the feature is “very much…

The U.S. remake of People Just Do Nothing is not going to series at Amazon. The streamer piloted a version of the successful BBC Three comedy, which was produced by The Office producer Ash Atalla. However, Vernon Sanders, Co-Head, TV at Amazon Studios, told Deadline at the Winter TCA press tour that the project was…

Amazon unveiled Tuesday that John Leguizamo, Toheeb Jimoh, Ria Zmitrowicz, Halle Bush, Heather Agyepong, Nico Hiraga and Daniela Vega have joined the 10-part global thriller The Power. Emmy Award-winning casting directors Nina Gold (Game of Thrones) and Carmen Cuba (Stranger Things) have brought together this…

Amazon Studios at TCA today announced the first group of regulars set to star in their adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings series. The cast officially includes Robert Aramayo, Owain Arthur, Nazanin Boniadi, Tom Budge, Morfydd Clark, Ismael Cruz Córdova, Ema Horvath, Markella Kavenagh, Joseph Mawle, Tyr…

Gael García Bernal (Mozart in the Jungle) and Diego Luna (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story), who are executive producers on Amazon’s upcoming limited series Untitled Cortés and Moctezuma Project, have closed a first-look deal with Amazon Studios. As part of the deal, Bernal and Luna will create and produce content for…

Star's Meagan Good, Empire's Grace Byers, Mother's Milk's Jerrie Johnson and I Am The Night's Shoniqua Shandai are to star in Amazon's half-hour comedy from Girls Trip writer Tracy Oliver. Girls Trip director Malcolm D. Lee is set to direct the first two episodes of the ten-part series, which comes from Universal…

Amazon Studios released Les Misérables gripping police brutality drama, and despite being a Cannes Jury Prize winner, recent Golden Globe nomination, and being France’s official Oscar entry for Best International Feature, the film opened to a disappointing low, earning an estimated $24,414 in its four runs in New York…

Before making his Cannes Jury Prize winner Les Misérables, director Ladj Ly had been thinking about the project for over 10 years. Distributed by Amazon Studios, France's Oscar entry for Best International Feature Film was inspired by the riots that occurred in the suburbs of Paris in 2005, which would long leave a…