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Woody Allen's multimillion-dollar lawsuit against Amazon isn't dead, but it is definitely wounded. In a dense ruling released Wednesday on a motion by the Jeff Bezos-founded streamer to toss Allen’s February 7-filed complaint, a federal judge in New York firmly sliced off a good portion of the Oscar winner's claims…

"I really can't comment on anything about that," Jennifer Salke said Wednesday when asked about the multimillion-dollar lawsuit Woody Allen filed against Amazon Studios last week. "It predated me, and now that it is in litigation, I can't make any comments on it at all," the Amazon Studios boss added, also dodging…

If you were thinking of submitting your original script to Amazon Studios, I have some bad news for you. Amazon announced that they are ending their open call for script and concept submissions. The studio born out of the e-commerce giant made the announcement on their website on Friday. Launched in 2010, the open…

After getting a taste of ad-supported television with this fall’s live streams of Thursday Night Football, complete with commercial time-outs, Amazon has reportedly taken a serious look at a more comprehensive “freemium” version of its Prime service. According to a report in AdAge based on unnamed sources in…

(UPDATED with Jill Soloway statement) EXCLUSIVE: Three weeks after Amazon Studios boss Roy Price resigned over sexual harassment claims, the company is conducting an investigation into allegations against Transparent star Jeffrey Tambor. An Amazon spokesperson confirmed to Deadline that the company has initiated an…

“Are you feeling it? It’s unbelievable!” Megyn Kelly said on her NBC morning show about the cascading allegations of sexual harassment, assault and rape against powerful men in various industries. Kelly opened her program reading the quickly growing list of well-known men who have been accused — a list she had to…

Days after he was suspended indefinitely, Amazon Studios head Roy Price has resigned from the streaming company he’d started. This marks the end of a chapter for Amazon and swift fall from grace for Price, who’d come up with the business plan for an Amazon entertainment division, launched the unit and ran it from Day…

Amazon had been planning a showcase of its fall season in London on Thursday, but that has now been canceled. The timing is significant given that it comes less than a week after suspension of studio boss Roy Price amid claims of sexual harassment. The initial invitation to the event was billed as the "Prime Video…

The premiere of Woody Allen’s Wonder Wheel will go forward at the New York Film Festival at 6 PM Saturday at Lincoln Center, but the red carpet has been canceled in the wake of revelations that Amazon’s TV chief, Roy Price, was put on an indefinite leave of absence following sexual harassment allegations. The…

As Amazon brass are huddled up in Seattle, pondering the fate of suspended Amazon Studios chief Roy Price, Hollywood is still absorbing the news, which came as an aftershock following the massive Harvey Weinstein earthquake that had shaken Tinseltown to its core. While one person pointed to Price’s entrepreneurial…

UPDATED: Amazon Studios boss Roy Price is going on a leave of absence, the company confirmed, amid details emerging of a 2015 incident involving Isa Hackett Dick, executive producer of Amazon’s The Man In The High Castle and upcoming Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams. The suspension, which Deadline had earlier reported…

Amazon Studios VP Roy Price is making a habit out of making news at the Edinburgh International Television Festival, appearing for the third year in a row at the industry event. Today, he said that the company will do fewer pilots going forward, opting instead to order TV programs straight-to-series. “The reality,&#8221…