Talking about those multiple Game of Thrones spin-offs in development, the Head of Programming for HBO had some words to say about their rivals effectively suggesting Amazon was going to struggle as it was too cheap with cast and crew to appeal to many who make quality output whilst Netflix's high volume output was creating a race to the bottom that had diluted the quality of shows.
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Talking about those multiple Game of Thrones spin-offs in development, the Head of Programming for HBO had some words to say about their rivals effectively suggesting Amazon was going to struggle as it was too cheap with cast and crew to appeal to many who make quality output whilst Netflix's high volume output was creating a race to the bottom that had diluted the quality of shows.
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Director Charlie Bean (“The LEGO Ninjango Movie”) has been set as director of the live-action adaptation of Disney’s 1955 animated classic “Lady and the Tramp”. The story focuses on Lady, a cocker spaniel belonging to a well-to-do family, and Tramp, a streetwise mutt. After her owners have a baby, Lady finds herself out on the […]
Disney's mission to spoil the memories of its animated classics with a rapidly growing line up of forgettable live action remakes continues. This time it seems to be Lady and the Tramp that's up for remaking but instead of a cinema release this one will come to their new upcoming streaming service
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T-Minus around one year until Apple enters the battlefield of streaming content, and when it hits it plans to hit big. A report in The New York Times says the tech giant is looking to debut its original series sometime next year, as early as March 2019 or into the early summer. How it intends […]
Apple will launch their own streaming TV service in one years time
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Amazon is reportedly pursuing a deal for a three-season TV series based on Liu Cixin’s Hugo-winning sci-fi novel trilogy “Remembrance of Earth’s Past”. The price tag? Up to $1 billion. The Financial Times broke the report, saying international investors are telling them Amazon is negotiating for the rights to produce three seasons based on the […]
Amazon is said to be considering a three season long adaptation of the Chinese sci-fi novel Rememberance of Earth's Past
The show would cost Amazon $1bn to produce.
It surely has to be a concern as to how much money streaming sites are spending now on individual shows. Just seems wasteful.
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Amazon’s planned small screen adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” is looking to become easily the most expensive TV series ever made. In November last year we learned Amazon Studios beat out Netflix for a $250 million rights deal with the Tolkien estate, publisher HarperCollins and New Line Cinema for them to […]
Amazon apparently has a maximum of two years to get the Lord of the Rings series into production, the $1bn minimum show also has a minimum run length contractually of five seasons.
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Months before the series is set to premiere, Amazon Studios has already renewed its upcoming TV series “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan” for a second season. John Krasinski takes on the role of the CIA analyst who has had five films to date, most notably the original “The Hunt for Red October”. Amazon says that after […]
Season 1 of Jack Ryan doesn't start till end of August but Amazon has just renewed it for Season 2
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DC Entertainment has announced they are developing a live-action “Swamp Thing” TV series for its direct-to-consumer streaming service which also finally has a name – DC Universe. “Aquaman” and “The Conjuring” director James Wan is set to executive produce the series, which is eyeing a 2019 debut. Mark Verheiden (“Battlestar Galactica”) and Gary Dauberman (“IT”) […]
You're Grandma is probably setting up her own streaming service, so common are they becoming and Warner's is working on one for a DC based service that will irritatingly be called DC Universe. The new off the ground is Swamp Thing, executively produced by James Wan and live action, which will join Titans if it moves to screens.
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Warner Bros. Digital Networks’ Machinima has announced they have begun a development deal with Greg Russo, the screenwriter of both the upcoming “Mortal Kombat” and “Resident Evil” reboots. The first project from the deal will be a live-action film adaptation of survival horror game “F.E.A.R.” (aka First Encounter Assault Recon) from Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. […]
Warners Bros. Digital Networks Machinima is a studio focused on making live action adaptations of gaming ip for digital platforms. The studio is already working on reboots of Mortal Kombat and Resident Evil however it's now been confirmed that their first feature film will be an adaptation of F.E.A.R
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Apple is reportedly in talks with acclaimed animation studio Cartoon Saloon about potentially picking up the tech giant’s first feature-length movie reports Bloomberg. The report offered no details of what the film might be about, and says it is at least one year away from being released and hasn’t started production yet. Apple may possibly […]
Apple may be stepping into the movie arena
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DC Entertainment has released the first details about its long in the works DC Universe streaming service which sounds like it’ll offer a larger scope of product than first thought. The plan for this ‘first-of-its-kind digital subscription service’ is to be a one-stop shop for the audience’s DC needs in terms of comics, movies or […]
DC have confirmed their new streaming service will include series and movies covering decades of their content alongside new series made for the service in addition to digital comics, a merchandise store front and a DC Encyclopedia.
The Beta will launch this August and they've released the first image of Robin from the series Titans series.
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