Rest easy, “Fallout” fans: Prime Video‘s adaptation of the long-running video game series arrives next month. But to tide them over, the streamer has an all-new first trailer for the show, which adapts the game’s premise to an eight-episode set-up.
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Naman Ramachandran “Delhi Crime” creator Richie Mehta‘s India-set Prime Video series “Poacher” could become a global franchise. The Amazon original is produced by QC Entertainment, led by partners Sean McKittrick, Raymond Mansfield and Edward H. Hamm Jr., who backed Jordan Peele’s Oscar-winning “Get Out” and “Us” and Spike Lee’s Oscar, BAFTA and Cannes-winning “BlacKkKlansman.
It is executive produced by Bollywood star Alia Bhatt via her Eternal Sunshine Productions outfit. The team was in London on Saturday for the U.K. premiere showing of the first two episodes of the series, which bowed at Sundance 2023.
Based on true events, Amazon original “Poacher” unearths the largest ivory poaching ring in Indian history. A second, India-set season is being planned. However, poaching is a global wildlife crime.
When Variety asked Manish Menghani, director, content licensing, Prime Video India, about the series going beyond the subcontinent to other parts of the world as a global franchise, McKittrick said, “I’ll speak for Manish, yes.” “My short answer to that is, this is obvious,” Mehta added. “It’s a global phenomenon. And I knew when I was researching this, every single person I was dealing with had ties to different countries.
Rest easy, “Fallout” fans: Prime Video‘s adaptation of the long-running video game series arrives next month. But to tide them over, the streamer has an all-new first trailer for the show, which adapts the game’s premise to an eight-episode set-up.
Amazon’s Prime Video has just made their first renewal announcement of the year!
Naman Ramachandran Production will commence in 2024 on leading Indian studio Yash Raj Films‘ spy universe film headlined by Alia Bhatt, the studio CEO Akshaye Widhani has confirmed. Widhani was speaking at Mumbai’s FICCI Frames media industry conference, where he was in conversation with Monika Shergill, VP, content, Netflix India. Created by producer Aditya Chopra, the spy universe kicked off with the Tiger franchise, starring Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif, beginning with “Ek Tha Tiger” (2012) and “Tiger Zinda Hai” (2017), and continued with “War” (2019), starring Hrithik Roshan and Tiger Shroff.
Naman Ramachandran Giants of U.K. TV and streaming have combined for the fourth iteration of The TV Collective’s groundbreaking Breakthrough Leaders program. The program aims to identify and empower 50 exceptional individuals from Black, Asian and global majority (a collective term for people of Indigenous, African, Asian, Latin American descent, who constitute some 85% of the global population) backgrounds who are poised to become the future leaders of the U.K.
Busan Names Asian Contents & Film Market Director
David Heuring At the inaugural American Society of Cinematographers awards almost four decades ago, about 100 attendees saw host Gregory Peck give a single award, acknowledging the artistry of Jordan Cronenweth on Francis Ford Coppola’s “Peggy Sue Got Married.” Today, the ASC Awards is an annual event with global reach where 10 major awards are presented, this year including recognition of music video cinematography. On March 3 at the Beverly Hilton, the 105-year-old organization will honor Spike Lee with its Board of Governors Award, in recognition of his career contributions to the art of visual storytelling.
Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Karl Urban are preparing to share the screen!
Blame it all on his roots and how he showed up in boots: Garth Brooks, together with his wife Trisha Yearwood, are launching a new docuseries for Prime Video called Friends in Low Places.
Emily Longeretta Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood are letting the cameras in. Amazon Prime Video will follow the country icons and their friends in a new docuseries, “Friends in Low Places,” as they work on opening “the ultimate oasis,” a honky-tonk bar in the heart of Nashville, Tennessee. The series will premiere on Thursday, March 7.
If you don’t recognize Benito Skinner’s name chances are you’ve seen his Instagram or TikTok videos. A content creator who exploded during the stay-at-home pandemic, Skinner made a name for himself with his impersonations of the Kardashians and his fictional characters such as LA relator Deliverance Richards and Jenni the TMI hairstylist.
Prime Video has handed a series order to Benito Skinner’s Overcompensating. The series, which has been in development at Amazon since November 2022, hails from Skinner, who also stars, Jonah Hill’s Strong Baby productions and A24. English singer-songwriter Charli XCX will produce original music for the series, which is co-produced by A24 and Amazon MGM Studios.
Jesse Williams (Grey’s Anatomy, Only Murders In The Building) will produce and star in Prime Video’s Costiera, an Italian action-drama series filmed in English and directed by Emmy award winner Adam Bernstein (Breaking Bad, Fargo). The series is currently in production.
Diego Boneta (Luis Miguel: The Series, Father of the Bride) is set to lead the newly greenlit bilingual series El Gato (w/t), based on the comic book series El Gato Negro by Richard Dominguez. Production is anticipated to begin this spring in Mexico.
Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Two years after the hit Amazon Prime Video superhero series aired its Season 3 finale, “The Boys” will finally be back in town. The fourth season of Amazon’s Emmy-winning drama “The Boys” will debut with three episodes June 13. Comprised of eight episodes total, “The Boys” Season 4 will air with new installments dropping weekly through its season finale on July 18.
The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy is premiering on Prime Video on Friday (February 23)!
The Kid LAROI‘s documentary release date has been revealed – Just Jared Jr Kristen Stewart talks future of LGBTQ+ films – Celebitchy Prince Royce opens up about life after divorce – Popsugar Paramount+ reveals first look photos at new movie Little Wing – Just Jared Jr
the Kid Laroi, will be available to stream on Prime Video on Feb. 29. Amazon’s MGM Studios is helming the documentary produced by OBB Pictures, the film and television division of OBB Media.
K.J. Yossman Keshet International has acquired worldwide distribution rights for hostage drama “Conflict.” Produced by Backmann & Hoderhoff and XZY Films, “Conflict” is a six-part political thriller about an enemy force trying to incite a global conflict with a surprise attack. The series was created and produced by Andrei Alén and Aku Louhimies (“Rebellion”).
Oscar-winner Asif Kapadia is helming a Prime Video doc about the latter days of tennis legend Roger Federer‘s career, which was originally intended as a home movie.
Jaden Thompson Blue Harbor Entertainment has acquired the horror/thriller film “Trim Season” for U.S. release, with plans to debut in theaters and on VOD in June. The cast includes Bethlehem Million, Jane Badler, Alexandra Essoe, Bex-Taylor Klaus and Ally Ioannides.