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Veteran TV executive and former president of ABC Studios Patrick Moran is segueing to producing with an an overall deal at Amazon Studios. Under the pact, Moran will develop TV series to premiere globally on Prime Video in over 200 countries and territories. Chatter started shortly after Moran’s exit from ABC Studios i…

Howard University and Amazon Studios have teamed to launch Howard Entertainment, a program designed to diversify the entertainment industry by creating a pipeline for African-American students and other marginalized populations to train and study alongside entertainment executives. The immersive program, which kicks…

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Amazon Studios has won the rights to Grishaverse author Leigh Bardugo’s just released novel Ninth House to develop as a series, with Bardugo attached to write the adaptation and executive produce. Ninth House, published October 8 by Flatiron Books, is Bardugo’s first novel for…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that Legion and Dark Skies filmmaker Scott Stewart has sold his pitch based on Laura Whitcomb’s best selling novel A Certain Slant of Light in a competitive situation to Amazon Studios. Jeff Okin and Kerry Roberts will produce for Anonymous. Stewart will write and direct the pic. A Certa…

Little Marvin, writer and executive producer of Amazon’s upcoming original series Them: Covenant, and his production company Odd Man Out, has signed an overall deal with Amazon Studios. As part of the deal, Odd Man Out will create and produce original series and films for Amazon Studios to premiere exclusively on…

Amazon Studios blasted off Deadline’s Contenders London this year with four of its fourth quarter titles including the Kristen Stewart feature Seberg, Scott Z. Burns’ The Report, the Felicity Jones-Eddie Redmayne period reteam The Aeronauts and Alma Har’el’s Shia LaBeouf autobiographically inspired Honey Boy.  Seberg…

EXCLUSIVE: Blumhouse TV has set the cast for Nocturne, the first movie in its eight picture streaming deal with Amazon Studios, with British-Irish filmmaker Zu Quirke writing and directing. Euphoria‘s Sydney Sweeney and Annabelle Comes Home‘s Madison Iseman have landed the lead roles in the supernatural thriller about…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has set December 13 as the opening day for its Kristen Stewart-starring Jean Seberg biopic Seberg.  In the movie, Stewart plays the French New Wave and Breathless star Seberg, who in the late 1960s was targeted by the FBI because of her support of the civil rights movement and romantic…

Amazon is talking to another Premier League soccer club about getting behind-the-scenes access for a major documentary series. Following Amazon Prime Video’s Ben Kingsley-narrated series on Manchester City last year, the streamer is in conversation with Tottenham Hotspur over a similar project. Amazon is doubling down…

Amazon Studios has signed an overall deal with Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the creator and star of the Emmy-winning Amazon Original series, Fleabag. I hear the pact is for three years. There is no one hotter at the moment in TV than Waller-Bridge, a newly minted three-time Emmy winner whose shows, Fleabag and Killing Eve…

It's that time of year again, as Deadline's globe-trotting The Contenders series kicks off next month in London; invitations went out today. Our third annual The Contenders London returns Deadline to the Ham Yard Hotel for an all-day series of panels with the movers and shakers lining up to dominate the awards-season…

EXCLUSIVE: Marsha Stephanie Blake and Arinzé Kene have joined Julia Hart’s Amazon feature I’m Your Woman opposite Rachel Brosnahan. Hart co-wrote the project with her husband, Oscar-nominated producer Jordan Horowitz, who is also producing through their Original Headquarters production company. The story revolves…